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.

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!!

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.

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!

I was a big fan of leigh francis previous show Bo Selecta (yes, keith lem isnt his real name). Im not a fan of this character. The show is very crude and stupid with lots of annoying celebrities (jedward were very prominent earlier in the history). It is quite intresting though to see female celebrities subject to some quite gross humour. I watched tonights episode where there was talk of male and female genatalia. The girls are quite happy to go along with it it seems. I wont say too much in case my comment is rejected!

Wont be long before the woke brigade will ban it... for misogyny or whatever.. i dunno, id say its half good half bad. Maybe its time leigh gave the lemon character arest though.. its been 14 years ?? The new captains are okay and do refresh it a bit.