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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Hello, I'm Frank Skinner and welcome to Room 101,

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the show where three guests compete

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to get their pet hates exiled for ever

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to the dark vault that is Room 101.

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Our guests' choices have been sorted into categories

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and in each round only one item can be chosen.

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The final decision is mine.

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So let's meet this week's guests.

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Joining me tonight are comedian Josh Widdicombe, DJ Sara Cox

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and singer turned broadcaster Aled Jones.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Right, then. Well, let's have our first category.

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It's the wild card.

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So in this round there are no restraints.

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You can pick anything at all that winds you up.

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So, what is Sara's wild card?

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It's the eyelashes on car headlights.

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-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for your support during this very difficult time.

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So, I think that humans have eyebrows and eyelashes

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to possibly stop sweat going in their eyes.

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So, what, you think you've got a sweaty car?

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Or are you trying to accentuate the car's "eyes"?

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Why have you got so much time on your hands

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that you can be bothered to stick stupid eyelashes on your car?

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Why do you want your car to look like Amy Childs? I don't get it.

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One of the problems with this... By the way, what about this?

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That would be handy if you were out driving

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and you saw an attractive person on the pavement.

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One of the things about it which I have a problem with is

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can men do it?

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It seems very excluding to me.

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Well, maybe men could have a little goatee beard under the reg.

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Well, actually, my car is customised

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in a more middle-aged man kind of a way.

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This is my car.

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LAUGHTER

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It just looks like you've hit a badger.

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Yeah, just trapped in the wheel arch.

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I've been going up the kerb, trying to get it out.

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Hate it when that happens.

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I also think that maybe women drivers, you know,

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still get a little bit of stick. Like, "Oh, women drivers."

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And if you've put eyelashes on your car,

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you're not really helping your cause to get respect on the road.

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Let's have a look. In case any of you think,

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"I've never seen eyelashes on a car,"

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this is an advert for eyelashes on cars.

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'Has your car ever winked at you?

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'Carlashes - the latest automotive accessory for women.

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'Flexible plastic lashes you attach above your headlights.

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'With Carlashes on your car,

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'expect smiles to follow you everywhere you go.

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'Finish off your Carlashes with a dazzling second accessory -

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'diamond crystal eyeliner,

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'rows of twinkling diamond crystals

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'that throw rainbows in the sun.'

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APPLAUSE

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-I feel that was the perfect campaign video...

-Yeah!

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..for me to get those into Room 101,

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especially with the voiceover.

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Well, I felt the audience here had been quite anti-eyelashes on cars.

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When they saw the diamante eyeliner,

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-a few people went, "Oh, hold on."

-"Ooh, yeah."

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I'd have thought the main problem of lashes on the car

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is you have to keep one of these in the toolkit.

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LAUGHTER

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Oh, that is the best prop I've ever seen in my life.

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My parents used to have the fingers that came out of the boot.

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That was a great gag, wasn't it?

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-Hilarious, wasn't it?

-That was really funny.

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Would you approve of that?

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That's not too bad, I guess.

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There's some things stuck on cars for charity, like the red nose,

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which is fine, but then it does get faded and people keep them on.

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What I did with my red nose is I put it on the back of the car

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and then I could use it for National Baboon Day.

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Are you old enough to remember

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when they used to have those sun strips on their cars,

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-with the bloke's name and the girl's name?

-Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. But what'd happen when you spilt up?

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-Were you allowed to detach her name and put on a new name?

-I think...

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-You had to take it off...

-You just wound it round, like that -

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-like a bus.

-Like a bus!

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OK, then. Well, what is Josh's wild card?

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Yeah, this is Lord Of The Rings.

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BOOING AND HISSING

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-SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE

-Oh!

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-I didn't realise it was such a controversial choice.

-Well,

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I think a lot of people have a great deal of love

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-for Lord of the Rings.

-Well, firstly,

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it's not particularly realistic.

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LAUGHTER

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-Yeah.

-If it's a book about Russia, I struggle to identify with it.

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If it's a book about a fictional place

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with people with furry feet and trees that live,

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that...that's not going to happen!

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And if you're going to do fantasy,

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make the story more interesting than a man finding a ring.

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I mean, that is barely an anecdote, at best.

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If someone said to me, "What happened to you today?

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"I found a ring." I'd go...

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I wouldn't say that takes nine hours of filming in New Zealand.

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There's a little more to it, though, isn't there?

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Is there any part of you, Josh,

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that thinks there could be things like elves?

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No, Frank. Um...

