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This programme contains some strong language

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# Don't believe in everything you see or hear

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# Read all about it, read all about it

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# News of the world, news of the world

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# Read all about it, read all about it

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# News of the world, news of the world. #

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APPLAUSE

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Christmas, with me, your Uncle Dara.

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This year, we wanted to make Mock The Week extra special,

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so we thought about top celebrity guests,

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spectacular firework displays, and live music.

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However, that stuff costs money.

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So we just went for the usual collection of outtakes,

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new stuff and best bits.

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It'll be great, you can trust your Uncle Dara.

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What do you think? Yeah.

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Is that too creepy is it? That is too creepy, isn't it? Yeah.

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LAUGHTER

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We start with a round called If This Is The Answer, What Is The Question?

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On the board are six categories. Ed, which category would you like?

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Sport, please.

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OK, the category is Sport, and the answer is 33.

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What is the question?

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Is it how many pages in a Game of Thrones scripts are just

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the word "tits" in massive letters?

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Is it what is the emoticon for two women in a queue?

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Is it the number of women I slept with in my 20s, plus 32?

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Is it how many children you have to have

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to qualify for a family ticket at Mormon Center Parcs?

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APPLAUSE

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Is it at what age did I finally accept that

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I would never play the Milky Bar Kid?

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-Did you really want to do that?

-Another dream dies.

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-I've got three years to go.

-Finally accepted it.

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How many cans of Fosters can you drink and still be below,

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under the limit? How can... That doesn't...

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I don't know. How many have you had, like?

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That's the way you wouldn't want to say it

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if you'd actually been stopped by the police.

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"How much have you had to drink?"

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"Well, how many Fosters can you have,

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-"and be under the limit, actually?"

-"I think you'll find I am below under the limit.

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"NOT above.

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"Aaaah."

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Is it after how many miles did one of the Proclaimers ask

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if they were nearly there yet?

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APPLAUSE

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Surely they'd go, "Why are we both going?

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"You're the only one who's going to shag her,

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"why am I joining you on this 500-mile journey?"

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"You promised me she had a friend. Is that right?"

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Is it if a minicab says that it's five minutes away,

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-how many minutes...

-LOUD BANG

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Oh!

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Don't talk bad about Uber.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, the minicab industry has long fingers, hasn't it?

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I think we've all learned that today.

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APPLAUSE

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And little bits of glass.

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Well, from now on I'm taking a black cab.

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APPLAUSE

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To be fair, there is a little bit of glass, look, a tiny bit there.

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-Oh, really?

-Sue! Injuries at work!

-Oh, my God!

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"Have you been injured at work?"

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You've probably been the voiceover for those ads,

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why don't you ask yourself?

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LAUGHTER

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"I had 33 Fosters, and then the light exploded!"

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I'm going to check with you, what do you think?

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-BEHIND CAMERA:

-They're happy.

-They're happy? Oh, THEY'RE happy!

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-Well, fine! Oh, grand!

-Oh, that's all right!

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-Oh, brilliant, yeah!

-We'll just carry on!

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That's so easy for YOU to say! Oh, right, OK.

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We're being shelled here!

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Is it how many people are going to be sacked after that light exploded?

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APPLAUSE

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Welcome to this year's Christmas Quiz.

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Yes, I know, I know. APPLAUSE

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We have... Oh, wait, sorry, hang on, I'll need to make it more special.

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Hang on. There. How's that? That's good, isn't it?

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-Wait, does that... That's not going to last.

-I like the shoes.

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The shoes are good, aren't they? And this, I spent ages on this.

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This is... There we go, look at that.

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It looks like wraps of heroin stuck on a tree.

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There will be a very happy Christmas round my house, thank you very much.

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What have you got in your stocking? A spoon and a lighter?

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OK, here's the question. In Catalonia, in Spain,

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nativity scenes often feature a rogue figure who is doing what?

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-Having a kip?

-No.

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Drawing a moustache on the sleeping baby Jesus.

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No, but that would be quite great.

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-Bullfighting! Not bullfighting, no.

