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Mock the Week is a British Panel Game that aired from 2005 to 2022. It is BBC2's equivalent of Have I Got News for You, with strong influence from Whose Line Is It Anyway? (which isn't surprising, considering they were created by the same people). It involves only comedians and is hosted by Dara Ó Briain, an Irish comedian.The show's only regular panellist was Hugh Dennis, who had been with the show from beginning to end; other former regulars are Andy Parsons (series 3-14), Chris Addison (series 10-12), Russell Howard (series 4-9, left to star in his own show Russell Howard's Good News), Frankie Boyle (series 1-7) and Rory Bremner (series 1 and 2). There were also many semi-regular guests (Parsons, Howard, and Addison were among them before being promoted to regulars), including Maisie Adam, Angela Barnes (who was made a regular panellist for the final series), Ed Byrne, Rhys James, Milton Jones and Glenn Moore.It was announced in August 2022 that the show would be ending following its 21st series, which aired in September and October of that year. | |
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Finale Season | |
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Finale Season: Series 21 was announced to be the final season in August 2022 (ahead of its premiere later the same year). | |
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Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: ...except when he decides to join in. | |
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For his third appearance, however (which was when he recently won Wimbledon in 2016), they've been actually very kind—with him even joining in for the banter even while in the audience with his wife. In fact, the series has tended to be good-natured towards him since 2014, especially since he's a well-established fan of the show. | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg | |
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My Friends... and Zoidberg: "What the Queen didn't say in her Christmas speech": | |
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The Artifact: Hugh Dennis is the only current panellist without a background in stand-up comedy; he is a remnant of the show's original premise as a topical version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, with more rounds focused on impressions. To take it to almost its logical conclusion, he is also the sole remaining regular panellist. | |
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Discussed in a series 16 episode. Kerry Godliman tries to say that only male politicians have two first names as a full name, citing Nick Timothy as an example. She is Instantly Proven Wrong by Dara who points out Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the UK at the time of broadcast. | |
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Crosses the Line Twice | |
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The common reaction to a Milton Jones pun that Crosses the Line Twice is to perform a Head Desk. | |
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This Loser Is You | |
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This Loser Is You: Touched on every now and then. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: One segment had to be relegated to an outtakes special. The producers should have known better than to ask a bunch of comedians not to make jokes about David Blunkett's blindness. One of the rounds in Scenes We'd Like to See was "Unlikely Things for Andy Murray to Think"... while Andy Murray was in the studio audience. Series 15 episode 11 has John Robins and Sara Pascoe — who were dating in real life — appear on the panel together. Cue lots of jokes about their relationship from John and Sara themselves, as well as the rest of the panel. For instance, John was given the topic of home life during Spinning The News, which lead to James Acaster opening his routine with "speaking of the cinema, Sara Pascoe's an idiot". | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: By its very nature. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: Surprisingly common. Rejected Questions from this Year's Exams Famous Last Words In the Series 6 Christmas episode, Frankie impersonates "bad teenage pandas who are spoiling the park for the little baby pandas." Things You Wouldn't Hear in a Science Documentary Bad Ways for Gordon Brown to Address The Nation In a game of "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?" when the answer is "5p": In an outtake, Frankie and Andy exchanged 'Your mum' insults. In another "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?" game, the answer is "328 billion": In Season 14, about a ruling that an additional 5p will be charged for shoppers who didn't bring their own bag: In Season 16, during a round of Scenes We'd Like to See where the topic is "Things you wouldn't hear in a nature show": Later in the same season, "Things A News Reporter Would Never Say": | |
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Feghoot | |
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Feghoot: From "Things You Wouldn't Hear on the Radio" | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Several times in the Too Hot for TV DVDs the panelists remark that they know none of the material is going to survive the edit. The panel randomly mention programmes being aired late at night with signing. Dara then spends some time 'interacting' with an imaginary signer in the corner of the screen. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Unlikely Lines To Hear On A Survival Program: | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: Dropping the rounds that focused on impressions (due to Rory Bremner leaving the show) shifted the series to a more simple cross between a panel show and stand-up comedy. | |
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Bridal Carry | |
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Bridal Carry You bet your ass he can! | |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things | |
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Season 15 is off to a rocktastic start when Dara passes some new plastic pound notes to everyone for specimen purposes - and barely a minute later Ed Gamble has ripped one in half. Amusingly, the tail end of season 15 has another example when Dara gets to play with a Nerf Tri-Strike dart rifle, and starts shooting the other panelists - by the time they get to "Scenes We'd Like To See", the bolt handle has somehow come off in Dara's hand.note Though it could just be the result of not bolting both sides of the charging handle all the way in, a common mistake. | |
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Incurable Cough of Death | |
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Incurable Cough of Death: Discussed (but obviously averted) in Series 15 Episode 5, after Dara coughs halfway through a question. He immediately remarks "I hope I don't die!" | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Russell Howard. In the post-Russell era, Chris Addison. Ed Byrne too. | |
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The Roast | |
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The Roast: The show basically turns into this whenever Andy Murray shows up. When he won Wimbledon for the second time, one of the rounds was them making jokes at his expense. | |
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The Stoic | |
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Despite being touted as "the classy one", Hugh Dennis sometimes slips into this: | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Dara and Ed Byrne, who have been best friends for years. More recently, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan when they're on together. The two have become such good friends that they're now wound up started their own show together. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: Dara is usually at the receiving end of it. Most hilariously, the Konnie Huq and the big head incident. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: James Acaster brings out a pair of these for one episode, and subsequently calls himself "cool James" with them on. "Cool James" appears again in that episode's promotional picture◊. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Dara and Ed, in both the show and real life. | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": During a round of "Unlikely Things For a Continuity Announcer to Say": | |
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The Quisling | |
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The Quisling: One child sent in a drawing of the studio being attacked by Daleks, with Frankie on the Daleks' side! | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: Andy Parsons gives a great one for "Unlikely Things to Hear on a TV Talent Show": Hugh gives another one for "Things You Wouldn't Hear at a School Assembly": On that very subject, Hugh gave this in another round of "Unlikely Lines To Hear on a TV Talent Show": Dara gets one in during the episode where Hugh went on a massive rant about oblique French jams and how the UK can easily manufacture its own jam, which turned into a Running Gag at Hugh's expense, well before a story about the dismantling of a NASA satellite, another nail in the coffin of the world's most important space program: | |
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Alternate Company Equivalent: Not really alternate company, per se, but Mock the Week is to BBC2 what Have I Got News for You is to BBC1. | |
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Oral Fixation | |
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Oral Fixation: Chris Addison and pens. | |
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I Love the Dead | |
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I Love the Dead: "Unlikely Lines From a TV Detective Show": | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: Ed Byrne during “Things That Would Change the Mood at a Dinner Party� Implied by Ed again when they redo the subject. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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It didn't last two minutes, as the topic led into the joke quoted in Black Comedy. | |
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Girly Run | |
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Girly Run: When Spinning the News brings up the subject of "driving", the Camp Gay Tom Allen trots up to the mike: "Things an Athletics Commentator Would Never Say": | |
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Hollywood Tourette's | |
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Hollywood Tourette's: If Tourette's Syndrome is mentioned during "Scenes We'd Like to See", the panelist who mentioned it will often swear as a punchline. | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink: Played for laughs in the series 15 Christmas special, when Dara "kills" the rest of the panel by handing them "poisoned" coal sweets to try. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Hugh, relatively, if only because he tends to give out the proper answers once enough jokes have been told. Dara as well. Watch his desperate attempts to keep the rest of the panel (mostly Frankie) in line during the game where the producers don't want them to make any jokes about Blunkett being blind. Andy is relatively sane, giving the answers as well. | |
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Your Television Hates You | |
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Your Television Hates You: Invoked when they do "Strange Things to hear from a Continuity Announcer" for Scenes We'd Like to See: | |
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Genre Blindness | |
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Genre Blindness: In one episode, Dara showed the players a recent news article on a report suggesting that people with larger heads were less susceptible to Alzheimer's... which had referred to him as an example of someone with a 'big head', even putting a picture of him (with the caption 'EXTRA LARGE') next to the article. When the players started teasing him about it mercilessly, he said that he expected sympathy. | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder | |
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Real Dreams are Weirder: Invoked by Milton, when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear on a History Documentary": | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: Prince Philip in his newsreel appearances: | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The most obvious one would be Scenes We'd Like To See, which started out as Scenes From A Hat on Whose Line, expanded from a one-act-per-suggestion affair to eight or ten, allowing them to milk a mere two suggestions for an entire stretch. You'd be forgiven for thinking there were two Jimmy Savilles in the UK, considering Hugh's wildly different take from Steve Frost's. | |
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Verbal Tic | |
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Verbal Tic: Dara has a few, e.g. "... at this stage", "... of some description". Once you notice them you'll start hearing them all the time. He also, erm, has a tendency to, eh, pause in the middle of sentences. And often gives a long "ehh" after a sentence, especially a joke. As well as sometimes adding, "Ah, sorry" when he thinks he's digressed from the original topic. Andy Parsons has a lot of these, although there's a chance he intentionally does it as part of his act: "Didn't they/he/she/it?", beginning questions with "Is it in fact...", starting his standups with "Now!", etc. Prefaces most punchlines with "and you're thinking..." His habit of doing this is even lampshaded whenever Russell impersonates him. Andy's voice having a tendency to go slightly higher on the second-to-last word of a sentence. Often flanderised whenever someone does an impression of him, where it becomes every other word instead. | |
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Russian Reversal | |
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Russian Reversal: Hugh pulled a surprisingly clever one-off in "Unlikely Things to Hear in the Police Station": | |
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Camp Straight | |
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Camp Straight: Guest panelist Hal Cruttendon. | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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Hurricane of Puns: As much a target of the players' humor as used by them. While discussing a Viagra fraud case in which the perpetrators had been arrested, Russell Howard noted he'd seen it on the news and that the anchors started riffing on it: | |
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HypocriticalHumour | |
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Hypocritical Humour: Frequently lampshaded, such as when Chris notes how can they seriously mock Ed Milliband for being too geeky? | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Others have lampshaded some of Dennis' gags, such as when Frankie said in a "Scenes We'd Like To See" segment titled "What You Didn't Hear At Live Earth" stating "Live Earth, sponsored by PowerGen." On one occasion, when Frankie made a "Showaddywaddy" joke, Hugh pretended to be offended. A particularly-specific one originated from Newsreel when Hugh's "portrayal" of Prince Charles as an addled senile takes an interesting direction when Charles starts sampling some cheese. Future "portrayals" of Charles would involve random mentions of cheese for no reason. This goes on so much that in the opening for Series 12 and 13, one of the mock newspapers included the headline "CHARLES INVENTS CHEESE POWERED PHONE." In the series that began in June 2011, Hugh weekly riffs on the same joke that the name of Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, sounds like a German person saying "step-ladder". Brought back briefly four years later when Blatter was in the news again after resigning as FIFA president. "Dara Ó Briain: we work, so he doesn't have to." | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: "Unlikely Things To Hear On a History Documentary": | |
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal | |
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Unsettling Gender-Reveal: "Unlikely Things to Hear from a Sports Commentator": | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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Sophisticated as Hell Dara studied mathematics and theoretical physics at university and is often the one to correct maths errors and demonstrate his knowledge during discussions about the CERN super-collider. Hugh Dennis, with his posh accent, often gets these moments: (From Scenes We'd Like To See: Unlikely Personal Ads) James Acaster seems to be following Hugh's lead here. In series 17, Hugh reads Danny Dyer's angry, profanity-laced rant about Brexit in a lofty, serious tone while the hymn "Jerusalem" plays in the background. | |
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RosesAreRed | |
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Roses Are Red: Whenever "Unlikely Greeting Cards" appears for "Scenes We'd Like To See", there is inevitably a cavalcade of these: "Unlikely Things To Read In a Valentine's Day Card" "Unlikely Letters to TV Channels'' And from Season 14: | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Ellie Taylor stands at 5 foot 11 and still wears heels. | |
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Car Meets House | |
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Car Meets House: "Worst Things to Hear Over a Tannoy" "Weird Things to See On a Roadsign" (Downplayed case) "Unlikely Things to Get Through your Letterbox" | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: "Insignificant Sausage-Muncher"? Also, "The Butt-Muncher." Doubly subverted in one episode, in which Dara notes that Theresa May is apparently nicknamed "Submarine". He and Josh Widdicombe disagree on the meaningnote Dara claims it's because she pops up randomly during meetings, Josh claims it's because she "disappears under the waves" during crises, but both agree that it actually sounds like a pretty badass nickname. Then Hugh Dennis, of all people, points out that submarines are always full of seamen. James Acaster's superhero identity "The Pummeller". | |
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Self-Abuse | |
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Self-Abuse: Parodied by Hugh, when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear in a TV Charity Show": | |
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I Call Him "Mister Happy" | |
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I Call Him "Mister Happy": In a blooper reel, Russell tells us that Hugh refers to his as "Mister Dennis", which then becomes a Running Gag. Lampshaded by Ed Byrne in a "Spinning the News" round discussing parenting: | |
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Shipper on Deck | |
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Shipper on Deck: Played for Laughs. The panel ships Dara/Brian Cox (much to Ed Byrne's anger). | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: A subtle variant: the spoof headlines in the opening are updated with time. Although that shot of David Beckham receiving a medal has been there all the time, with a different caption. | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot | |
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: "Unlikely Lines from a Superhero Movie": | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Bordering on a literal interpretation when Scenes We'd Like to See does "Unlikely Things to Hear at the Vet": | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: When Frankie Boyle or the rare foul-mouthed guest gets revved up... | |
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Gratuitous German | |
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Gratuitous German: Via Chris Addison. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: It's the last genre of show you'd expect to have one, but John Robins and Sara Pascoe really were together when they recorded an episode together in series 15 - barely a minute after this is revealed, Hugh and Ed Gamble start acting like they already were. | |
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Never Heard That One Before | |
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Never Heard That One Before: Greg Davies has a brief rant on the tedious jokes he gets from everyone because of his height.note At 6'8"/203cm, it's almost impossible to find someone on British TV taller than he is without delving into professional sports or a book of world records. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: Under "Weird Things To See On A Roadsign"... | |
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OnceAnEpisode | |
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Andy Parsons' use of "shit" for a punchline Once an Episode. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: invoked In-Universe example for "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Kids TV Show": Ever since the Robot Wars reboot aired, with Dara in the helm, the show has been added to the list of things that the cast use to poke fun at him. Dara has joined in occasionally, referring to Hugh Dennis as "Sir Killalot" and joking about him getting flipped over. Similarly, whenever "Things you wouldn't hear on a science show" is the category, performers usually poke fun at just how many of these types of shows Dara hosts. In season 19, "Spinning the News" hands Nigel Ng the topic of food, and Nigel immediately focuses on how Westerners handle rice, which alludes to his popular "Uncle Roger" video about Westerners attempting to make Asian fried rice. | |
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Dead Guy Puppet | |
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Dead Guy Puppet: Joked about. "Hello, I'm Ming Campbell. I am not dead, nor am I being operated by a pulley system". Also joked about in Series 15 Episode 5 after Andy Murray's second Wimbledon victory: Josh Widdicombe remarked that for the first two sets of the final, he'd been wondering whether Ivan Lendl was actually alive, or whether they'd "pulled a Weekend at Bernie's". | |
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Vocal Dissonance | |
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Vocal Dissonance: Hugh's idea of Camilla Parker Bowles' voice in "Newsreel" is Nolan!Batman on five a day. | |
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TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight | |
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The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: On some occasions, somebody has given a joke answer in the "If This is the Answer..." round only to discover that it was, in fact, correct. In S14 E5, when asked what doctors have been asking people not to do: | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: Dara often takes a moment to consider what the subjects of their jokes would think of them. For example, after Frankie mused on Rebecca Adlington's love life, Dara imagined her arriving back from the Olympics (where she won two gold medals in swimming, one in world record time) going "Ooh, I haven't seen Mock The Week in four weeks! I wonder who they're tearing into—oh. Oh." This piece, in itself, saw the show get shouted at by the BBC Trust. | |
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Artifact of Doom | |
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Artifact of Doom: After Russell Kane made a fairly audacious joke, the others joke that it's because he was sitting in Frankie's old chair. | |
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Mundane Solution | |
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Mundane Solution: On the case of former Russian spies suddenly getting poisoned in the UK: | |
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Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? | |
