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Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho ho-ho-ho, | 0:00:30 | 0:00:35 | |
ho-ho-ho, | 0:00:35 | 0:00:36 | |
and welcome to QI for the J series Christmas Special, | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
which is, of course, called Jingle Bells. | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
And just look at my lovely, shiny baubles - | 0:00:43 | 0:00:46 | |
the sparkling Danny Baker... | 0:00:46 | 0:00:48 | |
Thank you, good evening. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:50 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
..the twinkling Sarah Millican... | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
Yay! | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:00:58 | 0:01:02 | |
..the glittering Phill Jupitus... | 0:01:02 | 0:01:04 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
..and... | 0:01:10 | 0:01:11 | |
GLASS BREAKS | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
..oh, dear, he's fallen off the tree, Alan Davies. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
CHEERING | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
So, Jingle your bells, please. Sarah goes... | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
TINKLE | 0:01:26 | 0:01:27 | |
Danny goes... | 0:01:27 | 0:01:29 | |
SLEIGH BELLS | 0:01:29 | 0:01:31 | |
Lovely. Phill goes... | 0:01:32 | 0:01:33 | |
CHURCH BELLS | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
Wow. And Alan goes... | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
THE BELLS, THE BELLS! | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
Very good. So now, first question. | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
It's a musical question. Where did Beethoven put his Jingling Johnny? | 0:01:47 | 0:01:52 | |
TINKLE | 0:01:55 | 0:01:56 | |
-Yes, Sarah? -Mrs Beethoven. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:02:01 | 0:02:03 | |
Somebody had to say it. | 0:02:05 | 0:02:06 | |
Yeah, well... | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
-Jingling Johnny? -Yes. What do you think? | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
I can't imagine a Jingling Johnny, and it's something that the | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
good folk at Durex have obviously missed out on. | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
A seasonal range, that actually, you know, with a bell in the um... | 0:02:17 | 0:02:23 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
-With holly round it. -Yeah. Be nice. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
I'll take that copy of Fifty Shades Of Grey away from you. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
We've started our family Christmas Show just as I hoped we would. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:35 | |
-Exactly. -Yes, merry Christmas. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
-His Jingling Johnny, what might it be? -Tiny Tim. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:40 | |
A triangle? | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
-Well, you're in the right area. -Ah. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
It's an instrument. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:44 | |
Other composers, Haydn's 100th Symphony uses a Jingling Johnny. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:48 | |
Berlioz was extremely fond of them, as was John Philip Sousa. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
-And I even have one. -Is it a cow bell? | 0:02:52 | 0:02:54 | |
It's rather more complex than that. It's this... | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
-Wow! -That is a Jingling Johnny. It's a large... | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
That would make your eyes water, wouldn't it? | 0:03:03 | 0:03:05 | |
You were supposed to not bring any props from the Hobbit back. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
Exactly. It was used as a marching, ch-ching-ch-ching. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
You up and down, with a march, up and down. | 0:03:20 | 0:03:23 | |
That's it, yes. | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
The army that used these began with J and has a connection with | 0:03:26 | 0:03:31 | |
Vienna, the Siege of Vienna, if that means anything historically to you. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:35 | |
As opposed to... | 0:03:35 | 0:03:36 | |
# The feeling has gone, only you and I, this means nothing to me... # | 0:03:36 | 0:03:41 | |
Not... Yeah. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:44 | |
# Oh, Vienna... # | 0:03:44 | 0:03:46 | |
Usually... | 0:03:46 | 0:03:47 | |
It's not Ultravox, it's earlier than that, Vienna... | 0:03:48 | 0:03:51 | |
Very good popular culture remembered. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:53 | |
It's good that I should know that, I don't know how I knew that, either. | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
Between Vienna and the East, | 0:03:56 | 0:03:58 | |
the whole of that part of Eastern Europe was owned by an empire. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:02 | |
-Ottoman Empire? -Ottoman Empire. | 0:04:02 | 0:04:04 | |
Their elite corps was called Janissaries. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:07 | |
And the Janissaries used these as they marched. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
And Beethoven used it in one of his most famous compositions, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
his Ninth Symphony, the Choral Symphony, he uses a Jingling Johnny. | 0:04:14 | 0:04:19 | |
And Hector Berlioz, one of the great French composers, claimed that | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
"The shaking of its sonorous locks added brilliancy to marching music." | 0:04:22 | 0:04:27 | |
Ah, I believe that it was later taken up, wasn't it, | 0:04:27 | 0:04:30 | |
by... On the X-Factor is how they...? | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
# Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise... # | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
Take it away, it's compulsive. | 0:04:38 | 0:04:39 | |
I think I'd better take it away from you. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:41 | |
-It's the Casio of its day. -It is. There are other... | 0:04:41 | 0:04:44 | |
