Vic Reeves

Jimmy Carr returns with the sixth - yes, sixth - series of this consistently funny panel game, sitting smugly between the announcement of who's getting kicked out of the Big Brother house and the first evictee's chat with Davina.

Comedians Sean Lock and Jason Manford are still in the team captains' chairs and tonight they'll be joined by repeat guests (also known as show stalkers) Vic Reeves and David Walliams, who have appeared more than 10 times between them.

Jane Simon, The Mirror, 13th June 2008

The inessential comedy panel show returns for an astonishing sixth series, with Jimmy Carr again marshalling six comedians as they recite jokes based on surveys and statistics. Returning as team captains are Sean Lock, generally the best spontaneous contributor by far, and Peter Kay-ish Manchester comic Jason Manford.

It's all a bit stilted and choppily edited, but it can attract decent guests (Vic Reeves and Griff Rhys Jones were on last year - David Walliams appears tonight) and will do well in the ratings.

Jack Seale, Radio Times, 13th June 2008

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