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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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

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three guests battle to banish their bete noire to the notorious vault.

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They'll have to argue their case well because, in each round,

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only one item can be chosen.

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The final decision is mine. Let's meet this week's guests.

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Joining me tonight are on the money Robert Peston,

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on the funny Bridget Christie and on the Radio One-y Greg James.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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OK. Well, let's begin.

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So, what is Greg's first choice?

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The Kardashians.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Thank you and goodbye.

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LAUGHTER

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I thought we'd start big. It's hard to know where to start, really.

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I suppose my biggest gripe is not the fact that Kim Kardashian

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has released a book of selfies, called Selfish,

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or that she has released an app game that you can do where you have to go

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from the E-list to the A-list, and that's how you complete the game.

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That's annoying... Take it from me, it's a very long game.

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LAUGHTER

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I've given half my life to it.

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So those are two annoying things, but the thing for me is that

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when I was growing up we used to watch rubbish telly and look at

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rubbish reality stars and go, "Oh, they're embarrassing, aren't they?"

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but we didn't want to be them.

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Whereas now, with the Kardashians, people seem to watch it and go,

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"Well, they're idiots, aren't they, but I quite want to be like her."

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And it feels like there's a lot of particularly young girls

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that want to be like the Kardashian girls,

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and for that reason I'm going to try and put them into Room 101.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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The thing is, I just think we need better role models, OK,

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so I've actually got a list of role models

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who are better than the Kardashians.

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Would you like to hear the list? WHOOPING

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Well...it's a 29-minute show, you see.

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"A list of better role models than the Kardashians.

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"One - literally everyone else in the world, apart from murderers,

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"but even then you can argue at least they have done something

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"and have some skills."

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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That's kind of as far as I got, really.

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You see, my view on the Kardashians is, in a way,

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they are the people's champions because I think people...

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AUDIENCE BOOS

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Just hear me out! LAUGHTER

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I think they are a rallying point for people

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who are sick of the talented hogging the limelight all the time.

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I think people look at the Kardashians and think,

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"You know, if I was famous, that's what I'D be like.

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"I would just live it up, spend loads of money,

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"and, you know, not worry about stuff."

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And I can't help having a certain amount of affection for them.

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I think that they've made an awful lot of money,

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and they're incredibly famous, and a lot of people would be

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inspired by their business acumen, and the way that they've

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been able to create something out of literally nothing. Yes!

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But I think they do fill an incredibly useful function,

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cos the reaction of everybody here

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is that everybody here feels better than them

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and it just makes everybody feel good about themselves.

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APPLAUSE So they do...

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I think they perform an incredibly useful function in that sense.

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Interesting. They are really unpopular in here, aren't they?

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Not with me! LAUGHTER

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Well, in case people here have never seen the Kardashians,

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and wonder what the hell we're talking about,

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let's have a look at Keeping Up With the Kardashians.

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I love this. I'm really into belts.

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Do you like that with the circle, or not? Yeah.

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I love this. I have to get this.

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That, I love. She really knows how to shop, huh? I know.

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Whenever I shop with Kim I always get super-nervous,

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cos she buys, like, everything in sight.

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Your total is 19,723. That's after your discount.

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19,000? Mm-hm.

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Kim's always had a shopping problem,

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it's just escalated as she's made more money.

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LAUGHTER

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OK, can I completely...?

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I...hate them now.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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What I like, though, is the way you see something happening

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on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and then it cuts away

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to one of the Kardashians telling you what just happened.

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She's famous for her behind,

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and she's done a whole lot of selfies of her bum

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which she calls "belfies".

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So here's one of her belfies.

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So that's the standard thing.

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But the most famous one is the picture where she...

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Before it went out, she said,

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"I've done a picture which is going to break the internet."

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That's how confident she is.

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And we've probably all seen this picture - and she was right,

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it was absolutely everywhere, this picture.

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She's actually officially classified now as a centaur.

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LAUGHTER

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Can I give you some quotes from the Kardashians?

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This might win you over. This is from Kim Kardashian.

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LAUGHTER

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Come on, that's a good line. That's a great line. Kim again...

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LAUGHTER

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Now, there's something wonderful about the openness of that.

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I once saw Peter Stringfellow on a television programme,

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and he was going out with a 17-year-old woman.

