0:00:20 > 0:00:22CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Hello and welcome to Insert Name Here,
0:00:27 > 0:00:29the show where we discover surprising facts about people
0:00:29 > 0:00:32with just one thing in common - they all have the same name.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35And joining me, six of my favourite people.
0:00:35 > 0:00:36They have names, not afraid to use them.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38So, please welcome Hollywood director Paul Feig,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41historian Kate Williams and their team captain, Josh Widdicombe.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44And on the other side, comedian Jon Richardson,
0:00:44 > 0:00:47naturalist Chris Packham and their team captain, Richard Osman.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Now, Paul, you're the man behind Bridesmaids,
0:00:58 > 0:01:00which sounds worse than I meant it to sound.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04This whole show tonight is essentially all of us
0:01:04 > 0:01:06- auditioning for a Hollywood movie. - Yeah.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08Never felt more powerful in my life.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11The ideal way this could work is the next episode is just five
0:01:11 > 0:01:13empty seats and we've all gone to Hollywood.
0:01:15 > 0:01:16But Paul's still here.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Now, your name is Paul. Do you feel like a Paul, Paul?
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Um, I do feel like a Paul,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25though I've been informed that I should actually feel more like
0:01:25 > 0:01:29a Michael because apparently I bear a striking resemblance to
0:01:29 > 0:01:31a man named Michael Gove.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33No!
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Oh, you do! I wondered why I felt like I'd taken against you.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40You're not the only one to have observed that likeness,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42we did spot it. Here's the two...
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Oh, it's close!
0:01:45 > 0:01:48- Who's the handsome fellow on the left?- I don't know.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51Jon, you recently had a baby. Congratulations, my love.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53Thanks, it was... Yeah.
0:01:53 > 0:01:55APPLAUSE
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Did you find naming an issue?
0:01:58 > 0:02:01Did you go through reams of names or did you always know?
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Well, we sort of went down the dead relative route.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09It seemed fairest. One each, one dead nanna each.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12Were they dead before you named the baby?
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Yeah, the shock!
0:02:14 > 0:02:16- Yeah.- Jon has had sex!- I know.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18LAUGHTER
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Well, they were there.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26She's called Elsie, after my nan.
0:02:27 > 0:02:29Which was lovely until someone said to me,
0:02:29 > 0:02:32"Oh, is that because of the princess from Frozen?"
0:02:32 > 0:02:33Oh, no!
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Which really, really upset me, to the point of considering adoption.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41So now they've changed the name to Simba.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46Chris, do you name pets? Do you name any of your pets?
0:02:46 > 0:02:48I do, the domestic animals.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50Not wild animals that I've had, yeah.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54I've always had poodles, small black miniature poodles,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56and we had one and I was desperate to call it Help.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01I had this fantastic vision in my mind that someone would
0:03:01 > 0:03:04genuinely need help and they'd be shouting for it and
0:03:04 > 0:03:06a small black poodle would turn up.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09All right, to the all-important question -
0:03:09 > 0:03:11so, which name will be featuring tonight?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Well, they could be a Hill or a Mountain, a Miller or a Stiller.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Tonight's name is Ben.
0:03:20 > 0:03:22So, as you may have guessed,
0:03:22 > 0:03:25we're going to be talking about people called Ben, and that includes
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Benny, Benjamin and Benedict, or a welcome "come on, thither."
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Along the way, teams will be collecting as many Bens as they can.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33At the end of the show, the team with the most will have
0:03:33 > 0:03:35the honour of deciding who is officially
0:03:35 > 0:03:36the greatest Ben of all time.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38That person will then be inducted into our
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Insert Name Here Hall of Fame.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Any early thoughts about who that might be, Josh?
0:03:43 > 0:03:46- Well, I've got some favourite Bens. - Yeah?- Big.- Yeah.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Mr. Yes.
0:03:51 > 0:03:52And Uncle.
0:03:54 > 0:03:55Richard, your team,
0:03:55 > 0:03:57any early thoughts as to who the greatest Ben of all time might be?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59I've a soft spot for Ben Miller,
0:03:59 > 0:04:02only because I used to like the Miller And Armstrong Show
0:04:02 > 0:04:04and I've worked with Armstrong for many years.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08- And, God, he takes some carrying. - Yes.- He really does, doesn't he?
