Celebrity Juice

For the first few series this was arguably one of the funniest shows on television. The original premise of the show was to see which team knows most about the week's tabloid news stories, but the later series focus more on the comedy factor of the participating celebrity guests and various games involving them rather than discussing the week's news. This doesn't make the show any funnier, many of these games are just puerile instead of remotely entertaining. The quality of the guests also got worse and this led to the show being much less funny. Leigh Francis is good as the fictional ladies man Keith Lemon but he can, especially in the later series, become very repetitive and annoying. Though it was poor by the end, I do miss it a bit now it's gone.

The show is quite simple...Swear as crude as possible and reference sex as much as you can, whilst referencing women as sex objects!

It is probably one of the last shows on TV that has an undertone of sexual exploitation to it, which in partly is due to the fact it uses bodily humour as much as sexual humour, to be specific, if it was just demeaning to women it would have been canned a long time ago!

Sadly it has just become a show for C lister celebs to try and garner some attention, usually when having something to 'plug', and the humour element is now tired and dated. I often think that the show would be better suited as a chat show format, as the quiz element has long gone and the majority of challenges are now just tired, dated and unfunny.

Keith Lemon, as he likes to be called, does have a naturally funny style of questioning and as such could be probably do better trying something new, before he is eclipsed by funnier people with a fresher format of TV.

Some fantastic moments and the early years were fantastically funny, however it seems in recent years the ideas has run dry. Now we have "Mel B" she is awful. To avoid disappointment simply miss out the last 3 to 4 series' (2017-2020). Mel B stopped me watching the show, so she is a powerful influence in all the wrong ways. Goog programme ruined.

The quality of Celebrity Juice varies depending on who the guests are and the games that are played. However, even during the worst episodes, I am still entertained. No other show has had me in tears from laughter with my cheeks hurting from smiling as much as Celebrity Juice. This show is extremely lewd. If you don't like low brow comedy, stay away.

Celebrity Juice is a quiz-com of sorts with A-Z Listers (usually comedians and pop stars) filling the seats of the panel and hosted by Keith Lemon (an alter ego of the comedian Leigh Francis. Games consist of macabre requests designed to make the panel feel stupid, ugly or uncomfortable for the audience's pleasure. Sure, the experience isn't for everyone and can at times be somewhat puerile but if you know who Keith Lemon is already you'll know whether the show is for you or not. Some episodes are funnier than others but that's the nature of unscripted TV.

My favourite game has to be the one where Ant and Dec are put in a box and asked to feel around and guess what the item is. Google it, it's an absolute riot and my cheeks genuinely hurt from laughing when I first watched it.