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Tonight on Would I Lie To You, you'll laugh till you weep.

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Jo Brand!

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He's the Queen Vic's black sheep.

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Larry Lamb!

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And their team captain,

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David Mitchell!

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And facing them tonight, good at sums,

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Carol Vorderman!

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He's a hit with mums.

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Russell Howard!

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And their team captain, Lee Mack!

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And your host, Rob Brydon!

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Good evening and welcome to Would I Lie To You,

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the show that demands each of our panellists lie through their teeth.

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Now, one in three adults have lied about reading high brow literature to appear well read, but I mean,

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when you've read as much Dickens as I have, you realise that's typical of what Muggles do.

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And psychologists claim that laughing at a joke you don't find funny is a form of lying.

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So if you're in the audience tonight prepare for an evening of raucous dishonesty.

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And so to round one, Home Truths,

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in which our panellists turn over a card and read aloud a fact about themselves.

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Some are true, others are lies that they've never seen before.

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Can the opposing team separate the truth from the fiction?

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Carol Vorderman, you're first up.

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Please reveal all.

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On Countdown, if I worked out the number puzzle before the time was up, I used to play a little game.

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That's where I've seen you before!

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AUDIENCE LAUGH

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So, David's team. What do you think?

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What little game?

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On the numbers puzzle, you do the sum, press the target and the numbers and the target...

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-And there's a time limit.

-And you had 30 seconds to do something in.

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Well, most of the time I'd get the answer before the clock started, so I had 30 seconds.

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-Ooooh!

-Before the clock started?

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You must have despised the contestants.

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Sitting there, working away for the whole 30 seconds like morons.

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What I used to do, I used to get my pen that I would write on the board with

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and I used to go round all the props boys and I used to make them tap the end of my pen,

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and how many could tap the end of my pen in 30 seconds was the game.

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How many props guys, PROPS guys,

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were required in the production of Countdown?

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LAUGHTER

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Jo's been on Countdown a lot.

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You know, we have someone like Harry or Vince or Stan,

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who do the water-pouring.

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Carol, Carol.

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-We "had".

-Oh yeah, had.

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LAUGHTER

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Tap my pen!

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Did you ever vary the game at all?

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Was it always the same game?

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Sometimes I managed to get to the front row of the audience as well,

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occasionally a member of the audience.

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Oh, come on. Those people can't move!

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LAUGHTER

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I can touch the pen! Oh, she's gone, she's gone.

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I'll get her next time.

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Was this not distracting to the poor contestants who're trying to do some maths, if out of shot?

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Slightly out of shot, yes.

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I feel sorry for this new girl that's doing the numbers, cos all the props guys must be going,

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"You'll have great fun on this show."

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They would have said to her on the first day,

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"Are we gonna play touch the pen?"

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And got fired for sexual harassment.

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"We always played touch the pen with Carol."

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"Well, I'm sorry, I'm just not like that!"

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David, what are you and your team-mates thinking?

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-Strike you as plausible?

-I think it's flannel myself.

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Flannel! That's a great word!

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You've been on EastEnders too long, Larry! "It's a load of flannel!"

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I don't know. I mean, I missed a lot of that because as soon as Carol started describing the game

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I had a sort of mental absence.

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-I've done Dictionary Corner quite a lot.

-But you couldn't see me from Dictionary Corner, could you?

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No, I couldn't.

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What I doubt is whether you would be allowed, when the contestants are trying to work out the maths,

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to run around the studio getting men to touch your marker pen.

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-Yes, well, so we think it's a lie.

-I think we do, yes.

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What a surprise. OK. Carol, is it truth or is it a lie?

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It is...

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..true.

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APPLAUSE

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Now, then.

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Oh!

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Do you know what, it actually is lots of fun.

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So you seriously did this?

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It was a ritual, and after about 15 years it gets funny, really, when, you know, people...

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That's what we're hoping with this show.

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Do you know when I was being really cheeky, I'd take the top off and they all got dirty fingers!

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LAUGHTER

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I think you just like to behave outside of society's rules, don't you?

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I wouldn't be surprised to find out you're an enthusiastic dogger.

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LAUGHTER

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So, Larry... Your turn to confess all.

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I used to run a market stall

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that only sold hats for dogs.

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Lee's team, this shouldn't take long.

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Absolute flannel. Flannel!

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LAUGHTER

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What year was this?

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It was in 19... Here we go. 19...

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Larry, we're supposed to go, "here we go", you don't do that yourself!

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-It was in the 1960's.

-The 1960's.

-Yeah.

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-And this was your own business?

-I was a lad, I was still at school.

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You were still at school and you thought, "I'm going to hit up the booming dog hat market."

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I was pretty enterprising lad, I tell you.

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-Can you give us...

-In Harlow.

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What was your top seller?

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The top seller was a plaid one, funnily enough.

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I was going to ask about sizes, because the sizes of dog....

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-There were only three sizes.

-What were they?

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Small, medium and large.

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LAUGHTER

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It's a complex system, Carol.

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My key question is, how did a dog keep the hat on?

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-You put it on over its ears.

-So you crushed its ears!

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No, you don't crush it.

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This was the '60s, you didn't worry about those things anyway.

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Hang on, hang, on, Larry!

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People talk about the '60s and go, "The '60s, it was wild!"

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I've never heard anyone go, "It was crazy, we used to crush dogs' ears and we didn't give a monkey's."

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"Honestly, crazy times!"

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Did you make the hats yourself or did you buy them them from somebody else and sell them on?

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-They were being made in China.

-They were being made in China.

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So you had links with China, despite the fact you were at school. You're chasing this.

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Was it just dogs' hats?

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The main item in the '60s, for some strange reason, in Harlow was...

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Oh, I see. In Harlow. Only in Harlow.

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LAUGHTER

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Lee, the moment has now come within the game where you guess whether it's the truth or a lie.

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-All the evidence seems to suggest...

-It's a great big fat porky.

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Yes. That would be a great name for one of his hats!

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-So you're saying it's a lie?

-It's got to be a lie.

-It's a lie.

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Larry, is it the truth or is it a lie?

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It's a lie.

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CHEERING

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It's a lie.

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Larry did not run a market stall that only sold hats for dogs.

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He was far too busy running a kiosk selling cumberbunds to kittens.

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LAUGHTER

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Russell, your turn to convince us.

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I used to put my underpants on my head to cure my acne.

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Sounds reasonable enough. David.

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Were they on your head like a hat or were they just covering your face?

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No, I only did it at night.

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-You slept with like an underpants mask?

-I'm ashamed to say.

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-Were these the underpants you'd been wearing the previous day?

-No, no, I'm not a weirdo.

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I had a system.

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I was 12 and I was into Nirvana and stuff like that.

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I didn't want to cut my hair, I had greasy hair.

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I thought, "I can't ask Mum for a hairnet so I'll whack some pants on, like that."

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Nice and tight and I'll sleep and I'll wake up and it'll be fine.

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If the pants were tight around your head they must have been pretty tight when you wore them as pants.

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That's just what I was thinking.

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I think that's a bit of a clue. My waist is wider than my cranium.

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David, you can't see down here. He's all small and withered.

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-Are you saying he tapers to a point?

-Yes.

-And what made you stop?

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What happened, I went to the doctor's,

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because one of my nipples suddenly went, "Whoot!" like that.

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It didn't make that noise.

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And I went there and I was worried I was becoming a woman or something like that.

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And my mum chose this moment to go, "Yeah, and he puts pants on his head at night."

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And I was, "How am I going to chat about that?"

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And the doctor said, "In no way will that get rid of your acne",

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so I stopped doing it.

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-You had acne at 12?

-Yeah.

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Acne and you started to get breasts?

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Yeah, it was a brutal summer. Brutal.