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Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?: "Unlikely Lines From A Thriller" | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: The answers to the Picture of the Week round are invariably this, and usually given by Hugh Dennis. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: More so than Whose Line, with "Spinning The News" and "Scenes We'd Like To See" marking the middle- and end-points of the show. Subverted by "Headline News" and "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?", which take turns starting the show. | |
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Broken Aesop | |
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Broken Aesop: Their theory that the moral behind "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is that Reindeer are incredibly shallow. | |
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Black Comedy Burst | |
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In a case of Black Comedy Burst, it's Milton Jones who comes up with this answer for If This Is The Answer...?: | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him | |
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Dropped a Bridge on Him: Frankie Boyle and Andy Parsons both missed what would have been their final episodes; Frankie because he was taken ill shortly before the recording, and Andy for no stated reason. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
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Dara is well known for breaking into an impression and speaking from the topical person or character's point of view (accuracy of impression optional). | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Played for laughs in the finale when Dara has a go at the "Wheel of News" round, only for his topic to come up as "Job Loss". Understandably less than enthused, he asks for another spin of the wheel... and then, when the other contestants protest this, claims that this was always an option and they could have always asked for another spin rather than have to improvise a stand-up set for a topic they knew nothing about. (Of course, given that the resulting topics that Dara subsequently lands on are "Seeking New Employment" and "Retirement", it clearly isn't.) | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction | |
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Wardrobe Malfunction: You'll hear jokes about this any time "Scenes We'd Like to See" does "Unlikely lines from a Sports Commentator." Sometimes twice. | |
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In-Universe | |
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invoked In-Universe example for "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Kids TV Show": | |
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Ouija Board | |
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Ouija Board: One of the "Unlikely Lines From A Horror Movie" suggestions imagines an unorthodox attempt at it. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Dara is always the butt of someone's joke, many of which revolve around his (supposedly) oversized head and the fact that he doesn't stand up during the show. In Series 13, Episode 2, Dara came out to make Hugh's team stand behind a dissolving foam line during "Unlikely Things to Hear at the World Cup" after four straight jokes, then did a mamba. Andy was amused, saying it was the first time in years anyone had seen Dara's legs. Series 12, Episode 2 ended with "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a Science Documentary". Dara O'Briain has presented several such documentaries, prompting Miles Jupp and Chris Addison to both take pot-shots at him. Dara declared that neither team would be receiving any points for that round. Series 14, Episode 4 revisited the joke - except this time it went completely Off the Rails and turned into a whole stream of jokes at Dara's expense. Sometimes it's Ireland that gets the brunt of the joke. In one Scenes, after Andy Parsons made a disparaging remark about Ireland, Dara pre-emptively buzzed him for the rest of the round. In Series 17 Episode 2, "Unlikely things to Hear at the World Cup"...the first few were, of course, various riffs on the fact that Ireland wasn't there. Even with the fact that there were at least half a dozen teams that would have been better targets (including two former World Cup champions and the United States). | |
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Psycho Party Member | |
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Psycho Party Member: Milton Jones is the comedian equivalent. | |
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Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List | |
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Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: "Rejected Lines from Movies": | |
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Scully Box | |
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Scully Box: invoked One Clip Show revealed that Josh Widdicombe, that little guy who keeps getting mistaken for a Hobbit, sits on an additional cushion. A later clip show for season 16 revealed that it went much further than that... | |
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Historical Longevity Joke | |
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Historical Longevity Joke: Bruce Forsyth used to be the regular subject of these - until his passing in 2017 made it a lot less funny. (For context, he's been on tv since the 1950s.) On an episode during the 2020 US presidential election, Ed Gamble opined that Joe Biden would be the better president to deal with the COVID crisis because of his previous experience with pandemics: having lived through typhoid and whatever killed the dinosaurs. | |
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Formerly Fat | |
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Formerly Fat: Ed Gamble - it all happened long before he joined up, but it's come up a few times. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: The first four series have a lot of this; a very different tone due to the different regulars and a different choice of guests, Dara's opening stand-up, everybody playing the 'Spinning the News' round, more categories in "Scenes We'd Like to See"... Not to mention the focus on Rory Bremner's impressions, which completely disappeared once he left after two series. In the first few series, the "Scenes We'd Like to See" would have some tenuous connection to the news (i.e. in the week where Tony Blair's plane was forced to land due to difficulties, the subject was "Unsettling Things to Hear from the Cockpit of a Plane"). This was dropped quite quickly. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Angela Barnes outright claimed to be "a slag" one time. And then she settled down, after which... | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl | |
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Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Greg Davies is over half a metre taller than Lucy Porter. When both guest-starred together, they cuddled at the Spinning News round. They also had a joint entry for "Unlikely Lines from a Fantasy Film", with Davies hugging her and saying "This will never work, Frodo." | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context | |
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James Acaster has a bad habit of doing this during Spinning the News. When he was given the subject of "Britain", he talked about wanting to be Mexican; when given "Adventure", he spent the whole time talking about cheese slicing. | |
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Place Worse Than Death | |
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Place Worse Than Death: Bracknell, Swindon, Croydon, Middlesbrough, Tyne, Ewtree... Typically the entire country of Scotland gets this treatment. More often than not, it's Frankie taking shots at it. | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: Discussed during the discussion on alternative fuels, where Andy mentions the stories about trying to make cars run on waste (the answer for “If This is the Answer, What is the Question?� that day was “Cheese, Wine and Rubbish�), and suggests that they could make cars that run on one’s own excrement, before predicting this would make for something interesting at the roadside: | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Rob Beckett often gives off this impression, such as when he thought the word "Machiavellian" was referring to Shakespeare, before admitting he'd previously thought it was a type of nut. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: In the outtakes, one Headliner was a picture of David Cameron with CSIP. Frankie's answer is "Cunt Seen in Photo". Also, one of his answers to "Bad Ways for Gordon Brown to Address the Nation" was "If you thought Tony Blair was a cunt, watch this". One of Russell's deleted answers to "Unlikely Small Ads" was a sweary parrot that said the word cunt. Implied in this entry for "Things you wouldn't hear on a property program": | |
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Artistic License – History | |
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Artistic License – History: In one round of "Scenes We'd Like to See", on things you wouldn't hear in a history documentary, Hugh makes a joke about Cromwell and Charles I politely talking about the health of the latter's parents and the weather, for the punchline "it was civil war". By the time of the English Civil War, both of Charles I's parents were dead — not that it exactly detracts from the joke. | |
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Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping | |
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Old-Fashioned Fruit Stomping: During a round of Scene We'd Like to See, the topic is "Things You Wouldn't Hear on a Cookery Show": | |
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Self-Demonstrating Article | |
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Self-Demonstrating Article: | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: James Acaster and Sara Pascoe tend to dig at each other so often that you'd swear they were the ones in a relationship before they brought John Robins back on. Miles Jupp and Chris Addison for Dara, particularly Miles, who once managed to get in a zinger at Dara in pretty much every section of the episode. Other notable nemeses are Rhys James/Ed Gamble and Romesh Ranganathan/Josh Widdicombe, although as time went by Romesh and Josh turned into something more like Vitriolic Best Buds. | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: | |
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Together We Are X | |
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Together We Are X: In one episode, Andy Parson parodies this trope: | |
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Sinister Nudity | |
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Sinister Nudity: Discussed to a worrying degree when legal restrictions on defending a home against intruders were under discussion. Certain panel members decided the best way to confront a burglar was naked, and... a little too happy to see them. Specifically, with an erection at half-mast. Not a full erection: that was deemed "too weird." | |
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Hulk Speak | |
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Hulk Speak: Milton, during "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a School Assembly." | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
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Ambiguous Syntax: Ed Gamble on the subject of health: Russell used the old "man-eating-squid" joke in a cruise-themed Scenes We'd Like to See. "After that, he's having chips." He also did the "bear-left" joke in a satnav-themed Scene: "And over on the right, squirrel!" In regards to a case of English and French fishermen getting into a row over the rights to fish for scallops: In regards to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: Lampshaded when Nish Kumar mentions being at an event he remembered roughly as the British-Asian Small Businessman Benefit: Nish gets involved in one again when Rhys jokes that the difference between an Asian (elephant) and an African elephant “is that one is an elephant.� | |