-It's Spain, isn't it?

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Yeah, but not in the middle of... The nativity scene is not IN Spain.

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They do accept that that's not happening in Spain.

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Is he holding people hostage and arguing for Catalan independence?

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He's not. He's not doing that, no.

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Is he doing a little poo?

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-Yes, he's doing a poo, well done, Rob, you're absolutely right.

-What?!

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Give Rob a round of applause. Well done, Rob, points to you.

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APPLAUSE

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The great thing about that is

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Rob has tried to answer a question like that for many years.

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That's the first one he's got right.

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That's my, my default answer is, "Is he doing a poo?"

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And that's the only time it's worked out for me.

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It dates back to the early 18th century, The Shitter, he's known.

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He symbolises fertilising the ground,

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and he's in the nativity scene, the corner of the nativity scene.

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I thought that I had a bad role in my school nativity play.

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But that is the one you don't want to draw, isn't it?

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"Not again! Can I at least be an angel this time?"

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Has anybody noticed Dara's eye, by the way? Is it off-putting?

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Do you think the people at home will be concerned?

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-What has happened?

-It's just a little stye in there, and it's got infected...

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Is that really it?

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-No, it's a...

-Has Brian Cox been beating you again?

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"Look into the telescope," he said, "Look hard into the telescope."

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-And he bruised my eye ramming it in.

-Boosh!

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"Yeah, go on, look at that! "Ha-ha, that'll hurt you."

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"That's my good eye, Brian, that's my good eye!"

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He's just trying to turn you into Patrick Moore.

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LAUGHTER

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They were so worried, they gave me an eye patch.

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Thought like this would be...

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Because this would be much more subtle, if I wear that.

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If I presented the entire show like that,

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cos I've got a tiny infection in the eye.

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To be fair, I have...

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Do you know, I have a secret desire to have an eye patch.

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I don't want to ever lose an eye.

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Like, that's not how much I want to have an eye patch,

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but I think they're cool.

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And there's something massively impressive.

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Cos a guy with an eye patch, shit has happened.

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Cos also you can do this...

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(Sexy!)

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It's like the final part of undressing in a sexy way,

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would be to take off the eye patch, and thwack.

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You could've taken my eye out.

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What unusual present might people be giving this Christmas?

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-Oh...

-Dead seagull?

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LAUGHTER

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Have you ruined the surprise?

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You are the worst Secret Santa ever.

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MAKES DISTRESSED SEAGULL NOISES "Kill it the first time, for God's sake, kill it."

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I think it's... I think it's actually sperm, isn't it?

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-It is sperm, yes, it is sperm, yeah.

-But this...

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That is not an unusual gift.

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APPLAUSE

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Horrific return policy.

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APPLAUSE

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"You said 14 days." AUDIENCE GROANS

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Oh, you've lowered the tone, Dara!

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-What?! How have

-I

-ruined it?!

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But why is this... What is this a story about?

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Because there's a British sperm bank, which, its owner,

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since it's been set up - I don't know how long it's been set up,

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it's a while, it's like a year and a half or something.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-It's only had nine donors.

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Yes. Why has it only had...?

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I'm wondering who the other eight are.

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Do you not all meet up?

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I presume if there's nine donors, it's got to meet up every,

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well, every Christmas and New Year and go, oh, swap stories, and...

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Not for biscuits, though.

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AUDIENCE GROANS

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This is that there's a certain type of sperm that can withstand

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the freezing process, and they call it Superman Sperm.

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When really that should be Han Solo sperm.

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That is a niche reference,

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but three nerds just fell in love with me.

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You get paid 35 quid, and they were saying,

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well, they could up the money to get more donors,

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but they don't want people just doing it for the money.

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Oh, THAT'S what you want, though,

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people just doing it for the love of it, then, do you?

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"I want to give something back to this game, you know what I mean?

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"Yeah, my dad was a sperm donor, my grandad was a sperm donor,

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"we've got a long line of sperm donors, yeah."

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-Is it 35 quid for the whole lot, or 35 quid per sperm?

-No.

