{"id":15083,"date":"2025-05-05T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15083"},"modified":"2025-05-07T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:38:24","slug":"show-discussion-silence-is-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15083","title":{"rendered":"Show Discussion: Silence is Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mondays, 9pm,
U&Dave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest format from the mind of Richard Bacon sees Dermot O’ Leary challenge an audience of 75 try and win \u00a3250,000 collectively by staying silent as teams of comedy and unusual variety acts (led by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and current Taskmaster<\/strong> contestant Fatiha El-Ghorri) encourage them to laugh or otherwise make noise. “Titter ye not,” as Frankie Howerd used to say. Noise makes the money go down, and if the comics can get it down to zero then money goes to charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s about this time of year Dave tries to find The Next Taskmaster, Battle In The Box<\/a><\/strong> was quite unsuccessful last year, it’s not coming back. This is rather brilliantly or unfortunately timed, either it will ride the success of Last One Laughing<\/a><\/strong> which was a proper terrestrial-sized hit for Amazon, or (fairly or unfairly) it will come across as a bit of a rip-off, the likely ceiling being about 10% of the Amazon show isn’t going to help it, Dave doesn’t feel like it has quite the cut through it used to have. Still, we will judge it on its own merits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watched it? Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mondays, 9pm,U&Dave The latest format from the mind of Richard Bacon sees Dermot O’ Leary challenge an audience of 75 try and win \u00a3250,000 collectively by staying silent as teams of comedy and unusual variety acts (led by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and current Taskmaster contestant Fatiha El-Ghorri) encourage them to laugh or otherwise make\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[803,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Vh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}