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Racial Face Blindness | |
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The apparent Racial Face Blindness surrounding Nish and Romesh. | |
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Dumb Jock | |
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Dumb Jock: They regularly depict footballer Wayne Rooney as such. One round of Between the Lines featured Hugh pretending to be David Beckham and rolling with this trope. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Most of their jokes about former Lib Dem leader Menzies Campbell, and later Bruce Forsyth. For example, this gem from "Unlikely Things to Hear in a Science Documentary": | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
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Suddenly Shouting: Despite being touted as "the classy one", Hugh Dennis sometimes slips into this: Hugh again when "Scenes We'd Like to See" does cooking shows. Hugh when the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear on a News Programme": James Acaster on unlikely things for the continuity announcer to say: Olga Koch on "Things You Wouldn't Hear in a History Documentary�: Ed Byrne on “Unlikely Things to Hear At a Wedding or Funeral� | |
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The Smurfette Principle | |
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The Smurfette Principle: In comparison to other Panel Games, the show is probably the biggest offender, since all four recurring panelists (out of six) are male and the host is as well and has never featured more than one female comedian on the same panel; out of 51 guests to appear on the show, 16 have been women. Although starting with the thirteenth series, a woman has been on every show per the new BBC policies. It also gets joked about in an "If This Is the Answer" round: It isn't until the 22 June 2017 episode (S16E03) when the panel featured two women (Angela Barnes and Kerry Godliman) on the panel, and it won't be until the 17 June 2021 episode (S20E06) when exactly half the panel is comprised of women (Angela Barnes, Evelyn Mok, and Maisie Adam). | |
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Off the Rails | |
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Series 14, Episode 4 revisited the joke - except this time it went completely Off the Rails and turned into a whole stream of jokes at Dara's expense. | |
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Police Brutality Gambit | |
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Police Brutality Gambit: The following Milton Jones joke currently provides the page quote. | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed | |
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Bigger Is Better in Bed: This exchange between Dara and Hugh: In a later episode, Hugh mentions that in Iceland, people have patronyms instead of surnames, and since his father's name was John, if he was Icelandic, his name would be "Hugh Johnson". | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Hugh Dennis is prone to staring at the camera in a rather disturbing manner. Parodied in an episode by James Acaster who turned to one side, turned back around with his eyes furrowed, and said, "You're gonna die!" Hugh did the same thing except for an open-mouthed smile and the others commented that that was scarier than an actual glare. | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: In Series 15 Episode 1 a fly was briefly visible on top of Dara's head while he laughed at one of Hugh's jokes. Lampshaded in the following episode, with Dara mentioning the sheer number of people on Twitter who'd screen-capped the moment and sent it to him, completely ignoring the rest of the episode's content in favour of that one moment. Later, during "If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question", a toy spider can be seen briefly on top of Dara's head while he's laughing at one of Hugh's jokes. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Dara mocks one when Frankie claims he lost weight on the Irish version of "I'm a Celebrity" set during the potato famine. Dara had to struggle to avoid this in the uncensored outtakes — thanks to a very well-timed joke from Frankie Boyle. | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline | |
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Navel-Deep Neckline: A male example: Chris Addison doesn't seem to know how the top four buttons on any of his shirts work. | |
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Purple Prose | |
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Purple Prose: Lampshaded by Andy in "Commercials That Never Made It To Air". | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! | |
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Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: From one of the "Unlikely Things to Hear Over a Tannoy" segments. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Dara mentions that during the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, he casually gave the score for the Ireland match on Twitter, which was also happening that night. Cue him getting a flood of angry replies: Dara gets the bad end of this again, after deriding the technical challenge of The Great British Bake Off: | |
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Radio Voice | |
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Radio Voice: Parodied for "Worst Things To Hear Over A Tannoy Announcement" | |
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You No Take Candle | |
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You No Take Candle: Used occasionally to make digs at rural Britons. | |
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Viewer Name Confusion | |
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Viewer Name Confusion: Specifically, about spelling. One of the standup bits has Sara Pascoe mentioning that half her messages have been unwittingly sent to a 'Sarah Pascoe', who's been acting as her "complaints department". | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: None of the performers, just jokes played for laughs. Example: | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale: According to James Acaster, Pinocchio came to life after being possessed by the devil, went around telling lies, and was burned to death for it. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: Parodied in "Lines You'd Never Hear In A James Bond Film": | |
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Fake Brit | |
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Fake Brit: Frankie Boyle whenever he does an English accent. Becomes hilarious when you realise that despite his English accent sounding absolutely nothing like him, Frankie was always chosen to be the one to play Tony Blair. Perhaps they were operating on the logic that since Tony Blair was born in Scotland, why not send a Scotsman to play him? | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten | |
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Once Done, Never Forgotten: Dara once brought up the fact a newspaper article about people with bigger heads are unlikely to get Alzheimer's which the paper decided to depict with a picture of his head. The group take it in turns to mercilessly riff on the subject of "Dara's Big Head" for nearly five minutes, with Chris noting that when Dara revealed a weakness in front of a bunch of comedians, honestly, what did he think would happen? Jokes have been made about Dara's head ever since. Dara also never forgot that Ed Byrne wasn't picked on the episode of the British version of Blind Date in which he participated. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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At some point the guys realised that any random mentions of Christmas would wind up in the Christmas Episode Clip Show. Cue lots of excessive season's greetings midseason. | |
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The Points Mean Nothing | |
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The Points Mean Nothing: In fact, they only seem to be mentioned at all to keep up the pretense that it's a quiz show. Don't expect to ever hear how many points a team has. One memorable example was an episode in Series 2 where Dara awarded the points to a team that had not participated in the round at all. Another one where Dara stated that he didn't base the points on who was funniest, it was all random and told the viewers to stop writing in complaining. In an episode shortly after the 2010 World Cup, Dara let a stuffed-toy version of Paul the Psychic Octopus declare the winning team. In a 2012 episode, Andy Murray (who'd been defeated in the Wimbledon Men's Singles final earlier that week) was declared the winner, as he was sitting in the audience. He was declared the winner again in a 2016 episode, after winning his second Wimbledon title, and even given a small trophy. | |
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Un-Evil Laugh | |
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Un Evil Laugh: Dara's got a good one. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Of a sort, invoked by the production team. After Dara had previously been compared to a sausage costume, complete with a side-by-side comparison shot, he was later compared to the character on the back of the Megabus. After the obligatory side-by-side (which included a yellow hat they'd actually given Dara) the production team went to the extra step of comparing Dara to the sausage costume with the Megabus hat edited onto it. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Tom Allen. The bald head and facial hair REALLY sell it. | |
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Put on a Bus | |
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Put on a Bus: Russell Howard and Chris Addison both missed the autumn halves of their last series due to filming commitments elsewhere (Russell because of Russell Howard's Good News, Chris because of a sitcom role), with the stated intention to return the following year. However, they did not do so and were quietly confirmed to have permanently left the show sometime later. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Romesh, Romesh, Romesh. Tom Allen hits this note sometimes, too. From "Unlikely Things to Hear in a School Assembly": | |
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N-Word Privileges | |
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Frankie Boyle — Kerry Katona's fertility and apparent penchant for cheap fatty food, Scottish savagery or primitivism, Fern Britton's weight problems and Adrian Chiles' physical appearance. This last one was Running Gagged when Frankie was unable to make the recording of the last episode of Series 7, with Russell suggesting that Chiles "had finally got him". | |
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Token Evil Teammate | |
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Token Evil Teammate: Frankie Boyle is the comedian equivalent. | |
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Unishment | |
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Unishment: A story in Series 17 involves one of Jeremy Corbyn's closest aides Andrew Murray being banned from entering Ukraine, due to being supposedly too pro-Vladimir Putin. Hugh points out that Murray had never been to Ukraine and had no interest in going there. "It's not going to affect his life much, is it? It's like me being banned from Chessington World of Adventures. It's not really going to make a great deal of difference." Hugh then spends the rest of the episode worrying that he may have just got himself banned from Chessington World of Adventures. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comparison: "What a Rugby Commentator Would Never Say": During a discussion on the escalating tensions between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un: | |