0:04:08 > 0:04:09All right, let's get on with the show.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11It's time to pick a Ben, any Ben.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13Our panellists are going to choose a category.
0:04:13 > 0:04:14Behind each category lurks a famous Ben,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17which our teams must attempt to secure.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20And so, first of all we have a Swedish Ben, an Italian Ben,
0:04:20 > 0:04:23an English Ben or an American Ben.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Josh, your team is going to pick first.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- Oh... - Which one does Deliveroo bring?
0:04:30 > 0:04:31Swedish Ben.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35All right, well, you have chosen musical superstar Benny from ABBA.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Let's have a look at the stats.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57LAUGHTER
0:04:57 > 0:04:59APPLAUSE
0:04:59 > 0:05:03Listen, it's fair to say everybody loves ABBA. Anyone here disagree?
0:05:03 > 0:05:05- Everyone loves ABBA, right?- Yeah.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Chris and Jon don't like ABBA!
0:05:07 > 0:05:09It's the noise of it, isn't it, really?
0:05:09 > 0:05:13If six-year-olds could make music, they would make ABBA.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16LAUGHTER AND BOOS Oh, that's divided the crowd.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19If you could now do the Swedish for "Money, Money, Money,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21"it must be funny," then you can take the mick out of ABBA.
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- SWEDISH ACCENT:- Money, money, money.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:05:26 > 0:05:27All right, I'll take it.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Here they are in their prime.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34I think that's at the opening of the Large Hadron Collider.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37He's really struggling to hold up the left end of that guitar,
0:05:37 > 0:05:38isn't he?
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- You see how they're dressed in the most ridiculous fashion?- Yes.
0:05:43 > 0:05:44There's a reason for that.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46It's one of the few things I do know about ABBA,
0:05:46 > 0:05:48because I know nothing about any of the songs, the music,
0:05:48 > 0:05:51I've not seen Mamma Mia, I don't own ABBA Gold...
0:05:51 > 0:05:53That is such bullshit.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57We know you, you're in that hide at night, going,
0:05:57 > 0:05:58# Money, money, money... #
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Someone goes, "Chris, a badger!"
0:06:00 > 0:06:02# Must be funny... #
0:06:03 > 0:06:06The reason they wore those outrageous garments is
0:06:06 > 0:06:09so that they could claim tax on them,
0:06:09 > 0:06:10because in Sweden at that time,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14you could only claim tax on clothes that you wouldn't wear elsewhere.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15So they made a point of this.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18It was the one political stand they probably took.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- That is absolutely true. - It's true, isn't it?
0:06:20 > 0:06:23So if you're listening, Gary Barlow, check it out.
0:06:23 > 0:06:25LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:06:28 > 0:06:31The first single was released in America by Playboy Records.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33Lots of demand for the 12 inch.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37But what was the problem with the name ABBA?
0:06:37 > 0:06:39It's also the name of a herring company or
0:06:39 > 0:06:41a fish canning company or something like that, isn't it?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43Absolutely is. Well done, yeah, Richard.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Very similar situation to the Uruguayan death metal band
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Fray Bentos.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52Chris, as a man at one with nature, where do you stand on fish canning?
0:06:52 > 0:06:56Well, 80% of our fisheries are now overfished.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57What should we be eating?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00If we're going to eat protein we should be eating insects
0:07:00 > 0:07:02because they reproduce far more quickly and...
0:07:02 > 0:07:04I've eaten cricket and maggot and mealworm.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I'm very concerned about the afterparty for this show.
0:07:08 > 0:07:10I read this article saying that cockroach milk
0:07:10 > 0:07:12is the best possible milk you can drink.
0:07:12 > 0:07:13- Oh, my word.- It's so protein-heavy.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15How do they milk them?
0:07:15 > 0:07:16LAUGHTER
0:07:18 > 0:07:21It's literally, finally the perfect job for you, Josh.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27There's now an ABBA museum in Stockholm filled with memorabilia,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30including the helicopter used on the cover of Arrival,
0:07:30 > 0:07:33plus a recreation of the ABBA recording studio.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35But what is special about the museum's upright piano?
