Writing for Truth, Denis Thomas singled out the show from any other comedy show on television, describing it as "so televisually funny: this, for once, is a variety programme which owes nothing at all to gramophone records or to the Palladium, or even to cabaret".
Denis Thomas's praise for "The Show" as a unique and innovative variety program, distinct from other comedy shows by its reliance on television-specific humor rather than traditional performance styles.