0:00:13 > 0:00:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:21 > 0:00:25Hello and welcome to We Love Sitcom.
0:00:25 > 0:00:29Tonight, our celebrity guests will be competing in a unique quiz
0:00:29 > 0:00:33that celebrates everything we love about British situation comedy.
0:00:33 > 0:00:37And what better way to celebrate sitcom,
0:00:37 > 0:00:40apart from using the money to make an actual sitcom?
0:00:42 > 0:00:45But we're here now, so chin up and let's meet our guests.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Jennifer Saunders and Julia Sawalha.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Steve Mangan and Nina Wadia.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55Jessica Hynes and Chris Addison.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57And Lee Mack and Nigel Havers.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Hiya! You all right?
0:01:02 > 0:01:04Hello! Hiya!
0:01:06 > 0:01:08It's already gone mental.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10So, over the next hour, we'll be playing
0:01:10 > 0:01:14a series of games to test just how much these guys know about
0:01:14 > 0:01:17a subject very close to their hearts...
0:01:17 > 0:01:19Nazi memorabilia. No...
0:01:19 > 0:01:22No, no, sitcom, of course.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Jen, hi. Hiya!
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I have a question - how well do you know your sitcoms?
0:01:27 > 0:01:31I've watched an awful lot of telly and I know them extremely well. I'm hoping to win.
0:01:32 > 0:01:37Fighting talk. Julia, may I ask? Yeah, ditto. I've already won.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41You've already won emotionally. We are all winners here!
0:01:41 > 0:01:42Let's all agree on that.
0:01:42 > 0:01:46Can we not talk from the back row until the front row are finished, please?!
0:01:47 > 0:01:51We're struggling to hear. My father's struggling to hear anybody.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54AUDIENCE LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Nigel, have you worked together, or...?
0:01:56 > 0:01:59Yes, constantly. Yes. Yeah.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03Although I feel like we're not working together, we're stuck in traffic. But we are a sitcom...
0:02:03 > 0:02:05We are a sitcom already.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08In the '70s, we'd be called Chalk and Cheese.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11But, in fact, we're called tonight...Mack and Cheese.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15I don't want to do that sitcom with you. Don't you?
0:02:15 > 0:02:16Steve...
0:02:16 > 0:02:20Is this right, you won Celebrity Mastermind?
0:02:20 > 0:02:22I did, I did. I won.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24And wasn't sitcoms one of your topics?
0:02:24 > 0:02:28It was my topic, sitcoms of 1984.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Specifically that? Specifically...
0:02:31 > 0:02:33October 1984 sitcoms.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35A fairly broad category.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38We have been in training for four years for tonight.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41And we've watched every sitcom ever made,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43not just in this country, but round the world. Yeah.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45So, we're ready. Absolutely.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Which reminds me, Nina, you grew up in Hong Kong. Mm-hm.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Is that right? I know all the Chinese sitcoms.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54Every single one of them. There's a lot of that coming up tonight.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Yes, there is. They are hilarious. They're brilliant!
0:02:58 > 0:03:00Chris and Jessica... Hi, Ben.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02I know you two already know each other, don't you?
0:03:02 > 0:03:04Yes, we sang a song once. Is that what you're referring to?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06I am referring to that.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08In fact, I've got photographic evidence of the event.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14Yes, that's Karaoke Circus, where we sang Fairytale Of New York.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17Fairytale Of New York. Fairytale Of New York. Yeah.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20It was the politest version of Fairytale Of New York you've ever heard.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23There was no... Do you want to do a bit now? Not really.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Unfortunately, you don't have the licence. Come on!
0:03:25 > 0:03:27How does it go again? It goes...
0:03:27 > 0:03:32# We were in New York the time when there were all the fairies
0:03:32 > 0:03:36# And the...city... # SHE TRAILS OFF
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Uh, that one. And...
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# The bells are ringing out... # THEY HUM ALONG BADLY
0:03:40 > 0:03:43# ..Easter day! #
0:03:43 > 0:03:45CHEERING
0:03:47 > 0:03:51Sorry, Ben, was that your...impressed face?
0:03:51 > 0:03:53Was that your impressed face?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56LEE: # ..Won't find out until we grow... #
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Oh, hello!
0:03:57 > 0:04:00IN SING-SONG VOICES: I got you, Nige. I got you, Lee.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07SHE SINGS IN A SHRILL VOICE
0:04:15 > 0:04:18What's that? What's that, looking at us?
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Are you going to ask for a song? No! Ain't going to happen.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Let's get on with our first game now. Ooh, yes!
0:04:27 > 0:04:31Now, we British love to forget all about a hard day in the office,
0:04:31 > 0:04:34factory or ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government by
0:04:34 > 0:04:37coming home and watching other people having a hard day in
0:04:37 > 0:04:41the office, factory or... You're way ahead of me. Which is why our
0:04:41 > 0:04:45first round is all about sitcoms that are set in the workplace.
0:04:47 > 0:04:48Come on, trust me, you'll feel...
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
0:04:51 > 0:04:53Ho-ho-ho! HE CONTINUES LAUGHING
0:04:55 > 0:04:59If TV is about escapism, you wouldn't know it from the
0:04:59 > 0:05:03multitude of sitcoms set in mundane, everyday workplaces.
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Agh... Agh, agh!
0:05:07 > 0:05:10We love them because they make sport of the things that wind us up
0:05:10 > 0:05:12about our own jobs.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Those dull training sessions...
0:05:14 > 0:05:16the constant banter...
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Get off of me. Get off!
0:05:18 > 0:05:21..and, of course, the on-message, lexical,
0:05:21 > 0:05:24synergy solutions of workplace jargon.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Well, I don't know that I can put it any more...
0:05:27 > 0:05:31But nothing shows up more regularly and reliably than the
0:05:31 > 0:05:32workplace idiot.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37You're not going to believe this! Clint Eastwood has been arrested for a crime he didn't...
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Oh, wait, no, it's a film!
0:05:39 > 0:05:40You know what they say,
0:05:40 > 0:05:43if you look around the room and you can't see the office plonker,
0:05:43 > 0:05:48he's probably Sellotaped himself to the stationery cupboard again.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Of course, no workplace can function without respect.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53Particularly between the sexes.
0:05:53 > 0:05:57This is Geraldine. She's the new vicar.
0:05:57 > 0:05:59No, she isn't. She's a woman!
0:05:59 > 0:06:01These are such a giveaway, aren't they?
0:06:01 > 0:06:04And, at the end of the day, if we can't respect each other,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06at least workplace sitcoms remind us
0:06:06 > 0:06:08to respect the person that really matters -
0:06:08 > 0:06:10the boss.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11SHE BLOWS RASPBERRY
0:06:13 > 0:06:14Whoo!
0:06:14 > 0:06:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:06:20 > 0:06:23Can we have a round of applause for the great David Jason,
0:06:23 > 0:06:24our voice of God?
0:06:24 > 0:06:26CHEERING
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Now, these are all of course jobs
0:06:32 > 0:06:36that appear in our best-loved sitcoms.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39So each team gets to pick one job from the board and I'll ask them
0:06:39 > 0:06:41a question about a related sitcom.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Get a point for each correct answer. OK... Points, points!
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Lee and Nigel, you're going to go first. OK.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Please be my guest and pick a job. Can I choose, Nigel?
0:06:51 > 0:06:56No, you can choose. I'd like to go for Bus Driver, just so...
0:06:56 > 0:06:58I better explain to Nigel what a bus is. Yes...
0:06:58 > 0:07:01It's the way poor people travel around. Oh, OK.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04It's like a Mercedes but loads of people are on the back. Oh, OK.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10The way I got here and the way you didn't. I see.
0:07:10 > 0:07:12Should we go for Bus Driver? Let's go for Bus Driver.
