40:16 - I'm not a native English speaker which perhaps explains why I for many years thought the idiom was 'no holes barred'. It turned out I just have a dirty mind.
@barkebaat (4 years later) I've heard from people who've learned English as a 2nd language that our idioms are the most challenging. (When an alarm is set off, it makes a sound. When a radio is turned off, it doesn't.) But your post made me laugh! I love it when non-native speakers come up with great English wordplay!
You'd think when the first piece broke, he'd get up and ask for a new chair. He didn't. He played it cool. He kinda asked for it. That makes it more funny to me. That plus the look on his face during that Wile-E-Coyote moment when he realized he was going down!
Damn that was one of the best line flubs I’ve seen any of the shows, and with Paul giving him shit the whole time… But I do have a question. Why do they include the mistakes and reading errors? I guess I thought they would cut them out. I mean I know they’re funny but if they’re going to be included anyway then why does the host always reread them? Sometimes multiple times
They aren’t included in the original, shorter broadcast, which is about 25 minutes long. This is the extended version, and these often includes flubs and also bits that aren’t included in the original broadcast.
addiction is so clinical, it makes you think of examining tables and indecipherable prescriptions, avid viewer, is more of the truly enjoys and indulges regularly most waking hours of the day and evening kind of comfy cozy definition I prefer, avid. Bigg Giant Bucket of Appreciations!
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
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Stick on steering wheel ... oh no I had one too! Thanks for the memories Frank!
This is a very funny episode.
40:16 - I'm not a native English speaker which perhaps explains why I for many years thought the idiom was 'no holes barred'. It turned out I just have a dirty mind.
mate, “no holds barred”. It is a term from wrestling. Best wishes from Australai.
For years my sister thought Americans called "Fire in the hold" before an explosion. I could never convince her it is "Fire in the hole".
@barkebaat (4 years later) I've heard from people who've learned English as a 2nd language that our idioms are the most challenging. (When an alarm is set off, it makes a sound. When a radio is turned off, it doesn't.) But your post made me laugh! I love it when non-native speakers come up with great English wordplay!
Frank Skinner's humor is so sardonic and dry..........perfect.
Thanks for posting.
Frank Skinner is so funny!
I agree, and he is never challenged by Mr "do you know who I am" Merton.
I disagree - I think he has been one of the weaker panelists ever BUT each to their own - enjoy
Totally, that story about the stick on steering wheel was fabulous.
Very funny: many thanks
Excellent!
Refreshing to watch something from before the world turned sour....
Laugh out loud funny!
Kevin says about 3 words in this whole episode
29:48 -- come on, guys: "Kill two birds with one stoning."
The wax replica of Paul McCartneys head looks more like Sylvester Stallone
Did you notice Ringo in the group pic (25:05)? I don't know who he looks like, but it's not Ringo. Maybe a young Ian Hislop with a bad toupee.
In a later episode Ian says he wasn’t a member of the Piers Galveston Club
I dunno he did here. He said he went to a few meetings as a guest.
0:31 Oh yes I have an L-shaped sofa. lower case L.
he does,nt look sinister but aluminium magnet ha ha
has anyone on this hignfy panel not arrived via the old boys network?
Mr Skinner, Mr Merton and Mr Maguire all working class English boys. Obviously Mr Hislop and Mr Armstrong private school and Oxbridge. So yes.
Dignify teh Hignify.
30:15 what about the Guinness World Record for number of Guinness World Records?
That's fucking ghastly
done
I need more slapstick and a lot less political jibber jabber to get my attention. And the collapsing of the guy’s chair delivered well.
You'd think when the first piece broke, he'd get up and ask for a new chair. He didn't. He played it cool. He kinda asked for it. That makes it more funny to me. That plus the look on his face during that Wile-E-Coyote moment when he realized he was going down!
Damn that was one of the best line flubs I’ve seen any of the shows, and with Paul giving him shit the whole time… But I do have a question.
Why do they include the mistakes and reading errors? I guess I thought they would cut them out. I mean I know they’re funny but if they’re going to be included anyway then why does the host always reread them? Sometimes multiple times
They aren’t included in the original, shorter broadcast, which is about 25 minutes long. This is the extended version, and these often includes flubs and also bits that aren’t included in the original broadcast.
I prefer the longer as I get to see the full context.
addiction is so clinical, it makes you think of examining tables and indecipherable prescriptions, avid viewer, is more of the truly enjoys and indulges regularly most waking hours of the day and evening kind of comfy cozy definition I prefer, avid. Bigg Giant Bucket of Appreciations!
yes yes, so very close to 'rabid'. but I'll just leave that there...
Just wondering...Will there one day be an end to your dull, pretentious comments?
27:00 how much was he paid? Surely he got robbed during this program, because initially it was worth 10k and now only 2k.
Armstrong is a .....
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
shame the laughter drowns most of the wit,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,