The Mash Report

Has anyone else been watching this satire programme? It look like they've borrowed some inspiration from The Daily Show with the bits at the desk with Nish Kumar, and reports from correspondents. There's also the addition of a separate news desk and social media 'response'.

Turned off after 10 minutes tbh. Unspun with Matt Forde on Dave does a much better job.

As a fan of the Daily Mash, I found it disappointing. It awkwardly tries to blend The Daily Show with The Day Today by literally switching between the two every now and again, and it's excruciatingly jolting. Almost as if Nish is saying "that was some real news, now let's go over there and listen to some funny fake ones."

People on social media are complaining about the "laugh track" but without an audience, Nish's segments simply wouldn't work. A comedian need an audience to react to. However, given the Mash's bits have pre-recorded reports, they don't compensate for the audience laughing, so funny lines are completely lost under the noise.

What I find most disappointing is the Mash bits are lifted straight from The Daily Mash (at least on the episode I watched). A lot of fans of the website will tune in and inevitably recognise the stories. It's nice to see the BBC are attempting this type of thing again, but it feels rushed and lazy.

I've been enjoying it, but it's an odd hybrid. It's part Daily Show style satire, part Daily Mash/Newsthump spoofs and part 11 o Clock Show style reports. I enjoy all the bits individually but feel it kinda needs to decide which to be

Rather over-manned too, a few too many people on screen.

Think people need to lighten up - it is what it is - a half hour satirical news show which usually has enough laughs in it to make it worth watching. Certainly isn't at unmissable status but is a watchable half hour and far better than yet another panel show.

That may be, but personally, I'd rather a proper Daily Show sort of thing, or a proper Day Today/Brass Eye-esque show. Not a weird mish mash (no pun intended) of the two where both assets feel half-assed.

Even The Daily Show suffers a bit from that - you've got Trevor Noah's to-camera spiel, but then he'll introduce comedian X who'll talk to Trevor but look into the camera (which is always weird to me), and re-hash the same story with more jokes but none of the insightfulness.

I really like The Daily Mash's news desk ("Passengers desparate to know backstory of bus drivers who didn't wave to each other"), and I'd sooner they dropped the comedy interviews for a real person with something to talk about. Maybe that just isn't Nish's forte.

Hopefully it'll get a second series and a change to tweak itself.

Mash Report's structure could be improved, it seems jump between three different things multiple times. I think they would be better cutting it down to one or two presenters rather than four. The pace is a bit too slow between some items, they could tighten it up in places.

Im sorry but its crap. and truly plays to the lowest common denominator.

I disagree, it's not aimed at the "lowest common denominator" - like most topical comedy, the humour relies on having some understanding of current affairs. What it is, is poorly structured.

Charlie brooker will have a field day ripping this to shreds...

I've been watching it, and it's okay, but I always come away with the sense that it thinks it's funnier or smarter than it really is. I can't see it having much longevity in its current format, certain bits of it feel tired already (newsreader says funny headline followed by funny photo)

Weird time of the year for a political satire to go out as well.