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I still think if I walked in the countryside

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at three o'clock in the morning on a summer's night,

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there's a bit of dew on the grass, I might see a tiny figure...

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That sounds like the kind of excuse a Tory MP would make...

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I was looking for elves, Officer!

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I stayed at a hotel and in the hotel room,

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they had a little bookcase which had Lord of the Rings on it

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and I thought, "How long do people stay here?"

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It's 1,100 pages.

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I'm of an age now, if I see a book 1,100 pages long, I think,

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"I'm not going to make that."

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This might be a deep-seated issue with Lord Of The Rings,

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but I, against my better judgment,

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three years ago auditioned

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for the lead role in The Hobbit.

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-Ah.

-So that might be why...

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-You didn't get it, did you?

-No. Cheers, Aled(!)

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I have to ask this. Were you on the short list?

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LAUGHTER

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So has this made you bitter, then?

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No, I hated it beforehand, but now it's got personal.

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One thing I'm fascinated by is the voice of the ring.

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In the film, the ring actually speaks.

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This is from Fellowship Of The Ring. Listen to this.

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DEEP, ECHOING WHISPER

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The voice of the ring is done by an actor called Alan Howard.

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Don't get me wrong, he's very good,

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Alan Howard, as the voice of the ring.

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I mean, you can tell he's got into character.

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But I saw Alan Howard at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre

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in Stratford in the 1980s do Richard II and Richard III.

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He was absolutely brilliant. Fantastic.

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It saddens me to know that he's now doing jewellery.

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So, what is Aled's wild card?

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I know you thought it would be The Snowman,

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but it's actually fish bones.

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APPLAUSE

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You faff around, don't you?

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You know, you get a fish and you think to yourself,

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"Oh, God, here we go."

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And you get a tiny bit of meat at the end of it,

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and every mouthful is...

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well, it could be death.

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LAUGHTER

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Yeah, it's hard work. I mean, I'll give...

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-What's the point?

-I will give you that.

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Well, I think they're to hold the fish together.

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How are you with anchovies?

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Because of course, they have - anchovies, whitebait -

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they have the bones but you just eat the lot.

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-How are you with that?

-No, I can't stand anchovies.

-Really?

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It's the worst food in the world. What's the point?

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Just put more salt on it.

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I like the fact that you don't have to...

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-you just eat the whole thing.

-Yeah.

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It's like, you know in Jurassic Park

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-when the Tyrannosaurus Rex eats that goat?

-Yeah.

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-It just crunches the whole thing up.

-Yeah.

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It's like that.

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-If there was a dinosaur version of Room 101...

-Yeah.

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..would they be putting in goat's bones?

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Yeah, exactly.

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They'd be saying,

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"Yeah, what's the point? And the horns!"

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-"I just want a bit of goat."

-Yeah.

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"If I hadn't have eaten that horn, I'd still be around."

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"As it is, we're completely extinct."

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And also the T Rex'd be saying,

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"I can't even reach the plate."

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"I find that annoying."

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LAUGHTER

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OK. Well, I tell you what I think you need.

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-What's that?

-You need a Wunder Boner.

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Oh.

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LAUGHTER

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'OK, who wants to clean and debone him?'

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I'll do it!

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What gives?! You want to do it?!

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Just wait till you see what I've got.

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It's the Wunder Boner.

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-THEY LAUGH

-The Wunder Boner?!

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Oh, you laugh now. Just watch.

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You just assemble the Wunder Boner's stainless steel rods, like this.

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You take the fish, you find the top of the spine

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and you slide him through the ring on the Wunder Boner. And...!

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THE AUDIENCE GROANS

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..voila!

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The Wunder Boner!

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My wife would like that!

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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So we've come to the end of that round.

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I don't feel I can put eyelashes on cars...

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-Oh, come on, Frank. Please.

-..because I think it is fun

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and I think there's so much road rage and unpleasantness.

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And I'm not going to put in Lord of the Rings...

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-Oh, why not?

-..because I love a bit of fantasy.

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-Oh!

-I love dragons and wizards and all that side of stuff.

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-I am terribly sorry.

-APPLAUSE

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But I have to say,

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if there's one thing that makes a meal into a chore,

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it is the bones in fish.

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So I am going to put the bones in fish into Room 101.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Next category, please.

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Nature!

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OK then, what winds up Sara about nature?

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-Dill.

-LAUGHTER

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Oh, I can smell it. It's disgusting.

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It ruins everything that its filthy little green fronds finger.

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And I just can't bear it.

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And it just has ruined so many meals out when...