0:07:35 > 0:07:38I've actually been to the ABBA museum.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40What? The actual?
0:07:40 > 0:07:41I've been to the ABBA museum.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44You should have dropped this one earlier in the round, surely!
0:07:44 > 0:07:45And, you know, actually,
0:07:45 > 0:07:49it's a piano and it's connected to the piano in Benny's house.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52- So when Benny sits down and plays on the piano...- No!
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- ..this piano plays itself.- Whoa!
0:07:54 > 0:07:56- So whenever he practises, you hear too.- That's quite cool.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59- But the trouble is, he's got seven cats.- Yeah.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04And they've also got this phone in the middle of the museum
0:08:04 > 0:08:06and the phone is a special phone,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09and the only people who know the number is the members of ABBA.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12So if it rings and you pick it up, you'll be speaking to Benny or...
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Or there's the possibility that all of this is bullshit
0:08:15 > 0:08:17to make people go to a shit museum.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19LAUGHTER
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Agnetha had a number of relationship issues, but what was unusual
0:08:26 > 0:08:29about her relationship with a Dutch forklift driver?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Didn't he pick her up in a warehouse?
0:08:31 > 0:08:33LAUGHTER
0:08:36 > 0:08:38I think he was her stalker.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Is absolutely right.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44He basically was an obsessed fan who moved house in order to meet her.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47When the relationship broke down, police raided his wooden cabin
0:08:47 > 0:08:48and found a shrine to Agnetha,
0:08:48 > 0:08:51including thousands of mementos, a dead turtle,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54with a bucket of faeces, which were rumoured to be hers.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Worst ever episode of Through The Keyhole. Worst.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02OK, we've reached the business end of the round.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05It's time to play for the Ben.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Benny has produced a number of solo albums over the years
0:09:07 > 0:09:10and collaborated with famous singers including Elaine Paige,
0:09:10 > 0:09:11Barbara Dickson and Sarah Brightman.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15But who sang on Benny's 1991 album,
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Fagelsang i Sverige?
0:09:19 > 0:09:22- The Queen of Sweden. - No.- Stefan Edberg.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26I'm going to give you a clue - it's more in your line of work, Chris.
0:09:26 > 0:09:27Oh, was it a badger?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31- Was it an animal?- It's an animal.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- Birds.- Exactly, birds.- Well done.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37It's wild birds, a collection of Swedish birdsong.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40The album features 90 different birds native to Sweden.
0:09:40 > 0:09:42They're not so bad after all, ABBA, actually, are they?
0:09:42 > 0:09:44They're all right!
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Would you like to hear a track from the album?
0:09:46 > 0:09:47More than anything in the world.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Chris, do you want to pick a number from track 1-90?
0:09:50 > 0:09:53- 90?!- There's 90! There's 90 tracks.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Oh, someone needs to get himself a proper producer.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Pick a number and we'll play the track.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- 17.- 17, let's hear 17.
0:10:03 > 0:10:05TRILLING
0:10:05 > 0:10:07I'm really into this, I genuinely am really into it.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12- Do you know what that is? - No, do you know what that is?
0:10:12 > 0:10:14- I think I do, yeah.- It's a bird.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20But it's not song, it's actually the drumming of a snipe.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23And what they do is they fly up into the air and when they fly down
0:10:23 > 0:10:25in a very steep descending flight,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28they stick out their outer tail feathers and they vibrate
0:10:28 > 0:10:31in the wind and they produce that sort of "vwoom",
0:10:31 > 0:10:32wobbling, drumming sound.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35Do you know what? We never ever thought in a million years,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38when presenting you with Swedish wild birds, 90 of them,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40one picked at random, you'd get it right,
0:10:40 > 0:10:41and Chris got it right.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44APPLAUSE
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Unbelievable stuff. Congratulations to Richard's team, you get the Ben.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Now, Richard's team, your go to pick a Ben, please.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57I think we'll go for an Italian Ben.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Italian Ben, and you've chosen Italian dictator
0:11:00 > 0:11:04and punctual train enthusiast Benito Mussolini.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Let's look at his stats.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19LAUGHTER
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Benito, the Prime Minister of Italy from 1922-1943.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25He went to a boarding school ran by catholic priests,
0:11:25 > 0:11:27but what unusual punishment did they give him at school?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Did they pass Il Duce by the left-hand side?
