Regular panellists include comedians Colin Murphy, Neil Delamere, and, until 2020, Jake O'Kane.

In the first and main round called "Pass the Buck", individual members of the audience ask the contestants who they feel responsible for a topical issue, usually in the structure "Who do you blame for...?"

The television version cuts out "Blame It on the Boogie", and the majority of the show consists of "Pass the Buck".

With just a few minutes to go, Tim McGarry announces "There's just time to look at this week's news", before getting out a 'newspaper' from which he reads the headlines for "What's the Story?".

During his trial in 2008, Stone claimed that he had no intention of killing Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, and that it was all a work of performance art.