Mock The Week SECRETS Revealed by Rhys James! 

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I'd love to see Rhys on Taskmaster!

Rhys James will be remembering in MTW circles as the one who made sure the show finished in style with his last joke. "It's not how you start, it's how you finish" and his ending was perfection.

I went to see a recording of Mock The Week years ago (the one where Adam Hills took his leg off). 3 hours of constant jokes. Even when they weren't filming, moving cameras around, they were still cracking jokes. Fantastic.

Well, I don’t think it would be untrue to say Rhys was one of the funniest people to ever do mock the week. He was so good at it. Also, he got the final joke of the show.

For someone who's not a comedian, Richard Osman just blows me away

Rhys James is one of my absolute fave comedians. Never doesn’t make me laugh

For days this video kept getting recommended to me, I refused to click on it as i assumed it was clickbait. Finally given in and watched it. Not clickbait at all, really interesting watching him talk about the show and how much stuff was planned / scripted! Glad I gave in and clicked it! Haha 😝

I recall Rhys being quite a constant contributor to Scenes We'd Like to See so it makes sense he improvised a lot there.

I first came across Rhys years ago on the Top 10 Football F*ck Ups series on TFR and he was hilarious 😂😂

I saw Vernon Kay film an opening for Radio 1’s Big Weekend like a decade ago. He just rocked up in front of the crowd queuing up, smashed out a minute intro while hyping up the crowd and moved on. It actually was a pretty cool thing to see him just knock it out with effortless efficiency

Rhys' final joke on Mock the Week was delivered in the same manner that a cricketer who needed one run to win the game would hit the winning ball into the boundary rope. A more perfect finish you couldn't wish to see.

What a modest guy.

James Acaster and Rhys were the best comedians on Mock the week, so damn funny!

Rhys on OG Football Daily is legendary stuff

Rhys looking gorgeous here!

Not surprised coming from him as he always performed well on MTW, but it is nice to hear a positive opinion about that show

I recall watching Rhys James on the old TFR (remember that). Was that before he was famous?

remember seeing him on Football Daily/TFR about a decade ago, was sick finding out he made it onto MTW

He's a lot like if Joanna Lumley had a son. They even have the same toothy grin

I often wondered how much information was given to MTW comedians prior to the show. I figured that some preparation was done by the comedians.

Hugely grateful for this. It always jarred when Russell Howard would ride his own gags to extend his camera time, but the worst was his "Dara Dara Dara look at me" while others were riffing about his massive head. Just too hungry. Loved the interplay of those later years. And Frankie for future guest. Also, Stephen Mangan as both vote for most funny noncomic celeb AND future guest.

5:00 ..having sat through 8 Out Of 10 Cats does Countdown Live a couple years ago, it is a very hard evening - don't get me wrong, it is entertaining - but for an hour long show, it is a four hour recording, and we had to be there for about a full 2-3 hours before hand and to take it further, once you're sat down; you cannot leave, if you didn't realise to bring water, you're shit outta luck. need the bathroom, well there's one on the way out, and you'll be free to use it in 2 hours we also did Bullseye with Alan Carr, and similarly it just takes so, so long think of a movie like Endgame or Oppenheimer where it's 3 hours in a movie theatre; except they keep pausing the movie every 5/10 minutes so it takes 5 hours to get through, the seats are half the size, and firm plastic - and there is no eating or drinking, or leaving to use the bathroom

Great to learn the background. There were some really good panel contenders, and it was odd how some just didn’t really fit the format. Didn’t like sweary ginger Scotty man at all. Obviously like everyone else, I just loved Milton. He is so unique. When Rhys can grow a beard, do you think the girls will still want to mother him?

Would love to see Henning Wehn on the podcast.

I used to watch this guy on Filthy Fellas back in the day, was so funny on there too

Went to see this guy so funny

What's up with Jack? Has he gone Strawberry?

How do they split the endless tory ,brexit and daily mail jokes? Tedious middle class ballix for the most part!

To my knowledge there's been one non-comedian, on MtW. I'd not say I was the leading authority but I did decide to try and do something more than anyone, on the planet. It was obvious to go niche. I decided to watch the show more than anyone. All show, five times this year, for example. I don't think Lauren Laverne was ever a stand up and she was in, I think, four shows.

Dayum! I thought 'Scenes we'd like to see' was completely improvised. It makes sense that the funniest bits were spontaneous and improvised. Anyway, love you guys and @RhysJames!

rabbit in the headlights?? doesn't even make sense?!

Nearly the first person 😂

I’m not the first person. I don’t live on the internet. I have a life.

How old is this clip, Mock The Week ended two years ago? I'd love to know how bad it is being a panel show comedian, people know you from certain panel shows but not because you have a sold out tour

Why has comedy in this country become the preserve of well off people? It seems like most of the comedians of the last 10 years that get pushed are almost exclusively from the same backgrounds.

This lad knowns nothing about mock the week You should get frankie Boyle on

1st

First person😅

Secrets? What, doing 10 minutes of your latest set over 6 episodes on the BBC...?

Saw him years ago opening for Jim Jefferies , rhys insulted constantly the crowd and got booed off the stage, genuinely worst stand up I've seen , obviously tv is different and translates in a different way .

Happy hour fell off

Mock the Week has been axed. I don't know why you're discussing an ex programme.