0:11:29 > 0:11:32LAUGHTER
0:11:34 > 0:11:35- JOSH:- Superb.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Superb.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40Well, his punishment was actually to sleep outside,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42made to sleep outside with the dogs.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44Even Mussolini admitted he was not a good boy.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46When he got together with his girlfriend Rachele,
0:11:46 > 0:11:47her mother objected.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50So, how did he make her change her mind?
0:11:50 > 0:11:51Did he pull a gun on her?
0:11:51 > 0:11:54He absolutely did pull a gun on her, yeah. Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57He went to her house with a revolver and threatened to shoot
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Rachele and himself if she opposed the match.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04Although, being the old romantic, he did get down on one knee first.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07He was a womanising psychopath,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09basically a cross between Russell Brand and...
0:12:09 > 0:12:11another Russell Brand.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15Indeed, Mussolini's voracious sexual appetite led him to be known
0:12:15 > 0:12:17as Italy's Phallus in Chief.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20Until I moved there.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Hey-hey!
0:12:22 > 0:12:25APPLAUSE
0:12:27 > 0:12:31What was unusual about Mussolini's relationship with Bella Italia?
0:12:31 > 0:12:33Oh, he had a loyalty card, didn't he?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36LAUGHTER
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Bella Italia was his pet lion.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Here's Italia going for a drive...
0:12:45 > 0:12:46with Chuckles Mussolini.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50According to the Daily Telegraph, at one point
0:12:50 > 0:12:53Mussolini's Roman villa contained a pair of lions,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56two gazelles, a monkey, parrots, two ponies and two tortoises.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00And shortly afterwards, just two very fat lions.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03Fancy an entourage like that?
0:13:03 > 0:13:06I had a lion in the front of a Volvo once, actually, and...
0:13:06 > 0:13:09The casual way you deliver that, Chris!
0:13:09 > 0:13:13- Unfortunately, it vomited and defecated at the same time.- Wow.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15It did the mythical double header?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21- In a Volvo!- I've been close on a hangover, but...
0:13:21 > 0:13:22So, what was it doing on your lap?
0:13:22 > 0:13:24I was bottle-feeding it. I had it on my lap.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28We were driving to Devon, and I'd just given it way too much
0:13:28 > 0:13:31and it shifted and I looked into its little
0:13:31 > 0:13:34sort of bluey eyes and I knew exactly what was going to happen.
0:13:34 > 0:13:36It vomited and shat all over me.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39God, where was Michaela Strachan during all of this?
0:13:39 > 0:13:40Was she with you at the time?
0:13:40 > 0:13:43No, she wasn't, but Terry Nutkins was driving.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45Terry Nutkins was driving!
0:13:45 > 0:13:48That is my favourite end line to any anecdote.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51The punchline to this is that we had a penguin in the boot.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54LAUGHTER
0:13:54 > 0:13:57APPLAUSE
0:13:57 > 0:14:00There's somebody watching this programme who's had
0:14:00 > 0:14:02a family member institutionalised in the '80s.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09"My God, Uncle Phil was telling the truth."
0:14:09 > 0:14:11LAUGHTER
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Well, on that note, time to play for the Ben. This is the big one, OK?
0:14:20 > 0:14:23In 1945, Mussolini was executed and his body strung up from
0:14:23 > 0:14:27the lamppost of an Esso garage, but which of Mussolini's possessions
0:14:27 > 0:14:31did the US give to his widow in March of 1966?
0:14:31 > 0:14:33It was his Bella Italia loyalty card.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39- They didn't cut something off him and then...- Yes, they did.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41- Was it his willy?- Not his willy.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43- Head.- Head is close.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- What's in his head?- Brain!- Brain.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47His brains.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50I slightly fed that to you. Yeah, the remnants of his brain.
0:14:50 > 0:14:51Yeah, during his autopsy,
0:14:51 > 0:14:54a piece of Mussolini's brain was removed to test for syphilis.