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Because I could be up, I could be maybe 160 quid.

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There could be somebody watching this as a Christmas Special

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who'd forgotten to give somebody a present and thought,

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"Brilliant! Now! I can do it...!"

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"I'll knock that up in a couple of days. It'll be fine."

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That's difficult at Christmas,

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-because you're using the turkey baster already, aren't you?

-AUDIENCE GROANS

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No, there is... But it's actually,

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they've had a number of people attempt to be sperm donors,

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they need regular sperm donations, but it's difficult,

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because they have to be frozen, then transferred,

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the sperm has to have a very high motility, a very high strength.

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-But it's not very difficult to be the donor?

-No, it is, it's hard to qualify...

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-In many ways it's the easiest job in the world.

-In many, yes.

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Well, no, because you've got to go in, haven't you? Into the bank.

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I don't know about anyone else, I do most of my banking online now, so...

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APPLAUSE

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Our next round is called Newsreel.

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We play in a recent piece of footage featuring people in the news

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and ask Hugh to suggest what might be being said.

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This week's clip features the Prince of Wales.

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-AS CHARLES:

-Ha-ha-ha - oh, God, I hate Christmas parties.

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Oh, no, things are looking up. Girl on girl. Ha-ha.

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What's round this corner?

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Oh, Joanna Lumley, I'd love to show you something absolutely fabulous!

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-AS CAMILLA, VERY DEEP VOICE:

-Have you got a fag?

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So, what is this? This is... It's a present, is it? How lovely.

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What is it, a transparent rhinoceros?

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Well, I tell you what, you have quite literally given me the horn.

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Well, no, happy Christmas to both of you.

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I'm much more interested in Joanna.

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Joanna, I've got use of a private room, if you're interested?

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Oh, God, Charles is flirting again.

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I'm just popping upstairs for a few moments, Joanna.

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Room 232 on the 1st floor.

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I've got an old Gurkha you might be interested in.

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Why were you so long?

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I'm so sorry, I was trying to get Joanna

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interested in some of my organic produce, but nothing doing.

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What the fuck is this?!

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I'm the Prince of Wales!

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Oh, well, I suppose it's green. Oh, never mind.

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Where's the handbook? Oh, that's interesting.

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This is all electric,

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but its emissions are still higher than a Volkswagen.

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Merry Christmas!

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Thank you very much, Hugh. APPLAUSE

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One thing you're supposed to do,

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if you've got, like, a stye or something,

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you're supposed to put a warm compress on.

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Which is actually a painful thing,

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you get a cloth and you get it all wet, ugh.

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And then you're doing this, because the water's running everywhere.

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I found the perfect thing if you want a warm compress,

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something that will just sit warm, moulded on your eye, is a burrito.

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The burrito is the perfect eye cure, because it's warm,

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-it stays warm for some time.

-Oh, my God!

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It moulds to the shape that you're putting it onto.

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-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Anything in it?

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No, not... It's not an open burrito, Ed! Wrapped in the stuff, right?

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Wrapped in the tinfoily thing, you get it, you put it on,

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and you can do it for as long as you want and then...

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Were you sat in Chipotle, like that?

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I went into one of those Mexican places and just sat there going,

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COD MEXICAN ACCENT: "Just give me whatever you want."

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And I went, "This is what I want this for."

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And they said, "Why are you doing that voice?"

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I have no idea why I did that voice.

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"Get out of here, you're mocking me!

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"You don't see me going into an Irish bar going,

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"'Ho-ho, give us a pint of Guinness.'"

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Was the burrito the first port of call,

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or were you doing all the different food types?

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Going into Pizza Express, "This isn't working for me."

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No, first I tried ramming a plate of nachos into my eye,

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and I thought, "This does NOT work."

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And then, "Shall I try the taquitos instead?"

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And at what point do you think it became infected?

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APPLAUSE

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If you listen closely, you can hear, SINGS MEXICAN TUNE

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"Merry Christmas, everybody."

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What have scientists in America created recently?

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They've connected together monkeys and rats to make super-brains.