0:07:12 > 0:07:16Now then, Reg Varney, who played Stan Butler in On The Buses,
0:07:16 > 0:07:19was the first person in the world... Was he?! ..to use...
0:07:19 > 0:07:20Surely that was Adam!
0:07:23 > 0:07:24Imagine that, Reg Varney and Eve.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28MIMICS BLAKEY: "You can't eat that apple!"
0:07:31 > 0:07:35Reg Varney was the first person in the world to use a what?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38I'll give you a clue. It was in 1967.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40What do they use on buses?
0:07:40 > 0:07:43They use tickets. They use tickets?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Tickets. A ticket machine. To give the ticket out.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48OK, I can help you. It was as himself.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Reg Varney, himself, in real life,
0:07:50 > 0:07:54was the very first person to use a key piece of technology.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Can you imagine what it was?
0:07:56 > 0:08:00A telephone of some sort. 1967?! No, you're right. Erm...
0:08:00 > 0:08:02I want to swap sides.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06I've got a photo. The photo might reveal it.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09Should do, that's how they work. It made the newspapers.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Here he is.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14First person to use the "chat up a woman wearing a white hat" routine!
0:08:16 > 0:08:18A cash machine. Oh, a cash machine!
0:08:18 > 0:08:20It's a cash machine! Very, very good.
0:08:24 > 0:08:28Chris and Jessica, would you like to choose a job?
0:08:28 > 0:08:30Er, TV Executive.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33TV Executive.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38So, what sitcom did a BBC script editor say in a memo
0:08:38 > 0:08:40was "as dire as its title"?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42Fawlty Towers!
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Lee has a very unfortunate form of Tourette's.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58I can only shout out sitcoms from the '70s and '80s.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01Sorry!
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Well done. No, you take it, you take it, you have that.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Go on, Jessica.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11I mean, I WAS going to say Fawlty Towers, I was going to say...
0:09:11 > 0:09:14It was indeed Fawlty Towers. Thank you.
0:09:16 > 0:09:20Or Farty Towels, Farty Towels.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Here it is. I thought this one as dire as its title.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27A collection of cliches and stock characters which I can't see
0:09:27 > 0:09:30being anything but a disaster.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33He was right, of course, Fawlty Towers was a disaster
0:09:33 > 0:09:36for almost anyone who tried to write anything funny
0:09:36 > 0:09:37for the next ten years.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41The script editor, of course, went from strength to strength
0:09:41 > 0:09:44and is known all over the internet as the man who wrote that memo
0:09:44 > 0:09:47about Fawlty Towers and was never heard of again.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Jennifer and Julia, you're next. Would you like to pick a job?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I don't know. Vicar. Oh, yes, vicar. Vicar.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00Please let it be. Let it be her.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Come on. I've watched three of those.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Yes, indeed, this question is based
0:10:07 > 0:10:10on everyone's favourite white-collar worker,
0:10:10 > 0:10:12The Vicar of Dibley's Geraldine Granger.
0:10:12 > 0:10:16Geraldine has 15 middle names.
0:10:16 > 0:10:19What film are they based on?
0:10:23 > 0:10:26You know it, Jen, you know it.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28She used to love, as a character,
0:10:28 > 0:10:29she used to love...
0:10:29 > 0:10:30Yes, she used to love this film.
0:10:30 > 0:10:31The Sound Of Music.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Oh, it could have been The Sound Of Music.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Is it a kids' film?
0:10:35 > 0:10:36It is a kids' film.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Is it Mary Poppins? Yes.
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Fantastic..
0:10:46 > 0:10:48Shall we have a look at the clip?
0:10:48 > 0:10:50What is your full name?
0:10:50 > 0:10:51Come on, it can't be that bad.
0:10:56 > 0:10:58Oh, dear, dear, dear, dear.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01It was my mum's favourite book.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03And the film came out the year I was born.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Very well. Repeat after me.
0:11:06 > 0:11:11I, Geraldine Julie Andrews
0:11:11 > 0:11:14Dick Van Dyke
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Sue...
0:11:16 > 0:11:19percalifragilisticexpialidocious...
0:11:19 > 0:11:22I, Geraldine... I think you know I haven't finished.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26Chim Chiminey Chim Chiminey Chim Chim Cher-ee Granger.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Oh, lovely!
0:11:35 > 0:11:39Steve and Nina, would you please choose a job?
0:11:39 > 0:11:43Nina, what are we going to do? Spin doctor. Spin doctor.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Spin doctor. TV's most famous spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker,
0:11:47 > 0:11:52is famous for his creative use of the English language.
0:11:52 > 0:11:58But what word, invented by him, was named Word Of The Year in 2012?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Invented by him?
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Is it...? In the workplace?
0:12:05 > 0:12:07Is it omnishambles?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10He's good. It is indeed omnishambles!
0:12:19 > 0:12:22You know, we had a word added in from Goodness Gracious Me.
0:12:22 > 0:12:23Really? And what was that?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25Chuddies. Kiss my chuddies.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28Kiss my chuddies. Yes.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30What are your chuddies?
0:12:34 > 0:12:38And we'll move on swiftly to our next category, which takes us
0:12:38 > 0:12:42everywhere from Ancient Rome to deep space.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45No, it's not places where a Jamie's Italian is opening,
0:12:45 > 0:12:48it's sitcoms set in a place in time.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Attention.
0:12:56 > 0:13:01For years British sitcoms have proven there's no shame in being stuck in the past.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Hi-de-hi!
0:13:03 > 0:13:04Ho-de-ho.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08And though whatever the decade, century or even millennium,
0:13:08 > 0:13:12nothing can change mankind's major preoccupations.
0:13:12 > 0:13:13Sex.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Yes.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17Dressing up.
0:13:17 > 0:13:19Sex.
0:13:19 > 0:13:20And dressing up.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27The only thing sillier than the costumes are the voices.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30I was pissing by the door...
0:13:35 > 0:13:38..when I heard two shats.
0:13:38 > 0:13:42The heroes and villains on display are an odd bunch.
0:13:42 > 0:13:48Here's my fist, kindly run towards it as fast as you can.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51But because we're talking about British sitcom,
0:13:51 > 0:13:53the good guys tend to be cowards...
0:13:53 > 0:13:55Why would anything on this ship need to be so high?
0:13:55 > 0:13:58..and the bad guys tend to be Nazis.
0:13:58 > 0:13:59Heil, Hitler. Heil, Hitler.
0:13:59 > 0:14:00..tler.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Obviously, that's always going to be the case
0:14:02 > 0:14:04when you set it in World War II.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06# Whistle while you work
0:14:06 > 0:14:08# Hitler is a twerp. #
0:14:08 > 0:14:10Your name will also go on the list.
0:14:11 > 0:14:12What is it?
0:14:12 > 0:14:14Don't tell him, Pike.
0:14:23 > 0:14:28In this game, I'm going to name four sitcoms set in the past or future
0:14:28 > 0:14:31and our teams have to write down the year
0:14:31 > 0:14:33in which they think they were set.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37Once they've done that, we'll then add up those four numbers...
0:14:37 > 0:14:43Yes, it's maths. The person who is nearest to the actual number wins.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Here's your first one. Hi-de-Hi!
0:14:47 > 0:14:52What year was Hi-de-Hi! set in?
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Look at their concentrating faces.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Is that big enough? That's good.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02THEY CONFER
0:15:02 > 0:15:05Lee, you were a Bluecoat, weren't you? At Pontins.
0:15:05 > 0:15:07I was a Pontins Bluecoat many moons ago, yes.
0:15:07 > 0:15:09And I got sacked for swearing on stage.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13I can't really tell this story on prime-time BBC One television.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I can only tell you the start of the story. Which is?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18There's an old joke that if you say to somebody
0:15:18 > 0:15:20in the audience, "Where are you from?" and they say, "Kent,"
0:15:20 > 0:15:22you say, "What did you call me?"
