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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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

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the show where three guests explain what really winds them up,

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in the hope that I'll condemn said things to the grim environs of Room 101.

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Our guest choices have been sorted into categories and in

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each round only one item can be chosen, the final decision is mine.

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Joining me tonight are Labour Party legend John Prescott,

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comic Micky Flanagan and actress Rebecca Front.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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So, let's get the ball rolling, let's have our first category.

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It's Film and Television, and let's have a look at Rebecca's choice.

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WHIRRING

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It's audience participation.

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Ah.

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AUDIENCE: Boo!

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Oh. Boy, I'm really popular here!

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That's a very fine example, right there.

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When you're in the audience of a show and you're settling down

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and just at that point when they say, I need a volunteer from the audience,

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I'm always that one who

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sinks down into my chair and thinks, "They won't notice me, it'll be fine."

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But, of course, they're like dogs, these audience participation people, they smell fear.

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So the more you sink down into your chair...

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I don't think it's fear, is it, that dogs smell?

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So the more you sit there and try and be invisible, the more likely you are to get picked.

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And it's always me, always me.

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-So have you been called up on stage?

-Oh, loads of times. Honestly.

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There was a time when Al Murray and I took our respective families

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to a circus, and we both got pulled up on stage, by clowns.

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And it was hideous.

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He was trying to get us to enact some drama in which Al had to

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be a cowboy and had to shoot me and I was some floozy in a feather boa

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and I don't know what it was all about, I didn't understand it.

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And so at a given point he handed Al this pistol and Al sort of went bang,

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and then he looked at me, this clown, and kind of went, "Urgh, urgh!"

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So I thought, OK, I'm meant to die at this point.

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So I fell off the chair into the sawdust, which went all over my nice cardigan.

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-Oh, no.

-And at that point... Thank you for your sympathy!

-That's all right!

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I noticed my son, who at that stage was about,

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was a toddler, suddenly looking at us thinking,

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we came here to have a nice time and Uncle Al's just shot Mummy.

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You know, it was all wrong, it was a bad idea.

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I like it when the clowns run at you with the bucket of water and it's just glitter. That's great.

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No, it's not.

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The surprise, the fear. Oh, it's just glitter.

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LAUGHTER

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Admittedly, if your house is burning down, they're worse than useless.

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Panto would be downright dangerous, without audience participation.

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You'd have no idea if there was anything behind you or not.

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I think that's one of the sorry things in politics,

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that years ago, since I've been around for a few years, heckling

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at conferences, or indeed in audiences like this, was quite common.

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And now that's gone, largely because people like myself,

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if somebody makes a comment and heckles, I do my best to kick their head in before anybody else does.

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LAUGHTER

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Well, look, I know you're not a big fan of audience participation, John,

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because we've got a clip that proves exactly that.

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If you put together all of the numbers...

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WOMAN IN CROWD SHOUTS REPEATEDLY

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..and any of the others that come into a coalition deal,

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that only just gets you...

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Can you keep your mouth shut for a moment, love?

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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OK, let's have a look at John's choice.

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WHIRRING

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LAUGHTER

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What is it, John?

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Well, it's pictures of me on television.

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For example, when I did that, I was at a rally and I was trying

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to bring home to people who were moaning that Gordon Brown is miserable,

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and I said, "I know he's miserable," and I pulled that face.

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The press then decide this is something they want as a story,

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and so they, probably wanting to make me look foolish,

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or the other one is you're looking aggressive and I think they think

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I'm aggressive, so they put that picture across.

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In this case, somebody came up to me a few weeks later

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and said, "Hello," he said, "I'd love to have your autograph."

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And I signed it and he said, "Thanks very much, Les."

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I said, "What do you mean, Les?"

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LAUGHTER

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Les Dawson was on in Blackpool where it was, and they thought it was Les Dawson.

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You love it really, don't you?

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I mean the two Jags, how did that thing happen?

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Did you just buy two Jags?

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-No, I just had one.

-So what happened? Did you park it next to a mirror?

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I had one, it was an old XJS, I've still got it, and the Government

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came along and gave us another car, I became "Two Jags" in the paper, because that's the image they want.

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Just think if you'd have had Rolls-Royces, you'd have been known as Two Rolls.

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LAUGHTER

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I think they still call you that in Greggs.

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That's another picture they like.

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If they see you eating, fish and chips or whatever, that's the picture they put across,

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because it feeds that image... as if I'm fat.