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It's never listed on the menu.

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Some chefs just casually chuck it into a dish

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and I can just sense it.

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I'm like, sort of, a specialised bloodhound

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who's just really good at herbs.

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If you were to go through the gates of hell,

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in Beelzebub's herb garden would be dill,

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and I detest it.

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-And please put it in Room 101.

-Wow!

-Wow.

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-I've got a friend who's like this about chives.

-Mm.

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And I've been to restaurants with her

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and she'll say things like, "I'll have beans on toast, please.

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"No chives."

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LAUGHTER

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-I don't think I've ever had dill.

-Oh, it's awful.

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-What about dill pickle?

-There you go.

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I mean, this isn't helpful - the picking it, the throwing it around!

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I mean...

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You look like a line judge at some sort of herbal Wimbledon.

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It stinks.

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I would say this, that I appreciate that you don't like it.

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You've made that extremely clear.

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I used to hate olives, really hate them.

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But what I decided to do,

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because I don't like the idea of a food that I can't eat,

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is every 12 months or so, I'd have another crack at olives,

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-to see if I liked them.

-Mm.

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And after about four or five years of that,

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I tried them one year and thought, "Actually, they're all right."

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And now I eat them all the time.

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So I think it's worth going back and giving it a go.

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I don't know how many more chances I'm going to give Robert Mugabe.

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LAUGHTER

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No, but I mean, anything that you don't like,

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I think it's worth having another...

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No, it's never going to be a relationship that will form, here.

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It's...I'm sorry, it is you.

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It's not me. You're horrible.

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I'm talking to it now. I hate it.

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And actually, can I move it away from me?

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Yeah, course. Oh, no, away!

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I'll have it over here for this bit. Thank you, Aled.

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You would think that this may be an issue with a show

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where people talk about the things they hate the most,

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-that then you've decided to put them next to them.

-Yes.

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-Is this all right, like this?

-It looks nice.

-Yes.

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I don't want people switching on and thinking,

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"Oh, Frank Skinner's doing a double act with Paloma Faith."

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LAUGHTER

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If I was to... And I don't want you to throw up,

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but if I was to show you some products

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that contain or don't contain dill,

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do you think you'd be able to smell the difference?

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-I imagine so, yeah.

-Would you do that?

-Yeah.

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OK, well, I'm going to invite you to play Dill Or No Dill?

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OK, I'm going to say...this is number one, brace yourself.

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Is number one dill or no dill?

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Dill.

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-You can tell by looking?!

-Yeah, I can see it!

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It is dill, correct, you got that right.

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Is number two dill or no dill?

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Ooh!

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-No dill.

-It is no dill. And finally...

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This will surprise you.

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This is a Dolce & Gabbana perfume known as The One Gentleman.

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I want you to have a squirt and tell me if there's dill or no dill.

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I love when girls do this. Have you ever seen girls do this?

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I was just going to do it!

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I sometimes go...

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-Just get it on the hair?

-Yeah.

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-Can I spray you with this?

-A little bit, I've got to go home tonight!

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Dill or no dill?

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-The clue is not in the title.

-PHONE RINGS

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Well, not that close.

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I didn't get close at all!

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My girlfriend.

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-Dill or no dill?

-I'll say dill.

-It is dill.

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Three out of three for Sara Cox!

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I must say, I love the smell of that Dolce & Gabbana. I do.

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To think that was the same man who did Shaddap You Face.

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I'm just going to move the dill.

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OK, what doesn't Aled like about nature?

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Hold it, hold it. You'll love this.

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Oh!

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I mean, after the dill incident,

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-that was very irresponsible indeed, wasn't it?

-I know.

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-This is deep-rooted, isn't it? Can you tell?

-Yes.

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It's a scorpion.

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Basically, when I was singing as a kid,

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I was in Israel and I was singing on the little road to Bethlehem,

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singing The Little Road To Bethlehem,

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and the director said,

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"Sit on that rock and we'll film you."

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And so I went to sit on the rock

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and the Israeli floor manager said to me,

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"Be careful where you sit, cos there's loads of scorpions here

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"that'll kill you."

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So, I'm 11, supposedly singing a nice little carol

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about Jesus and the like,

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thinking any minute I'm going to die.

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So if you spool forward about four years,

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my dad thought it was really funny

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-to hold my hand above quite a few scorpions in a zoo.

-Oh.

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If social services are watching,

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they live in Llandegla in North Wales, by the way.

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-They'll never find that.

-No.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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-So then you spool forward again...

-Yeah.

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..and I've got two kids.

