The 1% Club viewers have criticised the show for its ‘easy’ final question on Monday’s episode.
The show tests 100 members of the public’s intelligence, common sense and logic with questions that ascend in order of difficulty according to what proportion of the wider public can answer them – 90 per cent, 80 per cent, down to one per cent.
The 1% question on the most recent episode was apparently not as difficult as the show thought as many viewers thought it was too simple.
The question was: ‘Using only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘Possession’.
While this is a question that apparently 99% of the public can’t answer, plenty of X users got it right.
The 1% Club viewers have criticised the show for its ‘easy’ final question on Monday’s episode
The question was: ‘Using only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘Possession’
One user wrote: ‘Don’t usually get the last question but I saw that one instantly. Easy peasy.’
Another agreed, adding: ‘That was easier than the few before it.’
A third wrote: ‘Got it! Blimey I actually answered the 1% question!’
Another user jokingly wrote: ‘Getting tough this show,’ to which The 1% Cub’s Twitter account replied: ‘We’re tough cookies what can we say’.
The show, which has aired three series so far, is hosted by comedian Lee Mack.
It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be off limits – as long as it is funny enough.
The Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke must be more funny than shocking.
While this is a questin that apparently 99% of the public can’t answer, plenty of X users got it right
But he said although that means in principle anything is fair game, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.
Mack – who still writes long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out, but now rarely does stand-up – also said too often now jokes have become judged without looking at the intention behind them.
He said: ‘In principle, there isn’t anything that you can’t do a joke about, nothing.
‘But for me, the joke has to be funnier than it is shocking.
‘So the more shocking the subject matter the better the joke has to be.
‘And there are some subject matters that are so shocking no one is good enough to think of a joke that is funnier than it is shocking.
It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be off limits – as long as it is funny enough
‘So in principle you can do a joke about anything, but in practice you can’t because no one’s that good.’
He added: ‘You could go ‘what about this horrific event, would you be able to do a joke?’ In principle, yes.
‘But I could spend two years trying to write a magic joke about it that was more funny than shocking, and I’d never achieve it.
‘And that’s the problem. Sometimes comedians are doing jokes that just aren’t funny enough, because they have to be even funnier when it’s that shocking.’
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