Celebrity Soup
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Celebrity Soup is an E! Entertainment Television series. It is the UK version of the USA's long-running series The Soup which is also broadcast on E! Entertainment Television.
The UK version mirrors its American counterpart, focusing on recaps of various pop culture and reality show highlights of the week with host and co-writer Iain Lee providing sarcastic and biting commentary on the various clips.
There were 19 episodes in the first series.
The second series started on Saturday July 15th 2006.
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[edit] Format
Celebrity Soup has managed to create its own unique niche with the one-host format and use of skits to skewer pop culture, along with the ability of the show to make fun of shows on its own network such as The Girls Next Door while promoting them at the same time.
The series has a team of comedy writers including Adam Bostock Smith, Dan Evans, Iain Lee, Alex Lowe and David Owen. Show Producers are Jay Pond Jones, Richard Bacon, David Owen, Ray Addison and Jessica Sebastian.
[edit] Setting
The clips are introduced by Lee on a green screen set with a 'plasma screen' and 'window' overlooking Big Ben. A real audience laughs loudly at the clips and Lee's comments and cheer whenever a favorite segment/clip is shown.
[edit] Regular Features
A satirical look at celebrity news from the past week starts out the show, with commentary by Lee and jokes involving the subjects of the news.
Chat Attack shows clips from various talk shows with equal comments, usually with a joke about how Michael Parkinson pervs over his female guests and how stupid Richard Madeley is. Also regular fodder for the segment are Jonathan Ross and Davina McCall.
Reality Show Clip Time!, is a section where clips from various reality shows are played with Lee adding comedic comments.
Foxy Moron, is a popular section of the show where a clip is shown of a beautiful woman saying something stupid.
The Clip of the Week, which is what the Soup staff consider to be the best, or worst depending on the viewer's opinion, clip that's been shown on TV that past week.
Fake polls are often flashed after the end of commercial breaks, with sensical answers to start out with and a satirical majority or minority factoid at the end of the segment.
