Act Your Age
- Radio panel show
- BBC Radio 4
- 2008 - 2011
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Simon Mayo hosts this Radio 4 panel show that pits three comic generations against each other. Also features Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter, Roy Walker, Adrian Walsh, Johnnie Casson and more.
- Series 1, Episode 6 repeated Tuesday at 2pm on Radio 4 Extra
Press clippings
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Jon Aird, BBC Comedy, 12th May 2011A new panel game, Act Your Age, ostensibly pitting comics from different generations against each other, sounded like a poor man's Mock the Week, with the six contestants, including Lucy Porter, Stephen K Amos and Barry Cryer, vying to come up with the funniest jokes or anecdotes. It wouldn't have mattered that chairman Simon Mayo's scoring was fashionably arbitrary if he'd made a wittier contribution, or helped the contestants out when they were floundering. Any panel game that is reduced to knock-knock jokes in its first outing is going to struggle to find an audience.
Nick Smurthwaite, The Stage, 8th December 2008They act their age, but they're not funny
I can remember laughing only once, and even that was spitefully. Stephen K Amos, Lucy Porter, Barry Cryer and, bizarrely, Roy Walker had pitched up to pick up a cheque by not trying very hard.
Chris Campling, The Times, 2nd December 2008