The 1% Club viewers criticise show for its ‘easy’ final question: ‘I saw this one instantly!’

The 1% Club viewers have criticized the show for its ‘easy’ final question in Monday’s episode.

The show tests the intelligence, common sense and logic of 100 members of the public with questions that increase in order of difficulty depending on what proportion of the wider audience can answer them: 90 percent, 80 percent, up to one percent.

The 1% question on the most recent episode was apparently not as difficult as the show thought, as many viewers felt it was too simple.

The question was: ‘If you use 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, many X users got it right.

The question was: ‘If you use only two letters to fill in the blank, what is the word below? P _ _ _ E _ _ I _ N’. The answer was ‘Possession’

One user wrote: ‘I don’t normally get the last question but I saw it straight away. Comfortable.’

Another agreed, adding: ‘That was easier than the few previous ones.’

A third wrote: ‘I get it! Goddammit, I actually answered the 1% question!’

Another user jokingly wrote, “It’s going to be hard this show,” to which The 1% Cub Twitter account replied, “We’re tough cookies, what can we say.”

The show, which has aired three series to date, is hosted by comedian Lee Mack.

It comes after Lee previously spoke out about cancel culture, saying no joke on any subject should be banned as long as it’s funny enough.

The Not Going Out star said the golden rule should be that the joke should be funny rather than shocking.

While this is a question that apparently 99% of the public can’t answer, many X users have it right

But he said that while that means everything is fair in principle, in practice some topics are so sensitive that no comedian will come up with a funny enough joke.

Mack – who still writes the long-running BBC sitcom Not Going Out but now rarely does stand-up – also said too often now jokes are judged without looking at the intention behind them.

He said: ‘Basically there’s nothing you can’t joke about, nothing.

‘But for me the joke has to be funnier than it is shocking.

‘So the more shocking the subject, the better the joke has to be.

“And there are topics that are so shocking that no one is good enough to come up with a joke that’s funnier than 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’s funny enough

“So in principle you can joke about anything, but in practice you can’t because no one is that good.”

He added: ‘You could say, ‘What about this horrific event, could you make a joke?’ In principle yes.

“But it could take me two years to write a magical joke about it that was more funny than shocking, and I would never succeed.

‘And that’s the problem. Sometimes comedians make jokes that just aren’t funny enough because they have to be even funnier when it’s so shocking.”