0:14:54 > 0:14:5521 years later,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58it was returned to his widow in the form of six test tubes in
0:14:58 > 0:15:04a wooden box, with the compliments of the US ambassador in Rome.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06"These Ferrero Rocher are disgusting!"
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Congratulations, you win the Ben, Josh. Well done.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14APPLAUSE
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Right, Josh, your turn.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21I think we're going to go with an American Ben.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24You've chosen old school American hero Benjamin Franklin.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26AUDIENCE OOHS
0:15:26 > 0:15:28Let's have a look at his stats.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44Franklin was a bit of a polymath, scientist, politician,
0:15:44 > 0:15:47inventor, most famous for a scientific experiment in which
0:15:47 > 0:15:50he flew kites in the middle of a lightning storm.
0:15:50 > 0:15:51And if you're going to do that at home,
0:15:51 > 0:15:55do make sure you use a small child to earth your experiment.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59I love the fact he's got an urn there, pre-emptively.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Yeah, straight in. Straight in there.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07As you can see, a metal door key was attached to the kite string,
0:16:07 > 0:16:08which charged a battery,
0:16:08 > 0:16:10thus proving the electrical nature of lightning.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13There's doubt, isn't there, Kate, that this actually happened?
0:16:13 > 0:16:15There is doubt, because we think that if
0:16:15 > 0:16:18he actually did succeed in conducting electricity down
0:16:18 > 0:16:21from that actual lightning strike to the battery,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25then in fact he would have been electrocuted himself and would die.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28What we think actually happened is he's getting electrical charge
0:16:28 > 0:16:32from the cloud and gathering that down, and that's what makes
0:16:32 > 0:16:35the bits of the string of the kite stand on end, which he observes,
0:16:35 > 0:16:38but he hasn't actually hit the lightning
0:16:38 > 0:16:40because that would be too excessive.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42So this means that the only thing I really knew about
0:16:42 > 0:16:46Benjamin Franklin is not true, so I really know nothing about the man.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48Yeah, welcome to this show!
0:16:48 > 0:16:49Franklin started out as a publisher,
0:16:49 > 0:16:52first big success was Poor Richard's Almanack.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55It contained recipes, weather forecasts, astronomical charts,
0:16:55 > 0:16:57poetry and witty maxims, many of which are still in use today.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01But which of these sayings was not devised by Franklin?
0:17:06 > 0:17:09LAUGHTER
0:17:16 > 0:17:18What do you think?
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I would say if you fly kites in thunderstorms,
0:17:20 > 0:17:22then life insurance is probably the best policy.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25LAUGHTER
0:17:27 > 0:17:30I think the first one might be Washington, but again, this is...
0:17:30 > 0:17:32- George Washington, but I could be wrong.- Yes.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34We'll go with honesty, then.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Well, the last one's Homer Simpson, isn't it?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40All right, so, you're going to go for beer and you are going
0:17:40 > 0:17:42to go for honesty is the best policy.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44Let's have a look at the right answer.
0:17:46 > 0:17:48So, the only one he didn't say is...
0:17:52 > 0:17:55Now, which august American said that?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Tiger Woods?
0:17:57 > 0:18:00LAUGHTER
0:18:00 > 0:18:02APPLAUSE
0:18:04 > 0:18:06You know what? It was Homer Simpson.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09So you were right about Homer Simpson, but wrong quote, yes.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11In January 1737, Franklin's newspaper,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14The Pennsylvania Gazette, published The Drinker's Dictionary.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16What was The Drinker's Dictionary for?
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Well, it was so you knew what you were drinking, presumably.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22- No.- Is it so that you could speak when you were drunk?
0:18:22 > 0:18:26It's actually an almanac full of euphemisms for being drunk.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30So, whereas we might say "battered", his examples include...
0:18:31 > 0:18:33That was a euphemism for being drunk.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Let me tell you now, you cannot be too free with Sir Richard.
0:18:38 > 0:18:39LAUGHTER
0:18:39 > 0:18:41My personal favourite...
0:18:44 > 0:18:47Any favourite euphemism you've got for being drunk?
0:18:47 > 0:18:49- Armitage Shanks.- Armitage Shanks.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51- If you've been drinking a lot... - Yeah.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53- ..you're constantly urinating... - You are.