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Monkeys and monkeys and rats and rats, they've not taken one of each, yeah.

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-Yes, it's not a mix together.

-That would be incredible, though.

-"Monkey Rat is here!"

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Yeah, what we've got here is a runkey, and it's...

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That's like a racial slur.

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But there's a science thing where they want to connect monkeys

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and create a giant monkey, but a man is living a prequel.

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This man's entire life is the five-minute bit

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at a film before it cuts to, "30 years later..."

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And there's, like, a giant monkey brain going, "Waaagh!"

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And the four remaining humans are fighting their way out,

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-like they... But, yes. AUDIENCE MEMBER:

-As long as there's no runkey business!

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"As long as there's no monkey business,"

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shouts somebody out from the audience. That's very good.

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Wow, between light bulbs and heckling,

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this is turning into the most interactive episode we've ever had.

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I must say I actually quite like that, can I just have that?

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-Yeah, take it, it's grand.

-As long as there's no...

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Showbiz rules, pet, it's tough, you know. What was that?

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As long as there's no monkey business!

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Touche, Romesh, yeah. APPLAUSE

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You've learned a cruel lesson there.

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-She actually said runkey business.

-Did she say runkey?

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-She said runkey, you did it wrong.

-AUDIENCE MEMBER:

-Runkey!

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-Oh, OK, right.

-Oh, shut up!

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LAUGHTER

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Here is a picture of Prince Harry with his brother William.

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What's going on here?

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Is that what Ron, Harry and Hermione will look like in ten years?

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Is it three of the least posh people at the rugby match?

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Is he singing, "Swing low, eight liveried footmen,

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"coming for to carry me home?"

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My favourite person in the whole picture is the guy in front of Kate.

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Everyone else is really getting into the game.

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That guy there is just remembering a woman he once loved.

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APPLAUSE

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Anyone know what the answer is?

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Basically, they're playing Paloma Faith and he's shouting,

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"Shut the fuck up."

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There's that big rivalry between the two of them, apparently,

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cos they're both brothers.

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I think we can all relate to that. We can all relate to it.

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I have a massive rivalry with Prince William.

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-Why don't you get on with him?

-He started it, mate, he's a dick.

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Don't ask me. I'm quite nice to him.

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Where did you meet him?

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Where?

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-Lidl.

-Lidl?

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You can pretty much find anything in Lidl.

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Including the future King of England.

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He was...he was next to a Polly Pocket and a waffle machine.

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-And...

-Was this Lidl in the '80s?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Polly Pocket and a waffle machine!

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Yeah, Polly Pocket, a waffle maker...

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Wham were playing, or what?

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Prince William and some raisins, and I said...

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Sorry, you sound like someone at the end of the Generation Game failing to remember the items.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-Was there a cuddly toy knocking about?

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We apparently have to move on.

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LAUGHTER

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But I was flying!

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LAUGHTER

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-He was in mid-flow!

-I know, I'm sorry. It was...

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Tell them you just trust me, I'm building up to something.

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I'm watching a man... APPLAUSE

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What toy will my kids be finding under the Christmas tree?

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I don't want to give it away in case my kids are watching.

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-That would be really bad, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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This is the current trend, let me see if I can get that lined up

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so we get it exactly right. This is Freddy.

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And Freddy is a programmable bear that you can get at Christmas.

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-And...

-Just like a real bear, it's programmable.

-Yeah.

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-BEAR:

-'Everyone likes a good hug.'

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Do they now?

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'Give me a hug.'

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-No. That's a bit needy.

-'I love bear hugs.'

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BEAR LAUGHS WITH CHILD'S VOICE

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Isn't that the creepiest, weirdest...

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Laughs with a different voice to the voice it talks with.

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Brought to you by the people who brought you the Blair Witch Project.

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It's a bit distant, I feel. A bit not fully committed, but you can programme it

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with phrases, which apparently they've programmed for you.

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'It's so very nice to see you again, Dara.'

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"It's so very nice to you see you."

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That's like something Vincent Price would say in a horror film.

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'Hello, my friend Dara.'

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Can you make it say, "It puts the lotion in the basket?"