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And we were abroad and they were at an age

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where they have plastic toys, you know,

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little bugs and stuff like that.

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And I went to pick up what I thought was a black rubber scorpion

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-and that tail went up...

-Oh!

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..and honestly, it was one of the worst moments of my life.

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It was worse than my voice breaking.

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-LAUGHTER

-Oh, no.

0:18:450:18:47

It was. What's the point of them?

0:18:470:18:49

You can't take them for a walk.

0:18:490:18:51

-Don't do it again.

-I won't!

0:18:520:18:54

I can see it in your evil eyes.

0:18:540:18:55

-I thought you were going to do it.

-No, no.

0:18:550:18:57

You can't cuddle them and they can kill you.

0:18:570:19:00

Yeah.

0:19:000:19:02

Well, yes, you argue that well enough.

0:19:020:19:05

In order to empathise with the scorpion,

0:19:050:19:07

-I bought one of these.

-Oh, God.

0:19:070:19:09

Living your life like this must be pretty tough.

0:19:170:19:20

You just look like a weird squirrel.

0:19:200:19:22

But the thing is, when you put it on you realise this...

0:19:230:19:26

is that you sort of... it's constantly...

0:19:260:19:28

-You're almost stinging yourself, aren't you?

-Yeah, exactly.

0:19:280:19:31

You must think, "What's that?"

0:19:310:19:33

"Ow!"

0:19:330:19:34

Or, "I'll just lie back, have a bit of a... Argh!"

0:19:350:19:38

-Life must be like that.

-Good.

0:19:380:19:40

I'm going to take this off now cos it's driving me crazy.

0:19:400:19:42

-I don't know how they cope.

-It's why they're in bad moods, isn't it?

0:19:420:19:45

-Because they've got that sting just hanging over.

-Constantly there.

0:19:450:19:48

OK. What aspect of nature winds up Josh?

0:19:480:19:52

I'm quite scared now.

0:19:550:19:56

LAUGHTER

0:19:560:19:59

It's the only thing more controversial than Lord Of The Rings.

0:19:590:20:04

This is the home of nature and the great outdoors

0:20:040:20:07

-and it is Devon.

-OK.

0:20:070:20:10

-Which is where I am from, so this is OK.

-Right.

0:20:100:20:14

I think Devon's all right if you're not from Devon,

0:20:140:20:17

because you don't have to have spent your childhood in Devon.

0:20:170:20:21

To give you an idea of what it's like,

0:20:210:20:23

my parents have got dial-up internet.

0:20:230:20:25

LAUGHTER

0:20:250:20:27

-What even is that?

-It's like the Third World, Frank.

0:20:270:20:30

Now, I don't want to come across as a city slicker here

0:20:320:20:34

but I can make a phone call

0:20:340:20:37

and go on the internet at the same time, in my house.

0:20:370:20:39

That's amazing. It's like James Bond.

0:20:430:20:45

Do you know how often a bus would come to my village?

0:20:470:20:50

Once a week.

0:20:500:20:51

What about getting back?

0:20:530:20:55

You had to go for a week wherever you went.

0:20:580:21:01

You'd go there and you'd use the internet cafe

0:21:010:21:04

and you'd come back a week later.

0:21:040:21:06

And do you know how many children there were

0:21:060:21:09

in my year at primary school?

0:21:090:21:10

Four.

0:21:100:21:13

Two boys, two girls.

0:21:130:21:14

Four children in your year?

0:21:140:21:17

Yeah, including me.

0:21:170:21:19

You should have done so much better in life, shouldn't you?

0:21:190:21:22

You had, like, private schooling.

0:21:240:21:27

If someone had said to me when I was 11

0:21:270:21:29

I'd get to meet Aled Jones

0:21:290:21:30

and he'd tell me my life wasn't going very well...

0:21:300:21:32

LAUGHTER

0:21:320:21:36

..I'd have snapped their hand off!

0:21:360:21:37

There's a kind of rivalry, as well, between Devon and Cornwall.

0:21:390:21:43

over little things. Where you go...

0:21:430:21:45

For instance, I don't know,

0:21:450:21:47

if you were to have a cream tea, Frank...

0:21:470:21:49

Oh, it just so happens!

0:21:490:21:52

Now, which one of those would you choose?

0:21:520:21:55

-Cos one is cream over jam...

-Oh.

-..and one is jam over cream.

0:21:550:22:00

-One is a Devon scone and one...

-One is Devon,

0:22:000:22:02

and the other is completely disgusting and wrong.