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And there was a woman in the audience asked him, she said,

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"What do you even find to talk about?"

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And he said,

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"Oh, well, I'm quite lucky like that because I'm very shallow."

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LAUGHTER

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I thought, "There's something very admirable

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"about that level of honesty."

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Peter Stringfellow?

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He looks like a cross between Nosferatu and Carol Thatcher.

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LAUGHTER

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OK, Bridget, what's your choice?

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Babies.

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AUDIENCE GASPS AND LAUGHS All right.

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SPORADIC APPLAUSE AND BOOS

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All right, calm down!

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Yeah, the Kardashians have babies, you know.

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You didn't mind those going in the room.

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Well... OK. So obviously they're very cute.

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If they weren't cute, the human race would have died out

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a long time ago, because early humans would have gone,

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"OK, I've done three days now. I'm out. That's enough."

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I just think they're overrated.

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LAUGHTER

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I think that they contribute the least to society...

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LAUGHTER

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..but they are the most worshipped and revered people on earth...

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After the Kardashians.

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LAUGHTER

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They create chaos.

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If you replaced any of us with a baby, there would be chaos.

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Or a pilot, or a bus driver, or...

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You can't argue with that.

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LAUGHTER

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I'm not saying I hate... I'm not a monster,

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I'm just saying that they should make a bit more of an effort.

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LAUGHTER

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But there is a problem, which is of course they do get worse...

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I know.

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As they get older, they eat you out of house and home.

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You know, they... They're rude. You never know where they are.

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They're unbelievably rude, as you say.

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I mean, I don't know... Why are you singling out babies?

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Why not just...you know, all kids, or all people?

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Because babies are literally useless.

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LAUGHTER

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Have you lived with a 13-year-old boy?

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LAUGHTER

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Look, it was a very long time ago...

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This has become a witch-hunt!

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And the noise that they make, the sort of "wah-wah".

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I'm surprised that that hasn't changed over...

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LAUGHTER

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Yeah.

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Crying, you mean? Yeah, but can't it be something else?

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I'm not saying that they should be born talking.

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No? That would be more fun, wouldn't it?

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What if they talked before?

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You could hear a little voice saying, "What, chilli again?!"

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"Any more spicy food, I'm going breech!"

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No, I like that. It would help during the birth as well,

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It would be like The Chuckle Brothers - "To me, to you."

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LAUGHTER

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I have a clip of two babies sort of talking, which I think is brilliant.

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THEY JABBER AT EACH OTHER

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APPLAUSE

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Yeah, but they're toddlers.

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They're toddlers.

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Well... They've got nappies on.

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They were standing up and toddling...

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They're wearing the national costume of the baby.

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Since my son has started talking, I sleep with a baby monitor. Yeah.

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And he used to just cry in the morning, when he was a baby,

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and I'd think, "Oh, it's time to go down, you know, and get him",

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and now he calls out.

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He'll go, "It's daytime! It's daytime!"

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And I think it's God telling me about the next phase of my TV career.

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LAUGHTER

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What I remember...

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We're a member of an NCT group, which is a group you go to,

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I don't know if you know about this,

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when you're learning about having a baby.

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All the couples go, all the pregnant women and the dads.

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And we all had our babies, and then there was a new group coming

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and they were all pregnant

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and we were going to meet THEM for the first time.

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And I remember we got together and said,

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"Look, are we going to tell them the truth?"

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LAUGHTER

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You can't, you have to keep it back,

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otherwise no-one would ever have children.

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I live in quite a middle-class area, and, sort of,

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other mothers will kind of judge you, you know, if your baby's

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got a dummy in its mouth, you know, or a cigarette or something,

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it's just really...judgmental. You know.

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And other people's...

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Oh! THEY'RE boring.

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Other people's babies are boring. It's like conversation.

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Other people's conversation - extremely tedious.

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Your own - amazing.

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My lowest ebb... My son is three years old, right?

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I came down from Birmingham, moved to London to seek fame and fortune.

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I said to my son, "Nanny Sandra's coming round next week"

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and he said, "Nanny S-aa-ndra".

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LAUGHTER

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Did he really? He honestly said that.

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Just to balance this, let's have a look at a bit of brotherly love.

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It's a little boy playing with his little baby brother

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just to remind us that babies can be a beautiful thing.