0:15:22 > 0:15:24LAUGHTER
0:15:24 > 0:15:25And I messed it up.
0:15:28 > 0:15:30It was a good career stepping stone. It was, yeah.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33But, you know, different time, different climate.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36Yeah, different days, weren't they? Weren't they, Nigel? Oh, yes.
0:15:39 > 0:15:44Next one. What year was Blackadder Goes Forth set in?
0:15:44 > 0:15:46I'd say 1944. Yes.
0:15:46 > 0:15:50Erm... Don't tell him! Don't tell him, Pike!
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Oh! Sorry!
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Not sure that's 100% right.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57No, it's First World War. 14, 1914. Do you think?
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Up Pompeii.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Oh, yeah.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03What year was that set? Oh, yeah. OK.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06Here's a clue - it was the year Quintus Sertorius
0:16:06 > 0:16:09was assassinated by his subordinate, Marcus Perpenna,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12who was in turn defeated by Gnaeus Pompeius,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15thus ending the Sertorian War in Spain.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Gotcha. Oh, wow. On that basis, I know!
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Thank you. You didn't need to go that far.
0:16:23 > 0:16:24I'm going to say that.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Sir? Sir? Oh, no. This is a BC answer. Teacher can't help.
0:16:28 > 0:16:33Do we have to subtract it from our final sum? Oh, he's good, isn't he?
0:16:33 > 0:16:36No, you said add the numbers.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40The numbers stay the same, it doesn't matter if they're BC or AD.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42That's like a minus number, isn't it? It's a minus number.
0:16:42 > 0:16:46If you think it's BC, it would be a minus number in the sum. OK.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49We're going to do one more.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53This is the final piece of the puzzle. Red Dwarf.
0:16:53 > 0:16:55What year was Red Dwarf set in?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57OK. Was it actually set in a year?
0:16:57 > 0:16:592080? Let's go 2080.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02Nina, you're our Red Dwarf expert. I am.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04OK, so you're taking Hi-de-Hi!,
0:17:04 > 0:17:07you're adding that to Blackadder Goes Forth,
0:17:07 > 0:17:13you're taking away Up Pompeii, and you are adding Red Dwarf.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15So what are those two together? Show the working, Jess.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20We've got a lot of working. Got a lot of working.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Quite a lot of working. Very good.
0:17:22 > 0:17:242240.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27OK, let's see how you all got on. Hi-de-Hi! was set in...
0:17:27 > 0:17:30Lee and Nigel, what did you have? We're still doing the maths.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Just give me a minute! This is like when I was at school. Wait!
0:17:33 > 0:17:35Just wait. I'll be with you in a minute.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39What did you have, Jessica and Chris? 1959.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Jen and Julia have got 1958.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45Steve and Nina have got 1962.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Let me tell you now, it was 1959.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49Yay!
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Blackadder Goes Forth. What did you have, Jen?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Very good. Jessica, good.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00Did you just change that, Nigel? No! No.
0:18:00 > 0:18:02It's a very suspicious smudge mark!
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Am I going to have to ask you to lift the cards?
0:18:07 > 0:18:09We've got a much better system than that.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13We've written all the years down and we're holding up whatever you say.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Jessica, sit down this instant! She's testing if the ink's wet, sir.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19It was dry. What have we got? 17, 16, 18, 17.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22It was, in fact, 1917.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25APPLAUSE
0:18:25 > 0:18:27Yeah. Yeah.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31The next one, you have to take away.
0:18:31 > 0:18:33This is the year that Up Pompeii! was set.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37What do you have, Lee and Nigel?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40Oh, good. And minus 62.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43100 BC.
0:18:43 > 0:18:4640...
0:18:46 > 0:18:49We thought that's how you spell BC. Yeah. I think Nina...
0:18:49 > 0:18:52I had to point out it's a B and C. 72 BC. Pretty good.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Considering we didn't know at all, quite a good guess.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58We're still first. We're still first.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00Lastly, Red Dwarf, what did you have for that, Lee?
0:19:00 > 0:19:01Let's see your Dwarfs.
0:19:01 > 0:19:031,002,000 AD.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Chris has got three million there.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07Steve and Nina?
0:19:07 > 0:19:11What's that? 2,240,000,000? Yes.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Two billions. Two billion? You went for two billion?
0:19:13 > 0:19:17Red Dwarf was set in the year
0:19:17 > 0:19:193,002,180.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22I'm going to have to re-evaluate my final maths answer.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26I'm way off! Total those up.
0:19:26 > 0:19:31The answer you should have is 3,005,984.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Let me see your final answers, please.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Oh, no. You're kidding. That is unbelievable!
0:19:39 > 0:19:41Sir, he's cheating, sir. That is unbelievable.
0:19:41 > 0:19:44He's cheating, sir. He is cheating, he is cheating.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47I was out with all the answers and they evened themselves up to that.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51The thing is, Lee, we know all the numbers that preceded it.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Listen, this audience wouldn't be able to add that up.
0:19:54 > 0:19:56Chris and Jessica, what do you have?
0:19:56 > 0:20:00There we go. Yours is two billion at least, I know that.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03All right, there's that, or there's that.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08I think a round of applause is due to Jessica and Chris.
0:20:08 > 0:20:11APPLAUSE
0:20:13 > 0:20:15Now, sitcoms love an oddball.
0:20:15 > 0:20:19And this round is dedicated to the characters that just don't fit in -
0:20:19 > 0:20:22A group of people we call the misfits.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26Do you know where we are?
0:20:26 > 0:20:29Well, I could always call the tower and get our exact position.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33Mr Spencer, I don't need our exact position.
0:20:33 > 0:20:34We are in the car park.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40THEY SCREAM
0:20:40 > 0:20:44There is a very special group of people in sitcom
0:20:44 > 0:20:47who simply don't seem to get how life works.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50They're comedy's loners.
0:20:50 > 0:20:52I think we're on a winner here, Trig.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55All right, play it nice and cool, son.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Nice and cool, you know what I mean?
0:20:59 > 0:21:01For sitcom misfits, every day is a struggle
0:21:01 > 0:21:05to prove they're not a danger to themselves...
0:21:07 > 0:21:08..or others.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14So why do we love them so much?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18Maybe it's because we recognise the outsider in ourselves.
0:21:18 > 0:21:20Up the nose or not at all!
0:21:25 > 0:21:28Or maybe it's because we just like laughing at weirdos.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Eh?
0:21:30 > 0:21:31I know I do.
0:21:44 > 0:21:47Impressively... I think I'm in the wrong category.
0:21:47 > 0:21:50I'm in the category "fit".
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Or miss, maybe miss.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57But you're a misfit. Well... No, I am a misfit, I suppose.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Yeah, no, I'll go with that. I'll just do anything to be in a clip.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04It's autobiographical, right? Absolutely, yeah.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06I live with only three walls in my house
0:22:06 > 0:22:08and loads of people look at me, laughing.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11No, it is fairly autobiographical.
0:22:11 > 0:22:13Some of the things that have happened genuinely have happened.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Like, I genuinely am, it turns out, I didn't know this when we cast him,
0:22:16 > 0:22:18I am the real son of Bobby Ball.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I always thought it was Tommy Cannon.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28You can buzz in. This is open to everyone.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Are your buzzers working?
0:22:30 > 0:22:32No. Give us a buzz. BUZZ
0:22:32 > 0:22:33There we go.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38RINGING Sorry. There we go.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40It's very sensitive. There we go.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Ours is just completely dead. Nothing.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44RINGING
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Let me just explain, it is working. It's just when you...
0:22:47 > 0:22:51If somebody presses it, sorry to be a nerd, but if you press it,
0:22:51 > 0:22:53then when everybody else presses it, it doesn't work.
