Act Your Age. Simon Mayo. Copyright: BBC
Act Your Age

Act Your Age

  • Radio panel show
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2008 - 2011
  • 18 episodes (3 series)

Simon Mayo hosts this Radio 4 panel show that pits three comic generations against each other. Also features Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter, Roy Walker and Adrian Walsh.

Press clippings

Family wanted!

Do you think you're a good judge of comedy? If so this might be for you...

Jon Aird, BBC Comedy, 12th May 2011

A new panel game, Act Your Age, ostensibly pitting comics from different generations against each other, sounded like a poor man's Mock the Week, with the six contestants, including Lucy Porter, Stephen K Amos and Barry Cryer, vying to come up with the funniest jokes or anecdotes. It wouldn't have mattered that chairman Simon Mayo's scoring was fashionably arbitrary if he'd made a wittier contribution, or helped the contestants out when they were floundering. Any panel game that is reduced to knock-knock jokes in its first outing is going to struggle to find an audience.

Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage, 8th December 2008

They act their age, but they're not funny

I can remember laughing only once, and even that was spitefully. Stephen K Amos, Lucy Porter, Barry Cryer and, bizarrely, Roy Walker had pitched up to pick up a cheque by not trying very hard.

Chris Campling, The Times, 2nd December 2008

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