The Mash Report

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The Mash Report
Titlecard from 2021
Also known asLate Night Mash
Presented byNish Kumar
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes29
Production
ProducerChris Stott
Running time30 minutes (2017–2020)
60 minutes (inc. adverts) (2021–)
Production companyZeppotron
DistributorBanijay
Release
Original networkBBC Two (2017–2020)
Dave (2021–)
Picture formatHDTV 1080i
Audio formatStereo
Original release20 July 2017 (2017-07-20) –
present

Late Night Mash is a British satirical comedy broadcast on Dave, as a continuation of The Mash Report on BBC Two. It was hosted by Nish Kumar with an array of comedians satirising the week's news.[1] First aired on 20 July 2017, it is a TV show spin-off of The Daily Mash, a satirical website.[2]

History[]

In March 2017, the BBC announced that it had commissioned The Mash Report, a new satirical news show hosted by Nish Kumar.[3] It also stars Ellie Taylor and Steve N Allen as newsreaders Susan Treharne and Tom Logan, who read the satirical headlines, featuring correspondents Nathan Muir (Jason Forbes) and Prof. Henry Brubaker (Greig Johnson). Rachel Parris is also on Mash to explain the things going on in the news with a humorous twist. Geoff Norcott, a conservative comedian, also features regularly.

In March 2021, the BBC cancelled the series "in order to make room for new comedy shows".[4] On 28 July 2021, Dave announced that a new eight-part series called Late Night Mash would air in autumn of that year, with the main cast of The Mash Report returning in what Dave called a "continuation" of the BBC series. It began airing on 2 September.[5]

On 28 October 2021, Nish Kumar revealed that he was stepping down as the host of Mash.[6]

Ratings[]

The first episode attracted an audience of 800,000, which is 20% less than usual for its timeslot.[7] In February 2018, the British Comedy Guide said that the show had been recommissioned a third series after "modest" ratings on television, but was more popular on the BBC iPlayer and some clips had gone viral to a global audience online.[8]

Episodes[]

SeriesEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
11020 July 2017 (2017-07-20)22 February 2018 (2018-02-22)
2626 October 2018 (2018-10-26)7 December 2018 (2018-12-07)
365 September 2019 (2019-09-05)10 October 2019 (2019-10-10)
463 April 2020 (2020-04-03)8 May 2020 (2020-05-08)
582 September 2021 (2021-09-02)21 October 2021 (2021-10-21)

Reception[]

Reviewing it in 2017, Chortle regarded The Mash Report as a successful UK version of The Onion.[9]

In July 2017, Michael Hogan of The Daily Telegraph gave The Mash Report four stars out of five and wrote, "People are fond of trotting out clichés about current world events being 'beyond parody' and 'the jokes writing themselves'. But no, parody still has a place and jokes do need to be written. This sharp new show did it rather well and was the most promising satirical arrival on our screens in a long time."[10] In November 2018, the BBC's political presenter Andrew Neil described The Mash Report on Twitter as "self-satisfied, self-adulatory, unchallenged left-wing propaganda". Responding to a tweet about Geoff Norcott's appearances,[11] he said it was "hardly balance" and would "never happen on a politics show". Neil characterised the series as a "pathetic imitation" of The Daily Show in the United States, describing the latter's former host Jon Stewart as "left-wing but also intelligent".[12]

Writing in 2021 after its relaunch as Late Night Mash, Emily Baker of the i newspaper disagreed with both the accusations of bias against the series and the show's self-styling as anti-establishment, saying that "the content of the show is no different from anything you'd hear on Radio 4's News Quiz (which has been hosted by Kumar on multiple occasions)... Late Night Mash certainly isn't centrist, but it's no more left or right-wing than Have I Got News For You".[13]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "The Mash Report". British Comedy Guide. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  2. ^ Bernhardt, Jack (18 July 2017). "Politics has gone beyond satire – can the Mash Report catch up?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  3. ^ Miller, Phil (25 March 2017). "The Daily Mash to become new satirical news show for BBC". The Herald. Newsquest. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  4. ^ "The Mash Report: BBC satirical comedy cancelled after four years". BBC News. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  5. ^ Guide, British Comedy (28 July 2021). "The Mash Report to return on Dave". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. ^ Griffin, Louise (28 October 2021). "Nish Kumar steps down as host of Late Night Mash weeks after reboot on Dave". Metro. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Sluggish ratings for The Mash Report". Chortle. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  8. ^ "The Mash Report recommissioned". British Comedy Guide. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  9. ^ Bennett, Steve (20 July 2017). "The Mash Report". Chortle. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  10. ^ Hogan, Michael (21 July 2017). "The Mash Report review: not quite The Day Today but this satire show was genuinely amusing". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Andrew Neil on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  12. ^ Singh, Anita (13 November 2018). "Andrew Neil attacks BBC over Left-wing bias in comedy shows". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  13. ^ Baker, Emily (3 September 2021). "Late Night Mash is no riskier than Radio 4 – is this really what the BBC was so scared of?". i. Retrieved 2 October 2021.

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