Mark Lamarr
- Comedian
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Simon Amstell vs. Mark Lamarr
It's a battle royal between the '50s throwback and the curly-haired upstart, but which of them has been the best presenter of Never Mind The Buzzcocks?
UKTV, 12th August 2009Why I Love... Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Amstell's influence on the questions has also been quick to take hold. Mark Lamarr's style contrastingly comes across as lazy in retrospect. His own ego fooled him into thinking he was funny just because he turned up. Simon Amstell, unlike Preston, is no ordinary boy.
Radio Times, 27th March 2007Popular music was allegedly the theme of last night's Mark Lamarr Leaving the 20th Century (BBC2), a show on which the eponymous host "gives vent to some forthright opinions on particular topics" (a claim that sounds like the runt offspring of our old friend, "takes a sideways look at..."). [...] The resulting show spent 30 minutes sneering aimlessly at the likes of Bono for pontificating on stage, but left viewers feeling that perhaps a little more pontificating during the script sessions wouldn't have gone amiss.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 12th July 1999