Hugh Dennis frequently manages to get his impression of "Jimmy Savile announcing the group Showaddywaddy" into his scenes - much to the delight of the studio audience.

Dennis also has a second running joke about finding cheaper car insurance. He normally manages to get this into the final round.

The sixth episode of the first series had to be hastily replaced with a highlights show as many of the audience, the panellists and crew could not get to the studio. This was because the episode was due to be recorded on the 7th July 2005, the day terrorist bombings shut down the London transport network.

The 8 Out of 10 Cats episode which was also scheduled to be recorded in BBC Television Centre that evening did go ahead. Production crew and the audience from Mock the Week helped to fill gaps in the audience.

Here is what Andy Parsons said when asked about the Mock The Week scoring:

It's amazing how excited people get. It's completely made up. Basically, they record it, both sides win every round and then they decide in the edit which team actually wins. I have no idea how they decide that and it doesn't make logical sense. You find yourself winning and losing in an editing suite, which we tend not to care about but people at home write in: 'I can't believe how they won that round, there was no sense in it.' People take it far too seriously.

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And this is what Andy Parsons said, when asked about whether they get to see the categories before they record Mock The Week:

Yes. Well, they give you some clues. They seem to be desperately worried you won't have anything. But when you have seven people, the chances of nobody having anything to say are remote. When you have seven comics and you throw up a topic, it's like a pack of wolves that hasn't eaten for weeks.

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An average episode of Mock The Week takes between an hour-and-a-half to two hours to record. They film for that length of time to ensure that 30 minutes of 'comedy gold' suitable for TV is obtained. Gags that fall flat and jokes that are too rude are cut out of the TV broadcast version.