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APPLAUSE

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'You really like to star-gaze with Brian Cox.

0:17:350:17:38

'What else do you like about the park?'

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All right, you're creepy now, you're really freaking me out.

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-You know stuff about me.

-'This is a great day, Dara.

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'We are going to have such fun together.

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'It's great to have a friend like you to talk to.'

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Oh, that's so depressing.

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No. That makes me want to cry.

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I wish I'd never done the voiceover for it now.

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But where are these phrases supposed to be coming from, then?

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-Well, I think...

-"Don't turn me off, Dara. If you turn me off,

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"I'll become more powerful than you can ever imagine..."

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At the back, you can do one of the settings and change it, let's see what this is.

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This would be an incredible burglar alarm.

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Imagine breaking into someone's house

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and then that's sitting at the top of the stairs saying, "Hello...

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"Why are you in my house? I died in 1834."

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Dara, can you use its hair to see what you would look like

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-with a wispy, blonde beard?

-You mean like this?

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-That's lovely.

-It's nice, isn't it, yeah.

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'I know you like to eat, too.'

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What?! LAUGHTER

0:18:390:18:41

-It totally said, "I would like to eat you."

-It totally DID say, "I would like to eat you."

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I am really freaked out by the bear now.

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'Cider is one of my favourites, too.'

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"Cider is one of my favourite drinks?"

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'..great friends together.'

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No, we're not having a pint of cider together,

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you threatened to eat me a second ago.

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-'I like cider.'

-You like cider? THE BEAR LAUGHS

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Arrgh!

0:19:050:19:06

But it still laughs like a Japanese schoolgirl.

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Perfectly calibrated for being freaky, this is...

0:19:130:19:15

'Someone told me you like to wear tiny hats.'

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LAUGHTER

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Someone told me you like what?

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Someone told me you like to wear tiny hats.

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-Is that a euphemism for a condom?

-LAUGHTER

0:19:240:19:27

No!

0:19:270:19:28

How has internet pornography been put to good use recently?

0:19:300:19:34

This is the tortoise, isn't it?

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-It's a tortoise, yes.

-The tortoise, this tortoise went...

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-Well, two tortoises made a run for it.

-Yeah.

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One of them returned very soon, but the other one had gone walkabout,

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-they weren't sure where it was.

-Yeah.

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So this family, the kids suggested that they play some,

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this YouTube clip of two tortoises like, going at it.

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And then they, the sounds, they played the sounds into the garden,

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and then eventually this tortoise came back.

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The family decided to play tortoise...

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There's things on YouTube, like, nature, documentary-type footage of tortoises making lurve.

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-And...

-Making sweet, sweet, wrinkly lurve.

0:20:060:20:09

Slow, slow, careful, precarious lurve.

0:20:090:20:14

-And we can show you a small clip.

-Yes! This is it!

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You'll see some scenes of quite serious tortoise on tortoise action.

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The man tortoise gets quite excited, and then you'll see

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the response of the lady tortoise, which is quite beautiful.

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Let's have a look at some beautiful images of tortoises at love.

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LABOURED WHEEZING

0:20:340:20:37

Ugh...

0:20:370:20:39

What end's that?

0:20:390:20:40

APPLAUSE

0:20:430:20:46

I know that that's tortoises, I know that that's tortoises,

0:20:520:20:55

but can you see what it's like from our point of view now?

0:20:550:20:58

LAUGHTER

0:20:580:21:01

And they are joking, "Could you link it to Christmas?"

0:21:010:21:04

What?

0:21:040:21:06

Could the tortoises have been banging at Christmas?

0:21:060:21:09

"The tortoises, which were a Christmas present..."

0:21:100:21:14

-There you are.

-Oh, yes, you're right, yeah.

0:21:140:21:16

Because there's nothing you like more than having to show

0:21:160:21:19

pornography to your Christmas present to get it back.

0:21:190:21:22

"Oh, Mum, I've lost me Transformers doll."

0:21:220:21:25

"Oh, Optimus Prime!

