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Show Me the Funny (2011)

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United Kingdom
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How it feels

Ten comedians travel to different UK cities, learn local material, and perform new routines for a live audience. Each week a panel of judges eliminates one contestant until a winner is crowned.

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What happens

Show Me the Funny is a British reality show on ITV, in which a group of ten comedians of varying experience visit ten cities around the UK, performing tasks that are somehow meant to equip them with local knowledge to work into five-minute-long new live routines, which they then showcase in front of a live audience. At the end of each show, one contestant was voted off by the judging panel of Alan Davies, Kate Copstick and a different guest judge in each city, with a live final at the Hammersmith Apollo on 25 August 2011. The eventual winner of the competition won a nationwide tour (with support from two of the runners-up) and their own DVD released in the run-up to Christmas. An unrelated show with the same title aired in the United States on Fox Family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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