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Gigglebox Weekly #33 – Milton Jones’s House of Rooms

Gigglebox Weekly With Ian Wolf This week Channel 4 broadcasted their latest Comedy Showcase pilot, starring and co-written by one-liner master Milton Jones, playing a landlord living with his mother....

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Gigglebox Weekly #34 – Room 101

This week saw the return of the worst place in the entire world, but in a totally new way...

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Gigglebox Weekly #35

This week Ian Wolf talks about a bottle being thrown at Russell Brand and an intriguing picture of Pele.

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Gigglebox Weekly #36 – Harry Hill’s TV Burp

When Harry Hill’s TV Burp goes, it will be sorely missed...

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Gigglebox Weekly #37

This week Ian Wolf looks at a worm-man and bear wrestling...

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Gigglebox Weekly #38 – The Comedy of Top Gear

This week Ian Wolf looks at the comedy of Top Gear - and whether it's actually funny anymore...

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Gigglebox Weekly #39

This week Ian Wolf talks about some drawn-on eyebrows and a teenager reaching his “climax” to the theme from Top Gear.

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Gigglebox Weekly #40 – The Indian Doctor

This week, for once, I'm able to review a series in its entirety rather on just a single episode...

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Gigglebox Weekly #41

This week Ian Wolf experiences Zen navigation and some rather pointless cameras...

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Gigglebox Weekly #42 – Mark Lawson Talks To Frank Skinner

There was very little in the way of new comedy on TV this week, but there was an hour-long, in-depth interview with Frank Skinner on BBC Four.

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Gigglebox Weekly #43 – Hit the Road Jack

This week saw a new comedy show starring Jack Whitehall on Channel 4. The problem is that it’s a bit hard to categorise it.

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Gigglebox Weekly #44 / Radio Weekly #8 – Just a Minute

This week Ian Wolf looks at Just a Minute....

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Gigglebox Weekly #45

This week Ian Wolf isn’t reviewing Derek. He's not a fan. Instead he looks at The Matt Lucas Awards and Would I Lie To You?

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Gigglebox Weekly #46 – Dara O’Briain: School of Hard Sums

This week there was a new show on Dave which featured a very odd mix: comedy and mathematics.

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Gigglebox Weekly #47

This week Ian Wolf watches some impressions and wonders if it was wise...

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Gigglebox Weekly #48 – Cardinal Burns

This week a new sketch was launched on E4 and Ian Wolf reviews it for you. Yes, you.

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Gigglebox Weekly #49

This week Ian Wolf watches a mountain of porn and a lot of reused ideas.

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Gigglebox Weekly #50

As Gigglebox Weekly turns 50 this week, Ian Wolf looks back at some old news footage and goes behind bars...

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Gigglebox Weekly #51

This week Ian Wolf welcomes back an old friend and listens to Jerry Sadowitz not swearing...

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Gigglebox Weekly #52 – BBC Three’s Online Pilots

This week BBC Three launched seven new comedy pilots online. So, I’ve decided to go through all seven of these new shows to see if any off them have got the potential to make a full series.

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Gigglebox Weekly #53 – Britain’s Oldest Stand Up

This week there was documentary hidden away in the schedules on More4. Part of their “First Cut” strand, it covered the return to stand up comedy of Jack Woodward, the oldest stand up comedian in the...

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Gigglebox Weekly #54

This week Ian Wolf witnesses class warfare and some unfortunate scheduling...

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Gigglebox Weekly #55

This week Ian Wolf watches sadomasochists outside MI6, people faking disabilities, and a Viking. Yeah.

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Gigglebox Weekly #56

This week Ian Wolf encounters what some people claim to be racist stereotyping, and something thought to have been extinct - canned laughter.

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Gigglebox Weekly #57 – The Thick Of It

This week sees return of a sitcom that’s been in hibernation since 2009.

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Gigglebox Weekly #58

Gigglebox Weekly With Ian Wolf This week Ian Wolf encounters a lot of jizz and a Time Lord. QI QI, the cleverest comedy on television, is back on our screens this week. It’s now in double figures...

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Gigglebox Weekly #59

This week Ian Wolf encounters a grown-up baby and some sheep shearers...

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Gigglebox Weekly #60

This week Ian Wolf meets Kenny Everett and encounters a bunch of smegheads.

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Gigglebox Weekly #61

This week Ian Wolf hunts for a stuffed toy and witnesses girls vomiting.

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Gigglebox Weekly #62

This week Ian Wolf looks at post-65 vulvas and quite possibly the anti-Top Gear.

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Gigglebox Weekly #63 – The Comic Strip Presents…Five Go to Rehab

This week saw one of the great comic institutions of Channel 4 jump ship to G.O.L.D.

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Gigglebox Weekly #64

This week Ian Wolf watches a suicidal imaginary friend, someone tapping their nose on a stranger’s knee, and the world’s best ventriloquist dummies.

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Gigglebox Weekly #65

This week Ian Wolf watches a geriatric car chase and an odd way to use the loo.

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Gigglebox Weekly #66

This week Ian Wolf witnesses a microwave being destroyed and a programme that’s a month too early.

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Gigglebox Weekly #67

This week Ian Wolf watches a tooth being extracted and a semi-naked man holding lots of balloons.

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Gigglebox Weekly #68 – My Comedy Awards 2012

This week saw Jonathan Ross take his fawning to a whole new level as the British Comedy Awards were presented on Channel 4.

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Gigglebox Weekly #69

This week Ian Wolf witnesses a chicken in a leotard and a Geordie hero(ine) in York.

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Gigglebox Weekly #70

This Christmas Ian Wolf encounters a pong, kissing via TV and two doses of Hugh Bonneville.

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Gigglebox Weekly #71

This week Ian Wolf gives his nightmare vision of the forthcoming royal birth, learns about a nude swimming pool and hears Charlie Brooker talking positively about something.

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Gigglebox Weekly #72

This week Ian Wolf encounters the Misspelt Games and an electrical retailer called Sellfridges.

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Gigglebox Weekly #73

This week Ian Wolf watches a pig, Fry and Laurie selling tobacco and a candle dance.

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Gigglebox Weekly #74

This Ian Wolf watches a PM, a wannabe MP, and gives a personal shout-out to the British Winter Special Olympics team.

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Gigglebox Weekly #75 – Spy & Stella

This week (because he only has Freeview), Ian Wolf watches two Sky1 comedies for the first time ever.

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Gigglebox Weekly #76 – The Alternative Comedy Experience

This week Comedy Central, a network devoted to repeating American sitcom Friends until your eyes bleed, began a new stand-up show dedicated to alternative comics. Sort of.

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Gigglebox Weekly #77

This week Ian Wolf encounters a cat called Mosley and the naughty cousin of a leprechaun - at exactly the same time (thank heavens for BBC iPlayer).

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Gigglebox Weekly #78

This week Ian Wolf encounters out-of-date satire, “Up the Junction” sung in the style of Donald Duck, and a sketch character that looks a bit like Chris Ramsey.

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Gigglebox Weekly #79 – The Mimic

This week Channel 4 presented a slightly different take on impressionism, weaving it into a sitcom format.

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Gigglebox Weekly #80 – It’s Kevin

It’s Kevin, the new sitcom by Kevin Eldon, aired for a second time last night. Ian Wolf offers his thoughts...

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Gigglebox Weekly #81 – Plebs

The idea behind Plebs is that life today isn’t all that dissimilar. The lads try to get ahead in life, work and love, but always fail.

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Gigglebox Weekly #82

Reviews of Jonathan Creek and The Many Faces of Sid James...

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