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Ba-ba-ba!

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Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba!

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Ba-ba-ba-b...

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Eurgh!

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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I had forgotten about the joy of projectile vomiting, actually.

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That is a joy. It is a joy.

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Anyway, Robert, what's winding YOU up?

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So...

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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So it's the Devil's own material,

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Lycra - or spandex, as it's known in some quarters -

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and plainly what I loathe most about it

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is when it's worn by people of my age on bicycles.

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It's a particularly terrifying prospect.

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But actually I hate it in all its forms.

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I mean, it seems to me - we're talking about babies

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but I think...shouldn't be allowed to wear those sort of Lycra Speedos

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when you're over five,

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I think anybody over five looks utterly ridiculous.

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Five? Are you down the lido going, "He's six. Get them off.

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"You look stupid."

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I think athletes that wear...

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It's also like a form of...sort of drug cheating.

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I mean, why can't athletes just wear some baggy shorts and a...?

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You know, they all wear all this sort of clingy stuff -

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why is that technology all right

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but, you know, taking steroids is wrong? I mean, it's all...

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Very good case. ..it's all performance-enhancing stuff...

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I'd like to see Lycra testing.

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LAUGHTER

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And then there's disco. Right?

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I mean, you know, I'm a great disco fan, but disco pants?

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No, no, no. Disco hot pants? No.

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These are crimes against good taste.

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What do you wear at the disco, then? Me? Yeah.

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Oh, I just wear a sort of spangly suit with a frilly shirt.

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LAUGHTER

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What do you swim in, Robert?

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Baggy shorts. Baggy shorts? Yeah.

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Is that wrong?

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They could come off. They don't tend to.

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Are you the sort of person that sits in the Jacuzzi and likes them

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when they blow up?

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LAUGHTER

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That is good. Funny you should say that. Yeah.

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I've got you marked.

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I think if I had a better body

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I probably would be happy to wear Lycra.

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That's the bottom line. If I wear Lycra,

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I look like a reptile.

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LAUGHTER

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I mean, I wear a tie because my throat needs to be tethered now...

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LAUGHTER

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..cos, in a strong draught, it will actually move.

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Can I ask you a question? Would you be prepared to wear this?

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Er, no.

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These are commercially available on the internet. Jesus.

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The Robert Peston T-shirt.

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This is your old look. It is the old look.

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And what I love about this is the seller says,

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"It's a high-quality garment featuring..." You'll like this.

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"..the BBC's face of the recession."

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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Anyway, you've all argued incredibly well.

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I don't feel, Bridget, I can put babies in. No.

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They have their downside. There's no doubt about that.

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They can...

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Well, I don't think it would be too much to say they can ruin your life.

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LAUGHTER

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But they are also sort of what we need to continue,

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so I think we're kind of stuck with them.

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The Kardashians. I think the fact that you...

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AUDIENCE CHEERS

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APPLAUSE

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I love the British public,

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but I wouldn't trust them with a capital punishment referendum.

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LAUGHTER

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I've always thought the more people that say something,

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the more chance it is to be wrong,

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so I'm not going with the Kardashians.

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Ahhh. AUDIENCE BOOS

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I never said this was a democracy.

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I don't know where you got that crazy idea from.

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But Lycra, I think it probably is true that Lycra

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is made for people with really good bodies and I hate them,

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so I'm going to put Lycra into Room 101.

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APPLAUSE

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OK.

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So, what's Bridget's choice?

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People's sense of entitlement.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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It seems to me that when I'm out,

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say, for example, I'm driving my car.

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People walk out in front of me all the time

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and I have to slam the brakes on, and they look at me,

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and they're so angry that I'm driving my car on the road...

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..which is where it's supposed to be.

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People are rude. I picked up a phone.

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I was in a cafe and I was sat back-to-back with a woman like this,

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and she dropped her phone, so I picked her phone up.

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It was under my chair, and I turned round and went,

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"Oh, excuse me, you've dropped your phone," and she just went like that.

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She didn't even turn around and make eye contact.

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She just put her hand like that for me to put the phone into her hand.

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I think people have a general sense of narcissistic entitlement,

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where I think technology, credit, everything,

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we don't wait for anything any more.

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We can have whatever we want all the time,

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so we just expect everything all the time.

