On paper, it’s a good concept. The studio audience are given a quarter of a million pounds just for being there and they’ll be able to take their share of it home if they can stay absolutely silent for the entire show.
It is the job of the backstage comedians to make the audience react (Photo: UKTV)
Immediately, there’s an us-versus-them mentality to Silence Is Golden, but it’s not entirely clear whose side we should be on. In charge of making their spectators laugh are comedians Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri (there’s no mention of whether the show can afford their appearance fees), who have a range of variety acts at their disposal, ready to unleash their versions of entertainment on the silent gaggle.
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What follows is a sort of pub open mic night, with acts including a drag queen, a man dressed as Santa Claus reading out filthy Christmas cracker jokes, a man who puts his hand in a bear trap (without getting it caught), a man in fluffy cat ears tickling people with a feather duster and – most outrageously – a naked older lady. But what makes these nights so fun in real life is the jovial atmosphere – something Silence Is Golden is completely devoid of.
I suppose you had to be there. For their part, the audience are having a whale of a time and end up losing a whopping £30,000 in the first performance – and to be fair I would struggle not to laugh (or indeed cry) if a drag queen was belting Mariah Carey’s “Without You” centimeters from my face. But the fun doesn’t translate onto the screen at all – one moment in which Katherine Ryan brings out an audience member’s dog falls embarrassingly flat, while Seann Walsh’s incessant shouting grates after just five minutes.
The vibe is of a (not very good) open mic night (Photo: UKTV)Silence Is Golden suffers from following Prime Video’s Last One Laughing, a series with a similar concept (don’t laugh) and a much better cast; money isn’t an issue for Jeff Bezos. As a result, U&Dave’s attempt feels like a very cheap imitation of a show that has already been watched – and loved – by 6.1 million viewers.
‘Silence Is Golden’ continues next Monday at 9pm on U&Dave
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