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You Can See That, Right? | |
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You Can See That, Right?: During the season 14 episode when Dara mentions using "Sirtaki (aka Zorba's March)" as a form of psychological warfare when negotiating a bailout: | |
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Actually Pretty Funny | |
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Actually Pretty Funny: Frankie cracks a smile at Andy's rejected exam question "If Sally buys three oranges and two apples, how far south of Scotland is she?" During "Commercials That Never Made It to Air", Chris makes a bald joke at Andy ("Do you suffer from dull, lifeless hair? Don't worry, Andy Parsons'll buy it off you"). Andy gives a "challenge accepted" reaction and responds with a dig at Chris' Direct Line adverts that leaves Chris laughing. Seann Walsh almost doubles over laughing after a Take That! from Josh Widdicombe while suggesting "Unlikely things to hear at Christmas time". After Milton and Rachel Parris make direct digs at Nish Kumar in "Scenes We'd Like to See", the camera always cuts over to show Nish Kumar laughing the hardest at it. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When Frankie summons Memnok the High Elf to buy gifts for the regulars, Dara gets an avatar for his soul to enter upon death, Hugh gets a box in which to store the souls of his enemies, Russel gets a sword that belonged to a rabid monkey, and Andy gets £110. | |
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Air Quotes | |
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Air Quotes: The stand-up challenge of S07E09 gives us the following: Stewart again in a later season: | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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Star Wars is a favourite among the guys and Dara in particular. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Ed Byrne. And then: And finally: | |
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Slash Fic | |
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Slash Fic: Referenced — there's apparently slash of Hugh and Frankie — and (of course) mocked. Frankie was quite offended that his pubes were described as ginger, and when Hugh raised his arms in victory after being informed of his starring role said: "I don't know why you're doing that, Hugh, because you're the receiver." | |
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Straight Gay | |
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Straight Gay: Larry Dean, with a strong Scottish brogue worthy of Frankie Boyle, was apparently surprised when he had to bring it up himself before anyone realized it. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Tom Allen combined this with Entertainingly Wrong when the panellists were discussing the scene from Love Actually where Hugh Grant as the Prime Minister is knocking on doors looking for Martine McCutcheon's character, wrongly assuming that as soon as he finds her he flashes cue cards at her. While such a cue-card-flashing scene does take place in Love Actually, the actual actors in that scene were Keira Knightley and a pre-Walking-Dead Andrew Lincoln, which was pointed out to Tom. | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
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Many episodes have running gags that everyone gets in on that last the length of the episode but don't carry over (for example, "nuts on the road" and "the racist door"). Some do carry over for a bit, like Andy Parsons's "Dyslexic Weekly", which involves interpreting the abbreviation in Headline News as a typo. The most (in)famous was "anal lube", which everyone kept bringing back knowing full well it would never make the broadcast. | |
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Inherently Funny Words | |
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Inherently Funny Words: Hugh used to get a lot of mileage out of his Jimmy Saville impression and the band name Showaddywaddy. On "Unlikely Film Trailers": | |
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My Biological Clock Is Ticking | |
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My Biological Clock Is Ticking: "Bad Things to Say on a First Date" | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: The first game played in the first episode was a round called "Inside the Mind Of...", where the panelists had to guess what the voices in somebody's head were saying - in that episode's case, George Bush. The round was never played beyond that first episode. | |
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Chained to a Railway | |
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Chained to a Railway: Discussed in one episode, where Dara thought that the villains who did that sort of thing would be amongst the people most affected by the train cancellations that saw only 1 in 500 London Midland trains running at the weekend. | |
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Joke and Receive | |
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Joke and Receive: Between Dara and Josh in one episode: In the 2016 Christmas episode: | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Nish gets involved in one again when Rhys jokes that the difference between an Asian (elephant) and an African elephant “is that one is an elephant.� | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: Dara attempts an English accent in one episode which generates this response from the other panellists. Milton's first attempt at a Scottish accent (while imitating Andy Murray) is so bad that Dara admonishes him for it. His next attempts are... somewhat better. | |
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Non-Answer | |
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Non-Answer: One season 7 episode has Dara criticising David Cameron on this. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Medium Awareness: When the show was broadcast the week of England's final World Cup group match, which determined whether or not they'd go through to the knockout stage, the show was filmed on Tuesday, the match played on Wednesday and the show broadcast on Thursday, Dara expressing worry about the resulting "time paradox". At some point the guys realised that any random mentions of Christmas would wind up in the Christmas Episode Clip Show. Cue lots of excessive season's greetings midseason. Often, they'll reference the fact that the audience is probably watching reruns on Dave sometime in the future. Usually, it's accompanied by one of the panelists speaking directly to the people watching in the future. | |
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Meta Guy | |
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Meta Guy: Parodied by Miles Jupp in a "Picture of the Week" round where, after a few suggestions of what the people in the photo might be saying, he always said, "Perhaps they're not speaking at all". | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: From one "If This Is the Answer What is the Question": | |
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Who Murdered the Asshole | |
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Who Murdered the Asshole: A recurring topic on "Scenes We'd Like to See" is "Lines you wouldn't hear in a TV detective show", where this trope gets played for comedy: | |
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Our Lawyers Advised This Trope | |
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Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: Subverted on at least one occasion, when Eamonn Holmes had threatened legal action against the BBC over jokes made about his weight and the show immediately turned it into a running gag. | |
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Back for the Finale | |
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Back for the Finale: Nish Kumar, James Acaster, and Zoe Lyons all made appearances during Series 21 after departing from the series on a regular basis. | |
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TastesLikeFeet | |
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Tastes Like Feet: Also from the coal sweets incident above: | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo | |
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Embarrassing Tattoo: While discussing the Chinese introducing anal swabs to test for COVID-19, a shot of the instruction sheet issued with the swab kit flashes up briefly on the screen. Dara then says that he didn't show it for longer because he doesn't want people to learn his tattoo actually means "anal swab". | |
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Not So Above It All | |
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Not So Above It All: Dara. A lot of the cut material which airs in compilations/DVD extras shows him vainly trying to steer the panel away from an offensive joke and then giving up and riffing on it himself. Perhaps one of the funniest examples is the David Blunkett incident. Dara tries valiantly to get the panel to not make jokes about Blunkett involving his blindness as per the producers' orders. Naturally, they don't comply. Finally, after many good laughs are had, Dara gives in and makes a joke of his own. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
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Black Dude Dies First: Referenced: Sophie Duker (who is black) imagined a subversion of this during one "Unlikely Lines from a Horror Film" round. | |
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Head Desk | |
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Head Desk: Hugh does one whenever he mentions anything boring, such as when he admitted he knew a bit of trivia about the Royal Family, or after he explains the meaning of the term "Machiavellian" to Rob Beckett. | |
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Character Tics | |
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Character Tics: Russell's habit of picking the microphone up during the "Scenes We Like To See" round. Noticeable in that this actually becomes memetic, as no one ever seems to pick up the microphone until after Russell does. In fact, the first time he does it, he actually asks if it's okay to take it before he does. After saying a punchline, Hugh's eyes often dart back and forth as if he's reading a very fast teleprompter. After playing Spinning The News, Milton tends to end his set by throwing both hands in the air and then running back to where he'd been standing. During "Scenes We'd Like to See," Gary will usually give a little nod after his joke like he's thanking the audience for their laughter. Andy also does this, and then sometimes rises up slightly onto the balls of his feet before dropping back down and striding back to his spot. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: One outtake showed Rory Bremner as George W Bush with Greg Proops as his aide, taking a telephone call from Tony Blair. The aide has to remind Bush of Blair's nationality: "He's from Great Britain, sir." | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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In fact, Milton's Cloud Cuckoo Lander nature is lampshaded in an outtakes episode. | |
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Gag Dub | |
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Gag Dub: "Newsreel". | |
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Who's on First? | |
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Who's on First?: Andy Parsons talks about money, then explains who runs China: | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly Long Gag: During a round of "If This is the Answer, What is the Question?", when given the answer "63 years", Milton asked "Is it, how long can I keep this up?" and started clapping like a seal. He kept this up for about 20-30 seconds, with the audience laughing for the entire duration until Milton finally asked Dara to press the buzzer so he could stop. "Spinning the News" in season 16 episode 8. Tom Allen's bit is mostly what he calls "a teacher having a nervous breakdown before our very eyes", by having to go through one lesson after another while trying to keep what he claims is "3 to 5 million kids" under control. It's easily the only thing in that episode longer than Ellie's legs. Another one from Milton in a round of "If This is the Answer, What is the Question?"; the answer is "49 years". Milton responds "What's the world record for staying under a desk that I'm gonna break now" and dives under the desk. Dara has to spend quite some time trying to coax him back out. | |
