Mock The Week
- TV panel show
- BBC Two
- 2005 - 2022
- 212 episodes (21 series)
Topical panel show taking a satirical look at the week's news. Hosted by Dara O Briain with regular player Hugh Dennis. Also features Andy Parsons, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Rory Bremner and Chris Addison
- Series 20, New Year Special repeated tomorrow at 10:40pm on U&Dave
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Family says Mock The Week saved their lives
A couple have been invited to a recording of Mock The Week after a producer of the show heard how it saved their lives. Rob Ellmore was alerted to a blaze at his house after staying up to watch the show on Monday night.
Hayley Robinson, Kent News, 11th February 2015Mock the Week panels' knob gags just don't stand up
The BBC show's New Year's Eve edition had a parade of dick jokes. They're a mainstay of comedy - but isn't this supposed to be a satirical swipe at the news?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 6th January 2015Jason Manford: You should be offended by news not MTW
Jason Manford has said that he finds it baffling how offended people can get by jokes online and on TV, arguing that the best way to deal with people who decide to get offended is "ignore them".
Alex Fletcher, Digital Spy, 21st November 2014Mock the Week isn't left-wing - it's puerile
Right wingers need to stop carping about luvvie bias at the Beeb.
Patrick West, Spiked, 11th November 2014Marcus Brigstocke: Mock the Week is 'terrible'
Marcus Brigstocke, the comedian, says the BBC needs to raise its game when it comes to satire.
Tim Walker, The Telegraph, 11th October 201410 of the best "Scenes We'd Like to See"
Top comedians do battle with hilarious one-liners on the topic of TV and films.
Emma Daly, Radio Times, 11th September 2014Frankie Boyle criticises Mock The Week
He said: "When we started on Mock The Week we were allowed to cover the Gulf War. Last time I watched the first item was the Ryder Cup - and it had been rained off."
Rob Leigh, The Mirror, 23rd August 2014Mock The Week, Series 13 - Female Panellists
Despite the humiliation of the extremely concentrated 'positive discrimination' that women (including the public as well as comedians) are being force-fed with, it is undeniable that Mock The Week is a better show because of it, I just wish it hadn't been done so blatantly, before everyone's eyes.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 23rd July 2014In time for the low-hanging comedic fruit of England's World Cup campaign, a return for the standard mix of mock-incredulity at everyday minutiae, repeated plunges into well-thumbed stand-up routines and hefty helpings of "epic" banter. This second episode of this new series has series mainstays Dara O'Briain, Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons being joined by Rob Beckett, Gary Delaney, Josh Widdicombe and Sara Pascoe, the last possibly pressured to prove she's there on merit rather than due to a dictum from the BBC Trust.
Mark Jones, The Guardian, 19th June 2014Mock The Week's 20 best jokes
TV's self-styled "most notorious topical quiz show" Mock the Week returns tonight for a 13th season.
Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 12th June 2014