0:18:53 > 0:18:56..and the only time you ever read what's on the urinal
0:18:56 > 0:18:58is when you've got to focus on something.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02It's a shame that is rhymes with something else, though, Chris.
0:19:02 > 0:19:03It's Cockney rhyming slang, really, isn't it?
0:19:03 > 0:19:08I mean, he's been for an Armitage Shanks eight times this evening!
0:19:08 > 0:19:11Jon, how about you? Do you have a favourite euphemism for drinking?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14Erm... Postponing the misery of life for another evening.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17LAUGHTER
0:19:17 > 0:19:18Something like that.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22Franklin, a prolific inventor, although he refused to patent
0:19:22 > 0:19:25anything because he wanted the widest possible benefit for mankind.
0:19:25 > 0:19:29He invented a mechanical arm for reaching books on high shelves,
0:19:29 > 0:19:32and a pulley system that allowed him to lock and unlock his
0:19:32 > 0:19:34bedroom door from the comfort of his bed.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Taken together, rather suspect-sounding.
0:19:38 > 0:19:41- Is that when he was having an Armitage Shanks?- Yeah!
0:19:41 > 0:19:44All right, now, time to play for the Ben.
0:19:44 > 0:19:49In 1750, December 1750, he nearly killed himself. What happened?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52Did he strangle himself with his own mechanical hand?
0:19:54 > 0:19:57So it felt like someone else's, Josh, is that what you're saying?
0:19:57 > 0:19:59LAUGHTER
0:19:59 > 0:20:00It involves an animal.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04I believe that he was trying to cook a turkey with his new-found
0:20:04 > 0:20:09electricity toy and he electrocuted himself when he was trying
0:20:09 > 0:20:12to use his key to conduct electricity to bake the turkey.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Is absolutely the right answer, well done. Correct.
0:20:14 > 0:20:16APPLAUSE
0:20:18 > 0:20:21Was Franklin the first person to experiment with electricity, Kate?
0:20:21 > 0:20:24Well, my favourite electrical experimenter is a bit earlier,
0:20:24 > 0:20:28and he is the chief electrician to King Louis XV.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30And what he did, Jean-Antoine Nollet,
0:20:30 > 0:20:35was he got 700 monks to form a human chain,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37holding hands, and then he electrocuted one monk
0:20:37 > 0:20:41at the end and made them all jump at the same time.
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Those were the days, weren't they?
0:20:42 > 0:20:45When you could just get 700 monks in a circle.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49You couldn't get 700 monks in the Large Hadron Collider these days.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51You've got state-of-the-art equipment,
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- but you can't get the monks. - You can't get the monks.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56You can't get the monks these days.
0:20:56 > 0:20:59Congratulations, you win the Ben.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02APPLAUSE
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Time now to fire up our Ben-flavoured fruit machine.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Each time I spin, up will pop three of my favourite Bens,
0:21:09 > 0:21:11and our teams have to match the extraordinary fact
0:21:11 > 0:21:12to the extraordinary Ben.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Also a chance to unearth more candidates for the greatest
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Ben of all time, so let's spin.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21So, we've got Blackadder and Young Ones writer Ben Elton,
0:21:21 > 0:21:22porn star Ben Dover,
0:21:22 > 0:21:26and a man who's probably delighted to be next to him,
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Gandhi actor Sir Ben Kingsley.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32That's a porn star called Ben Dover, that guy?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34No, it's not his real name!
0:21:36 > 0:21:38His real name is Ian Givemeone.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40LAUGHTER
0:21:41 > 0:21:43- I've met Ben Dover.- Have you?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46Yeah, he did a show at the Edinburgh Fringe a few years ago.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48What do you mean by a show?
0:21:49 > 0:21:51And what do you mean by meet?
0:21:53 > 0:21:57The question is, OK, so, which Ben appeared on a list of
0:21:57 > 0:22:01suggestions to become General Secretary of the Labour Party?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Josh's team gets to choose this one first.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Well, I think Ben Kingsley.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- I'm sure I've heard... - He's a Labour Supporter?
0:22:08 > 0:22:09Yeah, he's a big Labour man.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Would it possibly be Ben Dover as a protest vote?