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-If I'd had breasts at 12 I'd never have left the house.

-Only one!

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So, David's team.

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I think it's plausible.

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-Because I've worn pants on my head as well.

-Really?

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-Yeah.

-In what context did you wear pants on your head?

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I think possibly when I was, like, looking for something to tie my hair back with.

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Actually, Jo, what's that in your hair at the moment?

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Obviously if I had pants on my head at the moment they'd be the size of a marquee, Lee.

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LAUGHTER

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What I like to do, every night when I take my pants off,

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it's a bit of a laugh, as I disrobe, all I have left,

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if you can picture it, is the pants

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and what I do is I shimmy them down the length of my legs,

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first the upper thigh, then across past the knee.

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-Roll it down.

-Down the shin.

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I extract the left foot.

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Come on, we're only human.

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Then I go, "zoom!" and I catch them on my head.

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CHEERING

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-So, David, what's it gonna be?

-Do you think yes?

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-Yes.

-I think we're going to say we think it's true.

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You are saying it's true, he actually did it. OK. Russell, is it fact or fiction?

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Depressingly, it is true.

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APPLAUSE

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Our next round is called The Ring of Truth.

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I'll read out some celebrity facts and all our team needs to do

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is decide whether they are truth or tosh.

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Take a look at this fascinating clip of rock 'n' roll star, Liam Gallagher.

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People were scared to talk about

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what it actually is that makes a rock star.

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An example of this is Liam Gallagher,

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who at various points looked quite androgynous.

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What does that mean?

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-That you have a feminine quality about you as well.

-I have a what?

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A feminine quality about you.

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What does that mean?

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Well, you're not just some, you know...

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I'm a bird?

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I'm not saying you're a bird.

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What does that mean?

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It's like you're not some 15-stone hulk,

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you have that kind of,

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androgynous, you've got a bit of feminine in your masculinity.

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Have I? Explain, how does that mean?

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-It's your looks.

-I'm a pretty boy, yeah.

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I'm pretty good looking.

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I take care of me hair, bit obsessed with me hair.

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You've got to have a decent haircut if you're the front man of a band, you know what I mean?

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APPLAUSE

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Liam Gallagher there, talking a lot of sense.

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LAUGHTER

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He is, I think that makes complete sense. I mean, that's the clincher.

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You have to have a bit of a poncy haircut

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if you're gonna be the front man of a pop band.

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Even I know that.

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If I wanted to be the front man of a pop band this would not do.

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Robert, might I ask you, with your number one hit single

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earlier in the year, did you do anything special with your hair?

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I just try and hang on to it, basically.

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Beating a hasty retreat.

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-Thank you for mentioning the single, Carol.

-It's my pleasure.

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Bless you. Doesn't alter the fact that Countdown is over.

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Here is the related fact for Lee's team.

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Liam Gallagher once ordered a trampoline from hotel room service,

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claiming, "I like to bounce."

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-Do we believe it? Lee's team. Trampoline.

-I love the idea that it's true.

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I think trampoline is a good thing, because bed bouncing is a good thing to do, is it not.

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-Yes.

-Jumping up and down. So...

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I think it's morally neutral, I'd say, bouncing up and down.

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Is it not like recycling is a good thing to do.

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Fine if you want to bounce but don't feel guilty if you don't.

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Let me give you some facts. He was staying at the Mal Maison, quite a posh hotel in Edinburgh.

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The problem with hotels like Mal Maison,

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they think they're cool

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because they'll try and have got him a trampoline

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rather than going, "What are you talking about? This is a hotel.

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"Do you want to order something on room service,

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"do you want an ironing board, do you want any of the normal things?

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"Of course you may not have a trampoline. You moron."

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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He might have been playing that game where you ring room service

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and just make up something really stupid to see...

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I haven't done that one.

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Have you not? It's really good fun. I like to ring up and say I'd like some nuclear material, please.

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LAUGHTER

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I think it's absolutely the truth.

