Hugh Dennis ‘unhappy however proud’ as BBC comedy panel present Mock The Week involves an finish

Hugh Dennis has stated no one may have predicted Mock The Week would run for so long as it did, because the upcoming sequence brings the hit present to an finish.

The long-running present affairs comedy panel present is to complete after 17 years on BBC Two, with the primary episode of the ultimate sequence beginning at 10pm on September 23.

The favored programme ends after 21 sequence and greater than 200 episodes hosted by Irish comic Dara O’Briain, with sequence common Dennis.

Requested how he felt on studying this sequence could be the final, Not Going Out and Outnumbered star Dennis, 60, stated: “Fairly unhappy, though after 17 years you need to be happy with the truth that we’ve had such a future.

“It is extremely, very uncommon {that a} present runs for that lengthy.”

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Mock The Week first aired in June 2005, and through the years it has featured comedy stars together with Chris Addison, Frankie Boyle, Rory Bremner and Russell Howard.

Dennis added: “It was a really completely different present when it began.

“There have been way more bits – there have been varied improv video games, each panel member needed to do stand-up, and there was a for much longer ‘Scenes we want to see’ on the finish, so I feel I used to be relatively daunted by the quantity of stuff all of us needed to do and puzzled whether or not it might work.

“It grew to become clear fairly quick that it did although, though I don’t assume any of us would have predicted that it might nonetheless be going 17 years later.”

Family names comparable to Michael McIntyre, Sarah Millican, Kevin Bridges, John Bishop and Rhod Gilbert all featured within the early phases of their careers.

Dennis stated he had by no means seen any rivalry between the comedians through the years.

He stated: “It won’t seem like it once we all battle for the mic on the finish however comics are normally a beneficiant group – you’re way more more likely to hear them saying what an amazing joke somebody did than hear them slagging one another off.”

The sequence was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the duo behind comedy improvisation present Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which ran within the UK earlier than turning into a success sequence within the US.

Actor and presenter Dennis stated of O’Briain: “He’s a very humorous man and does a monumental job in holding the entire present collectively.”

The ultimate sequence of Mock The Week could have 5 episodes adopted by two specials.

Mock The Week begins on September 23 on BBC Two at 10pm.