Mock the Week Series 17 Episode 8. 14 Sep 2018

[@petnogakatten]

tom's standup in this episode was one of the best i've ever sen on mock the week. so good

[@toplayDA_]

Haven't seen much standup the have you then lmao?

[@VestigialHead]

@@toplayDA_ Haha very good point. Tom is a mediocre comedian at best. He gets props from people like Ellen because of the group he represents.

[@Hania_L]

@@VestigialHead She said "one of the best (...) on mock the week" not "in every standup there is"... :)) What does any group have do to with anything anyway.

[@VestigialHead]

@@Hania_L I never claimed she said "in every standup there is" Mock the week has been filled with comedians ALL of whom are funnier than Tom Allen. As I said he is mediocre. You totally missed my joke about the OP's name being ellen. This explains the group comment. Ellen Degeneres is part of the LGBT group thus the props.

[@Hania_L]

@@VestigialHead The Ellen bit I've missed, true. :) The guy above your comment did hovewer imply that she was talking about more than Mock the Week. Anyway, this isn't that significant really - let's enjoy the rest of the episode/episodes! Have a good day! :)

[@franklinnartz1381]

I have to say, Rhys James and Ed Gamble are making this program worth watching again.

[@skapiche5344]

Who's Ed Gamble? lol

[@franklinnartz1381]

He's not in this episode but I mentioned him because he started appearing around the same time as Rhys James. He's in the previous episode I believe.

[@skapiche5344]

Ah I see, I'll have to check that out than, thanks for the tip :)

[@kassistwisted]

OMG, YES! And don't forget James Acaster!

[@renebantam9603]

Also, I wanna marry Rhys and I dunno how I feel about that

[@rexcorvorum4262]

Ed Byrne, Milton Jones, and Hugh Dennis are some of the funniest people

[@RIXRADvidz]

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[@stannousflouride8372]

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[@ovid5192]

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[@chrisbaby2345]

i'll add my appreciation here

[@jamiefinn4438]

It's on BBC I player but I'll watch it on here for convenience

[@demelzamason4274]

That moment when Dara turns round and sees Hugh with his shirt open like "Christ sake, what am I going to have to put a stop to now with these children"

[@TapManDancer]

Please don't blaspheme friend.

[@DirtForester]

@@TapManDancer please keep your righteousness to yourself.

[@jeric_synergy8581]

Tom and Milton are really becoming favorites. Tom because of his archness, and Milton because of his "man from Mars" take on things. Well done, producers.

[@kennyhagan5781]

Milton has a funny way of pointing out human foolishness. Tom,he should have his own show.

[@geckokid8265]

I like to think of Milton as like an uncle who is at the family gathering and is asleep, occasionally wakes up, says something hilarious and goes back to sleep

[@aemelnick]

Milton referencing Tom's adventure in Reading. I always love when Milton does that sort of thing. He acts as though he has no idea what anyone else is saying.

[@floodlitworld]

I loved the "Thanks, that doesn't normally work" afterwards, so as to say that he tells that same joke all the time.

[@James-semaJ]

He's a proper freestyle joke teller.

[@M32Mirach]

He does it much better than Andy Parsons, who just makes it feel forced.

[@diestormlie]

Hugh Dennis is a National Treasure.

[@annnee6818]

Yip

[@biggusdickus5986]

He should never have been dug up then

[@ashandalsmom]

Beleaguered American here....many thanks!!

[@thehellyousay]

Who, exactly, are you beleaguered by... ?

[@kalainaicker201]

Tom Allen kills it everytime! wonderful

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

kalai naicker fantastic ain't he

[@GenericGooner]

I wasn’t able to watch a full stand up show by Milton, I found it a little too surreal at times, but on mock the week he is perfect. His surrealism breaks up the others when he interjects.

[@LuckySport44]

"A Lady and the Gay." That is a great name and premise for a sitcom.

[@Wizardously]

Yeah, it's called Will and Grace

[@Noobie2k7]

@@Wizardously Exactly what i thought!

[@grahamhume5953]

If Deborah White was in it, I wouldn't watch it.

[@ellie-anne173]

Tom's rants are brilliant

[@potatocorners]

Even though it's a topical new show, I always find myself going back to this episode! Too many laughs!

[@zeruchofficial]

Tom Allen is quite good when he rants...

