30-06-2022, 12:42 AM
Comedian Fern Brady seems to be celebrating this news but her tweet comes across unnecessarily nasty to me. Perhaps bitter she was never invited on?
But Celebrity Juice was never really your typical comedy panel show- I think that’s why I liked it- wider variety of guests. The likes of Catsdown, QI, Would I Lie To You have the same old comedian’s faces in rotation whereas Celeb Juice had a wider range- yeah there were some comedians (Katherine Ryan featured quite frequently in the final couple of years of the show; Jimmy Carr and Johnny Vegas mainstays from very early on; Rufus Hound) but the ultimate focus was on the other ‘celebrities’ because it was usually unlikely to see them on these types of shows.
There’s an interesting point to be made in her tweet about female comedian representation and whilst yes, that’s an issue across the more conventional panel shows but Celebrity Juice probably had the best gender balance in terms of guests of all the panel shows; it’s just that their guests (whether male or female) typically weren’t comedians so it’s not really a good example to use to demonstrate the underrepresentation:
But Celebrity Juice was never really your typical comedy panel show- I think that’s why I liked it- wider variety of guests. The likes of Catsdown, QI, Would I Lie To You have the same old comedian’s faces in rotation whereas Celeb Juice had a wider range- yeah there were some comedians (Katherine Ryan featured quite frequently in the final couple of years of the show; Jimmy Carr and Johnny Vegas mainstays from very early on; Rufus Hound) but the ultimate focus was on the other ‘celebrities’ because it was usually unlikely to see them on these types of shows.
There’s an interesting point to be made in her tweet about female comedian representation and whilst yes, that’s an issue across the more conventional panel shows but Celebrity Juice probably had the best gender balance in terms of guests of all the panel shows; it’s just that their guests (whether male or female) typically weren’t comedians so it’s not really a good example to use to demonstrate the underrepresentation: