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It's Been A Bad Week

  • Radio sketch show
  • BBC Radio 2
  • 1999 - 2006
  • 104 episodes (14 series)

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis try to look for the poor recipient of "The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly, on a Week-By-Week Basis". Also features Mitch Benn, Mervyn Stutter, Jon Culshaw, Emma Clarke, Sue Perkins and more.

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Key details

Genre
Sketch Show
Broadcast
1999 - 2006
Channel
BBC Radio 2
Episodes
104 (14 series), plus 1 highlights special
Stars
Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Mitch Benn, Mervyn Stutter, Jon Culshaw, Emma Clarke, Sue Perkins, Toby Longworth and more
Writers
Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Sue Perkins, Toby Longworth, Simon Greenall, Jo Caulfield, Steve Knight, Mike Whitehill and more
Producers
Nick Canner, Neil Rosser, Dirk Maggs and Liz Anstee
Company

Double act Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, along with several other comedians including Mitch Benn, Sue Perkins and Toby Longworth examine the newspapers and websites from around the world to find people who had even worse week's than you.

Each week, the panel present a selection of news stories of people who had suffered bad luck that week, each of which is judged by the show's sound effects man "Van Man" ("illegally parked outside Ronnie Scott's") as to which has suffered the worst. Out of these, the studio audience "vote" for which one of these finalists will have suffered the worst week in world and will be presented with "The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly, on a Week-By-Week Basis".

Additional details

Also known as
  • Punt And Dennis: It's Been A Bad Week
Production
Studio

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Thursday 11th February 1999 at 10:30pm on BBC Radio 2

Recording details

  • Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club

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