So Wrong It's Right from BBC Radio 4
10 Mar 2011 - 14 April 2011
Episode 1 (10 Mar 2011)
Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show celebrating one of Britain's
favourite subjects - failure.
It's a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is to come up with
the wrongest answer to each question. In this episode, the guests joining
him to try and out-wrong each other with their ideas and stories are comedians
Mark Watson, Holly Walsh and Rufus Hound.
In this edition the panel's worst party experiences, iPhone apps and terrible
boyband names all come under the 'wrong' spotlight - as well as the best ideas
for the worst new TV soap. Will anyone beat Mark Watson's pitch - the eyeglass
themed Opticians!
Rufus Hound also presents the comedy chat show My Teenage Diary for Radio 4
and is a team captain on the TV series Argumental. In 2010 he also won BBC1's
Let's Dance for Sport Relief, with an unforgettable dancing impersonation of
Cheryl Cole's Fight for This Love.
Holly Walsh is a comedy writer and performer with guest appearances on
Radio 4's The Now Show and Act Your Age as well numerous guest appearances on
TV shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats and Mock the Week.
Comedian Mark Watson is star of Radio 4's Mark Watson Makes the World
Substantially Better and We Need Answers on BBC3 plus Never Mind the Buzzcocks
and Comedy Rocks.
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC2's How TV
Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live - and
writes for The Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press
Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009.
Episode 2 (17 Mar 2011)
Charlie Brooker returns to Radio 4 with the comedy panel show that seeks the
best in wrong answers. He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over
a series of rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right.
Comedians Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie and Jon Richardson are the guests for
this edition. The panel's worst experiences on a day out - which take in the
delights of a Birmingham underpass, Gatwick Airport and 2 am in Swindon - is
just one of topics under the wrong spotlight. There's also the wrongest ideas
for a smartphone app plus Jon Richardson lets rip on his pet hate of twenty-
first century - sexual liberation...
Charlie Brooker also presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's
10 O'Clock Live and writes for The Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at
the 2009 British Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the British
Comedy Awards 2009.
Episode 3 (24 Mar 2011)
Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels in glorious failure.
He is joined by comedians Lee Mack, Shappi Khorsandi and David Schneider in
a comedy contest to give the wrongest answer to each of Charlie's challenges.
Amongst the questions Charlie throws at his guests in this episode is 'what's
the worst thing you've done in the pursuit of romance'. The panel's pitches -
Lee Mack's first kiss whilst playing 'spin the bottle', Shappi's ill-fated
attempts to impress a boy by showing how fast she can walk, and David's
unfortunate heroics at the local swimming pool - are all subjected to Charlie's
unique comic interrogation.
Added to this are the panel's hilariously terrible ideas for a new museum and
their nominations for the worst irritants of modern life...
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC4's award-
winning series Newswipe and You Have Been Watching on Channel 4 - plus writing
for The Guardian. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009 and
Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards for his column.
Episode 4 (31 Mar 2011)
Charlie Brooker hosts the panel show devoted to the art of being wrong, with
comedians Rufus Hound, Sharon Horgan and Fergus Craig competing to give the
best in wrong answers.
Charlie's favorite hobby - the computer game - comes in for the So Wrong
It's Right treatment this week. Asked to pitch a terrible idea for a computer
game, who will triumph in the battle between Fergus' Football Player Liaison
Officer, Sharon's Breast Feeding game and Rufus' innovative third person
shooter - You Should Have Seen It Man Like Wow?
Also up for examination are the panel's nominations for modern woes - how
will Charlie react to Rufus' nomination for his greatest modern irritant:
'Charlie Brooker'.
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also writes for
The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series Newswipe and Screenwipe as
well as Channel 4's You Have Been Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British
Comedy Awards 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards
for his newspaper columns.
Episode 5 (7 Apr 2011)
Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong side of life with
comedians Frank Skinner and Josie Long plus Harry Hill TV Burp writer Daniel
Maier competing to suggest the best in bad ideas.
Charlie's challenges in this episode see the panel recall 'the most
embarrassing thing they've done in public' plus suggesting concepts for
a terrible chain of shops. Can anyone top Frank Skinner's suggestion of the
drinking accessory franchise 'Oddbinge'?
Added to this are the panel's nominations for the worst irritants of modern
life - including Josie Long selection of 'comment' sections on the web or
as she calls them 'the bottom half of the internet'.
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC4's
acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series - and is an award winning columnist
for The Guardian. He also won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009.
Episode 6 (14 Apr 2011)
Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show that sees comics Lee Mack, Sarah
Millican and Graham Linehan battle to supply the finest wrong answers.
Charlie's tests see the guests recall 'the worst thing they've done on their
own'. Who will win between Lee Mack's story of avoiding Anthea Turner, Sarah
Millican's tale of woe whilst stuck on the side of motorway, or Graham
Linehan's calamity in a hotel shower?
Added to this are the panel's ideas for a terrible new gameshow. Will anyone
spot the fatal flaw in Graham's pitch - the futuristic word quiz 'Scrabble
2000'?
The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also writes for
The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series Newswipe & Screenwipe as
well as Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live. He won Best Newcomer at the British
Comedy Awards 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards
for his Guardian newspaper columns.
Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.
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