# Casio! # | 0:04:44 | 0:04:45 | |
There are other instruments of this nature. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:50 | |
Buskers make their own versions. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:52 | |
There's a thing called the lagerphone, | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
it's an Australian version where the ringing noise is made by, | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
can you guess? | 0:04:57 | 0:04:58 | |
-Lager cans. -Oh, yeah, bottle tops. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
Yeah, crowns, the crowns of bottle tops, yeah, exactly. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
If you'd like me just to show you the majesty of Baker. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
Name a '70s single that harnessed one of those instruments? | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs, Seaside Shuffle. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
Ladies and gentlemen, Danny Baker. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
Wow! | 0:05:14 | 0:05:15 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:05:15 | 0:05:17 | |
It's like being in the room with Max Planck and Einstein | 0:05:22 | 0:05:24 | |
while they're talking physics. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
Which instrument was it? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:29 | |
It was, they used the zob stick, which was what they called it, | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
which was the bottle toppy... # Da-da-da... # | 0:05:32 | 0:05:34 | |
Yes they did. Terry Dactyl And The Dinosaurs. | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
You guys, you guys! But anyway, that was the Jingling Johnny. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:42 | |
So, moving on. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
Who sang the first advertising jingle, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
as it's Jingle Bells day today? | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
-Wasn't it...the, no? -Not Marconi himself, surely? | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
Marconi. "Hey, radio is the way forward." | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
Hey, hey, pop that hasn't been invented yet, pickers, | 0:05:56 | 0:05:58 | |
this is Marconi. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
I was at a party at the BBC and I sat next to Marconi's widow. | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
I have touched the wife of the man who invented radio. | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
That does seem weird, doesn't it, that she was still alive? | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
-Where did you touch her? -Did she mind? Yeah. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
She had been a young girl and he was quite an old man | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
when they married, but nonetheless, it's weird to think that | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
I could have met the inventor of radio's wife anywhere. | 0:06:20 | 0:06:22 | |
But the first jingle wasn't on the radio. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
Oh, music hall? | 0:06:25 | 0:06:27 | |
Well, no. The first people ever to sing jingles would have been, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:30 | |
as it were, you and me. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:31 | |
They were written in newspapers and on pieces of paper with products. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:35 | |
There would be the music written out with the words, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
so that you would sing it to yourself. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:39 | |
So you bought a packet of cigarettes and it went, | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
# I'm smoking cigarettes, I'm a man... # Whatever. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:46 | |
Because this was 20 years before they invented radio, | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
you know, we're talking about the 1870s and '80s. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:51 | |
Of course, a lot of people had little pianos | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
in their front parlours, | 0:06:53 | 0:06:54 | |
and they would get round and sing the, you know, | 0:06:54 | 0:06:56 | |
the Wrigley's song, or whatever it was. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
And so the first people ever to sing jingles would have been | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
the members of the public themselves. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:02 | |
Have you heard the Von Moltke? | 0:07:02 | 0:07:04 | |
There's a wax cylinder of Von Moltke, the German general, | 0:07:04 | 0:07:07 | |
and it's the only recorded voice of someone born in the 18th century. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
He was born in 1798. You can hear his voice. | 0:07:11 | 0:07:13 | |
That is extraordinary, isn't it? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
I remember, I had the good fortune to meet Alistair Cook, | 0:07:15 | 0:07:17 | |
the great broadcaster. He said, "Shake my hand," | 0:07:17 | 0:07:20 | |
he said, "You're shaking the hand of someone who shook the hand of | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
"Bertrand Russell, the philosopher." And I said, "Wow, that's amazing. | 0:07:22 | 0:07:25 | |
He said, "Oh, no, no, that's not too strange." | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
He said, "What's strange is that Bertrand Russell's aunt | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
"danced with Napoleon." | 0:07:32 | 0:07:34 | |
So I shook the hand of someone who shook the hand of someone | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
whose aunt danced with Napoleon. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:38 | |
Wow! | 0:07:38 | 0:07:39 | |
-It is pretty amazing, isn't it? -That is something, yeah. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
Let's go round the table. This hand shook the hand of John Lennon. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
-Oh, wow. -That's good. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
And to him, yeah. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:48 | |
Wow, there we are, we're passing it on. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:50 | |
