N generously invited me to tonight’s recording of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. For those not in the know (and before tonight’s experience that would have included me) Never Mind the Buzzcocks is billed as a music gameshow but runs more as a comedy. It is hosted by the very dry Mark Lamarr and features two teams: one generally permanent team captains in the form of Phill Jupitus (I think a radio host) and the very funny Bill Bailey who I know best as the funny long-haired chap from the TV series Black Books. These two are then joined each by two guests.
I think there were about 4 rounds of “quizzes” – What’s the Connection (where teams have to connect two apparently disparate musical groups by some wierd fact, such as the connection between Nsync and John Denver), Intros (two team members play out an intro to a song and the other member has to guess what it is), The Identity Parade (hilarious – as each team tries to pick out an old band member from a popular band from about 20 years ago out of a choice of five), and the final rapid-fire round where Mark says a line from a song and teams have to give the next one.
The experience was definitely very enjoyable though a very very long one. I think we were in there for over three hours just to film a half-hour spot! But thanks N for the ticket.
I loved this show!! They have tried to replicate with
an Aussie version on ABC recently, but no one compares
to Mark! Although, the half hour ‘highlights’ sounds
much better than the 3 hours!
Yea Mark is definitely a one-off kind of guy! 3 hours was almost too much but luckily the banter and laughs etc. kept up throughout most of it so time pretty much flew by.
I find mark lamarr quite unpleasant – his humour is based on bullying
I think he is lovely. Stop bad mouthing people snoops, or big Daddy-O is gonna get you. I hear buttersnaps McGraw is on next week…
Shifty McVey once asked me if i had any hula hoops. I said no, will suger puffs do? He replied “if it bleeds we can kill it”, this startled me.