[@sillysongs19]

Seriously

[@glynisbrown5877]

Tom Allen is a totally splendid human being. He literally adds the class, sparkle and wit to these shows. ✨✨✨✨

[@VestigialHead]

@@glynisbrown5877 You must be kidding. Wit when? Sparkle? He always wears a suit so no sparkle there. I have not heard him say one funny thing yet. He is there as a "Token Gay" which he at least understands.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

He starts to sound like a Dalek when he really gets going.

[@ASBinMTY]

Watching him and Milton, with their totally different stand-up approaches, honestly belly laugh at each others' mini sets is just great.

[@James-semaJ]

After all these years this show is still hilarious.

[@amphetameanqueen]

Tom Allen is utterly brilliant!

[@stannousflouride8372]

One of his greatest rants!

[@SundaraRamanR]

I usually can't stand him, hated his appearance on other panel shows, but here he somehow did fit in well and was quite funny.

[@VestigialHead]

+ amphetamean-queen One of the least entertaining guests they have had on this show.

[@annnee6818]

@@ob2395 Humour is subjective, go ask your mum and dad.

[@PrinzPassionsfrucht]

OMG Tom Allen, the Three Dads remark was straight fire!

[@Showmetheevidence-]

“The lie detector or grinder” 😂😂😂

[@RatelHBadger]

I just rewatched the Private Browsing clip and then this came up...

[@GrahamCStrouse]

Many thanks from the US!

[@sfshinz]

Tom and Milton are perfect inverses of each other.

[@thierryreindorf8864]

Here I am trying to watch this at night without making noise and Milton keeps catching me out. Curse your amazing puns.

[@kimberleymorris8052]

Didn’t know this was back on tv!!! I don’t watch tv anymore so thanks for the uploads

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

Tom Allen is easy my new fave, more of him please :)

[@garfreeek]

That stagg night stand-up was so relatable and hilarious xD

[@surfacingcom]

And points go to Ed Sheeran for Galway Girl.

[@The_Unholy_Nerd]

This was filmed on my Birthday! I was there as well. I was 18 when they filmed this!

[@chenzenzo]

That's awesome! Happy birthday!

[@symbally]

thanks from an English man in HK

[@orangew3988]

Oooh baseball shoes with a suit - quirky dad! 😂😂😂

[@annnee6818]

I loved that😛😝😂

[@greyjackal]

Having grown up in Reading, I feel Tom's pain :D

[@LjubisaP]

The light on Tom's head looks like a white sprayed-on mohawk

[@jaimicottrill2831]

I saw Hugh’s nipple. My life is now complete. 😂

[@cleoptrCleoptr]

Jaimi Cottrill the world is now complete😂

[@alikazerani]

Strangely enough, he's done this before on this show (in the Frankie era) :p

[@vincentmutel7313]

To be fair, you've only seen ONE of them. 😊

[@jaimicottrill2831]

@@vincentmutel7313 lol, one was enough!

[@dropbearkellyevehammond4446]

Tom and Ed are on fire in this episode 🤣

[@thebigdawg61]

Rhys owned Scenes We'd Like to See.

[@AleeraGorvan]

Tom, Deborah and Rhys lined up for 'Scenes We'd Like To See' somehow look like an Addam's Family-Cosplay! :D

[@AzureWind91]

I don't think I've related to Dara more than when he repeated slapped his forehead.

[@henrikibsen6258]

You would think for your 100th guest you would get a comedian.

[@79devo]

Jo Thomas yep. she really didn’t participate and looked like a bulldog chewing a wasp at others’ jokes

[@TapManDancer]

Nothing worse than an aggressive feminist, with in-your-face agendas.

[@csbalachandran]

@@79devo I like this simile!

[@rohypnotist6263]

Thanks from a Belgian insomniac .

[@DocteurNS]

Make that TWO Belgian insomniacs!

[@nevenmusic3024]

Make it three actually

[@iltransatlantico]

I'm not Belgian, but Italian... yet, an insomianc!

[@pretsigaret1]

Four that is

[@ingeboehnke7670]

And one more here!

[@tanukiman3855]

Tom’s camp dudgeon is superb.

[@heathdouglas-monks7568]

was there a woman on this episode? i don't think it was mentioned...

[@comfortablemisfit4154]

heath douglas-monks that was a woman? Are you sure?