Yeah, Louie Spence, I've shook his hand. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
Oh! Fantastic. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:57 | |
Go on... | 0:08:00 | 0:08:01 | |
-OK. -Go on, then. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:03 | |
-River Phoenix. -River Phoenix. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
-Ooh. -Oh, good. -Here we go. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
-Jennifer Lopez. -Wow, that's a goodie. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
-And if you were coming across here? -Here we go. -Oh, OK. -Alan Davies. | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
Whoa! You've gone and trumped us all, haven't you? | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
My aunt and uncle are very close to Jesus. | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
Yes. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
So back right off, all. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:27 | |
-Oh, there you go. But do you... -You see today. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
Jesus is still alive, so that doesn't really count. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
Of course. He's behind you. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:33 | |
Whoa! | 0:08:33 | 0:08:35 | |
And in front. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:36 | |
And, and it's his birthday! | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
ALL: Hurray! | 0:08:38 | 0:08:40 | |
Wah, wah, wah. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:42 | |
But radio... | 0:08:42 | 0:08:44 | |
radio jingles, on the other hand, | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
appeared in the 1920s, as a way, oddly, | 0:08:46 | 0:08:48 | |
to get round NBC's rule that you couldn't advertise directly, | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
but what you could do is sing songs which had the sponsor's name in. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:57 | |
And the show could even be named after the sponsor, | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
so like... | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
This is Rudy Vallee, a famous performer in his day, | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
he had an NBC show called Fleischmann's Yeast Hour. | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:09:08 | 0:09:12 | |
Thankfully, that was followed by Perkins' Yoghurt Half-Hour. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
And it was the Sunshine Vitamin Yeast jingle was, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
they consider, probably one of the very first jingles. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
Do you use jingles on your show? | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
I use vintage ones, the Ovaltinies one, cheers everybody up. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:28 | |
-Ovaltine is a great famous one. -And ones from the early 60s, you know? | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
"Sorry mate, you're too late, the best peas went to Farrows," | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
-which, again, is a beautiful bit of copyright. -Oh, yes. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:36 | |
Hang on a minute, this is one... # Boom-boom-boom-boom. # | 0:09:36 | 0:09:38 | |
-Esso Blue. -There we go. -Yeah, I know. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
It's mad, the things that stay in your head. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
Ho-ho-ho... | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
ALL: # Green Giant. # | 0:09:44 | 0:09:45 | |
Free advertising on the BBC. Ah, there we go. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:52 | |
We're just going to be thigh-deep in paraffin and corn, me and Alan. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
They're going to send you all kinds of free ones. | 0:09:56 | 0:09:58 | |
So now, what is that one for that malt whisky that | 0:09:58 | 0:10:00 | |
I was just trying to remember? | 0:10:00 | 0:10:02 | |
No, but anyway... | 0:10:02 | 0:10:04 | |
Can you explain the Jesus Christ Dinosaur Hypothesis? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
Why might you call anything a Jesus-something? | 0:10:08 | 0:10:10 | |
Amongst the properties of Jesus, if you... | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
-A walk on water. -Walking on water, that's the one. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
That's the one. Now, there's a particular kind of dinosaur, | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
a sort of intermediate dinosaur between birds and dinosaurs, | 0:10:19 | 0:10:22 | |
150 million years ago, which, in dinosaur terms | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
is quite recent, it was not long before they were all wiped out. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
There is a picture. | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
Oh, isn't it beautiful? like all the dinosaurs. | 0:10:30 | 0:10:32 | |
They're pretty amazing. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:33 | |
Do you know what that one was called? | 0:10:33 | 0:10:35 | |
Dave. | 0:10:35 | 0:10:36 | |
One day the answer might be Dave, | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
one day the answer might be blue whale, it's going to be... | 0:10:39 | 0:10:43 | |
What I'm looking forward to is | 0:10:43 | 0:10:44 | |
when we have a blue whale called Dave and you don't get it. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:47 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:10:47 | 0:10:49 | |
They're called Archaeopteryx. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:51 | |
And all the fossils for Archaeopteryx, oddly enough, | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
are found in a place where there was a sea, | 0:10:54 | 0:10:57 | |
but there was absolutely no evidence of any trees, | 0:10:57 | 0:11:00 | |
therefore, it seemed very odd as to how they would fly. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:03 | |
And there is a suggestion that what they did was they ran on water, | 0:11:03 | 0:11:08 | |
rather in the way that swans, when they're about to take off, | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
let's have a look at a swan about to take off, | 0:11:11 | 0:11:13 | |