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-You don't!

-I do. Yes.

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I think it's true and it's really...

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-How can that be the truth?

-Because he's clearly off his box.

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-You both think that is true?

-What do you think?

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-My team think it's true, so I think it's true.

-OK.

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I can tell you that, in fact, it's true.

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-Yes!

-Result!

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APPLAUSE

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Liam Gallagher did once order a trampoline from hotel room service,

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claiming, "I like to bounce."

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Other things Liam has done in a hotel room include trashing a telly,

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smashing some doors and breaking a window.

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He really is very poor at trampolining.

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Which means at the end of that round

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David has three points and Lee also has three points.

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APPLAUSE

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Our next round is called This Is Mine,

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where we bring on a mystery guest

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who has a close connection to one of our panellists.

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Who knows who they might be tonight.

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The cook from David's country house or perhaps Lee's parole officer.

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Tonight, each of David's team will claim the connection,

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it's up to Lee's lot to work out who's telling the truth.

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Please welcome this week's special guest, Liz.

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APPLAUSE

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Welcome Liz. So, start with you, Jo, what is Liz to you?

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Well, this is Liz, and when she was a baby

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I accidentally dropped her in a pond.

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-What?

-Accidentally?

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There will be time. Larry, would you tell us what Liz is to you?

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This is Liz, who taught me basic bar skills before I went to work in the Queen Vic.

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OK. And David, what is Liz's connection with you?

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This is Liz, and together we are writing a guide to the castles of Britain.

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LAUGHTER

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Totally plausible. Lee's team, where do you want to start?

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I think we gotta start with Jo. What are you talking about?

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When I was about seven or eight, yeah.

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Me and my two brothers were looking after Liz, and she was a baby,

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she was about, I don't know...

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Well, how old is a baby?

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-A year.

-You decide, it's your story.

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Who was the oldest looking after the baby?

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-My brother.

-He was how old?

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He's a year-and-a-half older than me.

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So he was nine-and-a-half and his role was the chief leader of looking after the baby.

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-Yes.

-What a great job you all did, may I say.

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Apart from the dropping it in the pond bit.

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Why were you near a pond?

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Cos I lived in the country and, ooh, there's ponds in the country, Carol.

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Being rude to Carol Vorderman's not going to get you out of trouble, Jo Brand!

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How did the actual dropping happen in the pond?

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We were playing catch with her.

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Come off it!

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You were playing catch?!

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Just kind of, just trying to make her laugh, just throwing her to...

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I think we should move on to castles.

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I absolutely think we should move on to castles,

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with the first question, what's what's your favourite and why, Dave?

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I have two favourite castles. They are castles I discovered as a child.

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Not on my own, they had been previously discovered by historians.

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One is a castle in Wales, in the Mumbles,

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near Swansea and that is called Oystermouth Castle.

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-It's called what?

-Oystermouth Castle.

-I can vouch for that.

-What kind of castle?

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That's a sort of Norman, late Norman kind of castle, with a keep and a...

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-What do you like about Oyster Castle?

-Oystermouth.

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I like it because it's a traditional, old fashioned castle with a moat.

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-An old fashioned castle?

-They all tend to be...

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As opposed to these new modern ones with stone cladding.

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It has always been irritating to me that very few castles

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completely adhere to what I imagine being the typical castle.

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-What was yours again, Larry?

-What was yours?

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This is the lady who taught me my basic bar skills

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for when I was working in EastEnders.

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What are the three most important bar skills that you now have?

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My character is supposed to have spent years working in the bar and pub business, so it's timing,

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it's not just a case of "pull a pint".

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You have to pull a pint and be talking to a customer, taking money.

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-Multi-tasking.

-What sort of lines might you say, Larry?

-You might say, "How you doin', sunshine?"

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-Did you go to her or did she come to you?

-No, you go to her.

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-Is that near the studios?

-This has been years...

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They've been doing this for, evidently, eight years.