[@henrikbger4111]

@@comfortablemisfit4154 she seemed to be somewhat under that impression "herself"

[@petitpois2281]

Unfortunately just 1. As always. Lol and people think there is equality now.

[@nikolamatasin3877]

@@petitpois2281 Maybe if most of them didn't all rehash same jokes (as do people like Nish Kumar and Tom Allen about their groups), don't get me wrong, I love Ellie Taylor, Holly Walsh, Aisling Bea, and so on... but some are just tiring, like Deborah was (and I love Richard Ayoade and Romesh Ranganathan..., as well as Joe Lycett, because all of their material is original and fresh)

[@bonnie5076]

9:40 ish i cant breathe SHADOW CABINET 😂😂

[@BlackLyam]

I love Milton Jones. Just pure clean cut jokes. Really nice for a change.

[@keishad.6115]

Ed Byrne! ❤️

[@brendanhunter389]

Her saying I'm a woman as a joke is like me being on saying I'm Scottish every joke hoping someone in the audience relates

[@douglasshowler4168]

Good episode, thanks

[@trueblue96CFC]

Deborah...I kinda figured you’re a woman and I’ve no doubt if tough for a female comic to make it big but it would help if they were actually funny and didn’t use women’s suffrage as the punch line every time. She just seems really bitter as well, I get diversity quotas and such but were no other female comedians available?

[@mattmas32]

They probably have a quota for female comics who have a chip on their shoulder.

[@Walperion_Music]

Ahaha that cockoo joke! The first big cheer like 30 seconds into the episode! Yeah that's a great ep!

[@pwebb19]

I'd never heard of Deborah Frances-White before seeing this episode. Having just watched, I can see why!

[@donrobertson4940]

Really makes you wonder why there have only been four women on the show, doesn't it?

[@TERMINATIONBLISS08]

And all 4 are better than her

[@EpicRenegade777]

theres been 20+ shes just the feminist nut-case cry police

[@Saffronn95]

if you found one man not funny would you imply that men as a group aren't funny? just curious

[@sarahl3721]

I had heard of her

[@emporioalnino4670]

not hard to see why that was deborah's first and last appearance

[@johnmjones1604]

why???????

[@josephnormyle28]

@@johnmjones1604 Cuz every part of her humour is hur durh women, men all over mock the week. And its like yes but please diversify.

[@grahamhume5953]

She makes the same " jokes" and wears the same red outfit during her one apperance on Have I Got News For You.

[@Farweasel]

@@grahamhume5953 She does jokes too? Can't say I noticed them.

[@grahamhume5953]

@@Farweasel I know what you mean.

[@dohcholidaycustoms642]

I would love to have home boy to my stag do lmao

[@platinumpatience5307]

I really wanted "Galway girl" to start playing at the end!

[@artemisstrong5113]

The funniest Mock the Week I've seen in a long time. Thanks!

[@geminiXXX]

I respect your sarcasm.

[@artemisstrong5113]

But yours is just a little snarky, isn't it, Mr Grumpy? Big Ed Sheeran fan, are you? :D

[@bushiebodge]

great thanks

[@michaelharrison3602]

The reason Deborah has waited so long for recognition as a comic is that she isn't funny

[@nomadicroadrat]

Milton was spot on, horrid puns and all. Tom and Rhy were quite good in the scenes we'd like to see segment.

[@MichaelBoogerd]

Thank goodness Deborah Frances-white constantly reminds us she is a woman. I nearly forgot for a moment there

[@Heroes_of_Qalanor_RPG]

wow that Deborah Frances-White won't be invited back...

[@bobbythorman7421]

Milton makes some of the funniest cerebral jokes ever and the audience don't really get them. The cuckoo joke is an absolute classic.

[@LWayPro]

So many good female comedians who don’t use the woman are oppressed joke every sing time and force everyone to awkwardly laugh. Watched over 100 episodes and she is by far the worst comedian I’ve ever seen on the show.

[@Jeroen1983]

I'm willing to concede to that claim as soon as I've made sure Nina Conti has never been on.

[@Dr3Mc3Ninja]

Max Lwaypro Yeah, I am not into a lot of the female comedians that have appeared on MTW, but she was insufferable. Nothing was funny, it was just bitterness at the show she chose to be on. Her attitude paired with her lack of humour makes her the worst guest in my opinion. I know comedy is subjective, but she was milking a cow skeleton at that point. I'm not a guy either.

[@loveleyday]

She's a comedian??

