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Posted by Dave Heckler
on 20 Jan 10
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Quiz shows and
TV series
As January is Quizcom Month on Dave I thought it would be nice to take a moment to reflect on the quiz shows past and present that have entertained, depressed and just baffled me over the years.
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History will recall that, late in 2009, Mock the Week faced a dilemma that many of the major panel shows have had to face before them; that is, how best to deal with the departure of one of its stars.
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Mock the Week has writers. There, I've said it. You can all go "Ah ha!" at me. Of course, the writers' job isn't to come up with jokes for the performers (or at least, if it is, they'd let me have some of that gold wouldn't they? You mean to tell me that I sit around in the afternoon, all on my own in that dressing room, struggling to pull two gags together and next door the panellists are being spoon fed the funnies? I mean, how harsh is that? Those greedy bastards.)
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Straight out of the gate, let me thank Dave for the opportunity to write this blog for a few weeks. Like the public don't see enough of me and Dave together as it is. I make a couple of shows a year (genuinely; we only do 11 episodes of Mock the Week) but thanks to Dave and the lucky fluke of birth that places me directly in the sightline of their demographic, every programme is lovingly broadcast up to seven times a night until the tapes themselves have worn out and all that remains is a single flickering image of me pressing a buzzer while Frankie Boyle finishes a withering joke about Kerry Katona.
