This sharp
and specific media satire is beginning to require historical footnotes. This
especially struck me when Sharon Horgan's P.A. tries to justify booking Richard
Bacon for the show to Brydon - "He's actually better known now for
insulting those fat people on Top Of The Pops" I wonder what a
fifteen year-old comedy fan of today - who likes The Trip say, and wants
to investigate more of Rob Brydon's work - would make of this programme?
The other three guests on the first edition of the terrible panel show are Lucy
Porter, Gail Porter and David Mitchell. All come with baggage and stipulations:
BRYDON: So we've got a bald woman who doesn't want people to mention that she's bald, we've got an unknown woman who would like us not to mention that she's unknown, we've got a man who's primarily known for voicing the thoughts in his head who wouldn't like us to mention voicing the thoughts in his head. Are we allowed to say that Jane Moore works for the gutter press? Would she rather we didn't mention that? Is Dave Gorman asking us not to mention that he looks like a lecturer or goes on the Internet a lot? Is everybody using this show as a chance to make a fresh start and go in a new direction?
This is a hard show to warm to in some ways, with the hero being vain, disagreeable
and unfriendly. His one saving grace is that he's always right about the
shoddiness of much British broadcasting of his time... Whether that was enough
for viewers, I'm not sure.
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