[@No1downy]

agreed

[@theremin099]

Mock the Week has definitely been struggling for a while but unlike a lot of other commenters I actually enjoyed this one a lot more than most of the recent ones. They all seemed to actually be enjoying themselves - and DFW's jokes about women weren't just self-referential "oh she's a woman" kind of things, they were jokes about Mock the Weeks history because it's had a lot of controversy at times about women. As someone who's watched this for years and loved the show I thought that was pretty funny.

[@amphetameanqueen]

Has the show become more PC over the years? It seems more mildly amusing now than controversial.

[@thatdutchguy2882]

Don't go to Mexico,.....IT'S A TRAP🔨.

[@eastvandb]

+amphetamean-queen And yet, it is still a shocking change of pace to actually see two women in the same episode of Mock The Week. And Britain has an incredibly deep bench of funny women.

[@theremin099]

+amphetamean-queen I think it has become more tame but that's more a result of consumer tastes and just the kind of work comics are doing now, not some crusade by the BBC to silence people like Frankie Boyle and so on. MtW is still doing some stuff that's more controversial than main stream just none of the kind of stuff that got them fined in the past.

[@unamiqueta]

I'm with you. The point was to 'mock' the reputation the show has long had for having a designated spot for the single female comic and for never having more than one despite the fact that the comedy scene itself has moved well beyond a bunch of middle class white blokes and a handful of working class white blokes. What's funny (funny haha and funny weird) are the laughable comments below that DFW was obviously a "diversity hire"... Firstly, feck off back to 1994. And secondly... so the feck what? The festival/ standup scene is increasingly diverse and the joke has long been on the panel shows for not keeping up. When the MTW gig has become a regular thing for women, non-white or queer comics they have thrived (as TA does in this episode and Sarah Pascoe has in so many). Yet, when any comic makes their debut (in a format fairly removed from their regular gigs) they are torn to pieces, and more so if the youtube trolls have decided they are "diversity hires" (one again, please return, sirs, to the 1990s).

[@sirskeptic]

"I'm female!" - is that her only joke? She used it 8 times in one episode.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

And it wasn't funny the first time she said it.

[@robinhyperlord9053]

Much very much agreed.

[@MsKeksPudding]

It's a shame seeing her not do so well on this panel show after listening to tons of episodes of her podcast on which she is so utterly brilliant...🤔 she definitely has a lot more to offer than she got to show on there and I still think she is absolutely brilliant😁

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@MsKeksPudding I will take your word for it, but when she was on Have I Got News for You, she was just as unfunny.

[@elliotyamamoto38]

Surely there has been more than 4 women on that show? Kerry Goldiman, Joe Brand, Sarah Pascoe, Zoe Lyons, Katherine Ryan...

[@oscartravis5740]

Ellie Taylor, Sandi Toksvig, Ava Vidal, Tiff Stevenson, Angela Barnes, Gina Yashere, Andi Osho, Holly Walsh, Jan Ravens... and a whole bunch of names I can't remember, but no, there's never been a woman on the show lol :)

[@elliotyamamoto38]

@@oscartravis5740 so wtf is she on about saying there aren't many women? 😂

[@ieatsinforbreakfastclem2457]

There may be women just very little in the ratio to men

[@TapManDancer]

@@elliotyamamoto38 Cos she's simply under the curse of feminism.

[@seven_curses]

And Deborah was never invited back because she didn't tell a single joke, just passive aggressively complained that not enough women are on the show repeatedly

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

Make the joke once sure, maybe even twice, but then it's boring.

[@lmtetreau]

Got so old, so fast. Reminded me of when Michele Wolf did Cats does Countdown, and the only "jokes" she could make were about peoples' appearances. Got old instantly. (And it really annoyed me when she made cracks about Johnny Vegas and his appearance, especially given that she'd only met them all that night and admitted to not having any clue who any of them were)

[@randylucas2458]

The lady on this show is not funny and has no business here with professionals perhaps she needs 10 more years in the system to learn how to be funny

[@seven_curses]

@Aidan Eaglesfield no idea, "Steven" sounds like somebody you just made up

[@littadnb.]