you'll get the idea of what I mean. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:15 | |
They sort of, like that. It's a beautiful sight. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:17 | |
They can really run along the water. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
PHILL MAKES ENGINE NOISE | 0:11:19 | 0:11:20 | |
They think that's what the Archaeopteryx might have done. | 0:11:20 | 0:11:23 | |
And there are other animals today, still exist, | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
that are called the Jesus-something, because they run on water. | 0:11:26 | 0:11:28 | |
-Can you think of any examples? -Well, there's a lizard. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
There's a Jesus lizard, you might want to see a | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
Jesus lizard having a bit of a go. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:34 | |
The Jesus cow. | 0:11:34 | 0:11:36 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:11:36 | 0:11:38 | |
I would pay big money to see a Jesus cow. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
So would I. I'd get one of my own. | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
How that works is they blow up their own udders really big. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
Oh, like Space Hoppers. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:50 | |
There's something very Glenn Marston about that, isn't there? | 0:11:54 | 0:11:58 | |
But the Jesus lizard can get up to about 20 metres, which is not bad. | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
Obviously when they stop, they sink, I mean, | 0:12:01 | 0:12:04 | |
so it's all about the fact that they are literally walking | 0:12:04 | 0:12:06 | |
or indeed in their case, running, on water. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:08 | |
They strike the water and they slap it and they go through. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:10 | |
-What else runs on water? -In Jamaica there's one, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:13 | |
that would have been written about by James Bond. | 0:12:13 | 0:12:15 | |
Bob Marley used to run on water. | 0:12:15 | 0:12:17 | |
This one would have been... | 0:12:17 | 0:12:18 | |
"Rita, me going for a run 'pon de lake. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:21 | |
"Hold me chalice while I run on de water." | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
"No woman no drown." | 0:12:28 | 0:12:30 | |
I'm full of cultural references at the moment. | 0:12:32 | 0:12:34 | |
This particular one would have been written about by James Bond. | 0:12:34 | 0:12:37 | |
Where did Ian Fleming get the name James Bond? | 0:12:37 | 0:12:40 | |
-From note paper. -No. He had a book. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
He lived in Jamaica and he had a selection of books on Jamaica. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
And there was as book called The Birds of Jamaica, | 0:12:48 | 0:12:51 | |
by a man called James Bond. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:52 | |
-Oh. -And that's where he got the name for his hero. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
And so this man, James Bond, would certainly have | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
written about the Jacana, which is a Jesus bird, it's also called | 0:12:57 | 0:12:59 | |
the Jesus bird, for its apparent ability to walk on water, as well. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:02 | |
He gets all the credit, and why not For James Bond? | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
But let's never forget | 0:13:04 | 0:13:06 | |
he also wrote Chitty Bang Bang, Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Bang Bang. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:08 | |
Yes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. | 0:13:08 | 0:13:10 | |
And a character in that was called Caractacus Potts, | 0:13:10 | 0:13:12 | |
I didn't understand that joke for years. | 0:13:12 | 0:13:14 | |
-Potts, isn't that wonderful? -What's the joke? | 0:13:14 | 0:13:16 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:16 | 0:13:19 | |
He was a crack-pot, he was an inventor. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
-Crack-pot. -Oh, a crack pot! -Yeah. I know. -Ah. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
Are you a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fan? | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
I haven't watched it since I was a child, | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
-because I think that's when you're supposed to watch it. -Supposed to. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:31 | |
Do you know, that's girls, you see, little girls grow up to be | 0:13:31 | 0:13:34 | |
women and little boys grow up to be big, little boys. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:36 | |
-We've got too much stuff to do. -We still watch children's films. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:39 | |
-Do you have children, though? -No. | 0:13:39 | 0:13:40 | |
Ah, well, yes, when you do then remember... | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
-No no no, no. -You plan not to? | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
No. There's no "when", Stephen. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
-There's no... -No. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:48 | |
You're not going to adopt a little...shiny little baby? | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
A shiny one? | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:13:52 | 0:13:54 | |
Are they varnished? Can I varnish one? | 0:13:54 | 0:13:56 | |
I don't know. They might be more attractive if they're shiny. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
It's not my field, I don't... | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
And then Stephen revealed his plans for a child-buffing workshop. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:05 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:14:05 | 0:14:07 | |
Where craftsmen will get toddlers to a high sheen. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:13 | |
More, more lacquer, little boy? | 0:14:14 | 0:14:18 | |
PHILL IMITATES MACHINE NOISE | 0:14:20 | 0:14:23 | |
Baaa. You're the shiniest one. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:30 | |
We shall put you in the Harrods window. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
Oh, stop it! | 0:14:34 | 0:14:35 | |
"I'm still alive in here, I'm still alive in here." | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
-"Why I can see..." -"Help me!" | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
"I can see my face in your face. It's..." | 0:14:40 | 0:14:43 | |
MACHINE NOISE | 0:14:43 | 0:14:44 | |
You might have changed my mind, I thought they were very matt, | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
I had no idea. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:48 | |
Nice shiny little baby, I think they're lovely. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
Although, slightly put off by the idea of the child-buffing... | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:14:54 | 0:14:57 | |
Thank you for that, so much. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
Let me take you back now to your childhood and innocence. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:08 | |
-You remember all those white Christmases? -No. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:10 | |
-No? -Oh, OK. I remember one. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
-Yeah. -1971. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:15 | |
1970. The January was '71. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
-There you go. -Christmas itself was 1970. | 0:15:17 | 0:15:19 | |
Had you said "yes" I would buzz you, | 0:15:19 | 0:15:21 | |
cos you don't remember any, because you're from the south east. | 0:15:21 | 0:15:24 | |
You might remember a few more, because South Shields has had more. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:26 | |
-We've actually tried to work out... -Have you? Good. | 0:15:26 | 0:15:28 | |
..how many white Christmases you've had. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
We think you might have had them | 0:15:30 | 0:15:32 | |
-when you were one, three, four, five, six and nine. -Wow. | 0:15:32 | 0:15:35 | |
-Which is actually quite a lot. -That is quite a lot. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:37 | |
Because in the whole of the 20th century, if you lived in London | 0:15:37 | 0:15:40 | |
and the South East, there were only four white Christmases. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:43 | |
-Ha ha! -I know! | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
It is extraordinary. | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
And they were in 1927, 1938, 1970 and 1981. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:52 | |
As we know, in the 21st century, we've had a few. | 0:15:52 | 0:15:54 | |
But what's important about this is that in the early part of | 0:15:54 | 0:15:58 | |
the 19th century, around about 1812 to 1820, there were eight in a row. | 0:15:58 | 0:16:03 | |
Oh. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:04 | |
Now, why was that important to our culture? | 0:16:04 | 0:16:07 | |
Is that when the song was written? | 0:16:07 | 0:16:09 | |
No. A certain child was born in 1812. We will... | 0:16:09 | 0:16:13 | |
Jesus. | 0:16:13 | 0:16:14 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
Mormon! | 0:16:16 | 0:16:17 | |
You really do need a little bit of a religious education. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
This was an author, a writer who's created idea... | 0:16:20 | 0:16:22 | |
-Charles Dickens. -Oh, OK, Dickens, yeah. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
Charles Dickens. For the first eight years of his life, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:27 | |
it always snowed on Christmas Day. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
And so whenever he mentions Christmas, not just | 0:16:29 | 0:16:32 | |
in A Christmas Carol, but in several other novels, it's always snowing, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
and this helped the myth in British culture of a snowy Christmas. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
He also lived at a time known as the little ice age, you know this, | 0:16:39 | 0:16:43 | |
-I'm sure you've seen paintings of fairs on the River Thames. -Yeah. | 0:16:43 | 0:16:47 | |
There were times when the River Thames froze so solidly they | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
would have fairs, not just fairs, they'd have bonfires on the ice. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
Those crazy Cockneys. | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
Yes. But that they could guarantee... | 0:16:54 | 0:16:56 | |
-"Light a fire up!" -Yeah. -"It's freezing!" | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
"Let's light a fire on the river on the ice. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
"What could possibly go wrong?" | 0:17:02 | 0:17:04 | |
But the odd thing is, nothing did go wrong, | 0:17:04 | 0:17:06 | |
because it was so thick, the ice. | 0:17:06 | 0:17:08 | |
The last frost fair, as they were called, was in 1813/14, | 0:17:08 | 0:17:12 | |
-on the frozen River Thames. -Wow. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:13 | |
But anyway, this century we've had more white Christmases, | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
as we know, but only four in the entire 20th century, | 0:17:16 | 0:17:19 | |
-and only two in our lifetimes. -Yeah. -More in Scotland. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
I'm really being very metro-centric here and I apologise for that. | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
But that's just the fact of the matter. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:27 | |
Now, what's the best thing to do with your old Christmas tree? | 0:17:27 | 0:17:29 | |
TINKLE | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
-Yes? -I just, I put mine back in the spare room. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
I do, and I just, it's still fully decorated. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
-I just unplug it. -Oh, so you have an artificial one? -Of course. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:43 | |
-Oh, I see. -I just unplug it and then put it all in, | 0:17:43 | 0:17:47 | |
so in my spare room it's always Christmas. | 0:17:47 | 0:17:50 | |
(AUDIENCE) Aww... | 0:17:50 | 0:17:51 | |
Well, imagine if it was a real tree, rather than an artificial one. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
