Brilliant Buzzcocks (Never Mind the Buzzcocks)

Member Name: Avenging_Arnold

Product:	Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Date:	07/10/09 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: Comedy and music need i say more

Disadvantages: has the potential to fail now due to lack of consistant host

Never Mind The Buzzcocks has become a institution in its 13 year tun on the BBC and rightly so. With its mixture of music and comedy what more could you want and it delivers in spades.

Many moons ago in 1996 Mark Lamarr, Phill Jupitus and Sean Hughes started the new music panel show and being a avid music fan i duly tuned in to see what it was all about. This show is not so much about music as more of comedy show loosely based in music.

With Mark Lamarr's fantastic dry humour, the quick wittedness and the surreal comedy of then team captains Phill Jupitus and Sean Hughes and a array of guest stars each week this programme quickly built up a cult following.

I was amazed when i looked at some info for this review that it actually had been on so long and i put this down to the fact that when the show was beginning to become stale after Sean Hughes had left and there was a guest team captain in his place each week, that Mark Lamarr decided it was his time to leave too. I thought that this would signal the end of the show but in a masterstroke from the BBC Mark Lamarr was replaced with the little known and fantastically funny Simon Anstell and the regular team captain position was taken up by the simply brilliant Bill Bailey.

Simon Anstell's observational humour and the way he can destroy a guest without the guest even knowing it was amazing and just the sheer surreal humour of Bill Baily gave the show a totally new dimension and brought a the show back to the forefront of the BBC's entertainment schedule.

Unfortunately in 2008 both Anstell and Bailey left the show and i really thought it was the end. But in a move i think that could possibly backfire on the BBC Bailey has been replaced by Noel Fielding of the inexplicably popular Mighty Boof and they have decided to carry on with guest hosts.

I was not convinced that this would work but tuning in last week to the first episode in the new series in a bid to prove to myself i would now hate it especially as again the inexplicably popular James Corden was guest host, i was pleasantly surprised. Fielding did a great job and i think will make a excellent team captain and Corden was actually really quite amusing, of course it was down to Phill Jupitus to hold the show together but it all work admirably and i shall definatley be tuning into to BBC2 at 9pm this Thursday.

Summary: A Mixture of Humour and Music that keeps of delievering