@@aidaneaglesfield9148 People didn’t like a woman’s ‘jokes’.........so they must be sexist? no one criticised her for being a woman, they criticised her jokes not being up to the standard set my the other comedians. It’s funny that Gina Yashere, jo Caulfield, Lauren Laverne, Zoe Lyons, Holly Walsh, Sarah Millican, Andi Osho, joe Brand, Katherine Ryan, Sara Pascoe, Angela Barnes, Ellie Taylor, Maisie Adams, Laura Lexx, Catherine Boheart and Jen Brister all had repeat appearances, but yet this one was nothing to do with performance, and all about men being sexist. Riiiiiiight. By the way there’s a longer list of men who have only had one appearance.

[@MrExEssex]

4:56 'Gilet' - new word to me. Googled 'gillet' and got a load of diverse stuff not related to apparel. (E.g.: "Gillet is a Belgian automobile manufacturer, started in 1992 by former racing driver Tony Gillet. The company produces the Vertigo sports coupé, ...") I've also wondered about warm, thick winter coats with no sleeves. Arms get cold, don't they? Mine do.

[@lynngiesbrecht910]

Winter vests are not supposed to be worn without smtg else, but the reason they are designed that was is that it is more important to keep your core warm where all your organs are. Plus you move your arms around a lot, smtg you can’t do with your torso. The most important things are covering your head cuz you lose a lot of heat from top of your head, keep your torso warm, and have warm, dry feet. Lots of people use those winter vests for driving in the winter cuz it protects the most important things without making you too hot in the car and if you are only outside long enough to dash in here or there, wearing a long sleeve sweatshirt underneath should keep you warm enough. It’s not like you wear a coat that goes all the way down to your feet so your legs are only covered by thin layer of pants too. Sweating from wearing a big bulky coat in the car could end up making you even colder outside than not wearing coat sleeves!

[@ae4164]

@@lynngiesbrecht910 That's a myth based on a flawed study, we don't lose any more heat through our heads than any other part of the body.

[@MonaichFother]

12:30 Newcomer ducked the standup challenge, the newcomer always does the standup.

[@laurencereid1462]

Paul Morgan because she wasn’t funny one bit, can you imagine her doing a stand up skit

[@zarakikon6352]

I think they sometimes spare a panellist because they don't have the skill to do it properly. It's happened atleast once before in the early seasons.

[@GeoffLilley]

Am I the only one who thinks that Milton Jones looks COMPLETELY STONED?!

[@danielstewart7163]

Proud of him if he is.

[@thehellyousay]

He'd be a bloody mess if he was. Stones can be heavy, and have sharp edges...

[@Quickst3p]

@@thehellyousayMilton would appreciate that joke

[@saxmandiggle1573]

Did anyone else hear at 22:58, definitely the kettle that just boiled.

[@Observ45er]

What the heck does Milton say at 1:22? Something about froon a Coo-Coo

[@liamcaffreylowe5592]

Observ45er what’s a really bad time to phone a cuckoo

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

About twelve. Is it; How many times in this episode will Deborah Frances-White mention that life is unfair when you're a woman?

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

@@maniswolftoman Way off. In the first twelve comments on this video, there was one comment about women being unfunny. *My* comment was about Deborah Frances-White being a bore. I don't buy into the myth that women aren't funny. I think all the other female comedians on this show are great, and I love Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman etc. But Deborah comes across as bitter and her jokes aren't funny or clever, she just sees an opportunity to complain about percieved inequality in the form of a joke. If I was producing this show, I wouldn't have her back if I could get Aisling Bea or Katherine Ryan instead.

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

What was a joke? Your birth?

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

I haven't taken anything you've said personally. You implied that I was suggesting that women werent funny. and I responded. You called me an unfunny bore, and so I enquired about your mothers twisted sense of humour. She's a great example of a funny woman. And you are the punchline. 😂

[@drewlovelyhell4892]

@@maniswolftoman Your "plainly worded joke" was well disguised. It sounded very convincingly like a 3rd wave feminist bitching about 'The Patriarchy'. Maybe next time, the inclusion of a smiley face emoji will help make it clearer that you are attempting humour.

[@designsbydook]

@@drewlovelyhell4892 We can see why it took 12 years for her to get on MTW. Hopefully another 12 before we see her again.

[@dorbid]

If Deborah wants to be on more often, she should try being funny.

[@theinterimbeast8752]

There’s a reason this was her first and last appearance. And I for one am glad

[@ProHobbyjogger]

Rachel Parris is brilliant, can address sexism without bludgeoning anyone. And she’s hilarious. Her harassment bit on the Mash Report was sublime.