Sell it to Africans? | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
Cos according to Bob Geldof, they don't know when it's Christmas. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
And you aim... | 0:18:00 | 0:18:01 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:18:01 | 0:18:02 | |
..wouldn't know. So, oh, here's a tree, when you've finished with it. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:06 | |
But when you've finished with it, it's too late. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:08 | |
-It won't be Christmas. -No, they don't know, do they? | 0:18:08 | 0:18:10 | |
They do know when it's January. | 0:18:10 | 0:18:12 | |
But do they know it's Christmas time at all? No. | 0:18:12 | 0:18:14 | |
You're compounding the felony. Well, it's rather pleasing. | 0:18:14 | 0:18:17 | |
It's actually possibly the best thing you could think of doing. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:20 | |
Give it to a zoo. There are animals that would love it. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
-In Germany, they do this regularly. -Aww... | 0:18:23 | 0:18:26 | |
-Yeah. Elephants, elephants love it. -Isn't that lovely, look? -I know. | 0:18:26 | 0:18:29 | |
An elephant can have five Christmas trees for lunch. | 0:18:29 | 0:18:31 | |
Five Christmas trees! | 0:18:31 | 0:18:33 | |
And giraffes, rhinos, at Dresden Zoo, camel, deer, | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
sheep also enjoy it. | 0:18:37 | 0:18:39 | |
So before London Zoo writes me a letter saying, | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
"What the hell have you done, Stephen?" | 0:18:43 | 0:18:46 | |
Because the entire Regents Park is covered, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
ring up the zoo first and ask if they'd like your Christmas tree. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:51 | |
But as long as it isn't too covered in hideous bits of silver tinsel, | 0:18:51 | 0:18:54 | |
and you've got rid of all the nastiness. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
How much cuter that elephant would look | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
if it had a little bit of tinsel on it. | 0:18:58 | 0:19:00 | |
Well, it might look cuter, | 0:19:00 | 0:19:02 | |
but I don't think it's nutritively valuable for it. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
No. You know what tinsel is? | 0:19:04 | 0:19:06 | |
Mirrors for snakes. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:07 | |
-Aah. -Aah. I like that, that's rather sweet. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
That's adorable. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:12 | |
I can't bear people who do that on Boxing Day. | 0:19:12 | 0:19:14 | |
Sometimes you go out Boxing Day or the day after | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
and there's trees outside people's houses, that's not the spirit. | 0:19:16 | 0:19:19 | |
-6th of January. -There you go. -Yes, 12th night. Absolutely. | 0:19:19 | 0:19:22 | |
-Is it? Is it? -Yes. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:23 | |
Because that's always a perennial argument. It's the 6th, is it? | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
-Yes. 12th Night. -Oh, OK. -Yes. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:27 | |
Because we do it on the 5th and that's why I've had no luck. | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
-Well, no, ah. -Ah. -Ah. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
Well, is it midnight on the 5th or is it...oh, hell! | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
That's what this programme's here for, things like this. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Now you've got me worried. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
Oh, the chatrooms will be ablaze now. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:19:41 | 0:19:44 | |
-It's the 5th. -Right. -If you include Christmas night, that's one. | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
Oh, hell. Oh God. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30, 31, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:56 | |
-Bang, thank you. There you go. -That's the 7th night, then. | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
-What I've done there is... -He's gone round once. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:04 | |
I've gone round once. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Take that away, I'll take that away. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:08 | |
Get your socks off, get your socks off, | 0:20:08 | 0:20:10 | |
it's the only way he'll believe you. | 0:20:10 | 0:20:12 | |
I think the jury's still out. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:13 | |
Anyway, we're going to have a quick fire round now | 0:20:13 | 0:20:15 | |
and it's about Jesus, because it isn't just about eggnog and tinsel. | 0:20:15 | 0:20:18 | |
So, fingers on buzzers. What did Jesus' mum call him? | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
-TINKLE -Yes? | 0:20:21 | 0:20:23 | |
-Shiny? -Shiny. She might have called him shiny. | 0:20:23 | 0:20:27 | |
THE BELLS! | 0:20:27 | 0:20:29 | |
Jo Junior. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
Closer, basically, yes. There is a name that he had. | 0:20:32 | 0:20:35 | |
Yay-zuice. The name that we have called Jesus, | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
that's a Greek version of a Hebrew name which is also | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
used as a name given to people in Britain. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
Dave. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:46 | |
I'll tell you what I will do... | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
Welcome back. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
I'll tell you what, I'll give you points if you can tell me | 0:20:53 | 0:20:56 | |
why there are so many begats, so and so begats, so and so begats, | 0:20:56 | 0:21:00 | |
until they come to Joseph in the opening Gospels. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
Who were they trying to prove that Christ was descended from? | 0:21:02 | 0:21:05 | |
Oh, Abraham. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:06 | |
-Dave! -Dave. -Yes, David. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
