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Bob Mortimer's 'ridiculous' tactics on Last One Laughing left others struggling
Bob's 'ridiculous' stories were dangerous for his fellow players, with Daisy May Cooper saying the TV format, from Japan, is 'genius'
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Top comics Daisy May Cooper and Bob Mortimer have told of the “hell on Earth” they experienced on new TV series Last One Laughing, in which the UK’s top comedians must make each other chuckle without corpsing themselves. Daisy May Cooper said she’d loved every second of filming - but found it impossibly hard. “This is the most joyful job I've ever had in my life, because I completely forgot how depressing life is for a few amazing hours,” she declared.
“I thought it was genius. I thought whoever came up with the format must be laughing all the way to the bank. It's just a brilliant idea.” The Amazon Prime show, hosted by Jimmy Carr, has ten of the UK's funniest people in one room and all they have to do to win is use any means necessary to break their opponents while keeping a straight face themselves.
Article continues belowDaisy and Bob were joined by Joe Lycett, Rob Beckett, Joe Wilkinson, Judi Love, Lou Sanders, Richard Ayoade, Harriet Kemsley, and Sara Pascoe. Daisy, 38, said she’d done better than she expected but by the end she felt all done in. “I’ve got nothing left. Bob and Richard emotionally drained me. We filmed an entire series in one day, which is brilliant for me because I’m so lazy, but I feel like a husk.
READ MORE:BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? line-up - Spider-Man star to EastEnders legend“My acting training means I know how to hold laughter in and not corpse on set, which gave me an advantage. But this was horrendous. This was the most joyful show - yet at the same time it was hell on Earth. Trying to stop yourself from laughing is dreadful. Judi Love is funny even when she’s just sitting down. Joe Wilkinson gave a speech about the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which was the most insane and funniest thing. I thought I was going to lose it.”
She added that one of her reasons for signing was to discuss serious matters with Bob, 65. ”He'd had a near death experience which I really wanted to talk to him about.” Like Daisy, Bob found the experience far harder than he’d anticipated. “I thought it would be easy not to laugh - I spend most of my days not laughing - but it's so difficult,” he admitted.
“As soon as you walk in, there's a strange atmosphere in the room. I was struggling at the beginning - I wondered if I could make it through the first hour by hiding somewhere, but that didn’t feel right or fair.” He said he survived by avoiding the eyes of those he knew best. "When I saw Richard I thought it was over for me. I avoided him for a good two hours, and Joe Wilkinson was impossible to look at.”
Many players found Richard to be an “attacking” player, with Joe Lycett lamenting: “Ayoade is incapable of laughter.” Wilkinson said Bob was the most dangerous player of all to be around. “He’s ridiculous. He asks about your favourite appliances and the size of your town.” Richard agreed: “Seeing Bob wasn’t ideal. I generally try not to laugh, but that wasn’t possible when Bob was talking about his design for a reverse toilet.”
And Rob also found Bob impossible to deal with. “What Bob does is so shocking, because it comes out of nowhere. He sits still and doesn’t move, so you wonder if he’s alright, and then he bursts into life and all his body parts move separately.”
The show is already a huge hit in countries including Japan - where it began - plus France and the US. “I want our version to be the best,” host Jimmy Carr said. “We filmed the whole season in a day, which is close to miraculous. The aim was to make people really let go and belly laugh.”
Article continues belowHe is hoping the nation will watch the series and join in with the mirth. “People don’t spend enough time thinking about their intellectual diet; what are they reading, watching, or listening to? What is their mind consuming? Comedy is so good for you, it’s mental fruit and vegetables. If your diet is the news and doom scrolling, put your phone down and stick some comedy on to release some endorphins. Comedy puts you in a happy place.”
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