[@theinterimbeast8752]

Todd Pierzina I’ve heard she’s funny on the Mash report but I’ve found her appearances on Mock the Week quite poor :/

[@ProHobbyjogger]

Theinterimbeast87 I can’t argue. I can say that Tom Allen’s first few appearances were not strong and he’s crushing it now. Hopefully she’ll find her stride.

[@theinterimbeast8752]

Todd Pierzina I totally agree there mate Allen is someone I definitely look forward to seeing when it’s a new episode

[@shanerasmussen5225]

To think, I only started watching this show because Ed Byrne came up on Pandora when I was listening to an Eddie Izzard "station".

[@Dr3Mc3Ninja]

Deborah was rather annoying if I am honest. There are funny comediennes, she just isn't one of them in my opinion.

[@solarmaru49]

DrGrukar McNinjaSixthGun she is about as funny as cancer

[@julianparsons3027]

23:01 ... there is so many things wrong with what she's just said, on so many levels. Objectified women? In art galleries? You mean smooth Barbies dolls? I can't turn around in an art gallery without the real danger of getting skull-fn©kəd in the eye socket by a statue... And also, since when is it a big deal for men to expose their nipples?

[@henrylawrence6753]

to be honest, most of what she says is wrong. Pretty sure she was the 29th female comedian from just eyeballing wikipedia...not the 4th, which I know was a joke, but when most of her material was about women being oppressed, it just feels a bit rich coming from somone called Deborah Frances-White, a founder of multiple comedy improv groups, ran a series on raido 4 which won an award in the first series, co-writer of 2 books and has 1 of her own and she runs a podcast with about 90 million listeners that's been running for 7 years now. She's a rich white woman who thinks she is as blighted as women that are actually oppressed

[@julianparsons3027]

@@henrylawrence6753Ah, so more than a bit out-of-touch then, eh?

[@bobbarrett2631]

How slick is Tom (8:44) as He uses his charm, wit and perfect timing; then looks towards the camera, flirting. Genius. The strength of this show has to be the various comedic (a tad obvious, I know) characters, and their assorted ways of delivering their bit. Great format and well refereed by Dara. Maybe it would be better having more females on the show to join the lovely, funny, Sarah Millican, Sarah Pascoe & the very smiley long legged one but to use it as a platform to gripe, as she did, above, is moronic.

[@solarmaru49]

Being a woman has nothing to do with the fact that she’s just not funny in any way. Tell a joke. You’re supposed to be engaging in comedy.

[@TapDancerDood]

Yep, she is just so boring.

[@5hadow5talker]

Tom Allen should have winked at the camera when he said "charm can take you a very long way". That would have made the joke even better. XD

[@edwardp5748]

points?

[@HolandaChiquita]

I like that they have a woman on the show. But not if half the jokes she makes are about it. Being a woman myself, I just find it annoying and feel secondhand embarrassment/cringe when she tells another version of the same "joke"again. Other than that it was a good show!

[@solarmaru49]

Based on this performance, she’s not a comic.

[@benjones3332]

I'd argue 70% of her material was just moaning about womens' oppression. Has she never watched another female on the show before? They kill it every time. Sara Pascoe is hilarious and one of my favourite guests. Sarah Millican is great too. She's doing more damage than good and undermining the very points she was trying to make.

[@livb6945]

"I like that they have a woman on the show" Do you even hear how that sounds?

[@TapManDancer]

Well said hollanda.

[@BumMcFluff]

@@livb6945 No, but I can kind of hear how you may have sounded when you wrote "Do you even hear how that sounds?" I'm going with "morally offended and righteously indignant". Was I close?

[@dethledr]

Shout out to Deborah for showcasing her comic versatility by telling the same joke about female oppression over and over and over and over and over and over.... Deborah, I think it took you 12 years to get on a panel show because you're simply not very talented.

[@csbalachandran]

And notice how smoothly Dara told her to cheese it ... about how long it took *him* to be on a panel show (10 years). I thought he did it very well. I remember seeing another woman, I can't remember her name, who actually said, "You need me because I tick so many boxes!" She really put a damper on the cheerfulness of the show!

[@death2boredom338]

@@csbalachandran Yea Dara played that well.

[@davidcrowther2685]

You got one thing wrong…. That she actually told a joke.

