Mocking Week

I was lucky enough to be at the recording of Mock the Week last week – my first visit to the old ‘Concrete Doughnut’ since moving down here! The show was great. I usually enjoy watching it on the telly, but it was even better to see the unedited form. It was so much funnier to see all the comedians without the constraints of libel or language censorship with the broadcast programme has to be concerned with. Also there’s a lot more comedy in two hours than there is in a half hour programme.

The recording also made me realise just how funny Hugh Dennis can be. I was harking back to the old days of the Milky Milky tour with Steve Punt, when I suddenly realised how long ago that must have been (when I was still at school and my mate fancied Rob Newman, so we’d have this big Mary Whitehouse divide)

It was fun to watch the programme on Thursday night, with my accompanying comments of “oh, they cut that bit”, “I can’t believe they left that in” and “ah, they used that take”. Great stuff!