Dara Ó Briain says Mock the Week ‘bullying’ was ‘allowable’

Dara Ó Briain has defended Mock the Week against a suggestion that the show encouraged bullying, claiming that the jokes about him were “allowable”.

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Responding to a question about whether the treatment of him was a form of bullying, Ó Briain told The Times: “No.