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Take This Job and Shove It | |
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Take This Job and Shove It: When Scenes We'd Like To See does newscasters: | |
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Saw a Woman in Half | |
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Saw a Woman in Half: "Unlikely Things to Hear on a TV Talent Show" | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: A list of ways naked people can be funny. Of course, it comes up normally during all the other suggestions. | |
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In a World… | |
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In a World…: Parodied by Ed Gamble during a round of "Unlikely Film Trailers", complete with Don LaFontaine impression: | |
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Scandalgate | |
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Scandalgate: Hugh Dennis made a joke about this, calling a scandal about tapping the phones of celebrities "stargate" and one about a politician's husband buying pornography "masturgate." | |
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Ascended Extra | |
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Ascended Extra: Several of the regulars started out as guests before being promoted to a regular role, including Andy Parsons, Russell Howard, and later Chris Addison. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Interestingly, it took him three tries before he could get it all out. | |
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Hates Being Touched | |
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Hates Being Touched: Invoked. | |
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Two First Names | |
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Two First Names: Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Stewart Francis, Katherine Ryan... Discussed in a series 16 episode. Kerry Godliman tries to say that only male politicians have two first names as a full name, citing Nick Timothy as an example. She is Instantly Proven Wrong by Dara who points out Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the UK at the time of broadcast. | |
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Separated by a Common Language | |
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Separated by a Common Language: Imagine an American's reaction to Russell asking a crew member if he had a "fag" in school.note It means he had an underclassman who acted as a servant. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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Totally Radical: The Covid Briefing Rap. Interestingly, it took him three tries before he could get it all out. | |
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Slipping a Mickey | |
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Slipping a Mickey: Discussed and subverted in one round of "Spinning The News". James Acaster claimed that he drank punch alone in his room as there was no danger of it getting spiked ("unless it's Fun-Time Thursday"). He then described an occasion where his friend had gone to a pub bathroom, leaving his pint unsupervised, and James had proceeded to take the pint and... walk around the room using it to propose toasts to things that his friend disagrees with. When Romesh used this humor in a "Scenes We'd Like to See", the audience reacted poorly, but he recovered by exasperatedly pointing out that it was a fictional character expressing the view, not him. | |
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Robo Speak | |
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Robo Speak: Parodied by Hugh, "Things You Wouldn't Hear Your Sat-Nav Say": | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
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Apocalyptic Log: Due to taking place in the same year (2017 AD for the record) as North Korea's increased nuclear testing and shouting contests with Donald Trump, the Clip Show of season 16 starts with Dara acting like it's one of these. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Many, but particularly Hugh Dennis. Romesh Ranganathan also seems to have this shtick, with a much more downbeat personality than anyone else on the panel. He almost never cracks a smile. | |
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Stage Names | |
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Stage Names: Mocked by Ed Byrne. From his comments to Dara, it seems the two rib each other with this, Ed saying that Dara's surname (pronounced "O'Bree-en") is actually the commonplace "O'Brien": | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: After a newspaper article claimed that Dara has a GIANT head, the guys began to riff on this, claiming Dara's head is so massive, it can curve space and that the logo is actually a small planet that got pulled into orbit around him. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: One "If This is the Answer What is the Question" brings up just a number 6. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: Often subverted. Usually, Russell Howard will bring up a speculative fiction fandom, only for everyone else to get in an opinion on it, showing they are at least slightly versed. (There are sometimes even groups of fans in the audience.) An excellent example was when he discussed being in line for the last Harry Potter novel; they asked if he dressed up as one of the characters. When he said he hadn't, they continued that he'd missed a great opportunity to show up as someone else: "I'm sorry! I am Darth Vader! I wear this to all these kinds of things!" Russell finished by noting he should have dressed as a Sith Lord, waited in line all night, and when he got to the counter said "The Da Vinci Code, please." Played straight an awful lot of the time, such as in almost the entire segment here where they reference precisely three fantasy works, each of which have all recently been turned into movies and are incredibly popular in mainstream media anyway. Hugh Dennis mentioned "the god Imhotep" a couple of times... not only was Imhotep a high priest and not a god, but so was the real Imhotep in history. Apparently he was made a deity only two thousand years after he died, and this comes from The Other Wiki, but still, he is a god now. This answer that James Acaster gave during If This Is The Answer...: | |
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Content Warnings | |
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Content Warnings: Parodied by Hugh, "Unlikely Lines to Hear in a TV Show": Parodied by Frankie Boyle as well during "What a Television Announcer is Unlikely to Say": Yet again by Hugh with the same subject: | |
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Retool | |
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Retool: As with many other series, the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic forced changes to the studio, with glass screens placed between individual presenters and most of the audience communicating virtually. | |
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Squick | |
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The same episode also made a running gag out of David Cameron's alleged illicit relations with a dead pig, with the contestants bringing it up at literally every opportunity (including the aforementioned "Scenes We'd Like To See" round, which started with two such jokes in a row). | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Each episode consists of the opening credits, about 27 minutes of this, and three minutes of jokes that aren't attacks on anyone or anything sprinkled throughout, then the ending credits. And considering the opening credits are mock newspaper or internet articles making fun of a large number of politicians/celebrities anyway, not even they are exempt. In one season 12 episode, Hugh (the last remaining original regular) took the show to task for repeating some of the "Scenes We'd Like To See" topics. Also plenty of jabs at TV station "Dave" for constantly repeating the show. | |
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Classically-Trained Extra | |
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Classically-Trained Extra: Invoked by Ed Byrne when the subject is "Things you wouldn't hear on a Kids' TV show": Also invoked by Frankie Boyle: | |
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A Degree in Useless | |
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A Degree in Useless: There were several jokes about media studies being this. | |
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Logical Fallacies | |
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Logical Fallacies: | |
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Annoying Laugh | |
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Annoying Laugh: The Series 8 outtakes featured a woman in the audience constantly interrupting a round of Scenes We'd Like To See with this, leading to a rare Out of Character moment for Milton. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: One of the few suggestions for this round to actually mock a general fantasy trope rather than making the usual Harry Potter / The Lord of the Rings gags; | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: Hilariously, it's Frankie of all people wonders how on earth did a political discussion end up with Hugh talking about something completely different while Russell tells Dara that "No one bites my balls!" | |
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Low Count Gag | |
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Low Count Gag: When the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear During An Election Campaign": | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Andy Parsons' use of "shit" for a punchline Once an Episode. From one of the "Unlikely Small Ads" prompts: | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Hugh's one is telling him that foreign jam is better than British jam. | |
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Isn't It Ironic? | |
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Isn't It Ironic?: "Unlikely Lines From a War Film": | |
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Jump Scare | |
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Jump Scare: An unintentional one happens in series 14 when one of the overhead lightbulbs break. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: The premise of "Headline News". One Clip Show brings up an article warning parents about the acronyms in teen texting: | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Dara, after waking up next to Hugh in the All Just a Dream ending of the final episode. | |
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Too Hot for TV | |
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Too Hot for TV: The DVDs are named Too Hot for TV and are largely material which The BBC considered inappropriate for TV. There are now three such DVDs, each running for about three hours. | |
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Ho Yay | |
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Ho Yay: Invoked: Bad Things To Say On A First Date. Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar unintentionally invoked this in the publicity photo for series 16 episode 2◊. They have since intentionally ran with the joke for each◊ subsequent◊ appearance◊. | |
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Cute Little Fangs | |
