Hypothetical
2019•45m•6.2/10
Comedy
Ratings
🎬TMDb
6.2/10(6)
Hosted by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster, top comedians are posed absurd hypothetical situations and scored on how well they would deal with them. Over three rounds, two teams of comedians must think fast as they are faced with a series of completely made-up scenarios and interrogated on their approach to each one. Host Josh Widdicombe poses the questions and interrogates the guests' methods, whilst James Acaster, as arbiter of the Hypotheticals, deals with the guests quibbles and queries and doles out the points.
Production
Hat Trick Productions
Language
EN
Status
Canceled
First Aired
February 6, 2019
Last Aired
July 6, 2022
Networks
BBC Two, U&Dave
Created By
Matthew Crosby, Tom Craine, Josh Widdicombe
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
Episode 1
Air date: 2019-02-06
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster pose absurd theoretical situations to Tom Allen, Rob Beckett, Jessica Knappett and Liza Tarbuck who are then scored on how well they deal with them.
E2
Episode 2
Air date: 2019-02-13
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Romesh Ranganathan, Rachel Parris, Jon Richardson and Rose Matafeo.
E3
Episode 3
Air date: 2019-02-20
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Sara Pascoe, Lou Sanders, Nish Kumar and Ed Gamble.
E4
Episode 4
Air date: 2019-02-27
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Romesh Ranganathan, Rosie Jones, Kerry Godliman and Matt Forde.
E5
Episode 5
Air date: 2019-03-06
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Dara O Briain, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Suzi Ruffell and Nish Kumar.
E6
Episode 6
Air date: 2019-03-13
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Roisin Conaty, Phil Wang, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Darren Harriott.
E7
Episode 7
Air date: 2019-03-20
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by Katherine Ryan, John Robins, Ivo Graham and Cariad Lloyd.
E8
Episode 8
Air date: 2019-03-27
Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster are joined by David O'Doherty, Guz Khan, Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd.
Cast
Josh Widdicombe
Self - Host
James Acaster
Self - Host
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