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Hey, we've got Trump, you can have Ben Dover.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18LAUGHTER
0:22:22 > 0:22:24Who are you going to go for, my love?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26I know that the obvious thing is Ben Elton,
0:22:26 > 0:22:29but I've just got a feeling that he's the kind of red herring.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31- You're feeling in your bones. - Probably, yeah.- Kingsley, please.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34You're going for Kingsley? Richard's team.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36It feels to me, if Ben Dover did stand for
0:22:36 > 0:22:39Labour General Secretary, the MPs wouldn't vote for him,
0:22:39 > 0:22:43the unions wouldn't vote for him, but the members would.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Do you know, I think he's probably a Tory.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50That was the impression I got from his show.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56- So are you saying that he was swinging to the right?- Erm, yes.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59- So, who are you going to go for? - I think we'll go for Ben Dover.
0:22:59 > 0:23:02All right, you're going to go for Ben Dover. The correct answer is...
0:23:03 > 0:23:04- JOSH:- No!
0:23:04 > 0:23:06APPLAUSE
0:23:10 > 0:23:11Indeed.
0:23:11 > 0:23:13According to the News of the Word,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15in 2008 he was on a shortlist of potential candidates to
0:23:15 > 0:23:18become the new General Secretary of the Labour Party.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21Richard, congratulations, you win the Ben.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24APPLAUSE
0:23:26 > 0:23:27OK, onwards.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30We've got American R&B legend Ben E King,
0:23:30 > 0:23:33iconic Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto,
0:23:33 > 0:23:36and saucy '70s funnyman Benny Hill.
0:23:36 > 0:23:37OK, so, the question is,
0:23:37 > 0:23:42which Ben did Snoop Dogg reveal he would like to play in a movie?
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Richard, you get to go first on this one.
0:23:44 > 0:23:45Well, you know what?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47He is genuinely famously, Snoop Dogg,
0:23:47 > 0:23:48a big fan of British comedy,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and genuinely a lot of the rappers like Benny Hill.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52It's the truth.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Sorry, a lot of American rappers are into Benny Hill?
0:23:55 > 0:23:59- Yeah.- It was very, very popular when I was growing up.
0:23:59 > 0:24:01My father and I bonded over that.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03And Paul's father is Dr Dre, so...
0:24:03 > 0:24:05LAUGHTER
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Benny's actually a stage name - his real name was Cypress Hill.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11LAUGHTER
0:24:13 > 0:24:15- So you're going to go for Benny Hill?- Yeah.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16All right, you've locked in with Benny Hill.
0:24:16 > 0:24:18What do you reckon, guys?
0:24:18 > 0:24:20I have briefly met Snoop Dogg in LA, briefly...
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- Whoa, whoa, whoa!- Whoa!
0:24:23 > 0:24:25Rewind. Now the crowd say Bo Selecta.
0:24:25 > 0:24:29LAUGHTER
0:24:29 > 0:24:30So, go on.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33When I was 22 I was travelling and I stayed in this hostel in LA.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35And in the hostel there was a couple of girls
0:24:35 > 0:24:37who wanted to be Playboy models,
0:24:37 > 0:24:40and Snoop Dogg had met a couple of them in a club
0:24:40 > 0:24:42and he came down to our hostel to see them.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45- Snoop Dogg came to your hostel? - Yeah, yeah!
0:24:45 > 0:24:48I'm guessing you're someone that doesn't really know
0:24:48 > 0:24:49that much about Snoop Dogg.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52That was a man going, "Yeah, of course I'm Snoop Dogg."
0:24:52 > 0:24:53No...
0:24:53 > 0:24:56"Yeah, Snoop Dogg, ain't I?"
0:24:56 > 0:24:57LAUGHTER
0:24:57 > 0:25:00All right, so, Josh's team, what are you going to go for?
0:25:00 > 0:25:04- We're going to go with...- It sounds crazy, but I feel like Bhutto...
0:25:04 > 0:25:06- We're going Bhutto.- I don't know why else she's up there.
0:25:06 > 0:25:09So you're saying that you think that Snoop Dogg wants to play
0:25:09 > 0:25:11Benazir Bhutto in a film.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- All right.- No!- So, let's see what the right answer is.