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We expect to be able to walk out into the road

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and nearly cause an accident.

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I blame the Kardashians.

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I think it's because they know, they've finally worked out

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that motorists will not drive straight at them

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if they're standing in the road.

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That was a sad day when they worked that out.

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LAUGHTER

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Can I just...? I mean, the general thesis I completely accept,

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but you're absolutely sure you're not a shockingly bad driver?

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It seems to happen a lot to you.

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No, I mean, I drive very fast. No.

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Well, look, I live in quite a very nice area

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and I took my child to the playground

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and the playground was locked that day

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and it was locked because the person who has to watch over,

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the safety person, wasn't there, so they locked the playground,

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and a lot of parents had climbed over the fence and gone in

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and the kids were still playing,

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so I said to my son, "We can't go in the playground cos it's locked."

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He could see people in there,

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and he was...he was crying that he couldn't go in.

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Now, I was angry partly that they had disobeyed the notice,

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which I would never do, but also, I knew, deep down,

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that one of the reasons I wasn't doing it

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was cos I didn't fancy my chances of getting over the fence.

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So there was an old-dad thing,

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but I am very obedient by nature.

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I don't think I have ever eaten an After Eight mint

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before eight o'clock.

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LAUGHTER

0:19:500:19:51

It brings out the worst in me, though, all this sort of behaviour.

0:19:510:19:54

Do you ever fantasise?

0:19:540:19:56

Do you ever have the harpoon fantasy,

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where you see someone doing something bad and you fire a harpoon?

0:19:580:20:02

So you get the "KRRRRR"! It goes into their back,

0:20:020:20:05

and then you're able to reel them in for an informative debriefing.

0:20:050:20:09

That's my thing. Let's see what is angering Robert.

0:20:110:20:15

So...

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APPLAUSE

0:20:210:20:23

So managers have been responsible for one or two minor crimes.

0:20:250:20:30

Mis-selling billions of insurance to us,

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bankrupting the banks and the economy,

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but perhaps, more than anything,

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murdering the English language is what gets me.

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So, it's a mixture of things.

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It's sort of pretending to say something meaningful

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when actually they're saying something meaningless.

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It's prefacing an expression with a phrase like "going forward".

0:20:500:20:55

"Going forward, we will do something."

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You don't need "going forward".

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You just have to say, "We will be doing something or other."

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And then there are all these sort of weird sort of metaphors,

0:21:020:21:05

often taken from technology.

0:21:050:21:09

"So let's take this offline and then drill down

0:21:090:21:14

"and we'll kick this whole thing out of the ballpark."

0:21:140:21:19

I mean, total meaningless nonsense.

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The more jargon that they use is normally associated with

0:21:220:21:26

the sort of less intelligence that they actually have

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and then I suppose the other side of it, which I dislike intensely,

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it's the disguising of really quite bad things

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in language which is meant to sort of make it all sound

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sort of scientific and technocratic.

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So, you know, you've probably come across the expression "downsizing".

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Mm. Means sacking people.

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There's another expression, which is "achieving cost synergies".

0:21:510:21:55

That's sacking people again.

0:21:550:21:57

I have to say, I love it. Do you?

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Isn't it great that the language is constantly growing and developing?

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It's not, though. These are meaningless phrases.

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What does "forward planning" mean? It just means planning.

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It's like mega-planning. I think that's all right. Do you?!

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Like, you know, when I knew you were going to do this topic,

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I was looking forward to it,

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and hoping it wasn't going to be an anticipointment...

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LAUGHTER

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..and that is an actual word.

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It's when you've been looking forward to something

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and then it doesn't work out.

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This is a management speak word. They call it an anticipointment.

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I like the fact that language is growing.

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You know this thing about people who have their lunch...

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They don't go off, they just eat at their desk,

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and they call it eating "al desko".

0:22:400:22:42

LAUGHTER

0:22:420:22:44

It's great. Listen to that. It's beautiful.

0:22:440:22:47

That's humour. That's different.

0:22:470:22:49

We've got some of the management speak that's recently entered

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the Oxford English Dictionary.

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"Go juice". What's that?

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Go juice. It can just mean, like, you know, petrol, or fuel,

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or it can be mean that in us which makes us...go.

0:23:010:23:07

"We need more go juice in this organisation."

0:23:070:23:09

I love that. See if you can get what these are. Hyper-local.

0:23:090:23:14

Hyper-local? Hyper-local.

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Very local. Very local.

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Why bother changing that? That's just...

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I like very local, but we've got to be hyper-local.

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You'd agree that "staycation" is a good word, wouldn't you? No.

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I quite like staycation. Staycation is good.

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It's also not really management speak. It's just bollocks.

0:23:310:23:35

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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What it means, if I wanted to save on go juice,

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I could have a hyper-local staycation.

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OK. Greg's gripe.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:23:550:23:59

Politicians pretending to be normal

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and I don't believe it, and I don't want them to be bothered with stuff

0:24:040:24:09

that everyone else is bothered with cos they've got too much to do.

0:24:090:24:12

I don't want a politician talking about someone's showstopper

0:24:120:24:15

on the Bake Off.

0:24:150:24:17

I think there's too much to be... The NHS needs to be sorted out.

0:24:170:24:20

Get back to work. Stop watching telly. You've got stuff to do.

0:24:200:24:23

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:24:230:24:26

Can I point out that, by the time this show goes out,

0:24:280:24:31

the NHS might have been sorted out?

0:24:310:24:33

LAUGHTER

0:24:330:24:36

Like David Cameron got caught out supporting the wrong football team.

0:24:360:24:40

Can I...? We actually have that clip.

0:24:400:24:43

Right, OK. So, sit back and enjoy, Greg. Yeah.

0:24:430:24:46

You can support Man United, the Windies

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and Team GB all at the same time.

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Course, I'd rather you supported West Ham.

0:24:510:24:55

Um, sorry, I had, er ...

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I had what, um, Natalie would describe as a brain-fade.

0:24:560:25:00

I'm a Villa fan. I don't know what happened to me.

0:25:000:25:03

I must have been overcome by something, er, this morning.

0:25:030:25:07

Um, but there we are.

0:25:070:25:08

These things sometimes happen, when, er...when you're on the stump.

0:25:080:25:12

LAUGHTER

0:25:120:25:14

I must admit, when I'm on the stump, I do have some...

0:25:140:25:18

I can't think straight.

0:25:190:25:21

Also, not the first time he's got in trouble over ham.

0:25:210:25:24

CHEERING

0:25:240:25:27

You just don't get your football teams mixed up.

0:25:280:25:31

The worrying thing is they both play in a very similar kit,

0:25:310:25:36

but you wouldn't think,

0:25:360:25:38

"Oh, maybe that's my team, they look a bit like them."

0:25:380:25:41

Yeah, that's the thing.

0:25:410:25:43

Don't pretend about it because you'll get found out

0:25:430:25:45

and it's not that he had a brain-fade.

0:25:450:25:47

He just doesn't support either of them. That is the problem.

0:25:470:25:50

I think one of the problems is that politicians always have to be

0:25:500:25:53

something that they aren't, that seems to be the pressure.

0:25:530:25:56

When John Redwood became Secretary of State for Wales,

0:25:560:26:01

he'd only just got the job

0:26:010:26:03

and then he ends up singing this really famous Welsh anthem.

0:26:030:26:07

He should have just accepted... "Obviously, I don't know this yet."

0:26:070:26:11

Instead, he obviously felt pressured to try and be Welsh!

0:26:110:26:15

THEY SING THE WELSH NATIONAL ANTHEM

0:26:150:26:19

LAUGHTER

0:26:190:26:23

I mean, had he really belted it out in Welsh,

0:26:440:26:47

in this magnificent tenor voice, would they have liked him any more?

0:26:470:26:51

They'd have hated him for that, wouldn't they?

0:26:510:26:54

Don't you think that the public have slightly brought this on themselves,

0:26:540:26:58

in that they seem to want sort of blokey-type, you know,

0:26:580:27:04

your Nigel Farages and your Borises, blokes that are a bit...

0:27:040:27:08

If the British public completely had their way,

0:27:100:27:12

don't they really want to vote for Top Gear? Yeah.

0:27:120:27:17

What about Ed Miliband's kitchen?

0:27:170:27:20

Ed Miliband got interviewed in his...

0:27:200:27:22

We have a picture of the kitchen and there he is.

0:27:220:27:25

Now, that's a very ordinary kitchen,

0:27:250:27:27

like a lot of people have got in their homes.

0:27:270:27:29

Someone then said, "Hold on, I've been to Ed Miliband's house.

0:27:290:27:33

"He's got a much bigger, nicer kitchen than that.

0:27:330:27:36

"It's a lovely kitchen."

0:27:360:27:37

So Ed Miliband said this.

0:27:370:27:39

Throwing in a bit of domestic.

0:27:520:27:54

He's basically saying,

0:27:540:27:56

"We don't eat in the one downstairs cos it's too near to the front door

0:27:560:27:59

"and there's quite a lot of dog excrement coming in,

0:27:590:28:01

"it's not hygienic."

0:28:010:28:03

And it's about time David Miliband just forgave and forgot.

0:28:030:28:07

LAUGHTER

0:28:070:28:09

But, clearly, there's no doubt

0:28:090:28:11

that they got photographed in the little kitchen

0:28:110:28:14

cos it made them look more humble and normal.

0:28:140:28:16

But if he'd just said, "Guys, I've got a stunt kitchen,"

0:28:160:28:20

you'd go, "Great, it sounds brilliant."

0:28:200:28:22

I don't mind the leader of a major political party in this country

0:28:220:28:26

having a nice kitchen.

0:28:260:28:27

I'm fine with that. Yeah.

0:28:270:28:30

If we have an example of what seems like a normal person...

0:28:300:28:34

When I say normal,

0:28:340:28:35

obviously you have to be brighter than a lot of people.

0:28:350:28:38

But Mhairi Black, who's the Scottish MP,

0:28:380:28:41

a young woman who got in, in the 2015 election, for the SNP,

0:28:410:28:46

as soon as she got in, and everyone loved the fact

0:28:460:28:49

that this seemingly down-to-earth person got in,

0:28:490:28:53

they went straight back all over her social network stuff to find out,

0:28:530:28:57

"God, she actually IS an ordinary person. It's an outrage!"

0:28:570:29:01

So, for example, when she was at school, she made this tweet.

0:29:010:29:05

LAUGHTER

0:29:070:29:09

I mean, that's just right, isn't it? That's what people think.

0:29:090:29:12

This one. Too many asterisks, though. No, not in Scotland.

0:29:120:29:16

No. Oh, I suppose you're right.

0:29:160:29:18

E on the end, don't forget. Yeah.

0:29:180:29:20

Language always developing, Robert.

0:29:200:29:22

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:29:220:29:25

And this one. This is an insight into her social life.

0:29:270:29:30

LAUGHTER

0:29:330:29:35

Like most people of her age, there's nothing... But that's great.

0:29:350:29:39

Exactly, but people condemn her for that,

0:29:390:29:41

so they don't want you to be ordinary.

0:29:410:29:43

There was one of her messages which I did think was a bit unacceptable.

0:29:430:29:47

LAUGHTER

0:29:510:29:53

I take that personally, but other than that...

0:29:550:29:57

LAUGHTER

0:29:570:29:59

I've got a problem here, cos I'm not going to put in management speak,

0:29:590:30:02

Robert, because I love it so.

0:30:020:30:04

I'm very torn between the other two, because I do wish politicians

0:30:040:30:08

would just be politicians and stop being normal.

0:30:080:30:12

But if we don't stamp on the sense of entitlement thing,

0:30:120:30:16

I feel the whole of society might go into one of those twisty things

0:30:160:30:20

that it does above a plughole and disappear.

0:30:200:30:24

So I am going to have to put

0:30:240:30:25

people's sense of entitlement into Room 101.

0:30:250:30:28

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:30:280:30:31

Right, we've just got time for a bonus choice,

0:30:380:30:40

so let's see what Greg's gone for.

0:30:400:30:43

CROWD GASPS OK.

0:30:470:30:49

Spectators at Wimbledon.

0:30:490:30:51

And I want to just say that I really like Wimbledon, before we go on,

0:30:510:30:55

and I used to queue up, as a kid,

0:30:550:30:57

I really liked it, but it always wound me up

0:30:570:31:00

that the crowd would clap too much, too often, for everything.

0:31:000:31:05

APPLAUSE So the situation... Don't clap now!

0:31:050:31:08

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:31:080:31:10

So...

0:31:110:31:12

Was that ironic, or not? I can't work that out.

