"Never Mind the Buzzcocks" (1996) TV series 1996-????

User Rating:

8.9/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23

Release Date:

12 November 1996 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Game-Show

Plot:

A comedy trivia quiz based around pop music, originally hosted by Mark Lamarr up to October 2006, currently hosted by Simon Amstell...

Plot Keywords:

Pop Music | Rock Star | Quiz Show | Celebrity | Pop Star

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Phill Jupitus	...	Himself - Team Captain (201 episodes, 1996-2009)
Mark Lamarr	...	Himself - Host (157 episodes, 1996-2005)
Bill Bailey	...	Himself - Team Captain / ... (100 episodes, 1998-2008)
Sean Hughes	...	Himself - Team Captain (89 episodes, 1996-2002)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

On the 100th show, broadcast on 6th January 2003, John Otway became the first person to rise from the obscurity of the Identity Parade to appear as a panelist on the show. On the same show Jimmy Constable, a former panelist, appeared in the Identity Parade.

Quotes:

Lisa: Put me out of my misery.
Mark: I'd love to.
[looking off-stage]
Mark: Could someone please get my croquet mallet?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The South Bank Show: Humphrey Lyttelton (#30.16)" (2007)

Consistently hilarious

Regardless of how long this show has gone on for it is so consistently hilarious that it's one of the few things on T.V. that I actually look forward to watching. Mark Lamarr is king of mocking people and I love the games they play like "Guess the intro" and others which in all fairness are just prompts for some popular and more amusingly 80's music stars(the show which Pete Burns was on with his hideous - surely joke plastic lips that even Melanie Griffiths would wince at was hilarious!!) to make fools of themselves in an entirely good natured setting. I wasn't entirely convinced that when Sean Hughes left (who was very very funny) that the show would be able to continue but Bill Bailey gave it a new lease of life and the chemistry between him and Lamarr is often responsible for the funniest parts of the show. I hope it goes on for another few years because for as long as it does I will be watching.