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The News Quiz (Radio)
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A Long-running (reaching its 100th series in 2019) BBC Radio 4 Panel Game, The News Quiz is a comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairperson; it was later hosted by Barry Took, Simon Hoggart, Sandi Toksvignote who stepped down in June 2015 to found the Women's Equality Party, and Miles Jupp, and since 2021 has been hosted by Andy Zaltzman (following a period after Jupp's departure where the chairmanship was split between him, Nish Kumar and Angela Barnes). The panellists are predominantly stand-up comedians and political journalists. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.Usually broadcast every Friday in the late afternoon,note alternating every 6-8 weeks with The Now Show and occasionally Dead Ringers and has a set of pages on the BBC website.The American equivalent is Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. | |
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Deadly Game | |
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Deadly Game: Ian Smith suggests replacing the British electoral system with a version of Squid Game. Survivor gets to be PM. | |
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Eskimos Aren't Real | |
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Eskimos Aren't Real: One of Jeremy Hardy's surreal rants: A discussion on Ireland's treatment in post-Brexit negotiations by Britain leads Andy Zaltzman to say most people in Britain think Ireland is fictional, like Atlantis, or Dubai. | |
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Mad Libs Catchphrase | |
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Mad Libs Catchphrase: Miles Jupp has two: Thanking the people who sent in cuttings "for that piece of nonsense/naughtiness/filth". Beginning his rundown of the answer "[appropriate but unusual adverb]ly, this is the story..." | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: A documentary about the show had Linda Smith claiming that she had been a maid cleaning the studio, who was made a panellist as part of a Pygmalion Plot by Alan Coren — and that there had been several Alan Corens since the start of the show. | |
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The Eeyore | |
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The Eeyore: Jeremy Hardy comes off this way, as he often talks about how the world is naturally depressing and his tone of voice almost never changes from a disappointed drone. When Sandi once asked the panel if they were a "glass half-empty or half-full", Jeremy replied "I'm an empty beaker with a turd in it". | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: The 30 December 2011 episode was an all-star Radio 4 Panto, with Sandi and Andy rescuing the Greenwich Pips from Radio 4 Island and returning them to Broadcasting House, thereby foiling the evil plot of Nigel Pargetter from The Archers. | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties | |
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We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: During 2020, during the lockdown, when the series was filmed via Zoom, any panellist who experienced technical difficulties was docked a point. | |
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Pun | |
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Pun: At least once a month. The story of North Korea's 2009 nuclear test unlocked a Hurricane of Puns: On the subject of a member of the church resigning due to the 'Occupy London' protests; | |
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Grammar Correction Gag | |
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Grammar Correction Gag: After a long talk from Freddie Ray about how Brexit has impacted immigration, Neil Delamere scolds another panellist for saying what he said on BBC Radio 4; namely, saying "less" instead of "fewer". Wild applause follows. | |
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Voice Clip Song | |
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Voice Clip Song: One was made with Sandi's Pronunciation of "Eyjafjallajökull". This was then featured on the show itself. | |
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Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: In the 2nd of June 2023 episode, Andy Zaltzman explains that never admitting you've done wrong is the British way. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Charlotte Green prefaced her reading out of some rap lyrics by saying "I apologise for this in advance". She was already Corpsing at that point. | |
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Standard Snippet | |
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Standard Snippet: Some public figures are seen as such a gift to the show that they are given their own leitmotifs. Any and all mentions of Sarah Palin elicit a single Hallelujah chorus, while the mention of Michael Gove's name is accompanied by an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes". | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Often the job of the host, but Miles Jupp did it especially well. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: When discussing a hike in train fares at the beginning of 2018, Miles Jupp finishes by stating that train fares in Europe remain unaffected, but the trains there go to places in Europe, and are therefore worthless. Whether this is a Take That at Europe or at the UK's post-Brexit attitude to Europe depends on your point of view. | |
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Political Overcorrectness | |
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Political Overcorrectness: Several of the left-wing panellists, but especially the late Jeremy Hardy, were fond of parodying this. The most direct being Jeremy's "You can't do anything these days. You can't even sexually harrass someone without being accused of sexual harrassment!" | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Susan Calman reacted with near-fury to Hugo Rifkind's declaration that he found The Great British Bake Off boring. Mark Steel gets very animated about the notion of saving for a pension. Insulting the English cricket team is a sore spot for Andy Zaltzman, and he will deduct all points from any panellist who makes a joke about them. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Chancellor of the Exchequer had described the economy as having four sectors: In one episode, while discussing the furniture Lazy Susan, Sandi makes a quip about how the show normally has a lazy Susannote Calman, but she was unavailable for recording that day. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Susan Calman is not a little outlandish. From one episode, while discussing thoughts... | |
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We ARE Struggling Together | |
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We ARE Struggling Together: Andy Zaltzman describes a forthcoming Labour conference in these terms. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: Hugo Rifkind says "smoking minister Teresa Coffey", and admits that could be seriously misheard (minister for smoking, not that he finds her attractive). | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Hugo Rifkind explains he finds Liz Truss baffling because she seems to have no mentality beyond "proud toddler". | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: Nish Kumar makes a joke about being unable to hold one's liquor might lead to someone standing outside an off-license in Croydon shoeless at four in the morning screaming "I'M THE HOST OF THE NEWS QUIZ!" while demanding booze... or so he's heard. | |
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Crossover | |
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Crossover: A special show in early 2013, "The News Now Quiz Show", pitted Sandi and Jeremy against Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt from The Now Show (with Rory Bremner as host). | |
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Assurance Backfire | |
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Assurance Backfire: Hugo Rifkind notes the government declaring they've got a "world-leading" response to the RAAC debacle isn't so great when the rest of the world doesn't have a crisis with their concrete to begin with. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Sandi Toksvig, Andy Hamilton, and Susan Calman's short height. Sandi has been known to deduct points if someone makes a joke about her height (not that the points mean anything), but will cheerfully make her own jokes about Andy Hamilton's. Sandi Toksvig being one of those "foreigners, comin' over here, taking our jobs"; she's Danish. Andy Zaltzman's love of cricket. One episode has Andy declare the points at the end of every round is four. Initially it seems like he's flubbed, until he keeps doing it. | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn | |
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Lohengrin and Mendelssohn: Played when Susan Calman was coaxed into the revelation that she was getting married on the weekend following the show. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Early in one episode, Hugo Rifkind mentions Jacob Rees-Mogg's assertion that anyone against fracking was being paid off by Russia. Later on, when the subject of the Ukranian War comes up, and Russians deserting ahead of a draft, Hugo absently mentions he's not getting his cheque now. | |
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