0:25:15 > 0:25:16Oh!
0:25:16 > 0:25:18APPLAUSE
0:25:20 > 0:25:22Yeah. Snoop said, "I love Benny Hill.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24"He's one of my favourite comics of all time..."
0:25:30 > 0:25:34"And, hey, where's that beautiful redhead I saw in the hostel?"
0:25:34 > 0:25:36LAUGHTER
0:25:36 > 0:25:38I love the fact you thought it was Benazir Bhutto.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40I'm going to get that point back for us, though,
0:25:40 > 0:25:43because my next movie will now be Snoop Dogg as...
0:25:43 > 0:25:45LAUGHTER
0:25:45 > 0:25:47APPLAUSE
0:25:47 > 0:25:48For that...
0:25:49 > 0:25:51For that, Paul, I'm going to give you a bonus Benny,
0:25:51 > 0:25:54my favourite Benny - Benny from Crossroads.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56APPLAUSE
0:25:58 > 0:26:00Our big Ben goes to Richard's team. Well done.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05OK, well, let's play Finish The Fact.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07I'm going to start out by reading a Ben-based gem,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10you buzz in when you think you know how it ends.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13So, first up, disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson.
0:26:19 > 0:26:20BUZZER
0:26:20 > 0:26:23And 4.6 seconds later, he finished.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25LAUGHTER
0:26:25 > 0:26:26He started what? BELL
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- Paul. - Buying urine from schoolchildren.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32LAUGHTER
0:26:32 > 0:26:34He started giving football lessons to...
0:26:37 > 0:26:41- BELL - Is it who made Sam Allardyce look above board?
0:26:41 > 0:26:45LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:26:45 > 0:26:48No, who made one appearance for an Italian club before...
0:26:51 > 0:26:53But sadly, no-one wins the Ben.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Next up, we've got 19th-century Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04- BUZZER - More time to do the things he enjoyed.
0:27:04 > 0:27:06LAUGHTER
0:27:06 > 0:27:08APPLAUSE
0:27:10 > 0:27:11BUZZER Yes, Richard.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Did he find she was the only one who knew their Wi-Fi password?
0:27:15 > 0:27:19He actually found that she had kept 33 years' worth of...
0:27:19 > 0:27:21BELL Paul.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Old Sainsbury bags.
0:27:24 > 0:27:26BUZZER
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Toenail clippings.
0:27:28 > 0:27:29It's from the body.
0:27:29 > 0:27:30- BUZZER - Is it hair?
0:27:30 > 0:27:33It is hair! Well done, congratulations, it's hair.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40Yeah, in no way creepy.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Well done, Richard, you win the Ben. Well done.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46APPLAUSE
0:27:46 > 0:27:48So, we've come to the end of the show and I can tell you
0:27:48 > 0:27:50that tonight's winners with the most Bens are...
0:27:50 > 0:27:51Josh's team!
0:27:51 > 0:27:54CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:27:58 > 0:27:59Big moment now.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03Josh, who are you going to name as the greatest Ben of all time?
0:28:03 > 0:28:05I think it's very simple.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08I've annoyed Richard with the victory, and now I'm going to annoy
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Chris and Jon by choosing, purely out of spite,
0:28:11 > 0:28:12Benny from ABBA.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:28:17 > 0:28:19A worthy choice.
0:28:19 > 0:28:23So, let's put Benny up on the Insert Name Here Hall of Fame. Up he goes.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26He's going to join there Alexander Graham Bell, Mary Berry.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29That's a hell of a party right there.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32Best game of shag, marry or avoid of all time.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34LAUGHTER
0:28:35 > 0:28:37APPLAUSE
0:28:38 > 0:28:43Now, just for you, Chris, I'm going to give you Fagelsang I Sverige.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45Oh, the birds! The birds!
0:28:47 > 0:28:49- Thank you very much. - You're very welcome.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52A very big thanks to all my guests, special thanks to all the Bens
0:28:52 > 0:28:54here there and everywhere,
0:28:54 > 0:28:56but mainly thanks to you at home for watching. Goodnight.
0:28:56 > 0:28:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE