Micky Flanagan hosts the first show and introduces routines by Seann Walsh and Jason Byrne. In subsequent editions Sean Lock, Alan Carr, Andy Parsons, Rich Hall, Sarah Millican, Jason Manford and Jack Whitehall introduce performances by Ed Byrne, Andi Osho, Andrew Lawrence, Mark Watson, Steve Hughes, Tom Stade and Shappi Khorsandi.
Between them Have I Got News for You and Live at the Apollo are a perfect double act. You start your viewing with a light dusting of satire, a few knowing jibes from Hislop and Merton about current events, then – wahey! – it’s time for filthy stand-up. By which time those refreshing beverages you allowed yourself earlier on will have lowered your defences enough to make pretty much anything fair game. Which is just as well.
This time it’s Sean Lock, Ed Byrne and Lee Nelson who take advantage of our benevolent haze with slick, likeable routines. The great thing about Lock is that you sense he doesn’t care too much if a bit of his act doesn’t work. When a sequence about Madonna’s dancing goes a bit flat, he pulls it back, partly by the unlikely device of having his Madonna speak in an Australian accent. And his routine on kids’ pirate parties is lovely. (“In a hundred years’ time will they all be dressed as terrorists?” he wonders.) Byrne does a long, clever cat-related routine. But Nelson gets the biggest laughs of all.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Unknown | Sean Lock |
| Performer | Ed Byrne |
| Performer | Lee Nelson |
| Executive producer | Addison Cresswell |
| Executive producer | Joe Norris |
| Executive producer | Andrew Beint |
| Series producer | Anthony Caveney |
| Director | Paul Wheeler |
Sean Lock, Lee Nelson and Ed Byrne
Between them Have I Got News for You and Live at the Apollo are a perfect double act. You start your viewing with a light dusting of satire, a few knowing jibes from Hislop and Merton about current events, then – wahey! – it’s time for filthy stand-up. By which time those refreshing beverages you allowed yourself earlier on will have lowered your defences enough to make pretty much anything fair game. Which is just as well.
This time it’s Sean Lock, Ed Byrne and Lee Nelson who take advantage of our benevolent haze with slick, likeable routines. The great thing about Lock is that you sense he doesn’t care too much if a bit of his act doesn’t work. When a sequence about Madonna’s dancing goes a bit flat, he pulls it back, partly by the unlikely device of having his Madonna speak in an Australian accent. And his routine on kids’ pirate parties is lovely. (“In a hundred years’ time will they all be dressed as terrorists?” he wonders.) Byrne does a long, clever cat-related routine. But Nelson gets the biggest laughs of all.
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Unknown | Sean Lock |
| Performer | Ed Byrne |
| Performer | Lee Nelson |
| Executive producer | Addison Cresswell |
| Executive producer | Joe Norris |
| Executive producer | Andrew Beint |
| Series producer | Anthony Caveney |
| Director | Paul Wheeler |
