I cant watch the apprentice, you`re fired as I just sit there waiting for dara o brian to go uummm! Which he does too much, especially after he thinks he is funny, The funnier he thinks he was, the louder, bigger and longer the uuuummmmmmmmmmmm!!!! Can`t bare it!!!!

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The 'Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr' thing doesn't bother me, but I did prefer Adrian Chiles as a host.

I used to enjoy watching your fired but now he just grates on me.

His lead up to a joke comes across as so staged and rehearsed.

I only watch it for Dara O Brian , its better than the main show

I find his jokes are very much just him repeating what a guest says and just repeating it again and again and trying to claim it as his joke. It is very odd.

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Also hate the fact that since he's taken over, we have to endure one of his unfunny comedian chums on the panel...and who probably doesn't even watch the show ordinarily...

I may be wrong but I thought they all watched a screening of the show, with the audience, before they go on to discuss the show on Your Fired?

Dara's 'Ehhhhhhhhhhhrrrr's do seem to be getting longer, but I still enjoy the show.

They do - which is why I edited my post to add 'ordinarily'...

"Unfunny comedian chums" often means they belong to the same management - same with Jonathan Ross. It's all become very incestuous.

Dont watch it any more. Bring back Adrian, I say

Everything about the show is terrible,

did you see the vignette with the drawn on Werewolf fangs and fur for the girls? Wow, just amazed that there are people out there who would actually approve that to go on air. It's just one of the most unfunniest programmes ever, and that's a shame because the main show is great.

He is the highlight of the show!

Sara Cox was annoying, not at all funny.

cant say i notice this ummmmm thing that people keep talking about with Dara,

he is very funny and is much better than Chiles

I have noticed that too and it puzzles me the way the audience play along. Panel member says something mildly amusing and gets a polite laugh ..... Dara repeats it in his bumbling fashion, maybe elaborates a tiny bit and adds his Irish accent into the mix and they are all laughing like hyenas

Isn't it Dara O'Briain.

I'm going to see a recording of his Science Club show soon so I will watch out for the umm's there.

Canned laughter
Just watch the final scene in any Top Gear. One of the presenters will drop a "bomb shell" and the assembled audience will erupt with howls of laughter - while the picture shows them standing there looking completely bored with their mouths shut.

He does tend to babble on a bit. The only thing that makes me cringe is when Dara does about 3 jokes based on the same thing when just 1 would suffice. Apart from that I find the show a right good laugh.
It's a great release after the tension of the episode, though not on repeat viewing. When I see it again I usually sit there stone-faced.

katherine ryan on the 1st episode absolutely cracked me up. especially when she did the i am not a logistics girl i am a businesswoman.

dara just speaks way to fast. he can be quite funny but he tries to hard and just becomes annoying when he is gabbling fifty words a minute with lots of umms and errs. i really much preferred adrian chiles. with the brilliant job he does with his interview show i would love to see graham norton do it. he is a delight to watch and a very skilled interviewer

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I miss Adrian Chiles. I like Dara, but he turns the whole show into a joke. The humour was meant to be complimetary to the show, not the whole focus.

I prefer Adrian Chiles too. The humour was a bit drier in my opinion and more conversationally observational if that makes sense.

Well put. It's been said before, but now it's a bit too much like "it's Mock the Apprentice- with Dara O'Briain!" I'd prefer to find out a bit more about the fired candidate- especially as they are the one unique thing about the show that week. They are the show's USP- they should have more focus. I think Adrian Chiles was great at this- he could find subtleties about their character, and maybe explore their vulnerabilities about the process in an empathetic way, which I found very interesting. It doesn't always have to be played for laughs, and I think one of the things that is lost is the sense of seeing the candidate more as a person, than the somewhat caricatured persona that we see on the main show.

Oh well, it is what it is, errrrrrrrrrrrrr

I do not think Adrian Chiles is the answer but certainly Dara upsets the balance of the programme.

Firstly, there are now two comedians, and often the guest who is unused to television gets overshadowed by Dara.

Then the specialist guest often gets elbowed out. It would be nice to hear more of the inside track on how new beers are normally developed, launched and sold, for instance, to illuminate where the losing team went wrong.

Quite what is the point of the middle panellist, the celebrity Apprentice-fan, has always eluded me. For the most part, they fail to entertain or inform.

Ideally (imo) the programme would combine comedy with some serious analysis of the task -- just how hard were the sums that flummoxed the women? Should it have been obvious that the Kent beer festival was a waste of hops, or were they just unlucky? -- and maybe a look at the team dynamics.

Drives me up the wall, bring back Adrian Chiles.

It was unfortunate that Chiles had to leave the BBC as the programmes he had were a perfect fit really. Certainly he was made for Fired. Dara gabbles, errrrrrrs and ummmmmms his way through to the extent that I cant always tell what he is gabbling urrrrrrring and ummmming on about.