About the site
After spending a long time looking and waiting I have not found a Now Show profile. So when the new series started in 2007 I decided to set up this site as a tribute to the Now Show, for being the funnyest comedy show on the radio. So this site is not run by any of the cast or crew who produce The Now Show..
About the show
The Now Show is a British radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, which satirises the week's news. The show is a mixture of stand-up, sketches and songs presented by Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. The show also features skits from Jon Holmes (with jokes about his height), Laura Shavin, a monologue (usually more of a rant) by Marcus Brigstocke, and music by Mitch Benn. Past series have featured Emma Kennedy, Robin Ince, Dave Gorman, Simon Munnery, Al Murray, Andy Zaltzman, and Dr Phil Hammond. Jon Culshaw has featured on the 2004 and 2005 Christmas editions. Rory Bremner also pops up in a guest role from time to time. Guests have also stood in for absent cast members. The programme satirises both left and right-wing politics and non-political events.The series is a successor to the early 1990s satire show The Mary Whitehouse Experience, in which Punt and Dennis were a key part, although its origins lie with the short-lived Live on Arrival from 1988. The programme first aired on 26 September 1998. The twentieth series ended on 29 December 2006, and the twenty-first began on 2 March 2007. The programme usually forms six part series, occupying Radio 4's Friday evening slot on a rotation with The News Quiz. Repeats of The Now Show can be heard on BBC 7.A regular feature of the show is the "audience question" at the end of the recording, in which the audience are asked for their opinions on a topical issue. The responses often show a remarkable amount of wit and surreal humour on the audience's part, and often seem to be "mass therapy sessions". When asked for three good reasons for staying in Britain (on the 4th August 2006 show), for example, responses included "There's less chance of bumping into Tony Blair", "Sudoku is more difficult in a foreign language", "1: Why go when you can have a traditional English pint? 2: Then a second. 3: And a third."JOIN THE NOW SHOW