0:21:270:21:29

"Watch me transform again."

0:21:300:21:32

"Oh, is that an exhaust pipe?" "Sort of."

0:21:320:21:35

Don't put the tortoise up again! With his weird eyes.

0:21:350:21:39

# We wish you a merry Christmas we wish you a merry Christmas... #

0:21:390:21:43

And a haaaaa-appy New Year!

0:21:430:21:46

But who's going to turn on the TV at Christmas

0:21:460:21:48

and just see Romesh's Christmas spirit face? Look at that.

0:21:480:21:51

APPLAUSE

0:21:510:21:53

He loves Christmas, this one.

0:21:540:21:56

I'm just waiting when you're going to do a fucking Diwali special, mate, that's why.

0:21:560:22:00

APPLAUSE

0:22:000:22:02

Is that the Festival of the Light?

0:22:040:22:06

We've had a bit of a festival of the light ourselves, haven't we?

0:22:060:22:10

LAUGHTER

0:22:100:22:12

What has become a Christmas tradition for vandals

0:22:140:22:17

in the Swedish town of Gavle?

0:22:170:22:19

-Christmassy vandalism.

-Christmassy vandalism, we're getting close.

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I'll give you a clue, it's to do with a 42-foot high

0:22:220:22:25

straw goat that's in the town square.

0:22:250:22:27

-They burn it.

-Setting fire to the goat.

-Cremate it.

0:22:270:22:29

They burn it down - you got in slightly before him -

0:22:290:22:32

they burn it down. And they burn it down EVERY YEAR, they burn it.

0:22:320:22:36

It started in 1966, and it got burnt down.

0:22:360:22:39

And the guy who paid for it, like, a local businessman,

0:22:390:22:42

got all his money back on insurance.

0:22:420:22:43

1969, burnt down. 1970, burnt down.

0:22:430:22:47

1972, the goat collapsed because of sabotage.

0:22:470:22:51

Every year they rebuild the straw goat. 1974, burnt down.

0:22:510:22:55

1976, hit by a car.

0:22:550:22:59

'78, kicked to pieces, '79 burnt before it was even put up.

0:22:590:23:04

'83, burnt down, '84, burnt down.

0:23:040:23:06

'87, a heavily fire-proofed goat was built.

0:23:060:23:09

It got burnt down a week before Christmas.

0:23:090:23:12

'89, burnt down.

0:23:120:23:14

'91, burnt down on Christmas Eve, then moved to Stockholm,

0:23:140:23:17

burnt down again.

0:23:170:23:18

'92, burnt down eight days after it was built.

0:23:180:23:21

There are two goats now

0:23:210:23:23

and the second one got burnt down three days later.

0:23:230:23:26

Every year... And they don't want it to happen!

0:23:260:23:29

They put web cameras on it, they send the army around it.

0:23:290:23:32

2001, it was set on fire, the 23rd of December by Laurence Jones,

0:23:320:23:36

a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio.

0:23:360:23:39

Jones stated in court, he was no goat burner, but believed

0:23:410:23:45

he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition.

0:23:450:23:49

2003, burnt down. 2004, burnt down, 2001, like, whatever.

0:23:510:23:55

2002, was burnt by vandals dressed as Santa and the Gingerbread Man,

0:23:550:23:59

who fired a flaming arrow at it at 9pm on the 3rd of December.

0:23:590:24:04

2011, the firefighters of Gavle sprayed the goat with water

0:24:040:24:07

to create a coating of ice in the hope of protecting it from arson.

0:24:070:24:10

The goat was burnt down.

0:24:100:24:12

2013, the straw used to build the goat was soaked in anti-flammable

0:24:120:24:16

liquid to prevent it from burning in the event of an arson attack.

0:24:160:24:20

The inauguration took place on the 1st of December.

0:24:200:24:23

On the 21st of December, the goat was burnt down.

0:24:230:24:26

APPLAUSE

0:24:260:24:28

Last year, three attempts at arson were made,

0:24:280:24:32

but the goat survived and was dismantled on 29th December. CHEERING

0:24:320:24:37

-The Gavle goat.

