Format
The show has a host Craig Doyle who chairs the discussion, along with four panellists who change from week to week. Regular panellists include Colin Murphy, Andrew Maxwell, Neil Delamere, Mairead Farrell and Eleanor Tiernan. They discuss current events, interspersed with interviews with special guests. Panelists are typically professional comedians, and as such the show aims for pure comedy, rather than any hybrid of discussion or analysis and topical jokes. The producers and regular performers are clear that the show is distinguished from other panel shows by the absence of games, rounds, scores or other contrivances.
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