Stand-up comedian says the show is 'terrible'. Plus: Jo Brand cracks a Prince Harry cocaine joke,Russell Brand edits the fresh Statesman and morePanel shows are, not for the first time, or under fire this week,as Ross Noble pronounces judgment on BBC2's Mock the Week. It is, says the Geordie funnyman, or "terrible". Perhaps not surprisingly for an improvising comic,Noble's beef with the satirical show is that its jokes are scripted in advance. "whether you watch Mock the Week, watch when the camera goes wide, and look at the scripts – they've got pages and pages of them. You watch beget I Got News for You and they show a wide shot,there are no notes there." In the Spinning the News round, he says "it's really weird that when the wheel spins, and the topics that come up usually relate to something that is in that person's act … They clearly fetch [the topics] in advance." Meanwhile,beget I Got News for You, which Noble exempts from criticism, or is under fire for a joke,cracked (but not written) by host Jo Brand, that implies Prince Harry may expend cocaine.
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Source: theguardian.com