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The Guardian - UK
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The Voice: no laughing matter?

The Voice: Vince
The Voice: heading off key? Photograph: Guy Levy/BBC/PA

Michael McIntyre has joined the anti-The Voice brigade. He says that so few people are watching the ailing BBC1 talent show that he has had to scrap jokes about it on his nationwide tour because the audience doesn't care. The Daily Star reports that he got a few chuckles at the beginning, the novelty swivelling chairs were good for a gag or two, but now no one is watching on TV his live audiences "don't laugh at the jokes". McIntyre reckons to pull the ratings back up producers will have to "think outside the box and persuade [The Voice host] Holly Willoughby's breasts to sing a duet" to save this series. And as for series two? Well given Planet Earth Live beat the Voice on one ratings battle, Mcintyre says: "The BBC should combine the two and and just film badgers having sex in revolving chairs. I'd watch."

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