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.

I was interested to see where Leigh Francis would take "Keith Lemon". After seeing "Keith" appear in "Bo Selecta" and "Very Brilliant World Tour", Leigh has developed "Keith" further. The "game show format" just provides a platform for "lurid comedy escapades". I watched my first episode with tears of laughter streaming down my face. Im not a fan of the game show, thats not really a game show where there are a panel and each side just tries to be funnier than the other, but this works and is hilarious because the guests are put through some of the funniest stuff I have ever seen! My only negative is the continued use of Jedward, but the games in which they are involved are mildly amusing and Keith often steals the lime light, so its only a minor negative. I look forward to watching every week.....Shhh Ting!!

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.

The concept was good and the guests were very funny (This episode had Al Murray, Holly Valance and a few others I have never heard of before), but the "host" was a tool. It started off like an English version of the Aussie TV show 'Good News Week' and I thought it might have had a bit of potential, but after watching one episode I just wanted to gouge my eyes out and wear headphones playing white noise at high volume! He was not funny and the show seemed to revolve around his antics, yelling and stupid voices that just had me staring in disbelief. I do understand that the host is obviously playing some sort of character but it did not make it any funnier, perhaps if he was just being normal it would have had more appeal to me.

With a different host this show would be a lot better. It is clearly popular in the UK as it has survived for 8 seasons now, but I cannot get past the host, he just grates on me too much. I can see why channel seven (Aussie local station) ran it so late at night.

I have no intentions of watching another episode, I would rather be water boarded.

Sorry to the fans of this show, to which there seem to be many, but to me the host ruined too much!