0:31:120:31:14

Have I won?

0:31:140:31:16

So, OK, I can use you in this demonstration,

0:31:160:31:18

so they're playing a point.

0:31:180:31:20

Suddenly there is a phone that goes off in Centre Court

0:31:200:31:24

and everyone is like, "Ohh..."

0:31:240:31:25

The players have stopped playing and the umpire has to go,

0:31:250:31:28

"Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure you keep things quiet

0:31:280:31:31

"for the sake of the players," and then everyone starts clapping...

0:31:310:31:34

APPLAUSE

0:31:340:31:36

..which delays it again and again and again,

0:31:360:31:38

so the thing just keeps going on.

0:31:380:31:40

Someone shouts, they go, "Please keep quiet..." Everyone is clapping.

0:31:400:31:44

And also, it feels like they're surprised when a rally happens.

0:31:440:31:49

So, if a rally last longer than maybe eight shots,

0:31:490:31:52

it's all quiet and everyone is just going...

0:31:520:31:55

..and then, maybe about eight or nine shots,

0:31:560:31:58

someone starts going, "Ooh!"

0:31:580:32:00

And then there's a, "Oh!"

0:32:020:32:04

And then someone will go, "Ohh!"

0:32:040:32:06

And then someone will start going,

0:32:060:32:09

"I can't believe it's lasting longer than eight!"

0:32:090:32:11

And then suddenly someone goes, "Oh! Ohh! Oh! Oh!"

0:32:110:32:14

And then it's this hilarious thing. What were you expecting?

0:32:140:32:17

This is Wimbledon, they're having rallies.

0:32:170:32:19

See, I've got a problem with this, which is,

0:32:190:32:22

I think I quite like the crowd

0:32:220:32:25

and I can't stand what's happening on the court.

0:32:250:32:27

You know, on the court you've got

0:32:290:32:31

these amazing overpaid prima donnas, no personalities.

0:32:310:32:35

At least people out there are having a good time.

0:32:350:32:37

The people on the court don't seem to enjoy themselves at all.

0:32:370:32:40

They hate what they do, they hate each other... It's... It's ghastly!

0:32:400:32:44

I've only been to Wimbledon once. It is, without doubt,

0:32:450:32:49

the most middle-class thing I have ever experienced in my life,

0:32:490:32:52

and I kind of love it for that because the British middle class

0:32:520:32:55

are very unfashionable now and it's...

0:32:550:32:58

I think I was the only person there who didn't own

0:32:580:33:01

at least one piece of Princess Diana crockery.

0:33:010:33:04

That was the feeling I got and it was like a theme park, like Posh Land.

0:33:050:33:10

You know, I love all that. There's a woman here

0:33:120:33:14

with what you would call a tennis-court hat and I think this...

0:33:140:33:17

This is part of the sort of wacky British eccentric...

0:33:170:33:21

Look at that, it's actually a solar panel that illuminates her teeth.

0:33:210:33:25

And this woman has completely pushed the boat out.

0:33:280:33:31

Look forward to seeing her at the table tennis!

0:33:340:33:36

But I like that, I like the dressing up,

0:33:380:33:41

I like the weirdness, I like the eccentricity

0:33:410:33:43

and also, you don't often see swearing at the tennis,

0:33:430:33:46

but Andy Murray's now wife, Kim Sears, was accused of swearing.

0:33:460:33:51

He played a guy called Tomas Berdych

0:33:510:33:54

and I personally don't think she's swearing,

0:33:540:33:58

but Andy wins a point and then we cut to Kim in the crowd.

0:33:580:34:02

See what you think.

0:34:020:34:03

CROWD CHEERS

0:34:070:34:10

CHEERING DROWNS SPEECH

0:34:120:34:16

Wow! Wow!

0:34:180:34:20

Now, I have watched this several times.

0:34:200:34:23

My guess is that she's saying,

0:34:230:34:24

"Fear not, there is a shelf underneath five windows."

0:34:240:34:28

I think she's mulling over a cryptic crossword clue.

0:34:290:34:32

I'll tell you something, one of the most famous noises...

0:34:340:34:37

I mean, yes, the applause and the "Come on, Andy," and all that...

0:34:370:34:40

One of the most famous noises that I really like is...

0:34:400:34:43

FEMALE PLAYER GRUNTS

0:34:430:34:45

That's Maria Sharapova really giving it some.

0:34:460:34:49

FEMALE PLAYER GRUNTS

0:34:490:34:51

Now, people condemn that, but that's a sound of Wimbledon I love.

0:34:510:34:56

I think it's quite funny that people get annoyed about that in the crowd.

0:34:560:34:59

Apparently, she reaches 109 decibels at her loudest,

0:34:590:35:04

which is only slightly quieter than a chainsaw.

0:35:040:35:08

Here's Maria.

0:35:100:35:11

Incredible...shoulders.

0:35:130:35:15

They are a parrot's dream.

0:35:160:35:18

That's like a three-bedroom flat to a parrot.

0:35:210:35:23

If you go to Wimbledon, I don't know,

0:35:260:35:28

but you are given a brochure about queueing.

0:35:280:35:32

No! No!

0:35:320:35:34

And it gives you general how-to-behave-at-Wimbledon tips.

0:35:340:35:37

We've got some of the things...

0:35:370:35:40

They have little slogans

0:35:400:35:42

telling you what you can and can't do at Wimbledon.

0:35:420:35:45

That's nobody from the North.

0:35:450:35:47

LAUGHTER

0:35:470:35:49

No...

0:35:500:35:52

That's actually... No flares is the idea, so you know when people,

0:35:530:35:59

like in Spanish football games, hold...

0:35:590:36:01

Something I must say has worked really well at Wimbledon.

0:36:010:36:04

I don't think I've ever seen any coloured flares held up,

0:36:040:36:07

maybe in the '70s. But...

0:36:070:36:09

LAUGHTER

0:36:090:36:11

So, that's one of the things that you are warned against

0:36:110:36:14

and then here's another.

0:36:140:36:16

Now, this is those sort of camping seats.

0:36:160:36:20

Now, you would think, what would be the problem with those?

0:36:200:36:24

But they are... I want to show you a piece of footage

0:36:240:36:26

which suggests why you shouldn't take these to the tennis

0:36:260:36:29

and I'd particularly like you to listen to the commentary on this.

0:36:290:36:32

It's extremely informative.

0:36:320:36:34

And that will do Team Elton a whole lot of good.

0:36:340:36:37

They get the victory, but more importantly,

0:36:370:36:40

the lead now just down to four.

0:36:400:36:42

Oh!

0:36:470:36:48

Ohh!

0:36:510:36:52

Ooh!

0:36:540:36:55

Also, there was a moment this year

0:36:590:37:01

when Andy Murray went off for a prolonged break

0:37:010:37:05

and he was obviously just going to the toilet

0:37:050:37:08

and he was having... extended toilet break,

0:37:080:37:10

but the toilets are really close to the court,

0:37:100:37:13

so the crowd thought, "He's taking his time here,"

0:37:130:37:16

it was about eight minutes, nine minutes,

0:37:160:37:18

so there was a slow clap started.

0:37:180:37:20

Can you imagine the pressure

0:37:200:37:23

of being sat on the toilet

0:37:230:37:25

and you've got 20,000 people doing a slow clap?

0:37:250:37:27

It's horrible when you're on a plane and someone's knocking on the door.

0:37:270:37:31

Imagine that times 20,000,

0:37:310:37:33

that's what they have to deal with, these top players. Yeah.

0:37:330:37:35

You don't want to be on the toilet, someone shouting, "Come on, Tim! "

0:37:350:37:38

LAUGHTER

0:37:380:37:41

Well, doesn't matter what I think, Greg,

0:37:410:37:43

it's your bonus choice, it's going into Room 101.

0:37:430:37:46

Yes!

0:37:460:37:47

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:37:470:37:50

And that brings us to the end of the show.

0:37:550:37:57

Well done, Bridget, you were the most persuasive guest,

0:37:570:37:59

so you are this week's winner.

0:37:590:38:02

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:38:020:38:05

Thanks very much, Bridget Christie, Greg James and Robert Peston,

0:38:070:38:10

and thank you, goodnight.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Everybody loves sitcom. I've watched a lot of telly,

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and I know them extremely well. I'm hoping to win.

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I'll just do anything to be in a clip.

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Are you having a breakdown?

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A bottomless pit of telly.

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