0:22:53 > 0:22:55It only selects the first person.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57So we should just press as soon as you start to ask the question?
0:22:57 > 0:23:01If you press now, you've got a chance of...
0:23:03 > 0:23:05CLICKING
0:23:05 > 0:23:06Chris.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Chris, that's a warning.
0:23:09 > 0:23:10CLICKING
0:23:12 > 0:23:15No-one would want this job.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19OK, here's the question bit. Wait, wait...
0:23:19 > 0:23:22What's the... THEY HAMMER BUZZZERS, NONE BUZZ
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Oh, my God. After all that!
0:23:28 > 0:23:30I've got repetitive injury thing.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33It's sitting there saying, "press me".
0:23:33 > 0:23:36Rationally now, just... RINGING
0:23:38 > 0:23:40That's exactly what you shouldn't do.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43We didn't touch anything!
0:23:43 > 0:23:45I'm going to invigilate. RINGING
0:23:45 > 0:23:46Stop it!
0:23:46 > 0:23:49Who's doing it? Who's bloody pressing the buzzer?
0:23:49 > 0:23:51It's you, isn't it? I never touched it.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54It's not me, cos I've never been able to find the button.
0:23:56 > 0:23:57Stop it, all of you.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Is there a light coming on when it's pressed?
0:23:59 > 0:24:03Yeah, yeah. Their light comes on. All right, say the question. OK.
0:24:03 > 0:24:04I'm going to say the question.
0:24:04 > 0:24:10No-one is allowed to press a buzzer until I finish the question.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13OK, the buzzers are reset. Sir! Shush. Shush.
0:24:13 > 0:24:17But how will we...? No questions! Shush!
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Can I just check? Is this still round one?
0:24:20 > 0:24:24LAUGHTER
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Some of us have got careers to be getting on with,
0:24:27 > 0:24:30if you want to get going at any point.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33Listen. Which sitcom misfit's surname
0:24:33 > 0:24:38started out as White and then was changed to Cabbage and Cauliflower
0:24:38 > 0:24:42before they eventually landed on the one we know now?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Nina.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45I think it might be Mr Bean.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47It was!
0:24:47 > 0:24:50APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:24:51 > 0:24:55It was indeed. Mr Bean is of course played out entirely in mime,
0:24:55 > 0:24:59and I'm going to use that as the basis for my next game.
0:24:59 > 0:25:02What I'm going to do is I'm going to invite two teams down here
0:25:02 > 0:25:03into the playing area.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07You've got to mime as many different sitcom characters as you can.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Lee and Nigel, Jessica and Chris,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13you will be going head-to-head in this one.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15You'll both have 60 seconds
0:25:15 > 0:25:18to communicate as many sitcom characters as you can
0:25:18 > 0:25:22to your partner through mime alone.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25Whichever team guesses the most wins a point.
0:25:25 > 0:25:28Lee and Nigel, you're going to be going first,
0:25:28 > 0:25:29so come on down, please. Thank you.
0:25:43 > 0:25:45First of all, I guess we have to decide who's going to be...
0:25:45 > 0:25:48I guess you look like you're going to be miming. I don't mind.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50I thought it was going to spin like a lazy Susan.
0:25:51 > 0:25:52OK. OK.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55So obviously, Lee, you will be miming. Yes.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Nigel, you will do the guessing.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59What we're going to do is we're going to put
0:25:59 > 0:26:02the names of the sitcom characters up on this board.
0:26:02 > 0:26:03Lee, you mime them to Nigel.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06You've got to guess as many as you can within the 60 seconds.
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Right. I'll dig deep.
0:26:07 > 0:26:08Very deep.
0:26:08 > 0:26:13Are you ready? Yeah. Yes. Your 60 seconds begins...now.
0:26:17 > 0:26:18Only Fools And Horses.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21Only Fools And Horses?! Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
0:26:21 > 0:26:24Spencer. Spencer.
0:26:24 > 0:26:25HE HUMS
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Brent. Brent.
0:26:33 > 0:26:34Are you all right, Lee?
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Little noises. He's not speaking. Mr Bean? Yes!
0:26:42 > 0:26:44I only know one of her jokes.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47LAUGHTER
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Miranda, Miranda, Miranda.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59John... Fawlty Towers, John Cleese. Yes!
0:26:59 > 0:27:02HE SNORTS
0:27:02 > 0:27:04That's good! That's good!
0:27:06 > 0:27:09Leonard Rossiter.
0:27:09 > 0:27:12He's too old to recognise this talent! Do it again, do it again!
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Oh, it's...
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Bong! Rik Mayall.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20Let's have a round of applause, ladies and gentlemen.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Get off. Get off.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27Well done.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Lee and Nigel guessed six correctly.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32APPLAUSE
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Jessica and Chris, come on down.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44OK, so who's miming? I'm miming, dear.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46You're miming. So you stand there.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Do we have to do sumo?
0:27:50 > 0:27:54There we go. If you'd like to stand here with your back to the board...
0:27:54 > 0:27:56There. Chris. I'm not wearing TV shoes, by the way.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00If I'd known that the bottom half of my body was going to be on show,
0:28:00 > 0:28:03I would have paid a little more attention to my outfit,
0:28:03 > 0:28:05so I apologise.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09Anyway. At least you're wearing something. Let the torture commence.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13Your time begins...now.
0:28:17 > 0:28:18Er, Kryten.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Very good, very good.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Is it Windsor Davies in something?
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Has anybody got a cat? Mrs Slocombe.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36OK. It's Vyvyan, all right.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Is it Mrs Brown?
0:28:46 > 0:28:47Del Boy. Yes!
0:28:52 > 0:28:55Is it something that Les Dawson was in?
0:28:57 > 0:28:59Come on, stop it.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01Oh, is it Steptoe? Yes.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Brilliant.
0:29:04 > 0:29:06Oh...
0:29:06 > 0:29:07Is it...?
0:29:10 > 0:29:13I have no idea. Are you having a breakdown?
0:29:14 > 0:29:18Wait, let me take... Do it again. Do it again.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20Brilliant.
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Manuel. Manuel, Manuel.
0:29:24 > 0:29:26END-OF-ROUND JINGLE
0:29:28 > 0:29:29I'm sorry.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Jessica and Chris, I'm delighted to tell you,
0:29:36 > 0:29:39you have won the round with seven points!
0:29:48 > 0:29:50Now, Jennifer. Yes?
0:29:50 > 0:29:56Is it true that Adrian Edmondson is singing on the Ab Fab theme tune?
0:29:56 > 0:29:57Yeah, he is.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59He was cheap.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05You know, I loved Bad News. Did everyone see that comic strip?
0:30:05 > 0:30:07CHEERING
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Such a brilliant comic strip. Well, he proved he could sing
0:30:10 > 0:30:12and we needed a male voice.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Yeah. But he got to sing it with Julie Driscoll,
0:30:15 > 0:30:17with Debbie Harry, with Marianne Faithfull,
0:30:17 > 0:30:19so...looks pretty good...
0:30:19 > 0:30:22It's not that bad. ..on your CV.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24Well, teams, let me introduce you to somebody.
0:30:24 > 0:30:29Here is the man behind the theme tunes of loads of sitcoms
0:30:29 > 0:30:33including The Thin Blue Line, Blackadder,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36The Vicar Of Dibley, Mr Bean, and Red Dwarf.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38He is Mr Sitcom Theme Tune.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Would you please welcome Howard Goodall?
0:30:41 > 0:30:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:30:52 > 0:30:56Howard. Hi. Lovely to see you. Thank you so much for coming.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00May I ask you, what makes a really great sitcom theme tune?
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Well, for me, when I'm asked to do it,
0:31:02 > 0:31:04it's always about the characters.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06Who are these people? What's their music?