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-I've only been there for a year-and-a-half and it's an induction thing.

-So did Barbara Windsor go?

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Barbara Windsor had to go after, because she's been there for, sort of, nearly 20 years.

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So for 20 years, they said, "OK, it's been OK so far but we've decided suddenly..."

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-Everybody.

-"The first 14 years was great but now it's about time you had a bit of bar training

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"cos we can't put up with you missing that pint pot any more.

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"Pouring it over your head and then your bra falls off."

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We need an answer. So Lee's team, is Liz Jo's pond playmate,

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David's fellow castle expert or Larry's bar tutor?

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-What do you think, Russell?

-I think castle.

-Why do you think castle?

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Because Dave's an intelligent man and will have lots of little hobbies and stuff.

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This is definitely Larry.

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It's not Jo. That's completely inconceivable.

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You would not give a very small baby to three very young children,

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not even in the '60s.

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-Who went in the water to get the baby out?

-My brother Bill.

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What, because he had the right beak shape?

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-Lee, I'm going to push you for an answer.

-Larry. Say Larry.

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I'll say Larry.

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-You are saying it's Larry.

-I don't think any of them are true.

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OK, Liz, would you like to reveal your true identity.

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I know Jo, she dropped me in a pond when I was a baby.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Yes. We've actually got a photo of the two of you together.

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Aww!

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Look at the fear in her face!

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Liz, congratulations.

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I don't know why I'm congratulating you for being thrown into a pond.

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Thank you so much for coming. Liz.

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APPLAUSE

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Yes, it's actually true.

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Liz was dropped in a pond as a baby

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and it was Jo who accidentally dropped her.

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And then accidentally skipped away, laughing.

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She also accidentally strapped her to a breezeblock

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and tied her up in a sack full of kittens,

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but that's Jo. Ever so clumsy.

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LAUGHTER

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Which brings us to our final round, Quick fire.

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Lee's team are currently behind so they need to do better here. And we start with...David.

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Possession.

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Well, you have to reach under your desk and lift out your box.

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LAUGHTER

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-OK.

-Yeah.

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This is a letter rejecting me from a job at McDonalds.

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LAUGHTER

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Lee. What do you reckon?

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Could you read it out to us, please, David.

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"Reference, CM1156/P. Dear David, thank you for your recent application to work at the Abingdon branch.

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"Unfortunately at this time your application has not been successful.

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"Thank you for your interest in our company.

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"Yours sincerely, Martin Danks."

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When was it dated, please?

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It's dated 19th July 1990.

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-And you will have been...

-I will have been...

-Mortified.

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Uh, yes!

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I never really bounced back from that. I would have been just 16.

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-Does that add up Carol?

-He's 52.

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At heart. Yes.

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I don't want to bring back unhappy memories for you,

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but what did you feel you could have brought to the company?

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LAUGHTER

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A certain nervous energy.

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A culinary snobbishness that is lacking.

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A fear of interacting with customers

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and an equal fear of frying chips.

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I think Dave could have closed them down

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just by having people come in,

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"Gies a burger." "You don't want a burger, my friend."

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I wouldn't, at that age, have had the confidence

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to refer to someone as "my friend" in that way!

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I would have gone, "Ooh, why?"

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"Don't look at my face."

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What do you think, Carol?

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I think it's a lie.

0:24:190:24:21

I don't want to sway you on this, because we need the points.

0:24:210:24:25

I reckon he's kept it. He's a peculiar mystery. Look at him.

0:24:250:24:29

This is why I don't like people looking at my face.

0:24:290:24:33

-So, Lee, you're saying...

-I have to say I think that's probably...

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-True, it's true, it's true.

-I think it's a lie.

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-I say it's a lie.

-You're saying it's a lie. OK, David, time to own up.

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It is in fact a lie.

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Nice work, Vorderman.

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APPLAUSE

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It's a lie.

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David has never even been to McDonalds, although he was...

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Of course I've been to McDonalds.

