Just spotted the first of the new series of Would I Lie To You on YouTube.
Comedian Rob Brydon hosts the show. I find the back and forth between Rob and the teams entertaining.
David Mitchell is one team captain and he's joined by Kimberly Wyatt and David Baddiel.
Lee Mack is the other team captain and his team mates are Ed Balls and Jo Brand.
I watched the longer version of the 51st series of Have I Got News For You. The 9 episode series started airing last April but I didn't notice until the other day that it had finished. Things to do, things to do.
The show is one of those British panel shows that I like so much. This one delivers a good sarcastic look at some of the current news. The Brexit vote gets a good mention and they slag Donald Trump once in a while. Some of the jokes are local things I didn't get but I have the internet so I can look it up.
The show has a different host each episode. Some of them are on my list of favorite comedians, actors and TV presenters. Here's the run down in order of appearance: Stephen Mangan. Tracey Ullman, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Jo Brand, David Tennant, Frankie Boyle, Gary Lineker, Katherine Ryan and Martin Clunes. The pictures above are all in the order of appearance in the series. They all do a great job and there are plenty of jokes. I laughed out loud many times, even on the second viewing. I watched the short ones first and the longer ones a week later. The short versions run just short of a half hour and the longer ones about 42 minutes.
Paul Merton and Ian Hislop head the two teams and each has a guest to help out. Some of the guests are comedians, some are TV personalities and some are politicians. It's a nice mix. That's Jess Phillips, a Labor MP, and Paul Merton up on the left. Ian Hislop and guest Ross Noble are on the right. Check it out if you think you might like it. You might get a laugh and learn a bit about UK politics. It sucks over there too. I found it interesting to see what they think of the US and some of the things going on here.
The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year for 2015 popped up Boxing Day and someone was nice to post it to YouTube. They've been doing this panel show since 2004 and the whole lot are usually up on YouTube. The show is like a big ass pub quiz with flashy lights and comedian panelists. All the questions are related to events in 2015. There are plenty of jokes to go along with the questions. They usually have a lot more laughs than questions and I get a lot more laughs per hour than I would out of most sitcoms and comedy films. I'm talking laugh out loud, now my side is aching, laughs. The value for others will of course be determined in your own brains cells.
As usual the show is hosted by Jimmy Carr. Here's a picture of him for identification purposes. All the guest panelists have their names in front of them. Jimmy hosts a lot of British panels programs and is usually good for a laugh or two. He's not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoy him most of the time. I watch his 8 Out 10 Cats and 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown as soon as they are posted to YouTube. Thanks to all the people who help keep the rest of the world up to speed on their British TV.
Rob Brydon and Jo Brand are the team on the left side of the panel array.
Richard Ayoade and Greg Davies are in the middle.
Claudia Winkleman and David Mitchell are on the right side.
You can see they even color coded the teams. There's batches of questions and then some answers and points. At the end a teams wins a trophy with ribbons on it. I don't know if they can keep it. There's a bunch of guests on video asking questions. The Middlebrook School children do one of their plays. The panelists have to guess the story in the play.
I've enjoyed all the episodes I've seen and this one was just as much fun as the ones in the past. This is the 19th episode since 2004. Most years have a couple of shows. There was one last January, an Anniversary show to celebrate 10 years of The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year. The second was the standard year in review quiz that was broadcast on 12-26. There will be a new show 1-5-16 and that will be the The Big Fat Quiz of Everything.
Here's Jo Brand interviewing Stephen Fry on a special edition of I've Never Seen Star Wars. There was a 1st season with Marcus Brickstock back in 2009. It was the only season. Marcus would have a guest on and have them try things that they haven't ever done before. I watched the first two episodes and they were fun enough. The show started as a BBC Radio 4 show and the title came from Bill Dare. He was the Producer and Creator of the show and he had never seen Star Wars. So, I guess, that's him and my mom who haven't seen Star Wars. I don't know why Bill didn't want to see it but my mom didn't want to see it because it had robots in it. Not sure where she got that robophobia but she wasn't ever interested in science fiction.
In this 2011 special Jo chats a bit with Stephen and then makes him do things he hasn't done before. He gets an ear pierced, builds a Goliat from Ikea, sees some episodes of Only Fools And Horses and takes a boxing lesson. I got a few laughs from watching and that's better than you can hope for sometimes.
I seem to be on a Jo Brand kick this evening. I was looking at another program this morning and that lead me to Jo's documentary on crying and that lead me to this 28 minute interview with Jo from something called Chat Life. It's a web thing but I haven't gone to their site. She's interviewed by Oscar Pearson and he has some good questions. I found it pretty entertaining and maybe you will too.
Jo Brand did a tv program on crying and it made me laugh. Jo is a British comedian who appears on Qi quite often. I see her on other panel shows and the like. She's often fairly unguarded, quite dark and cruel but in a way that I enjoy. For Crying Out Loud has Jo ruminate on the lack of tears in her life. She doesn't cry very often and doesn't like the plethoria of tears on tv. She visits family and friends to find out if they cry. She talks to some doctors and the like to see why we cry. It's pretty low key and fairly entertaining. You can see the program on YouTube in 4 parts.