0:22:020:22:06

-Yeah.

-I like jam first and then cream on top.

0:22:060:22:10

-Correct decision, Sara Cox.

-Oh, really?

0:22:100:22:12

-No, but that's Cornwall.

-That's Cornwall.

0:22:120:22:14

No! Jam on below, cream on the top - that's Devon.

0:22:140:22:16

-No. Devon is...

-No, that's Cornwall.

-Devon is definitely the cream on...

0:22:160:22:20

LAUGHTER

0:22:200:22:22

So the Cornish are right.

0:22:220:22:24

I was...I was....

0:22:240:22:27

-This place!

-I'm confused. Shouldn't you know?

0:22:270:22:29

-To tell you how bad this place is, it's worse than Cornwall.

-Yes.

0:22:290:22:32

This gives me the shudders, I'll tell you why.

0:22:340:22:36

Something happened to me.

0:22:360:22:38

I was at a cricket match, right,

0:22:380:22:40

and I was with the wife of quite a high-ranking cricket administrator.

0:22:400:22:47

I won't say who.

0:22:470:22:48

And she was a sort of... How can I put it?

0:22:480:22:50

She was a sort of full-figured woman

0:22:500:22:53

and they started bringing out the cream teas, and I said,

0:22:530:22:57

because she was the wife of a cricket administrator,

0:22:570:23:01

-I said, "I'll bet you've had a few cream teas in your time!"

-Oh!

0:23:010:23:04

Oh!

0:23:070:23:09

Oh, dear.

0:23:090:23:11

I meant because her husband was a cricket administrator.

0:23:110:23:16

And I tried to explain that in a sort of a, you know...

0:23:160:23:19

People, when they're crying, they don't listen.

0:23:190:23:22

LAUGHTER

0:23:220:23:25

This is the thing, that's the kind of thing Devon and Cornwall argue over

0:23:250:23:28

and that's why they will never be economic superpowers.

0:23:280:23:32

It's nice to visit, but... You grew up in Birmingham,

0:23:350:23:38

-there's things to do.

-Yes, there's things to do.

0:23:380:23:41

-But what about the beach when you were little?

-I grew up in Dartmoor,

0:23:410:23:45

in a tiny village in the middle of desolate moorland and a prison.

0:23:450:23:48

You should work for the tourist board!

0:23:520:23:55

Aled, I hate to ask this of you, but you wouldn't be so good

0:23:550:23:57

as to put the dill back onto Sara's platform, would you?

0:23:570:24:01

-Yeah. Of course, Frank.

-Thank you so much.

0:24:010:24:03

I know, you're too big to carry dill.

0:24:030:24:05

Oh, you looked like the worst bridesmaid ever then. No offence.

0:24:050:24:08

-With the dill.

-Yeah.

0:24:080:24:10

"Oh, I wonder if I'll catch the dill."

0:24:100:24:12

OK. Well, look, for a start, I can't...

0:24:160:24:20

I just can't put Devon in.

0:24:200:24:22

I've been on a walking holiday and it was a beautiful experience.

0:24:220:24:26

And you've moved away now,

0:24:260:24:28

so you don't have to put up with it every day.

0:24:280:24:31

-Fair enough.

-So, no Devon.

0:24:310:24:33

Now, this is an age-old choice between dill and scorpions.

0:24:330:24:38

Rarely do we get a guest

0:24:400:24:42

who has been so vociferous in their hatred of a choice,

0:24:420:24:45

-so I am going to put dill into Room 101.

-Thank you!

0:24:450:24:49

APPLAUSE

0:24:490:24:52

Next category, please.

0:25:010:25:02

Ah, this is the audience choice where the people speak.

0:25:090:25:12

-I believe we have Jessica Vickery in the audience tonight. Hello.

-Hi.

0:25:120:25:19

Thanks for coming tonight. What would you like to put into Room 101?

0:25:190:25:23

I would really love it if you put mayonnaise into Room 101.

0:25:230:25:27

-Why would that be?

-When it's put on food, that's all you can taste.

0:25:320:25:37

I might as well just eat a jar of mayonnaise.

0:25:370:25:41

Basically, when I buy stuff from the shop, I try and buy sandwiches,

0:25:410:25:46

I try and buy something without mayonnaise in,

0:25:460:25:48

and I have to find that stamp, that no-mayo stamp.

0:25:480:25:53

And you can't find it anywhere, so I have to be there for a long time.

0:25:530:25:58

And I look a little bit uptight, trying to find...

0:25:580:26:01

I've got things to do but I'm trying to find things with no mayonnaise.

