A load of Buzzcocks (Never Mind the Buzzcocks)

Member Name: laukez

Product:	Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Date:	23/10/09 (19 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some funny moments from Noel Fielding

Disadvantages: Tired format telling the same old "jokes"

The new series of Never Mind the Buzzcocks started a few weeks ago on BBC2, thursdays at 9.30. I have long since been a fan of this show fromt he days when Mark Lamarr was host with Sean Highes and Phil Jupitus as captains.

The format is this - the show is a music quiz show with various "celebrity" guests each week in two teams. The current captains are Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding of Mighty Boosh Fame. There are several rounds such as Guess the intro and Next lines.

For this series the show has been hosted by a guest host after the decent Simon Amstell stood down. There have been some decent hosts - Rhod Gilbert and James Corden, and some not so good in some fella I'd never heard of last night and whose name escapes me. But it generally doesn't seem to matter who the host is any more.

The jokes are the same every week, and the show is beginning to feel worn out. The host offends his guests, Phill Jupitus punches his card and says and does very little. Noel Fielding's very random musings are funny (I can't stand Mighty Boosh but he's funny in this) without being hilarious. The guests range from the famous to the not so famous to the who on earth is that?!

It's always been part of the show to have some slightly obscure guests but some of them are rubbish, with little to say and they just sit there looking bored. I presume most celebrities avoid this programme to avoid just being ridiculed for half an hour. This brand of humour has produced some memorable moments in the past such as Preston's storming out but I can't see this series being anything like as funny as that.

The show just feels now like it's run its course. It really has been repetitive this series and even some genuinely funny guest hosts have been wasted by just reasding the same old jokes aroun d the same old themes from an autocue. What was once essential viewing and telly instution for me has become stale and boring. A real shame.

Summary: Put it out of its misery BBC