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Mock The Week. Image shows from L to R: Hugh Dennis, Dara O Briain
Mock The Week

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

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Jason Manford: You should be offended by news not MTW

Jason Manford has said that he finds it baffling how offended people can get by jokes online and on TV, arguing that the best way to deal with people who decide to get offended is "ignore them".

Alex Fletcher, Digital Spy, 21st November 2014

Mock the Week isn't left-wing - it's puerile

Right wingers need to stop carping about luvvie bias at the Beeb.

Patrick West, Spiked, 11th November 2014

Marcus Brigstocke: Mock the Week is 'terrible'

Marcus Brigstocke, the comedian, says the BBC needs to raise its game when it comes to satire.

Tim Walker, The Telegraph, 11th October 2014

10 of the best "Scenes We'd Like to See"

Top comedians do battle with hilarious one-liners on the topic of TV and films.

Emma Daly, Radio Times, 11th September 2014

Frankie Boyle criticises Mock The Week

He said: "When we started on Mock The Week we were allowed to cover the Gulf War. Last time I watched the first item was the Ryder Cup - and it had been rained off."

Rob Leigh, The Mirror, 23rd August 2014

Mock The Week, Series 13 - Female Panellists

Despite the humiliation of the extremely concentrated 'positive discrimination' that women (including the public as well as comedians) are being force-fed with, it is undeniable that Mock The Week is a better show because of it, I just wish it hadn't been done so blatantly, before everyone's eyes.

Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 23rd July 2014

In time for the low-hanging comedic fruit of England's World Cup campaign, a return for the standard mix of mock-incredulity at everyday minutiae, repeated plunges into well-thumbed stand-up routines and hefty helpings of "epic" banter. This second episode of this new series has series mainstays Dara O'Briain, Hugh Dennis and Andy Parsons being joined by Rob Beckett, Gary Delaney, Josh Widdicombe and Sara Pascoe, the last possibly pressured to prove she's there on merit rather than due to a dictum from the BBC Trust.

Mark Jones, The Guardian, 19th June 2014

Mock The Week's 20 best jokes

TV's self-styled "most notorious topical quiz show" Mock the Week returns tonight for a 13th season.

Gerard O'Donovan, The Telegraph, 12th June 2014

Radio Times review

We're now a mighty 13 series into the topical panel show, and Dara O'Briain remains adept at shepherding his guests' reactions to the news - part effective quickfire puns, part Radio 4-friendly cleverness and, yes, part borderline offensive nonsense - into a cohesive whole.

For the comedians who stand in front of Mock the Week's lonely microphone, this isn't a bad summer in which to start a new series. As expectant silence falls around them, the World Cup, immigration rows and the build-up to the Commonwealth Games and Scottish referendum are all there to be clutched at. Tonight, regulars Andy Parsons, Hugh Dennis and our cerebral host are joined by Milton Jones, Ed Byrne and Romesh Ranganathan. Katherine Ryan is the solitary woman.

Emma Sturgess, Radio Times, 12th June 2014

Why I hate Mock the Week

Does anyone actually find Mock the Week amusing? It's about as funny as mass genocide and is everything that comedy shouldn't be...

Craig Campbell (not the comedian), Sabotage Times, 2nd January 2014

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