Ed Gamble is the host of brand new comedy show “Unacceptable,” where he oversees a gaggle of comedians as they battle to sway the studio audience to side with their most outrageous opinions.
The comedian and podcaster who is perhaps best-known for hosting “The Traitors” official companion podcast “Uncloaked,” is joined by familiar faces such as Richard Ayoade, who in one episode tries to argue that action movies are peak cinema, and Katherine Ryan, who attempts to persuade the audience that all men should have vasectomies at birth. Romesh Ranganathan, who exec produces the show through his prod-co Ranga Bee, also makes the occasional appearance.
“Unacceptable” is part of a new slate of comedy programming from U.K. free-to-air network TLC (who are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) which also includes the resurrection of “Mock the Week” (which was previously on the BBC). So invested is TLC that they confirmed “Unacceptable” would be renewed for a second season before the first episode even dropped (it launches on July 5.)
Before its launch, Gamble sat down with Variety to talk about the new show, the U.K. comedy scene and whether audiences will ever see him as a contestant on “Celebrity Traitors.”