0:31:06 > 0:31:08That's how I do it. How do you get to do that now?
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Because sitcom theme tunes are just getting so short.
0:31:11 > 0:31:14I mean, they used to be... When I started, 30 years ago,
0:31:14 > 0:31:16you had about 30 seconds at the beginning
0:31:16 > 0:31:17and about a minute at the end.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20Now you get about ten seconds at the beginning
0:31:20 > 0:31:21and someone talks over the end.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25So just a little bit of a jingle. You know, like a peepshow...
0:31:25 > 0:31:27# Uh-uh-uh, uh-uh! #
0:31:27 > 0:31:29That's about all you're allowed, now.
0:31:29 > 0:31:30A bastardisation of your art.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35So let us bastardise your art even further,
0:31:35 > 0:31:41as we ask you to play a medley of sitcom theme tunes.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43Teams, as you might have already guessed,
0:31:43 > 0:31:49your task is to write down the title of each of the sitcoms
0:31:49 > 0:31:53that Howard is about to play the theme tune of.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57All right, the team who guesses the most right wins the round, OK?
0:31:57 > 0:31:58No way(!) Yeah.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59Seriously. Easy!
0:31:59 > 0:32:01Wait - who loses the round?
0:32:01 > 0:32:05It's pretty out there, but that's what I'm going with.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09OK. Wow. Let me write these rules down. Wait.
0:32:09 > 0:32:10Howard...
0:32:10 > 0:32:13Take it away, Mr Howard Goodall.
0:32:13 > 0:32:14APPLAUSE
0:32:14 > 0:32:17HE PLAYS MEDLEY OF SITCOM THEMES
0:33:44 > 0:33:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59OK. Now, if you'd like to swap your papers with the team next to you.
0:33:59 > 0:34:01Can I just say, that was very, very difficult.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03It was difficult. Can we hear it again?
0:34:03 > 0:34:05We're ready, sir. We're ready to give our papers in.
0:34:05 > 0:34:07Swap your paper, Jessica.
0:34:07 > 0:34:09It sounded beautiful. It was.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11I thought it might be too easy.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13Oh...! Oh, my God.
0:34:13 > 0:34:18Oh, they've got a good one. It was just like a lot of...piano.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26Would you like to hear the answers? Yes, please. Yes.
0:34:26 > 0:34:29Has everyone swapped papers? You're not marking your own paper?
0:34:29 > 0:34:32No, sir. Is someone going to win a joint of lamb or something?
0:34:35 > 0:34:37It's just got that vibe about it.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43No, the prize is not a joint of lamb. Moving on.
0:34:43 > 0:34:46Howard, what is our first tune? OK, so the first one
0:34:46 > 0:34:47was 'Ello 'Ello. Oh!
0:34:47 > 0:34:50HE PLAYS THEME TO 'ELLO 'ELLO
0:34:50 > 0:34:51OK. And then what did we have?
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Then we went into The Vicar Of Dibley.
0:34:53 > 0:34:55HE PLAYS THEME TO THE VICAR OF DIBLEY
0:34:55 > 0:34:56I should have known that one.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59And then we had a tune from a bit further back
0:34:59 > 0:35:00in the style of Beethoven.
0:35:00 > 0:35:03It was, in fact, What Became Of The Likely Lads?
0:35:03 > 0:35:06# Oh, what happened to you?
0:35:06 > 0:35:08# Whatever happened to me...?
0:35:09 > 0:35:11Then there was an easy one.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13HE PLAYS UPBEAT INTRO
0:35:13 > 0:35:15It was Blackadder.
0:35:15 > 0:35:16Another generational one.
0:35:16 > 0:35:17Steptoe and Son.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20HE PLAYS THEME TO STEPTOE AND SON
0:35:20 > 0:35:22I wonder if anybody got this one?
0:35:22 > 0:35:25HE PLAYS FRANTIC TUNE
0:35:25 > 0:35:27That's a beautiful tune.
0:35:27 > 0:35:29A great tune. Ronnie Hazlehurst.
0:35:29 > 0:35:32That was The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Oh...! Oh...!
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Now this was a jointy number - a jaunty one!
0:35:36 > 0:35:38HE PLAYS JAUNTY INTRO
0:35:38 > 0:35:39Anybody get that?
0:35:39 > 0:35:41No, it drove me nuts. Damn. What is it?
0:35:41 > 0:35:42That was 2.4 Children.
0:35:42 > 0:35:44Is that one of yours? That's one of mine.
0:35:45 > 0:35:48And the next one, you must have got this one.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54HE PLAYS JOLLY TUNE
0:35:54 > 0:35:56That was Dad's Army. Yeah. Yes, quite right.
0:35:56 > 0:35:57Bit more up-to-date.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00HE PLAYS PUNCHY TUNE
0:36:00 > 0:36:01Anybody get that?
0:36:01 > 0:36:03IT Crowd. Excellent.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04Men Behaving Badly.
0:36:04 > 0:36:05HE PLAYS THEME TO MEN BEHAVING BADLY
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Oh!
0:36:07 > 0:36:09And then Frank Spencer, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11HE PLAYS THEME TO SOME MOTHERS DO 'AVE 'EM
0:36:11 > 0:36:14And then there was a cheeky little one on the end,
0:36:14 > 0:36:16probably the first-ever sitcom theme tune.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18HE PLAYS PIANO PHRASE
0:36:18 > 0:36:21Hancock's Half Hour. Hancock's Half Hour.
0:36:21 > 0:36:23Ladies and gentlemen, Howard Goodall.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27APPLAUSE Amazing. Incredible. Extraordinary.
0:36:30 > 0:36:32OK. Have you swapped your papers back?
0:36:32 > 0:36:34And let's have your scores.
0:36:34 > 0:36:38So, Lee and Nigel. Sadly... We got six.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40Six. I don't think that's bad at all.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47I don't think it's an easy round, by any means.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50Jess and Chris, what did you get? Chris, really, you know...
0:36:50 > 0:36:51Come on. Tell us.
0:36:51 > 0:36:5311. Whoa!
0:36:53 > 0:36:55Amazing.
0:36:55 > 0:36:58This guy.
0:36:58 > 0:37:00No, no...
0:37:00 > 0:37:01Jen and Julia.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03We got four. Oh!
0:37:05 > 0:37:07Not easy, though. Not easy. No.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09Steve and Nina.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10We got them all right...
0:37:12 > 0:37:14..apart from nine of them.
0:37:14 > 0:37:16Give them a round of applause.
0:37:16 > 0:37:17APPLAUSE
0:37:19 > 0:37:24Thank you so much, Howard. What a treat. Thank you.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Howard Goodall, ladies and gentlemen.
0:37:28 > 0:37:32Sorry, can I just...? I know one. Yes? I can do one.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Oh, yeah? Come on. Come on. Excellent.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37Go on, Lee. Lee Mack!
0:37:40 > 0:37:42Not a sitcom, but it's a TV theme.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45HE PLAYS A FEW NOTES Just tuning up. Hang on...
0:37:46 > 0:37:47Right. Ready?
0:37:49 > 0:37:51HE PLAYS INTRO
0:37:51 > 0:37:53No, hang on. Hang on. Start again.
0:37:53 > 0:37:57HE PLAYS THEME TO DALLAS
0:38:05 > 0:38:08HE PLAYS FLAT KEY
0:38:08 > 0:38:10CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:38:12 > 0:38:13Bravo.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22THAT...is talent.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Who said variety was dead?
0:38:25 > 0:38:26It is now.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30So what was it?
0:38:30 > 0:38:33Dallas. Dallas. What do you mean, "What was it?"
0:38:38 > 0:38:40A bottomless pit of talent.