-David, David. -That was the answer that would have been Dave. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
And I said Abraham, what a idiot! | 0:21:11 | 0:21:13 | |
He's given it to me on a plate. He had a plate. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
I gave it to you on a plate. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:17 | |
Yes, he was descended from Dave, but his real name was Yeshua, | 0:21:17 | 0:21:20 | |
which is in fact? | 0:21:20 | 0:21:22 | |
-Joshua. -He was Joshua. His name was Yeshua. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:25 | |
His mother would have called him Yeshua or Joshua. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
So that's one. OK, very good. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
Where is the world's tallest statue of Jesus? | 0:21:30 | 0:21:32 | |
Oh... | 0:21:33 | 0:21:34 | |
Now. Ah, now. Is it the statue or is it on top of something? | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
The statue height or how high? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:38 | |
-The actual, simply, tallest statue of Jesus. -I'm going to guess | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
Rio de Janeiro. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
Oh, dear, no, sadly it isn't Rio. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:44 | |
We all know that one, Cristo Redentor, the famous one there. | 0:21:44 | 0:21:48 | |
It's a tall one, it's a tall one. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:49 | |
It is, gosh it's tall. Don't get me wrong. | 0:21:49 | 0:21:51 | |
But... | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
THE BELLS! | 0:21:53 | 0:21:55 | |
-America. -No. There is an even taller one in Bolivia, | 0:21:55 | 0:21:58 | |
but that's not the tallest either. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:00 | |
The actual tallest one is in Poland. | 0:22:00 | 0:22:02 | |
Oh. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
Would you believe? In Swiebodzin, I'm sure I've pronounced that wrong. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
There it is. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:07 | |
It's 33 metres tall, one metre for each year of Christ's life, | 0:22:07 | 0:22:11 | |
plus a three-metre crown. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:13 | |
If the crown wasn't on that, the one in Bolivia would be the tallest. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:16 | |
So, now, how many people did Jesus feed at the feeding of the 5,000? | 0:22:16 | 0:22:20 | |
TINKLE | 0:22:24 | 0:22:25 | |
Yes, go on? | 0:22:25 | 0:22:27 | |
4,998 because there was a couple who were bit suspicious. | 0:22:27 | 0:22:31 | |
-They don't like fish. -Yeah, exactly. -A couple of Vegans. | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
"Oh, no, it gives me the creeps, all scaly, oh, no, no. | 0:22:36 | 0:22:40 | |
"Can I just have toast? All right, nothing for me, then." | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
I will quote you Matthew, 14.21, "The number of those who ate was | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
"5,000 men, besides women and children." | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
-Oh. -Oh. -So there were a lot more than 5,000. -Why don't we count? | 0:22:49 | 0:22:53 | |
It's the Bible. | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
Women get stoned just for looking at people in an odd way. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:57 | |
Very different times. Different times. | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
I'm afraid it's not fair or right or just and I agree with you, | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
-it's horrible. -Stupid thing! | 0:23:02 | 0:23:03 | |
I'm with you. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
It was known as The Miracle Of The Five Loaves And Two Fishes. | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
However, how many were there at the feeding of the 4,000? | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
Oh... | 0:23:15 | 0:23:16 | |
4,000 men! Huh! | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
Well, oddly enough, this is a separate one, a separate feeding. | 0:23:21 | 0:23:23 | |
Because you've got the 5,000 in Matthew and the 4,000. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
This one he fed 4,000 men plus the women and children, again, | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
and that's called The Miracle Of The Seven Loaves And Fishes. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
-I've never heard of that, so it was two. -Yeah. | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
So he was a caterer? | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
Yes. Basically. | 0:23:38 | 0:23:39 | |
How many disciples did Jesus have? | 0:23:41 | 0:23:42 | |
Oh, here we go. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
-Christmas, be nice. -Yeah. | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
-12. -12. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:49 | |
SIREN | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
No, no, again we look to the Gospel of Luke here. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
He had 72. He had, basically, he had a posse. | 0:23:55 | 0:24:00 | |
He had an entourage. | 0:24:00 | 0:24:01 | |
Was it 12 men, the rest were women, so that's why they don't count? | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
No, no. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
"After this the Lord appointed 72," he's got the 12, but | 0:24:07 | 0:24:09 | |
"he appointed 72 others and sent them | 0:24:09 | 0:24:11 | |
"two-by-two ahead of him to every town and place | 0:24:11 | 0:24:13 | |
"where he was about to go." | 0:24:13 | 0:24:14 | |
The 12 most famous of his disciples are, of course, the Apostles. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
OK, now, it's time to pull our Christmas crackers. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:21 | |
We have decided, you know, the jokes are always terrible, aren't they? | 0:24:21 | 0:24:24 | |
So we wondered, is it because we tell them the wrong way round? | 0:24:24 | 0:24:28 | |
And what you should have is the punch line from the joke, | 0:24:28 | 0:24:32 | |
not the joke. We want you to work out the joke from the punch line. | 0:24:32 | 0:24:37 | |
-Oh, look, look, I can do an impression. Hang on. -Oh, go on, then. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
