Head on Comedy

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Head on Comedy
Genre Comedy
Directed by Pati Marr
Presented by Jo Brand
Composer(s) Peter Baikie
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 6
Production
Executive producer(s) Mike Bolland
William Burdett-Coutts
Producer(s) Patricia McGowan
Production company(s) Assembly Film & Television
Release
Original network BBC 1
Original release 13 July –
24 August 2000

Head on Comedy was a comedy debate show hosted by Jo Brand in which two teams of three, captained by Bill Bailey and Ed Byrne, would debate trivial topics such as 'This house wants to be a man'. It ran for one series, consisting of six episodes.

Episodes

Episode Original air date Guests
1 13 July 2000 Fiona Allen
Patrick Kielty
Lynn Ferguson
Terry Alderton
2 20 July 2000 Doon Mackichan
Barry Cryer
Arabella Weir
Leslie Phillips
3 27 July 2000 Rhona Cameron
Felix Dexter
Steve Punt
Omid Djalili
4 10 August 2000 Rhona Cameron
Greg Proops
Bradley Walsh
Adam Bloom
5 17 August 2000 Brian Sewell
Patrick Kielty
Fred Macaulay
Felix Dexter
6 24 August 2000 Hattie Hayridge
David Mellor
Jeff Green
Tony Hawks

Reception

The show received mixed reviews. Robert Hanks, writing in The Independent was strongly critical, concluding that it "is less Head On than Television Off".[1] Paul Hoggart from The Times was more positive, acknowledging that it was "frayed round the edges", but that it "had its surreal and surprising moments".[2]

References

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