Drew Carey is bloody awful and I don't understand why as host he suddenly decides to perform. It's like someone from the audience started participating.

8 out of 10 cats can be a bit uneven and wouldn't be worth watching without Sean Lock. The quality of guest isn't great but they had some young guy (Jack Whiteall I think) a few weeks ago who told a brilliant joke about Robert Mugabe and his dad. Sift that and you'll have my thanks.

>> ^dgandhi:
This and QI have got to be the cheapest TV productions this side of Faux News, and yet we in the US can't manage to cobble together half a dozen celebs who can manage to be more extemporaneously interesting than hollywood squares. It makes me laugh, but the quality gap saddens me.


There's plenty of others, of varying quality (Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week and at times Never Mind the Buzzcocks are good). I was wondering the other day why all the quiz-coms (that's what our schedulers seem to want us to call them) are British. It's a simple format, get a topic (current affairs, public opinion, music, whatever), a host who's good at improvised comedy and several similarly minded guests and make sure all of them have an IQ of above 50. 8 out of 10 cats fails occasionally on the last requirement (Kelly Osbourne, for example). I don't know if it's been tried in the US or elsewhere. I can imagine American producers getting Kevin Federline and Paris Hilton as guests and then wondering why it bombs.

You have got The Big Bang Theory, which makes up for a lot.

It's called 8 out of 10 Cats and it's brilliant. All the questions are based round statistics, there are loads of clips on YT

the guy definitely did it to watch jimmy go at it.. use your common sense people, why would he say something like that in a perfectly reasonable voice without any swearing or emotion? answer: because he wants to get pwned, and carr knows it.. i'd probably do the same if i saw the opportunity, and i'd be laughing the hardest at his comebacks!

Johnald_Chaffinch -- i feel exactly the same.. i used to hate him, and that little posh prim accent he used to do.. but now i've totally warmed to him - i was warming to him since QI appearances and before that on 8 out of 10 cats

i don't like joke-format standups.. i sometimes see american dudes on the sift and a lot of americans saying "omg this guy is king of the 1-liners, so funny!" but i don't even crack a smile at what they're doing.. but for some reason, and i don't know why, jimmy carr just cracks me up over and over, and he's pretty much up there giving one liners interspersed with stories..

1. you're gay aren't you?
2. you're a necrophiliac
3. i did your mum
4. from behind
5. she thinks you're a c**t too
6. it wasn't just me there doing your mum
7. whilst she performed fellatio
you'd think he'd finished at about 3 or 4.. then 5, then 6 and boom the kill shot at 7

(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A RACE THING! I FIND MANY AMERICANS FUNNY. JUST NOT THE ONE-LINERS.)

haha i remember seein this on 8 out of 10 cats I think!