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10 O’Clock Live

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Last night saw the launch of Channel 4’s new satire show, 10 O’Clock Live, a programme which saw one of the best stand up comedian’s in the UK (Jimmy Carr) two of the best respected satirical writers (David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker) and a pretty radio DJ (Lauren Laverne) talk about what’s going on in the world for an hour.

10 O’Clock Live is trying to emulate the success of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. (So it’s got quite a mountain to climb when you consider that The Daily Show is arguably the most successful news satire programme of recent times.)

The show has a live, hour long format, and while the first episode is always likely to have some teething problems, many, including myself will find themselves judging the show on the basis of its first appearance.

At a time when the UK is crying out for decent satire, 10 O’Clock live makes for a fantastic concept, unfortunately it also tried to do too much, mainly because it had four hosts.

What this format showed was actually very interesting, as the two presenters who haven’t made their name as live performers were in fact the strongest parts of the show (well done Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell)

As the programme ended, I couldn’t help but think it would have been much, much stronger if the entire show was David Mitchell hosting and debating with a 5 – 10 minute cameo from Charlie Brooker with a newswipe-esque insert.

That said, The Daily Show has that very format, with Jon Stewart in the main seat, so maybe I’m just not keen on the UK’s slightly different approach to the satire programme.


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