Mock The Week

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".

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

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

Marcus Brigstocke: Mock the Week is 'terrible'

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...