0:38:42 > 0:38:44Now, for as long as sitcoms have existed,
0:38:44 > 0:38:47our next category has been coughing up more comedy gold
0:38:47 > 0:38:50than a broken comedy fruit machine.
0:38:50 > 0:38:51Don't examine that too closely.
0:38:51 > 0:38:54I'm talking, of course, about family.
0:38:55 > 0:38:58The family. Everyone's got one,
0:38:58 > 0:39:02so while we might not immediately connect with a show set in prison
0:39:02 > 0:39:07or space, or a prison in space,
0:39:07 > 0:39:09a sitcom set in the heart of the family home
0:39:09 > 0:39:11connects directly to us.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14The Buck-et residence. The lady of the house speaking?
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Ow!
0:39:16 > 0:39:18Everybody is represented.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20And whether you at home are the embarrassing parent...
0:39:20 > 0:39:22Oh, hello, bambinos. No top tonight?
0:39:22 > 0:39:24He's boiling. I'm boiling.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27Look out crime, here I come!
0:39:28 > 0:39:30..the layabout teenager...
0:39:30 > 0:39:32Do you always go to bed wearing a crash helmet?
0:39:32 > 0:39:35Sorry. I can't hear what you're saying.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38I'm wearing a crash helmet.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40..or the alcoholic grandparent...
0:39:40 > 0:39:42This tastes just like rum and raisin chocolate.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49..it'll often feel like you're watching a live feed
0:39:49 > 0:39:51from your own living room.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53We'll have to get Sky, you know, Barb. Oh, Jim.
0:39:53 > 0:39:55We don't watch telly enough to get the value.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57Comedy is conflict,
0:39:57 > 0:40:02and I'll knock the block off the first man who says otherwise, right?
0:40:02 > 0:40:04Oh, give it a rest, you leaf-munching sheep shagger!
0:40:04 > 0:40:07But as much as these sitcoms like to represent
0:40:07 > 0:40:10a good old-fashioned dust-up around the dinner table,
0:40:10 > 0:40:15they also remind us how much we can depend on our nearest and dearest.
0:40:15 > 0:40:16Agh...!
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Don't you die. Don't you bloody die.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20I'm not going to die, you plonker.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22I just sat on my bacon sandwich.
0:40:22 > 0:40:25They remind us that blood is thicker than water.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29Though, saying that, tar is thicker than blood.
0:40:29 > 0:40:32Which is why some people prefer cigarettes to children, I suppose.
0:40:32 > 0:40:36Families can be... They can be, you know...
0:40:36 > 0:40:38Goodnight.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48Currently, one of the biggest family sitcoms is Mrs Brown's Boys.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Now, I'm going to let you into a little industry secret.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Mrs Brown from Mrs Brown's Boys
0:40:53 > 0:40:56is actually played by a man -
0:40:56 > 0:40:58Brendan O'Carroll.
0:40:58 > 0:40:59But it got me to thinking -
0:40:59 > 0:41:03what would other sitcoms look like if the genders were swapped?
0:41:03 > 0:41:06Doesn't bear thinking about. Oh, there we are.
0:41:06 > 0:41:09That's Gavin and Stacey with all the genders swapped round. Oh, God.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12Is anyone else getting Boy George there from the right?
0:41:12 > 0:41:13Oh, dear God...
0:41:16 > 0:41:17It's awful, isn't it?
0:41:17 > 0:41:23I'm going to show two of our teams pictures of various family sitcoms
0:41:23 > 0:41:24with the genders swapped facially.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28All they have to do is identify the sitcom.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31Jennifer and Julia, you are going to play Steve and Nina.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33OK, Jennifer and Julia, this one is for you.
0:41:33 > 0:41:36Which sitcom is this?
0:41:36 > 0:41:39Well, that's weird because I think that's Julia's face
0:41:39 > 0:41:41and it looks like Julian Clary.
0:41:43 > 0:41:44It's...
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Well, it's The Good Life.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48And it's very weird.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51That's Lee's face. That is indeed.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53That's Julia's face there on the left,
0:41:53 > 0:41:55Lee's face on the right,
0:41:55 > 0:41:57playing Tom and Barbara, absolutely correct,
0:41:57 > 0:41:58from The Good Life.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00Give them a round of applause.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02APPLAUSE
0:42:05 > 0:42:08May we have our next still?
0:42:08 > 0:42:10Stephen and Nina, this for you.
0:42:12 > 0:42:16That is a sexy photo. Wow.
0:42:16 > 0:42:20That is Paul Nicholas. Yeah, is that The Two of Us?
0:42:20 > 0:42:23Are you getting Paul Nicholas? I'm getting Noel Edmonds.
0:42:23 > 0:42:27I've got to say, Steve, you do scrub up really well. I do.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29Who do you think it is, again?
0:42:29 > 0:42:31I think it's Just Good Friends.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34Absolutely right. Let's take a look.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36Just Good Friends.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41Jennifer and Julia, this one's for you.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45Swapped. That's really creepy.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47I don't know about you, but I'm getting...
0:42:47 > 0:42:50I'm getting just a bit of David Walliams coming through there.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Gary Numan. It's Gary Numan.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Gary Numan?
0:42:55 > 0:42:58Oh, my God. That's weird.
0:42:58 > 0:42:59Now, is that...?
0:42:59 > 0:43:02Obviously, that's Jen and Nina.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Is it Nicholas Lyndhurst and...? Yes, it is.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07So the sitcom is?
0:43:07 > 0:43:09Only Fools And Horses. Let's take a look.
0:43:10 > 0:43:11Absolutely right.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Well done. Brilliant.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17That was creepy. That freaked me out.
0:43:17 > 0:43:20Last one. Steve and Nina, obviously, this is for you.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22Oh, blimey.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24LAUGHTER
0:43:25 > 0:43:28I do think he was the best doctor, don't you?
0:43:29 > 0:43:33Tom Baker, I think he was a class above.
0:43:33 > 0:43:34Obviously, that is Nigel there.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37Can anyone tell me who it is on the left? You're right.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39That's me, isn't it? That's me on the left.
0:43:39 > 0:43:40Yeah. Do you know,
0:43:40 > 0:43:42I found that so hard to believe, that's your face, but it is.
0:43:42 > 0:43:44It is. It is my face.
0:43:44 > 0:43:46Is that you on the left? It's me on the left.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Yeah, it's not me on the right, love. Nigel.
0:43:48 > 0:43:51That's Nigel. It is Nigel. Of course, it's Nigel.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53Steve and Nina, it's your question.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56When Nigel was living under a bridge? Yeah.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57Nerys Hughes and...
0:43:57 > 0:43:59Yeah, Nerys Hughes.
0:43:59 > 0:44:02..and a creature from outer space.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04LAUGHTER
0:44:04 > 0:44:05Oh, gosh.
0:44:05 > 0:44:08What was the sitcom that Nerys Hughes was in?
0:44:08 > 0:44:09It's Catweazle.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11She was in... She was in The Liver Birds.
0:44:11 > 0:44:12Wa-hey! Fantastic!
0:44:12 > 0:44:15Give them a round of applause. There we go.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22So we've celebrated the stars of our favourite sitcoms,
0:44:22 > 0:44:25but what about those bit-part players,
0:44:25 > 0:44:29the unsung heroes like this?
0:44:30 > 0:44:33THE sofa from The Royle Family.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35AUDIENCE GASPS
0:44:35 > 0:44:36I thought it was.
0:44:36 > 0:44:41This humble piece of furniture has seen more Royle flatulence
0:44:41 > 0:44:43than baked-bean night at Buckingham Palace.
0:44:43 > 0:44:44Isn't it beautiful?
0:44:44 > 0:44:46Recognise this, Jessica? I do, yeah.
