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Head on Comedy

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Head on Comedy
GenreComedy
Directed byPati Marr
Presented byJo Brand
ComposerPeter Baikie
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Executive producersMike Bolland
William Burdett-Coutts
ProducerPatricia McGowan
Production companyAssembly Film & Television
Original release
NetworkBBC 1
Release13 July (2000-07-13) –
24 August 2000 (2000-08-24)

Head on Comedy was a comedy debate show hosted by Jo Brand in which two teams of three, captained by Bill Bailey and Ed Byrne, would debate trivial topics such as 'This house wants to be a man'. It ran for one series, consisting of six episodes.

Episodes

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Episode Original air date Guests
1 13 July 2000 Fiona Allen
Patrick Kielty
Lynn Ferguson
Terry Alderton
2 20 July 2000 Doon Mackichan
Barry Cryer
Arabella Weir
Leslie Phillips
3 27 July 2000 Rhona Cameron
Felix Dexter
Steve Punt
Omid Djalili
4 10 August 2000 Rhona Cameron
Greg Proops
Bradley Walsh
Adam Bloom
5 17 August 2000 Brian Sewell
Patrick Kielty
Fred MacAulay
Felix Dexter
6 24 August 2000 Hattie Hayridge
David Mellor
Jeff Green
Tony Hawks

Reception

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The show received mixed reviews. Robert Hanks, writing in The Independent was strongly critical, concluding that it "is less Head On than Television Off".[1] Paul Hoggart from The Times was more positive, acknowledging that it was "frayed round the edges", but that it "had its surreal and surprising moments".[2]

References

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  1. ^ Hanks, Robert (21 July 2000). "Television Review". The Independent. London.
  2. ^ Hoggart, Paul (14 July 2000). "New Friends or old faux?". The Times.
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