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Cute Little Fangs: Look closely, Dara has them. Gary Delaney too, in the rare cases when something can make him laugh out loud. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: In one of Dara's early series monologues when discussing immigration: In the final episode, Hugh notes that despite being having been cancelled (in large part, it was alleged, because BBC higher-ups wanted to appease the Conservatives given how frequently they were targets on the show), given the precarious nature of Liz Truss's government it was entirely possible that the show would still somehow manage to last longer than her term as Prime Minister. In fact, she had indeed announced her resignation the very day before the episode aired (though the episode was recorded some days prior, and her successor wasn't appointed until the week after). | |
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No, You | |
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No, You: When Scenes We'd Like to See does railway announcements: | |
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Second Verse Curse | |
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Second Verse Curse: Invoked: invoked | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved: One Spinning The News routine involves Frankie saying that if he had to have sex with animals he'd choose an owl or a kitten — the former because you could theoretically always maintain eye contact, the latter because you'd at least want to cuddle it afterwards. This is after joking that he had sex with an orangutan while blindfolded, thinking that she was a Geordie. | |
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Helium Speech | |
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Helium Speech: When the subject is "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Science Documentary": Naturally invoked/discussed in a round where they talked about a potential future helium shortage, and Hugh suddenly started speaking in a squeaky, high-pitched voice. | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys | |
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Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: "Things You'd Never Hear a French Person Say": | |
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Inconvenient Summons | |
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Inconvenient Summons: Prince Charles receives one in one skit. From ham. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Quite literally. Andy Parsons yelling "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!", with a large portion of the audience yelling the last part with him. Star Wars is a favourite among the guys and Dara in particular. Batman gets brought up whenever a superhero gag is called for. | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Series 15 episode 11 has John Robins and Sara Pascoe — who were dating in real life — appear on the panel together. Cue lots of jokes about their relationship from John and Sara themselves, as well as the rest of the panel. For instance, John was given the topic of home life during Spinning The News, which lead to James Acaster opening his routine with "speaking of the cinema, Sara Pascoe's an idiot". | |
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Lame Pun Reaction | |
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Lame Pun Reaction: The panelists often give this reaction to their own puns. Ed Byrne in particular is a serial offender, as can be seen below: Gary Delaney cracks up at the end of some of his puns as if he's aware of just how lame they are. The common reaction to a Milton Jones pun that Crosses the Line Twice is to perform a Head Desk. In series 18 episode 5, when the performers are making jokes about how Donald Trump misspelled the Prince of Wales as the Prince of Whales in a tweet: In series 19 episode 7 when the subject is "Unlikely Things to Hear on a Property Show", Hugh makes this joke: "John has always wanted to convert a lighthouse, but the project has been on and off for years." Ed Byrne responds with shouting: "Get out, get out!" | |
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Show Stopper | |
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Show Stopper: As mentioned under Running Gag, every so often someone will come up with something so hilarious during "Scenes We'd Like To See" that the next person to come up to the mic decides they simply can't top it and just walks off without saying anything. And then there was this from Milton Jones, during a round of "Things You Wouldn't Hear On A Cooking Show": | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion | |
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Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: From a season 10 "Scenes We'd Like to See" prompt, "Unlikely Things to Read on a Motorway Sign": | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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When Romesh used this humor in a "Scenes We'd Like to See", the audience reacted poorly, but he recovered by exasperatedly pointing out that it was a fictional character expressing the view, not him. | |
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Serial Escalation | |
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In one episode Milton pulls a carrot randomly out of his pocket. Andy Parsons once commented, "It's hard to tell which week Milton is mocking sometimes, isn't it?" | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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Foreign Queasine: We see an actual one in the season 15 Christmas Episode - Italian carbone dolce, using the myth about Santa Claus leaving coal in the stockings of bad children, and making actual edible candy that looks like coal, made from two types of sugar and eggs, and needs a hammer and safety goggles to prepare. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Regarding the economic downturn in Greece, the news reportedly stated that tourists should bring additional money, whereupon one panelist points out that maybe your passport would be a more important item. Ed Byrne gets to indulge himself in 15x10 after Dara points out that winning leadership of a party like the Labour party is the equivalent of winning the technical challenge in The Great British Bake Off, by bringing up that he actually won that title. | |
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Spooky Photographs | |
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Spooky Photographs: Easily one of Milton's darker moments, when "Picture of the Week" shows Jeremy Corbyn alongside his Labour party members. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left The Back Ground Music On: According to one Clip Show, they had to re-shoot one intro when the camera caught Dara dancing to the Real Song Theme Tune. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
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That Came Out Wrong: Nathan Caton in one "Spinning the News": A beautiful one from Russell in an earlier season: | |
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Earpiece Conversation | |
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Earpiece Conversation: Whenever the guests (or just Frankie) end up getting too out of control, cue Dara trying to calm everyone down since the producers are literally screaming down the earpiece at him... Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: ...except when he decides to join in. | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Happened to Josh Widdicombe in Series 13 after making a quip about Dara's baldness when Dara complained about an over-exposed anti-dandruff shampoo advert that played during the 2014 World Cup coverage. Unfortunately for Josh, he hadn't quite taken into account how this might backfire on him: | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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Toilet Humor: When Scenes We'd Like to See does "Unlikely Things to Hear on the Radio": It also comes up when they do romance novels. Thanks, Fifty Shades of Grey. A surprisingly deep cut from Frankie Boyle, during an "unlikely sports commentary" prompt: | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Frankie Boyle, frequently. And, on another occasion: As noted on the page, for Frankie it's not "Refuge" so much as "Home". It's so prevalent that, when Russell Kane guested in a post-Boyle episode and made a... fairly audacious joke, Dara's only reaction was "...that's the chair Frankie sat in, isn't it?" | |
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Lightbulb Joke | |
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Lightbulb Joke: From "Unlikely Things To Hear In A Sci-Fi Movie" segment. From an 'If This Is the Answer, What Is the Question' segment. | |
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My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad | |
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My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad: Mentioned by Frankie when he talks about gay adoption: | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: They can get pretty creative with this. "Spinning the News" brings up the topic of "courage", leading to Rhys James' account of his least courageous moment: Sometimes it can happen twice in a row: "Unlikely Things to Hear in Court" "Unlikely Lines From a TV Detective Show" | |
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Fake Guest Star | |
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Fake Guest Star: Despite appearing in every episode, Hugh Dennis was not offically considered a regular panellist until the fifth episode of series 1. Similarly, from Series 3 onwards Andy Parsons was only considered a "frequent guest" and was credited as a guest panellist despite appearing in every episode, and Russell Howard got a similar deal in Series 4 — it was not until Series 5 that both were officially considered regulars. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Dara and Ed are good friends, but that doesn't stop them from making fun of each other. For instance, when Ed is upset about getting only one joke in a "Scenes We'd Like To See" setup: | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: "A Proper Think". Thanks to the news of two MPs (one male and one female) missing the UK's vote on whether to authorise a military strike on Syria because of another discussion, Andy Parsons had a perfect extract from a DVD that would never sell: | |
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Audience Participation Failure | |
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Audience Participation Failure: Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjarn once attempted to demonstrate an Icelandic crowd clapping exercise. The audience didn't catch on to the idea that they were supposed to clap when he did. Lampshaded by Dara when he quips "Here's a clue: watch for his hands and then clap; not when the mood struck you!" | |
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Tear Off Your Face | |
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Tear Off Your Face: During a "Things You Wouldn't Hear From a Weather Forecaster" round: | |
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Just a Stupid Accent | |
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Just a Stupid Accent: Mocked by Hugh in the segment "Lines You Wouldn't Hear In a War Film": | |
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Surprise Pregnancy | |
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Surprise Pregnancy: Holly Walsh - who is visibly pregnant - gives this line in "Unlikely Agony Aunt Letters". | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
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Mondegreen Gag: Guest player Adam is relating a story about his late gran mistaking the Christmas carol "Deck The Halls" to be "Dick The Horse". As Adam's uncle apparently improvised the first line of "Dick The Horse"; later, after she's passed on, Granddad had her tombstone engraved with a horse. Milton also did one during an "Unlikely things to hear in court" session: | |
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Ear Worm | |
