The latest BBC Three comedy show is Comedy Shuffle, a chat/sketch show hybrid hosted by Rob Rouse. As with many BBC Three shows, you can view each episode in full online a week before it airs on the broadcast channel.
A good selection of live comedy performances — in the first episode, Daniel O’Doherty, Dutch Elm Conservatoire and Johann Lipowicz — combine with the best submissions to the BBC’s own Comedy Soup website.
What’s even more impressive, though, is how the show manages to make the studio guest, Jimmy Carr, actually seem quite a likeable chap. It’s a persona that works well for him, I have to say, and I’m not sure I understand why he doesn’t use it more in his act.
Those who want to watch TV in the conventional way can see Comedy Shuffle on BBC Three on Thursday, 25 January. And no doubt repeated umpteen times after that.
Thanks to Anna, by the way, for giving me the impetus to watch this — if only to see if host Rob Rouse really is
a perfectly lovely host, by the way - happy and bouncy, somewhat like a golden labrador.
You know what? She’s not wrong.
Well I'm glad I've influenced at least one person to watch it! I was really impressed with the whole thing - the format works well, and the guests are of top notch quality.