Mock the Week: This Year's Book!

Mock The Week: Scenes We'd Like To See #2

by Ewan Phillips, Dan Patterson, Simon Bullivant

Now in its seventh year, "Mock the Week" is the biggest comedy show on BBC2, regularly drawing 5 million viewers every week and making stars of Frankie Boyle, Dara O'Briain and Russell Howard. Packed with enough jokes to fill a whole new series, "Mock the Week: This Year's Book! "is a colourful riot of near-the-knuckle humour; the perfect gift for the show's devoted fans this Christmas. Categories include:

UNLIKELY DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS: Fart (noun) - expulsion of trapped methane from the anus, possibly the funniest thing ever.

UNLIKELY AGONY AUNT LETTERS: Dear Agony Aunt, I keep getting dangerous advice from hugely unqualified people - what do you suggest I do?

CARDS YOU NEVER SEE IN A NEWSAGENT'S WINDOW: Child Minder Available - He may be small, but he's rock hard.

UNLIKELY OBITUARIES: Died suddenly and peacefully on an electric chair at the New York State Penitentiary.

UNNERVING THINGS TO HEAR IN A MEDICAL EXAM: 'So how bad is this premature . . . eeearrgh!'

UNSUCCESSFUL JOB APPLICATIONS: You must hire me, before I kill again!

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Comedy, Politics

160 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book, very funny.

Jokes from Mock The Week. I love this book, it is very funny. I would highly recommend this book.

[Mihai Matei · Rating 3 out of 5]

From the 81 categories a few are not too bad however everyone's taste for humour is different and no reference point for this book comes to my mind .

[Joe Lloyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

From one of my favourite TV Shows. A compilation of 'Scenes we'd like to see'.

I couldn't stop laughing from cover to cover.

Gave my copy to a friend and he also loves it.

[Below · Rating 2 out of 5]

While there are some gems in here, the book overall is not that funny and relies too much on crass humour for my liking. While I don't mind sexual humour if there's some wit about it, references to sex (and other crass humour) are overdone in this book and often just rely on the crass element rather than being clever. Also, part of the humour in 'Scenes we'd like to see' has been about the delivery of the lines which doesn't always translate well to written format.

[Pedro Plassen Lopes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Based on a BBC weekly show. Things they'd like to see written on several places and occasions. Some funny, some far fetched, too many pages.

[✟Roxanne✟(Death by Book Avalanche) ☠ · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was ok, some of it was quite funny, other bits....not so much. I'm sure I saw some one-liners repeated a couple of times throughout the book. Ok for an amusing light read.

[Rebecca Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book, hilarious at all moments. I especially enjoyed the exam questions.

[Amantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Received as a present a couple years ago...hilarious and now I suddenly have a craving to watch WLIIA.

[Phil Burrows · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book if you enjoy the TV show and want a nice bit of reading to cheer you up