Originally Posted By: hybrid8
There's too much intro schtick tacked on - their banter is usually just too unnatural/fake.

Yeah. There are too many cheesey intros which seem to be mainly to use up some time. The "Did you hear about the <blah> myth? Oh, you mean <blah blah blah blah blah?> Exactly!" routine is getting a tad old...

The UK shows have had the announcer replaced with some British guy who gets his jokes from reject Christmas crackers. Not sure how it is in the US with the original.