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A Stab In The Dark. Image shows from L to R: David Baddiel, Tracey MacLeod, Michael Gove
A Stab In The Dark

A Stab In The Dark

  • TV sketch show
  • Channel 4
  • 1992
  • 10 episodes (1 series)

Late-night topical news review, presented by David Baddiel, Tracey MacLeod and Michael Gove.

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Press clippings

Is Gove's comedy sketch about Scots self-hate speech?

Lesley Riddoch discusses a clip of Michael Gove from comedy sketch show A Stab In The Dark where the senior Tory talks about how terrible Scottish people are.

Lesley Riddoch, The National (Scotland), 29th June 2021

The show I made with Michael Gove gives me nightmares

In 1992, Gove, David Baddiel and I presented the presciently titled A Stab In The Dark - a politics-based Channel 4 'yoof' programme. It was an absolute turkey.

Tracey MacLeod, The Guardian, 5th July 2016

Michael Gove was in a comedy called A Stab in the Dark

Vote Leave's EU referendum campaign felt like a stab in the dark at times. It's quite fitting then that Michael Gove once appeared in a TV series of the same title. And it was a politics-based comedy. The satire was actually a fairly serious affair in that it appeared on Channel 4 and also featured David Baddiel.

Toby Meyjes, Metro, 2nd July 2016

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