You're Fired too much of a comedy show now?
roger_50
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I got thinking last night, Dara spent so much time cracking jokes with the guests I felt he wasn't spending enough time engaging with the actual show contestants. Especially Daniel, who was basically just there to be the butt of jokes for his segment.
Anyone else think the same? I'm not a huge fan of Adrian Chiles but I do feel YF used to be a better-balanced show that mixed some serious chat in with a few laughs.
I feel it's become the comedy half-hour with O'Briain and his panel-show comedian friends. Doesn't offer as much insight as it used to do.
Anyone else think the same? I'm not a huge fan of Adrian Chiles but I do feel YF used to be a better-balanced show that mixed some serious chat in with a few laughs.
I feel it's become the comedy half-hour with O'Briain and his panel-show comedian friends. Doesn't offer as much insight as it used to do.
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I agree with others the YBF definitely needs a reboot next year. The panel guests are increasingly poor and seem badly-prepared or uninterested - Katherine Ryan was virtually comatose last night.
I'd prefer to hear more from the business guests rather than the lame attempts by Dara and his crew to try and make everything 'funny'. The humour will flow naturally anyway and doesn't need to be forced.
BIB - while the comedy is a nice (and necessary) side of the show, I particularly like it when the business guests surprisingly compliment the candidates - like the woman who told Nurun she would employ her in a heartbeat and the guy who told Sanjay that every team needs someone like him. Those moments, I find, are not only encouraging but often very touching.
He's just about ok on this but I think I preferred the show back with old happy face Adrian Chiles.
Though, I'd agree - sometimes the eliminated contestants' involvement feels marginalised which doesn't quite seem right. (I know there are at least a couple of people this series I wanted to hear more from/about and the questions never came...)
I think OP is right. Too much time is spent making jokes when i'd rather hear more from the ex-candidate. Sometimes i wish Dara would just shut the hell up!
Last night is the perfect example. Daniel was on and i was hoping that they would get into the nitty gritty with Dan about his feud with Mark. The feud lasted for weeks and weeks! That's what i was really looking forward to hear. So when Dara asked, how long was it discussed for? 30 seconds and they went back to making stupid jokes! >:( F*cking ridiculous!
It's times like this i wish Adrian Chiles was hosting instead. He never let anyone off the hook!
Agree with you. Sometimes they're at it for minutes! Beyond pathetic!
Overall though i still enjoy it
and think they have to be trying to make people laugh all the time!............... I don't like it!................
Last night, he seemed to spend more time with his back to each contestant - cracking endless sarcastic comments with the 'panel' - than he did facing them.
I miss the days of the Chiles show where contestants basically had to explain themselves a lot more. But then I feel a lot of TV these days seems to change for the worse and get dragged down to the lowest common denominator - so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised to see it happen to something like YF.
Or the Gaby Roslins of this world who don't try nearly enough...
Why can't we have business people etc on the panel, why a comedian? what business insight do they have? All they do is turn the show into a popularity contest regarding the voting bit.
And it's flawed in that in the beginning we don't need 30 minutes (it's actually 25 I think looking on Sky planner) on a contestant whose had about 5 mins of screen time. But at the end when we've grown to know and like (maybe) some contestants we get a 8 min interview. This weeks a prime example. And on Sunday the winner will get less than 30mins screen time, the same as a contestant who was thrown out on week 1.
BBC are very bad when it comes to these types of shows, "have I got news for you" used to be good (still is up to a point) you had at least 6 rounds of questions, nowadays its barely 3, it's turned into a comedy sketch show. QI's going the same way.
I imagine they'll go into greater detail next week on You're Hired with Mark when they'll have more time.
Having said that I didn't like how they pretty well skipped over Daniels segment pretty quickly. I'd have rather had more time spent talking to him than trying to crack jokes all the time. I don't mind Dara per se but I agree that he's a bit too forced a lot of the time. I did really enjoy the show when Chiles did it though; probably more so.
(mostly male) comedy surfacing again.
BBC Television are bad with it anyway. BBC Radio are a lot better. The News Quiz with Sandi Toksvig is still fantastic, in my mind, although I don't have that much time to listen to it at the moment.
I'm sure they spent a good hour at least filming the thing.