-And that is the Christmas episode, goodnight.

0:24:400:24:45

-Has anyone ever made a doll of you for Christmas?

-Oh, you...

0:24:450:24:48

-Because now I think there would be.

-They would, yeah.

0:24:480:24:50

-It would be really good.

-Not even a bobblehead, just an entire bobble,

0:24:500:24:53

-just bobbing me and I'm bobbing.

-Could be a Russian doll.

0:24:530:24:56

There would be another smaller one inside of me, all bobbing.

0:24:560:24:58

A smaller one and then a smaller one inside that and so on.

0:24:580:25:01

-Yes.

-Yeah. I think you'd be the right sort of shape for that.

0:25:010:25:04

-What?!

-I don't mean it.

-That was nice!

0:25:040:25:06

-There was no way to say, "You're the right shape to be a Russian doll."

-You were saying, "You fat prick,

0:25:060:25:11

"you look so big there's probably another person inside of you." LAUGHTER

0:25:110:25:15

# One singular sensation... #

0:25:200:25:23

All right. APPLAUSE

0:25:260:25:28

These are allegations that have been made about Sepp Blatter, but he has denied them all.

0:25:280:25:33

LAUGHTER

0:25:340:25:37

In other news, what type of unusual theme park did

0:25:470:25:50

President Vladimir Putin open recently?

0:25:500:25:52

-I'm sorry about the Russian doll thing, Dara.

-Just let it go.

0:25:520:25:56

Stop doing that!

0:25:580:26:00

Oh, no, no, no!

0:26:000:26:02

Do not damage the magical Christmas...

0:26:020:26:05

Arrrggghhh! CHEERING

0:26:050:26:08

OK, how has the behaviour of Western tourists upset

0:26:110:26:13

people in Malaysia recently?

0:26:130:26:15

-Erm, well, I've got...

-LAUGHTER

0:26:160:26:19

You saw that, didn't you? You saw the way I obviously didn't go

0:26:190:26:22

straight to the only remaining person.

0:26:220:26:24

LAUGHTER

0:26:240:26:26

This is the br...bll... Oh, bollocks!

0:26:320:26:34

Oh, I'm back!

0:26:370:26:38

This is the Bruce... Argh!

0:26:400:26:42

APPLAUSE

0:26:420:26:44

Hey, hey, hey!

0:26:440:26:46

There's really good heroin on this, don't knock the tree down.

0:26:460:26:50

Oh, look, it's snowing.

0:26:500:26:53

CHEERING

0:26:530:26:55

We win!

0:26:550:26:57

Our next round is called Newsreel.

0:26:570:26:59

Hang on. HE SNIFFS AND COUGHS

0:26:590:27:01

Sorry, sorry. AUDIENCE GROANS

0:27:010:27:03

I've got a cold, all right? Jesus!

0:27:030:27:06

Oh, you're all so much better than me,

0:27:060:27:08

you've never had a cold, right?!

0:27:080:27:10

Obama versus Putin, let the lip-sync... Fucking hell!

0:27:120:27:15

LAUGHTER

0:27:150:27:18

What unusual present might people be giving this Christmas?

0:27:180:27:21

That's right, jizz!

0:27:210:27:23

LAUGHTER

0:27:230:27:26

Sorry, can anyone tell me why, you know,

0:27:260:27:28

sperm would be a Christmassy thing?

0:27:280:27:30

Because it is Christmassy, you can write on the windows with it...

0:27:300:27:35

APPLAUSE

0:27:350:27:38

-Put it on again.

-Put it on again?

-The eye patch, put it on again.

-Again?

-Go on.

0:27:380:27:41

"Oh, you look funny, you look funny.

0:27:410:27:42

"Do the thing where you look funny again."

0:27:420:27:44

You know when they made you look like the guy off the back

0:27:440:27:47

of a fucking bus, and for three years everyone sends you

0:27:470:27:50

photographs of a cartoon man on the back of the bus?

0:27:500:27:52

Every day on Twitter, "Hey, Dara, I saw you in Manchester today."