[@TheSWCantina]

Ever since I heard this show was cancelled, I remembered all the good times watching it years ago and have gone on a binge. Then I remembered the likes of her and Nish Kumar were the reason I stopped watching in the first place.

[@happivaras]

@@TheSWCantina racist, misogynist?

[@chockydog6960]

Jesus!!! She’s bangs that drum pretty frigging hard

[@Farweasel]

Pity she doesn't do comedy as well.

[@kristijanaleksic1560]

Gooooood that "imtheonlygirlonthepanel", does she have any other material? Got boring so quick, she lost the audience in there.

[@ZackBlackwood97]

Deborah's insistence to bring up female equality in what felt like every conversation got tedious

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@Holly-hi1sm He's right though.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@Holly-hi1sm No matter how much money she was paid, she still wouldn't be funny.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@Holly-hi1sm Angela Barnes, Holly Walsh, Sara Pascoe, Maisie Adam, Jo Brand and Katherine Ryan are all great comediennes. Deborah Frances-White is not.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@Holly-hi1sm She still isn't funny or satirical, which is the point of Mock the Week and Have I Got News For You.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

@@Holly-hi1sm I would imagine Dara let Rhys's team win, just to shut Deborah up.

[@jamesmartin9401]

Deborah, we get it. You're not wrong. Maybe a current affairs panel might be more your style though.

[@williamkelly8951]

As someone who has to watch this on youtube from America, I will say she is not helping the problem get better in my opinion. There have been more than 4 women on the show (at least 9 I can think of and I don't even watch every episode). The thing is, they were also actually funny and involved with banter and not trying to drag everything into a political circus. It just messes with the flow of the show.

[@Go-go-super-guru]

@@williamkelly8951 you're a man. You're gonna say that. 🙄

[@vangroover1903]

I agree with everything she said, and find her boring and even petulantly smug.....She is like a white Gina Yashere.

[@vangroover1903]

@@Go-go-super-guru She is a killjoy, though. Even the full ranting goobies like James Acaster and Milton are team players.

[@thisravenhasflown010]

She's better suited for HIGNFY Coming from a female🤷‍♀️😉

[@scaletownmodels]

Gee, I wonder if she's a feminist and why she isn't on all the time.

[@emmacassidy8482]

Hugh must talk about jam again!

[@phoenix5103]

Deborah Frances-Whatever as subtle and funny about feminism as Nish Kumar is about race. She definitely gets my vote for worst MTW panellist of all time. Wouldn't you think someone who's been doing stand-up for 12 years, might actually be funny?

[@Aditi312]

Rhys❤️❤️❤️🙈

[@KennethACrashwaggonMusic]

With Deborah, while I have no problem with her when it comes to giving women opportunities, it's a bit odd repeatedly doing those "jokes" on MTW when that show has pretty regularly had at least one woman on the panel ever since season 1. Over the years there's been very few episodes with all male panelists there. Very much preaching to the wrong choir. Not hard to see why she hasn't been back since.

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

In her defense 1 out of 7 isn't very many. But I agree, make the joke once maybe even twice, then move on.

[@TheSWCantina]

The ratio of men to women in comedy is like 9:1. I'm not sure why women should be there just to be a spectacle. She'd have a more valid point if she brought up the cronyism that exists around comedy panel shows I've heard a few comedian talk about.

[@RichardtRadekLarsen]

Did someone forget to tell Deborah Frances-White that this was a comedy show. She is bringing the mood down.

[@Trek001]

She thought she was doing lesbian propaganda... Sorry, I meant to say Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4

[@LP-ii3vy]

Typical feminist

[@RIXRADvidz]

@@Trek001 great old Russel Howard joke from this show. Huge Fan too!

[@227060]

There have been more than 4 women on the Mock the Week. And aaaaaall of them were funnier than Deborah

[@audreyjohnson430]

Debra the Zebra?

[@livb6945]

It was, you know, a joke... But you were too triggered to realise that.

[@227060]

Here is the thing. a) She either didn't mean it as a joke at which point she was unjustifiably dissing the show like an asshole. b) She did mean it as a joke, as in she knew there was more than 4 women, but the sentiment behind the joke was that there had barely been any women on Mock the Week and she was one of the few. At which point the joke isn't funny because it is again dissing the show unfairly and it falls apart because there have been a lot of female panelists on the show. Not AS many as the male ones no, but the sentiment was that there had barely been any which is untrue and totally unfair to the show over the past few years where they've greatly improved in terms of representation c) Its a cringy thing to say either way, much like most of the rest of her jokes. 90% of all her jokes revolved around scoring woke points or revolved around making cringey jokes about being a woman and other female panelists before and after her have either had broader material or else made that subject matter funnier and less about point scoring or at least not to the same degree.

