Mock The Week
- TV panel show
- BBC Two
- 2005 - 2022
- 212 episodes (21 series)
Topical panel show taking a satirical look at the week's news. Hosted by Dara O Briain with regular player Hugh Dennis. Also features Andy Parsons, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Rory Bremner and Chris Addison
- Series 11, Episode 11 repeated tomorrow at Midnight on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 2,585
Press clippings Page 7
Dara O Briain's gets Xmas wish as goat meets firey end
The Mock the Week Christmas Special had a lengthy joke about the annual fate of the Swedish Yule Goat, and now social media has provided the punch line as it burnt down again.
Suchandrika Chakrabarti, The Mirror, 27th December 2015Which female comic could replace Andy Parsons on MTW?
So who would be the main contenders should producers plump for a female regular?
Chortle, 19th October 2015Andy Parsons quits Mock The Week
After 10 years on the show, Andy Parsons has quit his regular position on BBC Two's topical comedy show Mock The Week.
British Comedy Guide, 19th October 2015TV review: Mock The Week, BBC2
Compared to The John Bishop Show the faces were over-familiar, but you need to be a pretty assured TV performer to do a programme like this so you can hardly pluck relative circuit newbies as Bishop has done. Will I be watching again? Yes. Has it changed enough to be called a fourth generation? I'm not so sure. Maybe call it Generation Three-And-A-Half.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 25th June 2015Interview with producer Dan Patterson
"Traditionally, the minute we go on air the news turns distinctly horrible and that's a nightmare."
Brigit Grant, The Jewish Chronicle, 16th June 2015How do BBC's Thursday night veterans keep it fresh?
Having so far run for 35 years and 10 years respectively, the BBC's Thursday night double-bill of topical panel shows - Question Time (BBC One, 10.35pm) and Mock the Week (BBC Two, 10pm) - are both veterans by televisual standards. Mock-nervously aware of this fact, Dara
Mark Lawson, The Guardian, 12th June 2015Radio Times review
When this show first aired ten years ago - back when Twitter didn't exist, David Cameron was Shadow Education Secretary and Andy Murray was outside the world's top 400 - it didn't look like much. Yet another panel show, and an unprepossessing mix of Have I Got News for You and Whose Line Is It Anyway? to boot - surely it wouldn't go on to be one of TV comedy's most reliable ratings bankers?
Well, it did - and now it's back for a triumphant 14th series, with Dara O Briain still in charge and a roster of strong comics, old and new: Katherine Ryan, James Acaster, Matt Forde and Josh Widdicombe join hoary regulars Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 11th June 2015Mock The Week infographic
Dara O'Briain's current affairs/improv/comedy show is back back back for its 14th series this month, coinciding with its 10-year anniversary.
Johnny Dee, The Guardian, 5th June 2015Family says Mock The Week saved their lives
A couple have been invited to a recording of Mock The Week after a producer of the show heard how it saved their lives. Rob Ellmore was alerted to a blaze at his house after staying up to watch the show on Monday night.
Hayley Robinson, Kent News, 11th February 2015Mock the Week panels' knob gags just don't stand up
The BBC show's New Year's Eve edition had a parade of dick jokes. They're a mainstay of comedy - but isn't this supposed to be a satirical swipe at the news?
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 6th January 2015