0:44:46 > 0:44:52I will reveal a selection of unsung heroes from British sitcoms -
0:44:52 > 0:44:55people who've played significant roles
0:44:55 > 0:44:57yet have taken a back seat.
0:44:57 > 0:45:02Let's have our first unsung hero.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:45:11 > 0:45:13Hello. Hello. Welcome.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15May I? Yes, you may.
0:45:15 > 0:45:19You'd probably like to take a seat in your condition.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22You are pregnant, aren't you? I am pregnant, yes.
0:45:22 > 0:45:25It's not just bloating.
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Welcome to We Love Sitcom. Thank you.
0:45:27 > 0:45:30Obviously, I'm not going to reveal your name, that's up to our teams.
0:45:30 > 0:45:32The rules are simple.
0:45:32 > 0:45:37They're going to take it in turns to ask you yes or no questions.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Now, teams, if you get a yes, you can ask another question.
0:45:40 > 0:45:43If you get a no, it goes over to the next team.
0:45:43 > 0:45:49And, obviously, the idea is to guess our unsung hero's identity.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52So Lee and Nigel, would you like to go first, please? Yes.
0:45:52 > 0:45:55Is this sitcom still on television now?
0:45:55 > 0:45:56Um...
0:45:56 > 0:45:59I mean, are they still making it? It's repeated.
0:45:59 > 0:46:02They're not still making it... They're not still making it.
0:46:02 > 0:46:03..but we'll give you a yes for that
0:46:03 > 0:46:06because it is pretty much continuously on TV. Right.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08Ooh. Yes. Yes.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10I'm out of questions already.
0:46:10 > 0:46:11LAUGHTER
0:46:11 > 0:46:14Is it a period? Is it a period sitcom?
0:46:14 > 0:46:15No. OK.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18So you could ask, for example, the decade?
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Were you a girl in the sitcom? Were you a child?
0:46:21 > 0:46:23Yes.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27So you were a child in a family?
0:46:27 > 0:46:29Yes.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31And...
0:46:31 > 0:46:34Like being with a psychic, isn't it? LAUGHTER
0:46:34 > 0:46:37Were you wearing a hat? I'm seeing a park, no.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41Did you have a catchphrase or, like, a punch-line?
0:46:41 > 0:46:44Were you famous for a certain kind of type of...?
0:46:44 > 0:46:49Can I just say, she wasn't actually old enough to speak in the sitcom.
0:46:49 > 0:46:52You're on the right lines. OK. Right.
0:46:52 > 0:46:55Were you the back end of the horse in Rentaghost?
0:46:55 > 0:46:57No.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Were you...? Were you a babe in arms?
0:47:00 > 0:47:01Um...
0:47:01 > 0:47:04I'm afraid I'm going to have to go with the no.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06We're over to Steve and Nina. I'm being quite strict.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09So if we get a yes, we get another question? Yes.
0:47:09 > 0:47:10Are you pregnant? Yes.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12LAUGHTER
0:47:12 > 0:47:16OK. We've got another question, Nina. OK. Use it wisely.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21Was this a sitcom made in the...?
0:47:21 > 0:47:24I'll be very careful here. ..in the '80s?
0:47:24 > 0:47:26No.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Sorry. OK, move on. Jen and Julia.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31We're all slightly panicking which way to go now.
0:47:32 > 0:47:35Argh!
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Now, did the sitcom...
0:47:38 > 0:47:41..begin in the early '90s?
0:47:41 > 0:47:43No. Oh, crap.
0:47:43 > 0:47:44LAUGHTER
0:47:44 > 0:47:45OK. Lee and Nigel.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47Were you in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em?
0:47:47 > 0:47:49Yes. Yes!
0:47:49 > 0:47:51CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:47:53 > 0:47:55Very good, Nigel. Can I just say that Nigel is so posh,
0:47:55 > 0:47:58he's the only man in history to ever put the H before "have" on 'ave 'em.
0:47:58 > 0:48:00Some mothers do have 'em.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02You could have said some mothers do have them.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04I could have done. You could have done. I would like to have done.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Are you Jessica? Can you see the men in the moon?
0:48:07 > 0:48:10Let me introduce baby Jessica. Yes!
0:48:10 > 0:48:11Bravo.
0:48:11 > 0:48:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:48:13 > 0:48:15Wow.
0:48:15 > 0:48:17Isn't that amazing?
0:48:18 > 0:48:19Incredible.
0:48:19 > 0:48:21I'll sing you a little song.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23We'll wake Mummy up in the bath.
0:48:23 > 0:48:24BABY CRIES
0:48:24 > 0:48:28Let me sing you a little song about a cat. Listen.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29MELODY PLAYS
0:48:31 > 0:48:35# There was a man who bought a cat
0:48:35 > 0:48:36# He fed it well
0:48:36 > 0:48:38# It got so fat
0:48:38 > 0:48:42# He had to stroke it with a broom
0:48:42 > 0:48:46# And when it purred, it shook the room
0:48:46 > 0:48:50# Eating, eating
0:48:50 > 0:48:53# He couldn't stop
0:48:53 > 0:48:57# Growing, growing
0:48:57 > 0:48:59# Until he went pop. #
0:48:59 > 0:49:02LAUGHTER
0:49:06 > 0:49:09When I went to see Phantom of the Opera,
0:49:09 > 0:49:10and he was in it, obviously,
0:49:10 > 0:49:13and I couldn't get over it, because he sounded like...
0:49:13 > 0:49:15IMPERSONATING MICHAEL CRAWFORD: Phantom of the Opera.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17I never got over it.
0:49:17 > 0:49:19How did it come about?
0:49:19 > 0:49:21Michael Crawford was absolutely insistent
0:49:21 > 0:49:24that the actual toddler baby be called Jessica
0:49:24 > 0:49:27so that she'd respond to her name and it makes things easier
0:49:27 > 0:49:31and my dad was working on the show and he sort of overheard
0:49:31 > 0:49:35that they were having problems finding a toddler called Jessica,
0:49:35 > 0:49:37and he was like, "I've got a toddler called Jessica.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39"You can use her if you'd like."
0:49:39 > 0:49:42Well, you say that. He changed your name.
0:49:42 > 0:49:44They didn't have to change my name.
0:49:44 > 0:49:48So they moved into our house and filmed me for...
0:49:48 > 0:49:51I don't know how long because I can't remember anything.
0:49:51 > 0:49:53Well, you've been a huge part of our lives,
0:49:53 > 0:49:55because we all love baby Jessica. We do.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58Can we have a round of applause for Jessica Forte?
0:49:58 > 0:50:01CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:50:05 > 0:50:09Can we have our next unsung hero, please?
0:50:09 > 0:50:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:50:16 > 0:50:19Welcome. Thank you so much. Please take a seat.
0:50:19 > 0:50:24Thank you. OK, teams, same rules.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Jessica, would you like to start?
0:50:26 > 0:50:29Was your sitcom...?
0:50:29 > 0:50:32Was it like a cult sitcom?
0:50:32 > 0:50:35Yeah, I would say it was a cult sitcom.
0:50:35 > 0:50:38Yeah, but then became quite mainstream,
0:50:38 > 0:50:41but, certainly, it started as a cult sitcom. OK.
0:50:41 > 0:50:44I have to give you a clue. This is like a foreign...
0:50:44 > 0:50:46we're trying to guess the British sitcom
0:50:46 > 0:50:49that our guest did a foreign version of.
0:50:49 > 0:50:50Oh, OK.
0:50:50 > 0:50:52So what you really want to be thinking is
0:50:52 > 0:50:55which sitcom character does he maybe resemble or...?
0:50:55 > 0:50:57Is it In Sickness and in Health?
0:50:57 > 0:50:59LAUGHTER
0:50:59 > 0:51:03No. Steve and Nina, over to you.
0:51:03 > 0:51:08Was he a family man in the sitcom?
