Michael Jackson (I)

Beware of pretty blondes carrying cups. That's as much as we can tell you without giving away too much. Not Going Out's metrical banter is, as ever, irritatingly vintage, but there's an unusually high good-joke count tonight, and an amusing flashback to a 1980s house party. "You look like a cross between a white Michael Jackson and Gloria Hunniford," says Lee when he meets bewigged host Tim for the very first time. In another key scene, Lee beats up a mini-golf windmill. Repeated exposure to Not Going Out does soften you up, but it's risk-averse and formulaic.

Ruth Margolis, Radio Times, 13th January 2011

C4 pulls TNT Show over Michael Jackson gag

Channel 4 cut last four minutes of TNT Show last night because of 'inappropriate' joke about Michael Jackson.

John Plunkett, The Guardian, 26th June 2009

DVD Review - Jimmy Carr: Comedian

The actual live show does not start particularly well. The dapper gent seems nervous for the recording night and his opening jokes reek of topical discrepancies (a Michael Jackson punchline stinks up the joint dreadfully). However it does not take Jimmy long to find his rhythm. Following a spectacularly nasty heckle towards a middle-aged woman in the audience ("She owes me a tenner!"), the moon-face killer lines up jokes like pump-action custard pies, launching them into the crowd with uncaring abandon for near-on 90 minutes.

Chris Laverty, Heckler Spray, 16th November 2007