If you clipped our show up on YouTube we'd be cancelled immediately

WHEN Irish comedian Joanne McNally first moved to London in the midst of the pandemic, it was not an ideal time for the live comedy scene.

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However, when she and fellow Irish presenter Vogue Williams launched their hit podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me in 2021, it significantly expanded her audience.

Now 43, Joanne is in the middle of a world tour of her stand-up show Pinotphile and is part of the new comedy panel show, Unacceptable.

The six-part series, hosted by comedian and fellow podcaster Ed Gamble, sees comedians battling it out to convince a studio audience of some outrageous opinions.

Joanne and actor and comedian Richard Ayoade will both be team captains, leading a host of guest comedians as they reveal wild, unwise, or downright unacceptable views that the whole team must then defend.

Romesh Ranganathan argues for paying the Royal Family more, Katherine Ryan suggests all men should have vasectomies at birth, Ivo Graham attempts to convince viewers that private school pupils need state support, and Maisie Adam makes the case for letting AI run the world, among many others.

Whichever team wins over the most members of the studio audience will be declared the winner.

Joanne was intrigued by the show’s unusual format, adding: “I always use Mock the Week as an example because it’s not really my kind of thing, and I think they know that as well. So I've never been asked to do it, and I always sort of pretend I’m raging about it when actually I don’t think I'd like it.

“It's a great show, but for me, I think I'd have an anxiety attack.