0:51:08 > 0:51:10No. No, not really, no.
0:51:10 > 0:51:12OK.
0:51:12 > 0:51:13Jen and Julia?
0:51:14 > 0:51:16Is it the European version?
0:51:18 > 0:51:20Nope. It's not a European version.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22It's not actually a European version.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24They are allowed in Eurovision. Oh!
0:51:24 > 0:51:26Some places we can go.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28Israel? Yeah.
0:51:28 > 0:51:32He's the Israeli version of a sitcom star?
0:51:32 > 0:51:33Yeah, still with you.
0:51:33 > 0:51:35Ah, he didn't...
0:51:35 > 0:51:37You didn't play Nigel Havers, did you?
0:51:37 > 0:51:39LAUGHTER
0:51:39 > 0:51:40No. Sadly not.
0:51:40 > 0:51:41He's got the looks.
0:51:41 > 0:51:44You weren't in the Israeli version of Chariots Of Fire, were you?
0:51:44 > 0:51:46LAUGHTER No.
0:51:46 > 0:51:47Is that a sitcom?
0:51:47 > 0:51:48I found it hilarious.
0:51:50 > 0:51:51Jessica and Chris?
0:51:51 > 0:51:54Were you in the Israeli version of The Office?
0:51:54 > 0:51:56Yes. Absolutely right.
0:51:56 > 0:51:57Wow. APPLAUSE
0:51:57 > 0:52:00That's good. So which character do you think he resembles?
0:52:00 > 0:52:03Dawn! No, wait, David Brent.
0:52:05 > 0:52:07Yes. Absolutely right.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:52:11 > 0:52:14Yes. May I introduce to you Dvir Benedek?
0:52:14 > 0:52:18Yes, that's right. Dvir plays the David Brent character
0:52:18 > 0:52:20in the Israeli version of The Office.
0:52:20 > 0:52:23Would you like to see him in action? ALL: Yes.
0:52:55 > 0:52:56LAUGHTER
0:52:57 > 0:53:00MUSIC PLAYS
0:53:00 > 0:53:04# Come on, come on, baby
0:53:06 > 0:53:08LAUGHTER
0:53:13 > 0:53:14Dvir Benedek!
0:53:14 > 0:53:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:53:20 > 0:53:23That's SO good! That is so good.
0:53:23 > 0:53:25Was it a big hit in Israel? It was. It was.
0:53:25 > 0:53:29We had two seasons, we had 15 episodes each, so it was good.
0:53:29 > 0:53:35And can I do say, what diet are you on? It's just amazing.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38I watched that and stopped eating and then...
0:53:38 > 0:53:42No, no. I think you're fantastic in that show.
0:53:42 > 0:53:45Thank you so much. Can we have a round of applause for Dvir Benedek?
0:53:45 > 0:53:48So lovely to meet you. Thank you so much for coming in.
0:53:53 > 0:53:54Time for the final round,
0:53:54 > 0:53:58and it's a traditional quickfire inspired by one of the great sitcoms.
0:53:58 > 0:54:00Each episode of Fawlty Towers
0:54:00 > 0:54:02began with an anagram of the hotel name.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05I'm going to show our teams anagrams of other sitcoms
0:54:05 > 0:54:08and they've got to tell me what they are.
0:54:08 > 0:54:11So here is our first anagram.
0:54:11 > 0:54:13Are you ready? You're buzzing in.
0:54:13 > 0:54:14BUZZER
0:54:14 > 0:54:16Oh, come on.
0:54:16 > 0:54:17W1A.
0:54:17 > 0:54:20Absolutely right. Are they all going to be this tricky?
0:54:20 > 0:54:22APPLAUSE
0:54:23 > 0:54:25Next anagram please.
0:54:28 > 0:54:30Anybody? BUZZER
0:54:30 > 0:54:32Father Ted. Let's have a look.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34Very good. There we go.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36APPLAUSE
0:54:38 > 0:54:39BUZZER
0:54:39 > 0:54:41Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
0:54:41 > 0:54:43LAUGHTER
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Give you a clue, it stars a woman.
0:54:45 > 0:54:47BUZZER
0:54:47 > 0:54:49Miranda. Absolutely right.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51Let's take a look.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55Next anagram, please.
0:54:57 > 0:54:59BUZZER
0:54:59 > 0:55:01Chris? The IT Crowd.
0:55:01 > 0:55:02Absolutely right.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04CHEERING
0:55:04 > 0:55:06That's very good.
0:55:09 > 0:55:10BUZZER
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Lee. Is it The Liver Birds?
0:55:13 > 0:55:14It is indeed The Liver Birds.
0:55:14 > 0:55:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Next anagram, please.
0:55:20 > 0:55:21Oh, um, um, um...
0:55:21 > 0:55:23Press it, press it.
0:55:23 > 0:55:24Do you know it?
0:55:24 > 0:55:26BUZZER
0:55:26 > 0:55:28Can I just check - how do you spell "bread"?
0:55:28 > 0:55:30LAUGHTER
0:55:30 > 0:55:31Is it with an M?
0:55:33 > 0:55:35A solitary character.
0:55:35 > 0:55:36Doesn't speak a lot.
0:55:36 > 0:55:37BUZZER
0:55:38 > 0:55:40Jessica? Mr Bean.
0:55:40 > 0:55:41It is indeed Mr Bean.
0:55:41 > 0:55:43CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:55:45 > 0:55:47Strangely difficult, aren't they? The short ones.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48They are, they are really difficult.
0:55:48 > 0:55:49Next anagram.
0:55:52 > 0:55:53Any offers? BUZZER
0:55:53 > 0:55:55Chris? Rising Damp.
0:55:56 > 0:55:57Blimey. He's right!
0:55:57 > 0:55:59How does he do that?!
0:55:59 > 0:56:01What?
0:56:01 > 0:56:03It's like playing with Rain Man. Moving on.
0:56:03 > 0:56:05LAUGHTER
0:56:07 > 0:56:09BUZZER Been in the show already.
0:56:09 > 0:56:11BOTH: Up Pompeii. Absolutely.
0:56:11 > 0:56:12There we go.
0:56:12 > 0:56:14APPLAUSE
0:56:15 > 0:56:16Next anagram, please.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19LAUGHTER
0:56:19 > 0:56:22It's extraordinary what the mind does, isn't it?
0:56:22 > 0:56:24Obese hunts.
0:56:24 > 0:56:25BUZZER
0:56:25 > 0:56:27OK, I'm going to go maverick on this one. Yeah?
0:56:27 > 0:56:30There isn't an actual sitcom called obese hunts, is there,
0:56:30 > 0:56:31that we don't know about?
0:56:31 > 0:56:34I will give you a clue. It is a workplace sitcom.
0:56:34 > 0:56:35BUZZER
0:56:35 > 0:56:37On The Buses. Yeah.
0:56:37 > 0:56:38Let's have a look!
0:56:38 > 0:56:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:56:41 > 0:56:42JINGLE PLAYS
0:56:44 > 0:56:48And that's the end of our final round.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51So let's take a look at our final leaderboard.
0:56:52 > 0:56:54What do we have here?
0:56:54 > 0:56:57In fourth place, Lee and Nigel.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00APPLAUSE
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Steve and Nina, Jennifer and Julia
0:57:03 > 0:57:06in joint second place.
0:57:06 > 0:57:09APPLAUSE
0:57:09 > 0:57:12But sitting pretty right up there on top,
0:57:12 > 0:57:14it's Jess and Chris.
0:57:14 > 0:57:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:57:23 > 0:57:25Well, that's it.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28Can we have a big round of applause for all our guests?
0:57:28 > 0:57:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:57:31 > 0:57:34I've been Ben Miller and this has been We Love Sitcom.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36Goodbye!
0:57:36 > 0:57:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE