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Lovely touching video at the end of the Mock the Week finale, though their choice of song did make it seem a little like every person in all of those pictures is dead now.
Every time I’m not actually watching Rhys James in something, I think of him as a fairly amusing comedian. Every time I’m actually watching him, I think, “Oh right, he’s absolutely fucking hilarious. How did I forget this?” He brought the exact energy to that Mock the Week finale that they needed on that day. Edgy, shit stirring, and properly fucking annoyed.
I said this before, but genuinely, someone has to give Angela Barnes a TV show now, right? I just finished listening to her You Can’t Take It with You radio show, remembered how much I like her perspective and approach to telling stories, and she can’t just not be on TV now. She really lit up a few times tonight, I like her dynamic with Rhys a lot. Someone give them both a show, but where Angela’s clearly the one in charge.
ABK was also on fire in the Mock the Week finale, a few really good quips. He’s the kind of person Mock the Week was supposed to stick around for, the one who’s done lots of cool shit in comedy that’s not on TV, and is supposed to have Mock the Week to get him into television.
Zoe Lyons on the finale was a lovely touch, another blast from the past. Part of Mock the Week’s past, but also a further blast from my personal past than almost any of these comedians, as she was part of the cabal of News Quiz lesbians that were a big deal for me when I first started listening to The News Quiz shortly after coming out. 2007-2008 was hardly the world’s most difficult time to work out that you were mostly gay (bisexual but leaning mostly gay, it’s a reasonable way to describe my sexual orientation), but it was a harder time than it is now; I was watching shit quality streams of the awful show The L Word because I didn’t know any other gay women in real life, and that and Buffy were my only sources of representation. So, you know, it was pretty great in 2009 when I discovered the News Quiz and its lesbians. Susan Calman, Zoe Lyons, Sue Perkins, and of course Toksvig was their queen. And mine. You think I get sentimental about Britcom shows now? This is how I get over shows I’ve only been into for 2.5 years. You should have seen me with actual tears in my eyes as I listened to Phill Jupitus read his Nothing Rhymes with Toksvig poem at the end of Sandi’s last episode of The News Quiz. Anyway, I didn’t even know what Zoe Lyons looked like until I watched Mock the Week in summer 2020, but I’ve known her voice for years. It was great to see her.
While I’m at this, throwback to one of the first posts I ever made on this blog, when I reached s09e04 of Mock the Week and posted a screenshot to acknowledge the lovely butch/butch lesbian couple that were on a team together that week.
I have never seen any episode of anything that hasn’t been improved by the presence of Ahir Shah. Some nice moments in Scenes. A generous laugh. An ability to go back and forth with anyone that was made for panel shows. Also should have been part of Mock the Week’s future.
No words needed for Dara and Hugh. Except, perhaps, the word “vigorously”.
The only show whre Noel wasn’t blonde, but was on one of the promos. It was the final BBC series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks with Rhod Gilbert as a regular host :)