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LAUGHTER

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The guy who you hit, did he ever sell his story?

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-What happened to him?

-Yeah, he got about 20,000 from the Mail.

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That can't be right, can it? Hold on a minute.

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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OK, let's have a look at Micky's choice.

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WHIRRING

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What is it, Mick?

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Well, it's actually celebrity chefs.

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Ah, OK.

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I think they're over-valued, every time I turn on TV there's another one,

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they just keep appearing, they've all got their own little thing.

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Gordon's very angry, aggressive, crazy.

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I understand that, he's ended up doing a lady's job.

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LAUGHTER

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GROANS

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I'm joking! I'm joking.

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Most women can't cook nowadays.

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So, but it's no-one's job.

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But it's basically, it's this overblown idea

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of themselves as being really talented, and it's just cooking.

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All they've done is got organised. They've just got organised

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and they've got more time than everybody else.

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They're just saying, I wasn't really any good at anything, so I'll do a bit of dinner.

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Is that all right?

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And you all have to go, "Wow, crazy man,

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"look, he's using Sicilian lemons, wow!"

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LAUGHTER

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Yeah, but I like, I like the idea, I don't cook,

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but I like the idea of eating new things that I've never...

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like when I first heard of mange tout,

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that was the...

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LAUGHTER

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..that was a discovery for me, and much better than the original Mange.

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LAUGHTER

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Whereas when they got to Mange Three, I thought they'd run out of ideas.

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I enjoyed Mange The Early Years, that was a good one.

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You know, when I was growing up, cookery on telly was, there was a woman called Fanny Cradock.

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-Oh, yeah.

-Yeah, and she'd come in and she'd say, "Hello.

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"I'm going to cook a pie."

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And my dad would say, "Turn that over, will you?"

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And we'd turn it over.

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LAUGHTER

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And that was it, you know. Have you ever tried it, though?

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Have you ever tried, have you ever had an inspirational moment when you're sitting there watching it,

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you go, that's it, I'm doing this?

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I'm doing it for her.

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I've tried to make, I've got down the book

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and it said pumpkin risotto.

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I thought, she'd like that, I'm making that, for my wife.

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And it said, "Take one medium-sized pumpkin."

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I thought, "I'll give that a miss, then."

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LAUGHTER

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What were you expecting the ingredients to be?

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But who's got a pumpkin?

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No, you're right.

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-You know, it wasn't Halloween.

-Yeah, it's a seasonal dish, really.

-Yeah.

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Or am I supposed to be like Jamie? "I'm just going to pop down the market and get a pumpkin.

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"All right, Joe, any pumpkins?" "You all right, Jamie?

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"What sort of pumpkin do you want?"

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"A round one." "Oh, all right, we've got that for you. Catch, Jamie."

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"Cheers, thanks, babe, wey hey!"

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OK, well...

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LAUGHTER

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So, look, that's the end of that category and...

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I am a big fan of audience participation,

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so I'm loath to put that in.

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And, John, I think you probably are slightly victimised

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by the media as to be made to look a bit like the Gruffalo.

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But you love it as well, I think.

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But you're right, I'm sick of watching cookery programmes on the telly,

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so I'm going to put TV chefs into Room 101.

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APPLAUSE

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Look at that.

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Job done.

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OK, so let's have our next category.

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Modern Life. Let's see what winds up

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John Prescott about modern life.

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WHIRRING

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LAUGHTER

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Hold on, John, you'll love this.

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CREAKING

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LAUGHTER

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Amazing.

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So what is it, John?

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It's goal celebrations.

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Well, you sit down and you watch football, I'm a director

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of a rugby team in Hull, and I notice the difference when there's a score.

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When there's a goal in football, they all start running over

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to each other and kissing each other and throwing their hands around.

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Years ago, when it was Stanley Matthews and he scored, he just walked away, didn't he, you know?

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And they all played more. Now they get down on their knees,

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pull their shirts out and go wow!

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And wait for the kiss.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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I mean, what's that got to do with football?

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AUDIENCE: Get 'em off!

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Footballers are generally much more pansy-ish now than

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they used to be, you know.

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APPLAUSE

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Well, I can't...

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When I was growing up, in the game there was a thing called a fair barge.

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Do you remember the fair barge, Frank?

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-Shoulder to shoulder?

-Bosh, get out of the way.

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John's been using it in the chip shop for years.

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No, but I think people always say this about, you know,

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players, they're all millionaires and all that kind of,

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but you know, these are massively skilled professionals

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and I think that those goal celebrations are the closest

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the working classes get to contemporary dance.

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The working classes! The working class don't act like that in football, it's these guys.

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Some of them come from that background,

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but in the real top teams, where a lot of goals are going on - I agree that in West Brom

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it doesn't happen very often, so you probably don't get many of these.

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AUDIENCE: Boo!

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I understand, I can't actually remember...

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I can't remember what goal celebration we do.

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No, that's fair enough.

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You know that thing when players have something written on a T-shirt under the shirt?

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I always worry that players have had one for years and never scored.

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A bloke scored at the Albion about two months ago

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and the T-shirt said "Who shot JR?"

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LAUGHTER

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But the trouble is...

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The best one is when the celebrations go wrong.

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This is a Coventry player, right, and I really love this,

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as a post-goal celebration that doesn't quite make the grade.

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And Robbie Simpson ghosting into the box there and picking out

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the far corner, and that should be that for Coventry City.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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You're supposed to slide, is the idea.

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Let's find out what annoys Rebecca about modern life.

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WHIRRING

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It's other people's music.

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Ah.

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SCATTERED APPLAUSE

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Because when I was growing up, muzak was the thing that everybody hated,

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you know, and people would complain about it all the time, piped music.

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Then they invented Walkmans and iPods

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and so you could listen to whatever awful music you wanted to

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listen to and nobody else would be bothered by it.

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And still you have it inflicted on you.

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And I think I have a particular problem with this

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because I am terribly kind of British and I'm very bad at speaking my mind.

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So when I get into the back of a taxi and they've got music radio on,

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I find it actually physically impossible to say,

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"I'm so sorry, could you turn the music off?" I just can't do it.

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About halfway through the journey, they'll say, "I'm sorry, is this music bothering you?"

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And by that time I'm so knotted up by having had to listen to power ballads

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for an hour and a half, that I'll just sort of go, "No, it's fine."

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So it's power ballads, that's the...

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-Power ballads, I'm not big on power ballads.

-Do you, even this one?

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# Mandy

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# You gave and you gave without taking

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# But I sent you away... #

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-Yeah, even that one.

-John, you must have sung that to Peter Mandelson.

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LAUGHTER

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There's that moment on a power ballad where they think,

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to hell with the melody, I'm just going to shout any note I like. Listen, she goes crazy.

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# All by myself... #

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At this moment you think, All By Myself, I quite like this one, it's fine.

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But no, she's not happy with this. She's thinking, no, I'm singing it.

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# All by mySELF!

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# ANY MO-O-O-ORE... #

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THUNDERING DRUMS AS SINGER CONTINUES

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MUSIC STOPS

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APPLAUSE

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What about car horns?

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-Oh, no, that's all right, it's a quick blast, that's a warning.

-No, No.

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Do you remember the ones you used to get in the '70s?

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CAR HORN PLAYS JAUNTY TUNE

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-Oh, I love that.

-Bugattis.

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I bet you had one of those, Mick, am I right?

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I dreamed.

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And sometimes you used to get the cheap, the sort of home-made ones.

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Here is an example.

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CAR HORN PLAYS DISTORTED TUNE

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That sounds like a front-door bell.

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There is actually an explanation for that one.

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SAME DISTORTED CLIP PLAYS

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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Let's see what Micky doesn't like about modern life.

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WHIRRING

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Americanisms.

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AUDIENCE: Yeah!

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APPLAUSE

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You can put it back down now, Frank.

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LAUGHTER

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Don't get me wrong, I like America, I've been there many times,

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but when I go there I'm doing my best to communicate with the people.

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If I want chips, I'll say, "Can I have some fries?", you know.

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If I want crisps, I'll say, "Can I have some chips?"

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You know, I'll accommodate.

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Yeah.

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So when they come here, you've got to join in.

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I don't like the way we're sort of cheapening the British language

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by continually slowly Americanising it.

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I was in a restaurant the other day and the toilets were the rest rooms.

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Are you resting in there, are you?

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Excuse me, how much longer will you be resting?

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"It's quite a big rest I've got to get out here, mate!"

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LAUGHTER

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Some of the Americanisms are brilliant.

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You know when you get extras in TV, like those people that play darts in the Rovers Return?

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We call them extras. In America they call them "atmosphere".

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LAUGHTER

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I love that.

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Where's the atmosphere? Come on!

