Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

I've never been able to watch more than a few moments of this programme. It's the format. The participants, as far as I know, are accomplished comedians who normally entertain and amuse audiences with their scripted and/or improvised routines, but the idea of sitting them round a table talking to each other, as-living and surrounded by scores of dimly-lit giggling deferential supplicants, whom they completely ignore, is nauseating. Involve the audience for goodness' sake, or operate without them, but don't humiliate them.

The notion that the performers are the superiors of the audience is one of the worst aspects of religious idolatry.