0:27:520:27:56

"Huh?" Click. "Oh, bollocks, that's the man on the back of the bus again."

0:27:560:27:59

Do that with an eye patch, and then for years every

0:27:590:28:02

eye patch person in the universe, I will get sent him on Twitter.

0:28:020:28:05

Happy? There. I think on my nose, is that all right?

0:28:050:28:09

Is that all right? Oh, I hurt my nose.

0:28:090:28:11

So I'll just... Oh, wow, it looks like I'm wearing a G-string.

0:28:110:28:15

If the marketing people are clever, that bloke on the back

0:28:150:28:18

of the Megabus is going to have an eye patch by next week.

0:28:180:28:20

APPLAUSE

0:28:200:28:22

The next topic is, Unlikely Things To Hear At Christmas.

0:28:260:28:30

I don't care how many presents he's left,

0:28:300:28:32

there's reindeer shit all over the roof!

0:28:320:28:35

BUZZER

0:28:350:28:38

Look at those shiny red baubles.

0:28:380:28:40

Welcome to the Embarrassing Bodies Christmas Special.

0:28:400:28:44

BUZZER

0:28:440:28:45

Well, I didn't know what size you were, so I just had to guess.

0:28:450:28:48

There you go. Your first packet of condoms.

0:28:480:28:52

BUZZER

0:28:520:28:54

And now on BBC One, the Queen's Speech,

0:28:550:28:57

which contains scenes of a sexual nature.

0:28:570:29:00

APPLAUSE

0:29:000:29:01

BUZZER

0:29:010:29:03

A crib full of straw?

0:29:040:29:07

No, I asked to see the manager.

0:29:070:29:09

BUZZER

0:29:120:29:13

I thought if I cut the legs off the turkey,

0:29:160:29:18

I'd be able to get it into the roasting tray easier,

0:29:180:29:20

but, if anything, it just made it flap about even more!

0:29:200:29:24

BUZZER

0:29:240:29:25

Mmm! It's lovely to have venison for a change.

0:29:270:29:31

Santa, how are you getting home?

0:29:310:29:33

BUZZER

0:29:360:29:38

Well, take a skewer and shove it into a meaty bit of the thigh,

0:29:380:29:41

and if she screams, Granny's asleep, not dead.

0:29:410:29:44

BUZZER

0:29:460:29:48

Oh!

0:29:530:29:54

Sorry, Tiny Tim.

0:29:540:29:56

APPLAUSE

0:29:560:29:59

BUZZER

0:30:010:30:03

OK, and then David Cameron leaves the room

0:30:050:30:07

and the pig head winks, smiles and blows a little kiss.

0:30:070:30:10

And that is my idea for the new John Lewis ad.

0:30:100:30:13

BUZZER

0:30:150:30:17

These sprouts are from Germany.

0:30:170:30:20

They lied about the emissions again.

0:30:200:30:22

BUZZER

0:30:230:30:25

So do you mean I need batteries for all of these?

0:30:260:30:29

That's the last time I go Ann Summers for Christmas!

0:30:290:30:33

BUZZER

0:30:330:30:34

No, no, no - I didn't PUT a penny in the Christmas pudding,

0:30:350:30:38

I SPENT a penny in the Christmas pudding.

0:30:380:30:40

BUZZER

0:30:400:30:42

"Vorderman, Smillie, McGiffin?"

0:30:440:30:46

No, Reverend, this is not what I meant when I said,

0:30:460:30:49

"Which carols do you want to do?"

0:30:490:30:50

BUZZER

0:30:510:30:52

APPLAUSE

0:30:520:30:55

Don't look at me like that, don't, no.

0:30:560:30:58

No, you'll go back in the box. No, don't do sad, don't do sad.

0:30:580:31:01

No, no, don't do sad.

0:31:010:31:03

It doesn't look like it's "sad" he's doing, Dara.

0:31:030:31:06

LAUGHTER

0:31:060:31:08

He really did want to eat you, didn't he?

0:31:100:31:12

Merry Christmas, everybody.

0:31:130:31:15

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