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Never mind the other panellists... here's Frankie Boyle

The Guardian says that acerbic standup Frankie Boyle is the not only saving grace of Mock the Week, he is also the antidote to the smug and anaemic world of primetime comedy

Hazel Davis, The Guardian, 3rd September 2008

Barry Cryer: How will we ever get over the Humph?

He [Humphery Lyttleton] never swore - too much style for that. Well, hardly ever. The last show we ever did with him was on our live tour, in Harrogate, just a few weeks ago. We were all at the same hotel. At breakfast he had prunes. He took one bite, looked up from his bowl and said: 'How can you f*** up a prune?'

Barry Cryer, The Times, 9th June 2008

Why I Hate...Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Never Mind the Buzzcocks has been masquerading as comedy for more than ten years, and a brow-furrowing 21 series. They'd be better off sticking Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey on a sofa with a couple of pints and letting them discuss 30 minutes of archive pop videos. That's where the value of the show is. Everything else is fulfilling some desperate criteria to appeal to the 15-25 demographic, while forgetting about what actually makes good telly.

Rhodri Marsden, Radio Times, 13th February 2008

Everything you think you know is wrong

A book review of The Book of General Ignorance. "Imagine Jeopardy with Stephen Colbert as host, with Steve Martin and Ellen DeGeneres as guests, working off a game board loaded with unanswerable questions."

Liesl Schillinger, The New York Times, 2nd September 2007

Why 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 2007

My night on Never Mind the Buzzcocks

An interview with Ed Seymour who was drafted in to fill the vacant seat when Samuel Preston walked off the show.

BBC, 14th February 2007

Vic Reeves Big Night Out: Series One

Reeves and Mortimer have never been afraid to turn their hands to different formats - a game show, Shooting Stars; a comedy drama, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased); a surreal sitcom, Catterick - but they have never really topped the inspired lunacy of their first television series.

John McNamara, The Times, 10th September 2005

I hereby vow never to work in TV again

The Guardian published this article in which Matthew Holness, writing in character as star horror author Garth Marenghi, explained how budgetary problems, mysterious deaths and the secret service nearly ruined the (fictional) production of Darkplace.

Garth Marenghi, The Guardian, 26th January 2004

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