0:26:010:26:05

The only things I can really have are just cheese,

0:26:050:26:08

just ham and just chicken, and that's what they're called,

0:26:080:26:11

and that also makes me look uptight.

0:26:110:26:13

Have you considered making your own sandwiches?

0:26:140:26:17

Yeah, but I'm always too busy. I do make...

0:26:250:26:29

I'm pretty sure you'd say,

0:26:290:26:31

"Even then! There's always a bit of mayonnaise!"

0:26:310:26:35

-Are you familiar with Baconnaise?

-No...

0:26:360:26:40

Well, maybe that will change your mind. Baconnaise is a...

0:26:400:26:45

I'm not making this up.

0:26:450:26:47

Baconnaise is bacon flavoured mayonnaise, as you may have guessed.

0:26:470:26:51

I love the slogan, which is, "Everything should taste like bacon."

0:26:510:26:55

Pretty radical.

0:26:590:27:02

Some people say to me, "How did the bacon get into Baconnaise?"

0:27:020:27:05

Well, I have an illustrative video.

0:27:050:27:08

Your love for me is all I need. And more than I can stand.

0:27:080:27:13

Monsieur Bacon! You have no shame!

0:27:130:27:18

What can I say? Allow me to demonstrate.

0:27:190:27:24

-Has that won you over?

-Absolutely not.

0:27:510:27:54

You must admit, though,

0:27:540:27:56

the idea of Baconnaise being turned into some sort of love match...

0:27:560:28:01

It's a fine piece of film making.

0:28:010:28:03

I don't agree with you on this,

0:28:030:28:06

but I do feel that mayo is...it's everywhere at the moment.

0:28:060:28:12

And it shouldn't be in every sandwich.

0:28:120:28:15

So I tell you what, Jessica, I'm going to give you this one.

0:28:150:28:18

-I am going to put mayonnaise into Room 101.

-Yes!

0:28:180:28:21

Well done, Jessica. Let's have our next category.

0:28:300:28:33

Ah, modern life.

0:28:370:28:39

So, what doesn't Aled like about modern life?

0:28:390:28:42

It's the Christmas round robin.

0:28:460:28:48

It's basically the Christmas card that you receive and you think,

0:28:500:28:53

"Oh, how nice of the Evans family to remember me this Christmas."

0:28:530:28:56

And you open it up and inside there's a folded piece of A4 paper

0:28:560:29:00

and it tells you about how wonderful their year has been.

0:29:000:29:03

The fact that little Jimmy, you know,

0:29:030:29:05

passed his GCSEs at the age of six.

0:29:050:29:08

They've been on six holidays, built a mud hut in Malawi.

0:29:080:29:12

They've retired, they're going to go and live in the Himalayas somewhere.

0:29:120:29:16

And you think to yourself, "God, I've had a rubbish year, haven't I?

0:29:160:29:20

"Why isn't my family like their family?"

0:29:200:29:22

I've never got one of these, so I...

0:29:220:29:24

I'm going to send you one.

0:29:240:29:26

-I would love to get a round robin from the Jones family...

-OK.

0:29:260:29:29

-..telling me what you've done this year.

-OK.

-That'd be brilliant.

-I'll play it down.

0:29:290:29:33

There's a book by Simon Hoggart,

0:29:330:29:36

which is a collection of round robin letters

0:29:360:29:39

and one is written from a dead dog.

0:29:390:29:42

It says, "It probably won't come as a huge surprise

0:29:440:29:46

"when I tell you that these greetings come to you

0:29:460:29:49

"from my new home in the happy hunting ground.

0:29:490:29:52

"Now my body lies four foot down,

0:29:520:29:54

"deep in the underworld, in one of my favourite places in the garden

0:29:540:29:58

"with Michaelmas daisies and lilies on top

0:29:580:30:01

"and a shark's fin headstone to speed my night sea crossing."

0:30:010:30:06

-Happy Christmas.

-LAUGHTER

0:30:060:30:10

Here's another.

0:30:100:30:12

"Holidays this year included two weeks in Turkey

0:30:120:30:14

-"on the side of a small bay..."

-Here we go.

0:30:140:30:16

"..voted one of the best views in the world.

0:30:160:30:18

"Our second holiday took us to the Red Sea Riviera,

0:30:180:30:21

"where we went to see the Pyramids.

0:30:210:30:23

"(Overrated.)"

0:30:230:30:25

-Is that from a dog as well?!

-No, no.

0:30:270:30:29

Do you ever rank your Christmas cards?