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A friend of mine - this creeps into everyday language - a friend of mine

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phoned me up the other day and we were going for a curry and a couple of pints,

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and I said, "What time do you think you'll get there?"

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He said, "Oh, I'll probably rock up at about half eight."

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I said "Rock up?"

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I said, "You're 52...

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LAUGHTER

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"..you've got an hearing aid,

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"and last week you put your back out wringing out a flannel.

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"You're not rocking up anywhere, mate.

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"You'll get there about half eight."

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You know, it's this constant dressing-up

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and trying to make things more exciting by using American language, this just drives me up the wall.

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Yeah, whatever.

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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Well, they're all beautifully argued and I like Americanisms,

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because I like the way that language moves and grows.

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And I think celebrations of any kind in recession-hit Britain

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are a thing to be happy about.

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But I must admit, as bigoted as it may be, I do hate

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other people's music,

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so I'm going to put other people's music into Room 101.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, next category, please.

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Ah, it's the wildcard round. This time there's no restraints.

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We're not asking you to work within a category, just pick anything you don't like, it's as simple as that.

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So what is Rebecca Front's wildcard?

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WHIRRING

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Beautiful.

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Air fresheners.

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Really?

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There are few smells in the world that can't be made worse

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by trying to cover them up with an air freshener, in my view.

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And we all know, you know,

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there are some unpleasant stenches around, but, as an example,

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many years ago, when my daughter was a toddler,

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we'd just hit the motorway on the way to, you know, a long three-hour drive, and she was sick.

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So we pulled into the first service station that we found

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and we took the car-seat out and we scrubbed it clean.

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I'm saying "we", I mean my husband, and then we bought an air freshener, because that's sort of what you do.

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We didn't know what else to do, so we got an air freshener, and

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the whole way there for three hours, the car stank of vomit and apple.

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LAUGHTER

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It was absolutely vile and it really,

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it kind of clings to the back of your throat.

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It's a horrible chemically generated smell.

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Whenever you go to someone else's house,

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and if I go into the toilet in someone else's house

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and there's air freshener, I always think, is this always here?

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Or is this, "Oh, Frank's coming round, we'd better get some air freshener."

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LAUGHTER

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But this is, without doubt,

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the worst-smelling air freshener I have ever smelt.

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This is macaroni cheese.

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Can you just pass that on, because if anyone likes that,

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I will be stunned. Just try that.

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Oh! That's absolutely disgusting.

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Is that one of the worst things that... Oh, John!

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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I don't know how much you're doing to break down your stereotypical image tonight, John.

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These are weird things, these are rose-scented moustaches.

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LAUGHTER

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And the idea is that you stick them on your side window,

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I think is the normal place to put it, and I think the idea is,

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if you're involved in road rage, they don't spot you afterwards.

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So, if you're going...

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Let's imagine I'm out driving

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and somebody cuts me up, I'm driving, someone cuts me up, right,

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so what I do is, I get the air freshener.

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So you put that, you put the air freshener on the window and go...

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HE MOUTHS SILENTLY

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Who would have thought of moustache air fresheners?

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It doesn't make any sense at all.

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OK, let's have a look at John's choice.

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WHIRRING

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It's the old school tie.

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This tie, it communicates to people in our society, doesn't it,

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which school you went to.

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You can have an ordinary tie, but for the people who use it

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to identify that they're of higher status than you

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because I went to a certain school, or a certain university.

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And it's the tie that indicates that.

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But we go much further. I was filming for the BBC on class and I went to Henley, the boating weekend,

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to watch it, and observe it, and when you

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see guys about 65, 70, going around with a Just William hat on

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of a certain colour, a blazer with God knows how many different colours in it,

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but the indication is the school you went to.

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The class you belong to.

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And in Britain, probably more than anywhere else, we do that.

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And this is a symbol of that. I hate it.

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OK, well, I suppose I've always,

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I mean, I come from a working-class background, John, and I've always been

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I suppose in a way slightly envious of the old public school education.

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You know what I mean? I'd like to have had a go at Quidditch.

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LAUGHTER

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I'll never know if I could have been good at that.

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No, I suppose my point is, John, that it's very tempting, isn't it,

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if you're from a working-class background to just hate the posh.

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And I like to think, you know,

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to try and find if they, you know, if there's something

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lovable about them, not to just be dismissive, not to...

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Well, just to take a serious point, 7% of our kids go to independent schools.

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They take 60% of all the top jobs, that's because you've got the right tie.