0:24:550:24:57

LAUGHTER

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What's the betting that the next joke is, "He went to visit Lee."

0:25:020:25:07

Can I please be allowed to read the autocued joke.

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Sorry.

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David has never even been, although he was once mildly tempted to pop in

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and sample their short-lived McPheasant Zinger.

0:25:170:25:20

LAUGHTER

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Excellent. Good work.

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Good work, the joke computer.

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Next, Lee.

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I once picked up a hitchhiker and scared him so much he cried.

0:25:330:25:38

David, do you believe him?

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Where were you driving?

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I was going from, I think it was from around the Norwich area,

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presume somewhere between Norwich and Yarmouth.

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How did you scare him?

0:25:490:25:50

What happened, we were driving along, he got in the car and he said, the first thing...

0:25:500:25:55

You were driving along and he got in the car? That's dangerous.

0:25:550:25:58

-He was running to keep up.

-Yes, it was an ice-cream van.

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I grabbed him by the hair and pulled him in.

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That's how I used to get them.

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My car used to have problems, because it was a problem car

0:26:050:26:09

and I pulled over, right, I pulled over and I went round the back,

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cos I used to have to hit the engine to get it going again,

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and it all went wrong and we pulled over, so I said,

0:26:170:26:21

"I'm just getting in the back because I need to get a hammer to give it a whack,"

0:26:210:26:25

and as I went back I said, I thought it would be funny to say,

0:26:250:26:28

"Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you."

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So I went round the back of the van, got a hammer out.

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Went back to the front, as I was walking past the front of the car, I looked in,

0:26:330:26:37

and I just saw him go like that, and he just wiped a small tear from his eye,

0:26:370:26:41

cos I think he genuinely thought I'm gonna kill him and he was a bit worried.

0:26:410:26:45

He cried?!

0:26:450:26:47

That's a very odd response to immediate mortal danger.

0:26:470:26:51

To just slightly well up.

0:26:510:26:53

I call that a more the end of It's A Wonderful Life reaction!

0:26:540:26:59

"Oh dear, I am to die, it appears."

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Rather than get out the car and run!

0:27:020:27:05

No, just a slight welling up.

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"Ah, well, all things come to an end."

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LAUGHING

0:27:090:27:12

David, what do you reckon then?

0:27:140:27:17

I think the stuff about having a dodgy car

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that he has to hit in a certain way with a hammer to get it going,

0:27:190:27:22

-I think that side of it is true.

-Let's leave it at that, then.

0:27:220:27:25

-That's the bit that doesn't ring true to me.

-Flannel.

0:27:250:27:28

Larry, what do you say, you've got a good flannel detector, would you...?

0:27:280:27:33

I think it is. I think it's flannel.

0:27:330:27:35

I actually think it might be slightly true

0:27:350:27:38

but I'm not convinced it's true,

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so I'm gonna go with the team and say it's a lie.

0:27:400:27:43

Not gonna rock the boat. OK.

0:27:430:27:45

Lee Mack.

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I say that it is indeed the truth.

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APPLAUSE

0:27:500:27:53

It's true.

0:27:530:27:54

Lee did once pick up a hitchhiker

0:27:560:27:58

and scared him so much that he cried.

0:27:580:28:01

Even Lee now admits it probably wasn't a good idea to shut him in the boot with the other hitchhikers.

0:28:010:28:06

LAUGHTER

0:28:060:28:07

BUZZER

0:28:070:28:09

Oh, and that is the noise that signals the end of the round

0:28:090:28:13

and the end of the show and I can reveal it's a draw!

0:28:130:28:17

With five points on Lee's team and five points for David's team.

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APPLAUSE

0:28:210:28:24

But it's not just a team game.

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My individual liar of the week is Jo Brand.

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APPLAUSE

0:28:300:28:32

I have to say, I had my suspicions about Jo,

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the second I saw her park in the disabled bay

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and limp into the studio.

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Good night!

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