0:30:300:30:33

What?!

0:30:330:30:35

I put people I like best at the front.

0:30:350:30:38

Yeah.

0:30:380:30:39

And then, like, I put them in the corner of the room

0:30:390:30:42

and then as I go back, it's people I like less.

0:30:420:30:44

They don't know this.

0:30:440:30:46

There are people I put behind the one from the local curry house.

0:30:460:30:50

LAUGHTER

0:30:500:30:53

So it's family, friends and close people at the front,

0:30:530:30:56

and off they go into the distance.

0:30:560:30:58

The other thing I like is Christmas cards

0:30:580:31:00

where people have had the photos taken especially.

0:31:000:31:02

-Do you ever get any of them?

-Yes.

-Oh, yeah.

-I hate them as well.

0:31:020:31:05

-Do you?

-Yeah. Not keen.

0:31:050:31:07

We have some pictures of these personalised Christmas cards.

0:31:070:31:10

See what you think. This is the first one.

0:31:100:31:12

Is that a dead one in front of the boy?

0:31:150:31:18

I'm not going to lie to you, Frank,

0:31:220:31:23

I'm not sure that the boy's alive either.

0:31:230:31:26

So that's...you might say that was a bad decision.

0:31:270:31:30

Let me tell you, THIS is a bad decision.

0:31:300:31:32

Oh, no.

0:31:330:31:36

That shouts out Christmas though, doesn't it?

0:31:360:31:39

Is she wearing a coconut bra?

0:31:390:31:42

She is.

0:31:420:31:43

-That's not Christmassy.

-That's not very festive.

-Yeah.

0:31:430:31:46

Not that that was my issue with it!

0:31:460:31:48

She's got a Christmas hat. That's all right, isn't it?

0:31:490:31:51

-It should be like, I don't know, a couple of, like...

-Holly?

-Christmas pudding.

-Chocolate orange.

0:31:510:31:56

Two chocolate oranges...

0:31:560:31:58

and a Toblerone.

0:31:580:31:59

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:31:590:32:01

I'm going to send Sara one like this of me,

0:32:030:32:05

except it's going to be dill.

0:32:050:32:07

So, what doesn't Josh like about modern life?

0:32:100:32:13

Slogan T-shirts.

0:32:190:32:20

-Oh!

-You'll see these people walking down the street,

0:32:200:32:23

-or you'll meet a friend...

-Mm.

0:32:230:32:26

and they're wearing something that says, like,

0:32:260:32:28

-"You've got Hotmale," mail spelt like you're a man.

-Mm.

0:32:280:32:34

It's very difficult because people buy these T-shirts and they walk

0:32:340:32:38

around as if they're the funniest people that have ever...walked.

0:32:380:32:43

Like, when you say something funny, you laugh.

0:32:430:32:46

You don't go, "That was really good, Frank.

0:32:460:32:49

-"I'm going to get that made into a T-shirt."

-That's my dream.

0:32:490:32:52

What about this one?

0:32:530:32:54

Oh!

0:32:560:32:57

I mean, don't hold that up, Frank,

0:32:570:32:59

you're a recovering alcoholic.

0:32:590:33:01

LAUGHTER

0:33:010:33:04

I daren't. I daren't wear this.

0:33:040:33:05

This is a funny one.

0:33:070:33:09

Oh!

0:33:090:33:11

I mean, that's dodgy.

0:33:110:33:12

What if you walked past a school? I mean...

0:33:120:33:15

Well, it doesn't say when. It's some time in the future.

0:33:180:33:21

I just think it's the, kind of, whole level of, "I'm a bit wacky."

0:33:210:33:24

It's a bit like wearing a funny tie or funny socks.

0:33:240:33:27

What about this one?

0:33:270:33:29

"Dill with it."

0:33:300:33:31

LAUGHTER

0:33:310:33:34

Do you know, this is a genuine... We haven't made this.

0:33:340:33:36

-This is a commercially available...

-Really?

-..T-shirt.

0:33:360:33:39

-It's kind of good.

-"Dill with it."

0:33:390:33:41

Can you believe that someone sat around and thought,

0:33:410:33:43

"What's going to be a money-spinner?

0:33:430:33:45

"What about a confrontational T-shirt for dill lovers?"

0:33:450:33:48

I mean, I'm sort of anti-T-shirts, generally.

0:33:500:33:55

You're going to go skins?

0:33:550:33:57

No, I just don't... I never wear T-shirts.

0:33:570:33:59

I'm the wrong age.

0:33:590:34:00

Also, I've got a slightly...

