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''The Now Show'' is a British satirical radio show on BBC Radio 4, starring Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt (previously of ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'') as well as Marcus Brigstocke, Music/MitchBenn, Laura Shavin, the very short Jon Holmes, and occasional special guests. In recent series, the "guest Marcus Brigstockes" appear more often than Marcus Brigstocke, who has other commitments.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: An item on amusing names in an 18th century Cornish county register ends with Abraham Thunderbolt.

* Awesome McCoolname: An item on amusing names in an 18th century Cornish county register ends with Abraham Thunderbolt.

Known for heavy use of {{Running Gag}}s: TheOtherWiki used to have a long list of them, and may still do.

''The Now Show'' is a British satirical radio show on BBC Radio 4, starring Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt (previously of ''Radio/TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'') as well as Marcus Brigstocke, MitchBenn, Laura Shavin, the very short Jon Holmes, and occasional special guests. In recent series, the "guest Marcus Brigstockes" appear more often than Marcus Brigstocke, who has other commitments.

* DanBrowned: The original definition is mentioned in ''The Now Show Book of World Records'', where Dennis talks about how he noticed loads of errors in the part of ''TheDaVinciCode'' set in the BBC and wonders how much of the rest must have been wrong.

* ShoutOut: Not least to ''TheGoonShow''. At one point, when the England cricketer Andrew Flintoff had been in the news for falling off a pedalo:

* OnlyInFlorida: ''It's Been A Bad Week'' (see below) focuses on these kinds of stories.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In ''It's Been A Bad Week'', the award given each episode is "The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly on a Week-by-Week Basis".

* ExecutiveMeddling: Not surprisingly, given that the BBC is involved.
* [[FanNickname Hater Nickname]]: Brigstocke invariably refers to David Blaine as "The Git-Wizard"

''The Now Show'' is a British satirical radio show on BBC Radio 4, starring Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt (previously of ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'') as well as Marcus Brigstocke, MitchBenn, Laura Shavin, the very short Jon Holmes, and occasional special guests. In recent series, the "guest Marcus Brigstockes" appear more often than Marcus Brigstocke, who has other commitments.

* BitingTheHandHumor: Practically OnceAnEpisode, towards TheBBC, Radio 4 in particular, and Radio 4 listeners.

* The CastShowOff: Mitch Benn coming up with musical numbers about bad week stories, and Jon Culshaw's impressions.

''The Now Show'' is a British satirical radio show, starring Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt (previously of ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'') as well as Marcus Brigstocke, MitchBenn, Laura Shavin, the very short Jon Holmes, and occasional special guests. In recent series, the "guest Marcus Brigstockes" appear more often than Marcus Brigstocke, who has other commitments.

Periodically Punt and Dennis (and often the same guests) will do a different radio show in its place, ''It's Been A Bad Week'', which is about weird news stories from around the world. Each week the stories' protagonists compete for who's had the worst week, thus winning "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The Worst Week Of The Week Award, Awarded Weekly On A Week-By-Week Basis]]".

* RunningGag: Too many to list.

* ButtMonkey: When William Hague was Conservative leader, he would often be cited as having had an even worse week than whoever had actually won "The Worst Week Of The Week Award, Awarded Weekly On A Week-By-Week Basis". This was largely just so [[Series/DeadRingers Jon Culshaw]] [[The Cast Show Off could show off his Hague impression]].
* The Cast Show Off: Mitch Benn coming up with musical numbers about bad week stories, and Jon Culshaw's impressions.

* ButtMonkey: When William Hague was Conservative leader, he would often be cited as having had an even worse week than whoever had actually won "The Worst Week Of The Week Award, Awarded Weekly On A Week-By-Week Basis". This was largely just so [[Series/DeadRingers Jon Culshaw]] [[TheCastShowoff could show off his Hague impression]].
* TheCastShowoff: Mitch Benn coming up with musical numbers about bad week stories, and Jon Culshaw's impressions.

* BitingTheHandHumour: Practically OnceAnEpisode, towards TheBBC, Radio 4 in particular, and Radio 4 listeners.

* MostWonderfulSound: Andy Hamilton's voice when he gets really into pointing out how absurd a story is, especially a 'dumb criminals' one.

''The Now Show'' is a British satirical radio show, starring Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt (previously of ''TheMaryWhitehouseExperience'') as well as Marcus Brigstocke, MitchBenn, Laura Shavin, the very short Jon Holmes, and occasional special guests.

* RefugeInAudacity

* ButtMonkey: When William Hague was Conservative leader, he would often be cited as having had an even worse week than whoever had actually won "The Worst Week Of The Week Award, Awarded Weekly On A Week-By-Week Basis". This was largely just so [[DeadRingers Jon Culshaw]] [[TheCastShowoff could show off his Hague impression]].

!!This show provides examples of:

This show provides examples of:

* [[FanNickname Hater Nickname]]: Brigstocke invariably refers to Blaine as "The Git-Wizard"

-->''Rhythm is a Dancer'': Maggie Rhythm is a dancer. [[HilarityEnsues With hilarious consequences.]]

* PlugNPlayTechnology: referenced with regard to ''IndependenceDay'' under "Coolest Spaceship of All Time" in ''The Book''.

-->'''Hugh Dennis:''' Yes, we'll steal anyone's [[CatchPhrase catchphrases]], we don't care.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In "It's Been A Bad Week", the award given each episode is "The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly on a Week-by-Week Basis".

* OnlyInFlorida: "It's Been A Bad Week" (see below) focuses on these kinds of stories.
* PlugNPlayTechnology: referenced with regard to ''IndependenceDay'' under "Coolest Spaceship of All Time'' in ''The Book''.