Press clippings Page 49
Get Angus Deayton to chair it, get David Mitchell and Lee Mack as team captains and Bob's your uncle. Or is he?
Tonight's possible whoppers in what is very sadly the last in a howlingly successful series include the notion that when David was little he used to dress himself as an 18th century nobleman.
Possibly even funnier is his rant at team-mate Michael McIntyre for inadvertently helping the other side by asking the wrong sort of questions.
They've also cunningly managed to shoe-horn in an astounding clip of the oddball art of bottom reading. It has very little to do with anything but it's so funny, who cares about details like that?
The Mirror, 29th August 2008The format may be derivative, but team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack are such masters of their (admittedly rather specific) craft that the BBC could broadcast footage of them sitting together on a park bench, bickering like an old married couple, and I'd happily watch it.
Anna Lowman, The Guardian, 22nd August 2008The team leaders on this Call My Bluff-style show - Lee Mack and David Mitchell - are on sensationally good form. Unassuming and immensely accomplished, once again it is the comic highlight of the week. Honestly.
David Chater, The Times, 18th July 2008David Mitchell is fast becoming king of the panel game. He's scarily good at them, so it's no wonder he's called on to lend his wits to shows from QI to Mock the Week, and from Have I Got News for You to a Radio 4 show called The Unbelievable Truth that's not a million miles from this.
This is the one where he and Lee Mack are team captains and Angus Deayton is chairman. The contestants have to bluff their way through various tales while their opponents work out which are true. So, for instance, did Gabby Logan really once steal red liquorice from Madonna's dressing room? Under close questioning from Rob Brydon it looks less and less likely. And is the mystery guest really Logan's former gymnastics rival, Mack's swimming teacher or, in fact, Robert Webb's ex-girlfriend?
Brydon and Mitchell make a great pair and what could be a stilted format is saved by some brilliant interplay and Brydon's flights of fancy.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 11th July 2008The producers made particularly good choices in terms of the team captains, as having David Mitchell pitched against Lee Mack brings a certain class and north vs south element into the show, which Mack especially is always happy to exploit.
annawaits, TV Scoop, 10th July 2008Team Captain Interview
The Sun interviews team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell.
Keeley Bolger, The Sun, 27th June 2008Lee Mack Interview
An interview with Lee Mack
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 24th November 2007Have you ever wondered what would happen if the worlds of Stars In Their Eyes and the cult 70s show The Indoor League combined? No, me neither, but the result is rather amusing.
They are two of Lee Mack's choices as he gatecrashes Sean Lock's studio for a chat about the best and worst TV programmes.
It's great when TV programmes are taken out of context, especially ones from the 70s. And The Indoor League is TV gold. Where else could you see cheese skittles being played? Sean is looking forward to the spin-off series, Cheese Skittlers' Wives.
The Mirror, 6th August 2007