Bob Mortimer is back to defend his crown as the first reviews land for LOL: Last One Laughing UK season two, and they are glowing. Metro called the new run “golden”, while the Guardian said the opening episodes contained “more brilliant moments than can be mentioned”.
The second series launches on Prime Video on 19 March and sees Mortimer joined by David Mitchell, Mel Giedroyc, Alan Carr, Romesh Ranganathan, Amy Gledhill, Maisie Adam, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sam Campbell and Diane Morgan — all locked in a room for six hours, forbidden from laughing, with host Jimmy Carr watching from a separate room alongside co-host Roisin Conaty.
Metro praised the casting as “stacked” and called the show “hands down, one of the best on TV”. Highlighting Sam Campbell as a surprise standout — a dark horse whose unpredictable, outlandish remarks left them with no idea what was coming next — they said “bring on the chaos”.
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Mortimer, who claimed victory in season one, arrives again as the man to beat. The Guardian described him as “an absurdist Gatling gun”, who left fellow contestants with nowhere to hide with his trademark “safety face” designed to suppress his own laughter, which proved so preposterous that no one nearby could look at it without breaking.
Other early highlights include Alan Carr — whom Metro described as “the least straight-faced person in the entire United Kingdom” — inhaling helium from a balloon hidden under his shirt, before lamenting that he “actually sounds butcher”.
Romesh Ranganathan then went on the offensive, singing the Bollywood classic Kuch Kuch Hota Hai directly into Carr’s ear while wearing a backwards baseball cap, with Campbell joining in from the other side.
Metro noted that just when you think you’ve figured out which deadpan comics will last and which will corpse immediately, the show pulls the rug completely. “Anything can go down within those surreal four walls,” they wrote.
Episodes one to three drop on 19 March, with episodes four and five following on 26 March and the finale on 2 April, exclusively on Prime Video.