0:34:000:34:03

You can't tell in this lovely cut jacket.

0:34:030:34:04

I've got a slightly round shoulder on this side,

0:34:040:34:07

so if I wear a slogan T-shirt,

0:34:070:34:09

the end of it is basically lost in a crumple.

0:34:090:34:12

I had to stop wearing my "I love Dick and Dom."

0:34:140:34:17

LAUGHTER

0:34:170:34:19

OK. So what doesn't Sara like about modern life?

0:34:200:34:24

-Wow.

-Death metal.

0:34:290:34:31

Death metal?

0:34:310:34:32

Now, as a DJ, it's my job to respect all genres of music.

0:34:320:34:37

-Mm.

-You know, be it jazz, funk fusion, drum and bass.

0:34:370:34:42

But the kind of music

0:34:420:34:44

that makes me want to pull out my eyes and stuff them in my ears

0:34:440:34:48

is death metal.

0:34:480:34:49

That sounds like a lyric from death metal.

0:34:490:34:51

It could well be.

0:34:510:34:53

I don't mind rock,

0:34:530:34:54

I don't mind guitar music, I don't mind indie music,

0:34:540:34:56

I have no problem with that.

0:34:560:34:58

It's just when people are screaming

0:34:580:35:01

-over really heavy, hard music.

-OK.

0:35:010:35:04

In case there's anyone watching

0:35:040:35:06

who doesn't know what death metal sounds like,

0:35:060:35:08

it sounds like this.

0:35:080:35:10

SONG: "Bring Me The Horizon" by Shadow Moses

0:35:100:35:13

APPLAUSE

0:35:290:35:32

Well, I love it.

0:35:390:35:42

Hold on, where's my wallet?

0:35:420:35:44

It would sort them out on X Factor, wouldn't it?

0:35:460:35:48

Can you imagine? One week they do the love week

0:35:480:35:50

and then they do the death metal week.

0:35:500:35:52

It would be brilliant.

0:35:520:35:53

Well, if they did something like that,

0:35:530:35:55

you might get something like this happen.

0:35:550:35:58

My name is Aaralyn O'Neil and I am six years old.

0:35:580:36:02

RASPING: # Everyone, listen to me... #

0:36:090:36:13

INDISTINCT

0:36:130:36:17

# ..I'm gonna eat you up right now!

0:36:170:36:21

# A-a-a-a-a-rgh!

0:36:240:36:27

# I'm gonna eat you up right now! #

0:36:270:36:31

APPLAUSE

0:36:310:36:34

-That was quite good, actually.

-That was brilliant.

0:36:340:36:38

I do love music, and I get that people love all types of music

0:36:380:36:42

-but it's just really not for me, that.

-No.

0:36:420:36:45

And plus, I've got a nice show like Sounds Of The '80s on Radio Two,

0:36:450:36:49

so perhaps maybe my ears are adjusting.

0:36:490:36:53

Are you using this as a plug?

0:36:530:36:55

No. Well, it is BBC and it's great. 10:00pm, Saturday night.

0:36:550:36:58

Also, I have to say, I never, ever would play that sort of music

0:36:580:37:01

on Classic FM between 9:00 and 12:00 every Sunday.

0:37:010:37:05

Never.

0:37:050:37:06

OK. Well, look, we've come to the end of that round.

0:37:070:37:10

I am so intrigued

0:37:100:37:13

by the whole world of round robins,

0:37:130:37:15

and I hope to use this as a springboard

0:37:150:37:17

to encourage my friends to send me round robin letters.

0:37:170:37:20

And death metal, I know...you know,

0:37:200:37:23

it can be a shock to the system

0:37:230:37:24

and there is a certain sameyness about it

0:37:240:37:27

but I really respect the amount of devotion and commitment

0:37:270:37:30

that the people involved with it seem to have.

0:37:300:37:32

I know I'm sounding like an old man but I don't care.

0:37:320:37:34

I, however, and although it is a branch of comedy,

0:37:340:37:37

I do worry about slogan T-shirts.

0:37:370:37:40

I think maybe people should be witty and charming verbally

0:37:400:37:44

rather than through fibre.

0:37:440:37:46

So I'm going to put slogan T-shirts into Room 101.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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And that brings us to the end of the show.

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And well done, Sara,

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you were the most persuasive guest so you are this week's winner.

0:38:070:38:09

Excellent. Thank you.

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CHEERING

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-Well done.

-Thank you.

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Thanks very much, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Cox and Aled Jones,

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and thank you. Good night.

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