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Ear Worm: Invoked in one Season 14 episode with that one Greek song that starts out slowly and then gradually gets faster... They ended up playing it on four separate occasions, and neither the performers nor the audience seemed to get tired of it. | |
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Man of a Thousand Voices | |
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Man of a Thousand Voices: Hugh Dennis during the Newsreel round. | |
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? | |
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: Frequently in the two rounds where the player has to guess the answer, they will get closer to the answer before somebody sends it steering off into the ridiculous again. | |
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Piano Drop | |
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Piano Drop: They did a "FAMOUS LAST WORDS" segment where this came up. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Russell Howard leads the charge: Some of the new guys too - Rob Beckett would be the biggest offender. | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
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Know When to Fold 'Em | |
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Hilarious Outtakes | |
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Hilarious Outtakes: Usually Once a Season, as part of the Clip Show. | |
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Common Knowledge | |
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Common Knowledgeinvoked: When "Scenes We'd Like to See" does "Unlikely Things to Hear in Political Discussion": | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Milton Jones, frequently. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: | |
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Manly Gay | |
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Manly Gay: Most rugby players, according to Frankie. | |
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Double Subversion | |
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Doubly subverted in one episode, in which Dara notes that Theresa May is apparently nicknamed "Submarine". He and Josh Widdicombe disagree on the meaningnote Dara claims it's because she pops up randomly during meetings, Josh claims it's because she "disappears under the waves" during crises, but both agree that it actually sounds like a pretty badass nickname. Then Hugh Dennis, of all people, points out that submarines are always full of seamen. | |
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Manipulative Editing | |
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Manipulative Editing: A common complaint from those who've attended recordings is that the televised edit is heavily biased in favour of the regulars, meaning that a guest can appear very quiet as much more of their contributions were left on the cutting room floor. This has arguably lessened in recent series since the guests have slowly begun to outnumber the regulars, and by Series 15 there were five guest panellists and only one regular (Hugh). | |
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Beat | |
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In recent series, when faced with the Picture Quiz, Hugh Dennis will increasingly often answer the question "What's happening here" with "That... is (famous person in the photo)" without any context as to what is happening in the picture or why it's related to the week's news. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Al Murray's "Voice of the Silent Majority" character in the Question Time round bears an uncanny similarity to his usual Pub Landlord persona. For the Whose Line fans, Frankie for Greg Proops, Hugh for Ryan Stiles, Andy for Colin Mochrie, and Russell for Chip Esten. Of course, Greg Proops has made some appearances on Mock the Week as well, as has Clive Anderson. And it's not hard to see that both shows were produced by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson. James Acaster's trademark offbeat humor and clipped delivery make him a sort of bizarre love child of Hugh Dennis and Milton Jones. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial "Unlikely Small Ads" "Bad Things For a By-election Candidate To Say" Spinning the News: Sometimes Tom Allen follows up things he says with the words "not a euphemism!" | |
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Old Shame | |
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Old Shame: Miles Jupp occasionally treats his breakthrough role on kids' show Balamory in this way. | |
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Freudian Slip | |
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Freudian Slip: When "Scenes We'd Like to See" takes on continuity announcer again. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: James Acaster in one Spinning the News: | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The final episode ends with a Newhart parody, with Dara waking up and talking about his horrible dream of hosting a topical panel show for seventeen years, only to find Hugh in bed next to him. | |
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Euphemistic Names | |
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Euphemistic Names: "Lines You'd Never Hear in a James Bond Film": | |
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One-Steve Limit: To date, we've had Ed Byrne and Ed Gamble, Andy Parsons and Andi Osho, and even Russell Howard and Russell Kane. One time they deliberately bring on Ed Byrne and Ed Gamble, and then put them against each other for "Spinning the News": | |
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Anti-Climax: Provided by Seann Walsh twice. [Unlikely Lines To Hear In A Disaster Movie] [Unlikely Things To Hear In A Superhero Movie] Greg Davies did one as well with "Deleted lines from a Fantasy Film": | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: From "Unlikely Small Ads": From "Bad Things to Hear from Your New Neighbour": Practically enforced with the prompt "Unlikely Things to Hear at a Wedding or Funeral." | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Unlikely Lines in Doctor Who: | |
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NO INDOOR VOICE | |
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No Indoor Voice: Andy Parsons. Frankie Boyle and Hugh Dennis (and on occasion, Russell Howard) have also done this. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Used by Hugh Dennis before he name-drops and parodies another trope: | |
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Food Porn | |
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Food Porn: Later subverted in another round of "What A TV Chef Would Never Say": Later subverted even further by Russell as he impersonated her, moving his arms like they were her knockers. | |
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Intoxication Ensues | |
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Ed Byrne's idea of an unlikely cooking show: "Cooking When Pissed", which proved astoundingly popular. Ed apparently goes three-for-three the next season, with his idea of a nature documentary from the producers of "Let's X Out Of Y" and "Cooking When Pissed". | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun: Instead of Grand Theft Auto V, Ed Byrne was playing Farming Simulator 2013. Apparently, he found it quite engaging. Received a Call-Back in season 16 when Ed was strangely enthralled by the process of clearing an incredulous fat blockage found in the sewers, before revealing that he'd done just that with his own house's drainage. | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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Innocent Innuendo: | |
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Pungeon Master | |
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Pungeon Master: Stewart Francis (see Ensemble Dark Horse on the YMMV page) has adopted this as his personal style — and pulls it off flawlessly. Milton Jones has a similar schtick, as does Gary Delaney. Greg Davies is very adept at this during 'Scenes We'd Like to See', although it isn't his only style. | |
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Deadline News | |
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Deadline News: Parodied by Hugh, "Things you wouldn't hear on a News Programme": Invoked when they do "Unlikely Things to Hear on the Radio": | |
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Insult Backfire: Icelandic comedian Ari Eldjarn recites a football match between his country and England wherein the England crowd started cheering "You're just a shit shop in London!" They ended up losing the match 2-1 and the manager resigned as a result. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
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Girlfriend in Canada: During a round of "If this is the answer, what is the question?", the answer was "A million a week". One of Rhys James' questions was: | |
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Running Gag | |
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Dara gets one in during the episode where Hugh went on a massive rant about oblique French jams and how the UK can easily manufacture its own jam, which turned into a Running Gag at Hugh's expense, well before a story about the dismantling of a NASA satellite, another nail in the coffin of the world's most important space program: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: | |
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Rhymes on a Dime | |
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Rhymes on a Dime: Glenn Moore can do this like a boss. | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Dara jokes about Ed Milliband not seeing the glaring flaw in his plan to make people stop seeing him as a geek... by proudly announcing to the world that one of his supporters is none other than Patrick Stewart himself! James Acaster has a bad habit of doing this during Spinning the News. When he was given the subject of "Britain", he talked about wanting to be Mexican; when given "Adventure", he spent the whole time talking about cheese slicing. Elis James once joked about joining a boxing club, in which he seemingly learned nothing but skipping (a common warm-up for boxers). He pondered what use skipping could possibly be in a combat situation. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "Rejected Questions From This Year's Exams": Later: | |
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Lady Drunk | |
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Lady Drunk: Zoe Lyons, who constantly has a mild slur to her words. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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In the series that began in June 2011, Hugh weekly riffs on the same joke that the name of Sepp Blatter, the president of FIFA, sounds like a German person saying "step-ladder". Brought back briefly four years later when Blatter was in the news again after resigning as FIFA president. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: On "Ill-advised Things to Say in Court": | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: When a question came up after Andy Murray lost to Roger Federer, Dara quickly let the panelists know that Andy Murray was in the audience. The audience stood up and clapped, as did Dara and the panelists, and the jokes were notably less stinging than usual. At the end of the episode, Dara declared Andy Murray as the winner. When Andy Murray went to a second taping, though, he was confronted with "Unlikely Things for Andy Murray to Think." For his third appearance, however (which was when he recently won Wimbledon in 2016), they've been actually very kind—with him even joining in for the banter even while in the audience with his wife. In fact, the series has tended to be good-natured towards him since 2014, especially since he's a well-established fan of the show. | |
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