Comedy Round-up 2

Mock The Week replaces the appalling

Kröd Mändoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire

So they put an umlaut on Krod to make it appropriately pronounced "crude", then pronounce it Krod Mandoon? That was just one of the irritating things about this show, which has hopefully disappeared after five episodes (one an hour-long struggle). To think the BBC used to make period parodies called Blackadder. This was just juvenile tosh that presumably was only greenlighted because Matt Lucas signed up. Note to the BBC: Matt Lucas can't act. His character Dongalor (phnaar, he said "Dong") was just "I'm The Only Gay In The Castle". The shame of all this is that Radio 4 has a pretty good Lord Of The Rings spoof, written by The Office producer Anil Gupta, called Elvenquest, which could easily have transferred to TV with its radio cast of experienced British TV comedy stars in tact. This pile of turd means it's highly unlikely we'll see Sophie Winkleman, Alistair McGowan, Stephen Mangan, Kevin Eldon and Darren Boyd hit the screens.