[@Avengers24-sw7cv]

Toothache is funnier than her.

[@MxMattyB]

23:00 it's been 19 years from Janet Jackson to Rose Montoya and nipples are still not free in america

[@spongeb27]

I get that sexism is a very real and urgent issue but did Deborah say ANYTHING that wasn't in some way related to gender? Nothing to do with sexism itself, of course, but I'm not personally a fan of comics who only seem to have one spoke on their wheel.

[@mohawkbandito902]

Deborah Frances-White spent so much time bullshitting about not enough women being on the show and absolutely zero time being funny enough to justify her actually being on.

[@ceecrb1]

She'd get on better just being funny rather than EVERYTHING that comes out of her mouth being about female inequality. Its not the issue thats the problem, its the lack of originality or variety.

[@SMHman666]

ceecrb That's what most of her self perceived value is, feminism, inclusion, sexism, etc. Bit sad really that she just can't be funny for a while.

[@pax4051]

@@SMHman666 have you noticed how the only people here complaining about her 'not being funny' are men ? it's almost like you don't really know how hard it is to be a female comedian.

[@SMHman666]

@@pax4051 I've watched some of her other stuff and it's all similar. Whinge and moan about how women get the shaft. That's ok if you want to do that but not when you're on a comedy show to make people laugh. If she can't or wont be funny then don't come on the show.

[@pax4051]

@@SMHman666 did you know comedy is subjective ? i think she's really funny, feminist jokes or not. so do many other people. that's why she gets on shows like this. it is more than okay for you to think she's not funny, but saying she doesn't deserve to be on the show because you don't think she's funny is hugely self-centred and honestly a huge reason why female comedians struggle in the first place. the world doesn't revolve around your opinions.

[@SMHman666]

@@pax4051 Of course the world doesn't revolve around my opinions but I still have some, just like you do. You found her funny and that's fine, whereas I didn't because her "jokes" were thinly veiled stabs at men rather than funny comedy. Each to their own but the general consensus on this video is many people feel the same. Men don't get offended by funny jokes about us but spitting venom and trying to pass it off as humour doesn't wash. Thanks for your thoughts.

[@anthrogal19]

Ooh I like Deborah! Thank you for posting this video.

[@DougieJR]

anthrogal19 We all know it’s you Deborah.

[@francaperotti5934]

I do like it that the cameraman went close to milton Jones and ruined his joke

[@vincentmutel7313]

Thoroughly enjoyed how Dara gently rebuked Deborah Whaterever-her-name-is about her doing standup for 12 years. Sitting on a panel show is not due, it's earned. In other news, Tom Allen really grew on me since he first appeared on Mock the Week.

[@SMHman666]

Vincent And her comment (and the fact that she's not funny) ensured she wasn't invited back.

[@vangroover1903]

@@SMHman666 Dara would never stoop that low. She wasn't invited back because she is a killjoy hack. She had zero team spirit and no talent.

[@VideoNozoki]

(ALL MUCH funnier than Deborah Idontwanttoremember-Therestofhername) Lucy Porter, Kerry Godliman, Ava Vidal, Ellie Taylor, Andi Osho, Jo Caufield, Jo Brand, Katherine Ryan, Gina Yashere, Sara Pascoe, Holly Walsh, Angela Barnes, Zoe Lyons, You want to be on more panel shows... try being funnier (or even funny) Last week 1.Angela Barnes & 2.Tiff Stevenson were both on the show. It was a very funny episode.

[@kassistwisted]

Don't forget Aisling Bea! She slays!

[@Eisenwulf666]

Angela Barnes is on the verge for me, seldom found her funny

[@rockmusicfan9278]

London Hughes and Rachel Parris as well.

[@avengersseven7357]

Am I the only one that doesn't wonder why Deborah White, has only had one appearance on this programme?

[@alexander6011]

no definitely not

[@avengersseven7357]

@@alexander6011 She is probably moaning that the BBC won't have her on and saying that they are sexist, when it is because she is not funny.