I've got to do an impression. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
Look, I'm in Poland. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
Hey, hey! | 0:24:44 | 0:24:46 | |
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE | 0:24:46 | 0:24:49 | |
Very good. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:50 | |
Wait. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:52 | |
All right, have you found your jokes? Danny? | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
Mine just says, "That's not funny." | 0:24:54 | 0:24:55 | |
I don't know if it's a note from the producers of the show here, but... | 0:24:55 | 0:24:58 | |
That's harsh, isn't it? | 0:24:58 | 0:24:59 | |
You have to work out what the joke is. | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
A limerick? | 0:25:01 | 0:25:02 | |
When the government ran out of money... | 0:25:02 | 0:25:06 | |
and things look real bleak and not sunny, we all had a bash, | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
using these jokes as cash, but Germans said, | 0:25:11 | 0:25:15 | |
"Ein, that's not funny!" | 0:25:15 | 0:25:16 | |
-Hey! -Yes! | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
Aye-aye. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:20 | |
-That's a quick... -Aye-aye. Thank you. | 0:25:20 | 0:25:22 | |
Thank you. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:25 | |
I have to say, it's a lot better than the real joke, | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
which is how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb? | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
-That's not funny. -Oh, that's not funny. -Do you know the one, | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
-how many Freudians it takes to change a light bulb? -No, go on. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
It takes one to screw in the light bulb and the other to hold the cock. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
Father, ladder! | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
There you go. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
That's brilliant. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:51 | |
Anyway, so, Phill, what's your punch line? | 0:25:51 | 0:25:54 | |
My punch line is subordinate clauses. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:57 | |
Wow. What can the joke be? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
And the joke is, | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
"What is a sadomasochistic Santa Claus's favourite thing?" | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
Oh, well, that's not bad. | 0:26:05 | 0:26:06 | |
The real answer is, what do you call Santa's little helpers? | 0:26:08 | 0:26:11 | |
Subordinate clauses. | 0:26:11 | 0:26:13 | |
STEPHEN GROANS | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
OK, Sarah, your turn, what's your punch line? | 0:26:16 | 0:26:19 | |
My punch line is, "The trifle tower." Ha, ha. | 0:26:19 | 0:26:22 | |
You might be able to guess this particular joke, what's the joke? | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
That's the only reason I went to bloody Paris. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:28 | |
That would, that would do it. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:30 | |
What's tall and wobbly and is in Paris, is, you know, the trifle. | 0:26:30 | 0:26:33 | |
-Me, when I went to Paris. -Oh, no! | 0:26:33 | 0:26:35 | |
I'm not that tall, actually. | 0:26:37 | 0:26:39 | |
Alan, we haven't had yours, have we? | 0:26:39 | 0:26:40 | |
Well, mine says that, "Eat, drink and be Mary." | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
Eat, drink and be Mary. What do you think the joke is? | 0:26:43 | 0:26:46 | |
What did Jesus' mum do on Christmas Day, or something? | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
No, it's, "What does a transvestite do on Christmas Day?" | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
-Eat, drink and be Mary. -Eat, drink and be Mary. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:56 | |
The thing is, I can't actually get these off. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
I can see, I can see everything. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
Good. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:18 | |
We've got one more punch line. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:21 | |
"It's very good cold on Boxing Day, too." | 0:27:21 | 0:27:25 | |
-Turkey. -No. | 0:27:25 | 0:27:28 | |
Remember a puppy isn't just for Christmas. | 0:27:30 | 0:27:33 | |
-Ah. -Aah. | 0:27:33 | 0:27:35 | |
-Ooh, that's a bit sick, isn't it? -Oh, that's awful. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:38 | |
What's wrong with you? | 0:27:38 | 0:27:39 | |
Anyway, our sleighs have finally hit the buffers | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
and it remains only for me to try and pick a winner from the wreckage. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:48 | |
And it's quite remarkable. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
The clear winner, with four points, Danny Christmas Baker. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:54 | |
Hurray, ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. Ho-ho-ho-ho. | 0:27:54 | 0:27:57 | |
God love us, one and all! Love us one and all. Hurray! | 0:27:57 | 0:28:02 | |
And Sarah, Sarah, whom Jesus didn't feed, did fantastically well | 0:28:03 | 0:28:08 | |
and is in second place with minus six. | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
Yay! | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
And Bob Cratchit writing away at the ledger shivering with little | 0:28:17 | 0:28:22 | |
coal and feeling that it isn't very Christmassy at all, | 0:28:22 | 0:28:25 | |
on minus 32, Phill Jupitus. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:28 | |
But with a staggering minus 38, | 0:28:34 | 0:28:36 | |
it's Dave Dave Dave Dave Davies. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
And it's snowing! Hurrah! | 0:28:45 | 0:28:49 | |
So, that's all from Sarah, Danny, Phill, Alan and me. | 0:28:49 | 0:28:52 | |
And a very, very happy | 0:28:52 | 0:28:53 | |
and a quite, Quite Interesting Christmas to you all. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
Good night. | 0:28:56 | 0:28:57 | |
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