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Now that's not right, is it?

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OK, well, I think, rather than despising the posh,

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we should see them as figures of ridicule and fun.

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LAUGHTER

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You do need a way, though, Frank,

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to pick out your old school friends, don't you?

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If I'm at a party and I look around and I see people in overalls and

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prison uniforms, I think they might have gone to my school, you know.

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On the subject of ties, by the way, this is a tie,

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this is commercially available, this tie.

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It has an inflatable section on the end and the idea is that if you're

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on a journey and you get a bit tired, you can use it as a pillow.

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Something fabulously practical about that.

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OK, let's have a look at Micky Flanagan's wildcard.

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WHIRRING

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The countryside.

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LAUGHTER

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I hate the countryside.

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It's just, what do you do there?

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People waffle on about it,

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"Oh, you should spend some time in the countryside."

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Why? What, to walk about?

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I don't feel like murdering anything.

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You know, and the people there,

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they're always waffling on about traditions

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and how the city people don't understand their way of life.

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"Oh, you don't understand the land." Oh, don't I?

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Oh, you plant things, things grow,

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you cut them down and then we eat 'em.

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Oh, I think I might have cracked it, hold on a minute.

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LAUGHTER

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You know, and it's just, and it stinks and all.

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OK. Well, look, the best way of deciding this country dispute,

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because I think there's something special and different and mystical

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about the country, I thought we'd have some representatives

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of the country and you can compete with them at what they do best.

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I'd like to bring on Joe and Ben, who are two members of the Shin Kicking Association.

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Please welcome Joe and Ben.

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APPLAUSE

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Hi, guys, you are shin kickers?

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Yes.

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And I believe, Joe, you're the world champion shin kicker?

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-That's right, yes.

-That's...

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Are you on shin kicker's list?

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I might be, yes.

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LAUGHTER

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So could you, could you give us

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a quick demonstration on how does shin kicking work?

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-OK.

-Right.

-Right.

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The idea is to get your opponent to the ground.

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-OK.

-By kicking his shins away, as hard as you can.

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-OK.

-Do your worst.

-Ow!

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So you kick from side to side. And to the front.

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And Ben can have a go as well if he wants.

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I'm all right.

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LAUGHTER

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You have a bit, you have... I hate to stop you,

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but you have a bit of straw down there, don't you, so...

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We have a bit of protection these days, yeah.

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Yeah, so, Micky, we've prepared you some, some straw shin pads.

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So if you'd like to slip...

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BROAD ACCENT: "Arh, let me put them on."

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LAUGHTER

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You're just winding them up, you know that, don't you?

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-There you go.

-"Good you on, Frank."

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Are you sure about this approach, Mick?

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Someone get in touch with Injury Lawyers For You a bit later on.

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I'm going to get bundles out of this. I'll show you boys how to operate.

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I have been to the countryside, I really helped your economy out once.

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Oh, no, look...

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No, I did, I bought a cream tea for £17.50.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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-So right, OK.

-Grip the shoulders like that.

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You have a free few hits so you get used to it.

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-Then you're going to kick me up in the air.

-Well, if you want to.

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Oh, come on, do it properly, man.

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Now see, I don't think that's right!

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Come on!

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-Want me to show you how to do it properly?

-Please.

-Right.

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Ow!

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-Then with the left.

-It's all right, yeah, he's proved his point.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Well, what about a big hand for Joe and Ben?

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CHEERING

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So, Micky, I can't, I'm not going to let the countryside in,

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because I think it is a mystical and wondrous place.

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And I must admit, Rebecca, I am against air fresheners,

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but I don't think it would be quite fair to say that I'm

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more against them than I am against social inequality.

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LAUGHTER

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So I'm going to put the old school ties into Room 101.

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APPLAUSE

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OK, that brings us to the end of the show.

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Well done, John, you were the most persuasive guest, so you are this week's winner.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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And, as you've won,

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you get to put one choice completely unchallenged into Room 101.

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So what will that be?

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End the title "Lord",

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chuck it into 101 and let's be finished with it and just be

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called "Mr," along with the other names you might get as well.

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-So you'll never be called Lord again?

-No, get rid of it.

-OK.

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-Are you still all right with Gruffalo?

-Gruffalo...

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LAUGHTER

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OK, Lord goes straight into Room 101.

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APPLAUSE

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So, thank you very much, Micky Flanagan, John Prescott and Rebecca Front,

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and thank you, goodnight.

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