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APPLAUSE

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Good evening and welcome to Would I Lie to You?

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The show with naked truths and well-dressed lies.

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On David Mitchell's team tonight,

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a comedian whose performances have put a smile on many people's faces,

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if not his own - it's Jack Dee.

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APPLAUSE

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And a man who's cool,

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he's hip, he's dench, he's amazeballs,

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he's OMG, he's the dog's bizzle, he's YOLO,

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I don't know what any of those words mean,

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it's Tinchy Strider.

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APPLAUSE

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And on Lee Mack's team tonight,

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a comedian who describes himself as a chubby sociopath,

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which is strange cos I've never thought of him as a sociopath -

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it's Romesh Ranganathan.

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APPLAUSE

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And the presenter of the National Lottery

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where every week some lucky person wins millions of pounds,

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loses all their friends,

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breaks up with their spouse,

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falls out with their family

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and ends up living alone in a giant house they paid too much for -

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it's Gaby Roslin.

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APPLAUSE

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And so we begin with Round One,

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it's Home Truths, where our panellists each read out a statement

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from the card in front of them.

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To make things harder, they've never seen the card before,

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they have no idea what they'll be faced with

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and it's up to the opposing team to sort the fact from the fiction.

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Romesh, you're up first tonight.

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When I was a teacher,

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whilst trying to explain a tricky concept,

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I accidentally locked a pupil in a cupboard.

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LAUGHTER

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David's team.

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OK. What was the concept?

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Was it the concept of imprisonment or...?

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LAUGHTER

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It was a... It was a maths lesson,

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I was teaching the topic of probability and chance.

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"What's the chances of getting locked in the cupboard?"

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Well, that was a... That became an extra learning objective.

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That wasn't the main one,

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I was trying to get across the idea of....

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Narnia.

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-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

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I was trying to get them to understand

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how to explain the concept of probability.

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So, the idea was

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that if you had, like, an alien arrive on Earth

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how would you explain probability?

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Which would be the first thing you'd do, wouldn't you?

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Yeah.

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-No, actually...

-"Put the laser down, let me talk to you about maths."

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Yeah.

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Romesh, what age group was this?

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-So, this is year eight. So, 11, 12 years old.

-OK, so...

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What happened was, I needed somebody to pretend to be an alien...

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OK.

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..so I selected a child...

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From the class, I didn't just go out and look for one.

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LAUGHTER

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How did you select?

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Did you go for the little green one with the pointy ears?

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Well, no, actually what it was - I thought I was doing a good thing

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because you know you get some kids that are sort of...

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That have problems making friendships and stuff like that

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and I had a kid like that in the class so I thought

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I'd bring him out of himself.

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You chose the kid that got bullied...

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LAUGHTER ..to be the alien...

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..so that the rest of the class can point at him and go, "Alien."

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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I mean, to be fair, I thought we we're just playing a game,

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I didn't realise this was an Ofsted inspection.

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LAUGHTER

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So, basically what it was, I was trying to make it realistic.

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-OK.

-So I said to him,

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"Why don't we pretend this cupboard

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"is like a transformation chamber?"

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"You know, you go in the cupboard,

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"you go in as a boy..."

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Oh, it's just... It's just getting worse, isn't it?

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If one of my kids came home from school

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and described this scene, I'd be down that school like a shot.

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How surprised would you then be

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to see that teacher on the BBC a few years later?

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LAUGHTER

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In the current climate, not surprised at all.

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APPLAUSE

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Basically I said to him, "You're going to go into the cupboard,

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"you're going to transform into an alien."

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What was the concept again you was trying to teach the kid?

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-Probability.

-Probability?

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We haven't got to that bit yet,

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-we're going to find out when he steps out.

-Oh, OK.

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Oh, we're now trying to find out how to transform to an alien.

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Oh, that's what we're looking forward to, him coming out,

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we never get that far, do we? what am I talking about?

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"At the next Ofsted inspection, a small skeleton was discovered."

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LAUGHTER

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And they said, "What are the chances of that?"

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and they said, "Well, interesting you should ask that."

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APPLAUSE

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What were you going to do? That's what I want to know.

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If he hadn't have got locked in, what were you going to do?

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The idea was it that he was going to come out and be the alien

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and then I was going to get different kids to...

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I mean, it...

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"Get different kids to..." Don't lose confidence.

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LAUGHTER

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I was going to get different kids to explain to him

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what probability was.

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So, he was going to be, like, the dummy alien and then he'd be like,

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-"Be-be-be" and then...

-LAUGHTER

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-Never to be bullied again.

-LAUGHTER

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I can't help feeling that I'm a little bit under attack here.

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It's all right because you may be lying,

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in which case, you're off the hook.

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LAUGHTER

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Why does it help to understand probability

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to get children to explain it to an alien?

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So, basically in, in order to get the idea

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that a kid understands a concept,

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them explaining it and that explanation being clear

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illustrates that they have learnt it completely.

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So, Romesh you've, sort of, left it that he's in the cupboard.

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-He got in...

-Yeah.

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-What happened?

-I realised I couldn't open the door...

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..to let him out, so I started looking around

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for other teachers to help me

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and they said, "Actually, the cupboard...

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"it can be opened from the inside."

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The problem came when I said to him,

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"You're going to have to come out of the cupboard,

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"just open it from the inside."

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And he replied, "Ze-be-de-digger-digger-digger."

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LAUGHTER

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-Because he was being an alien.

-Right.

-Yeah.

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That extended the problem...

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..and he was in there for 20 minutes.

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So, he came out in the end, he eventually opened it,

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he came out and...?

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Well, the lesson was ruined.

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LAUGHTER

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What are you thinking, David?

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-I do know that Romesh used to be a maths teacher...

-Oh, OK.

-Right.

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..and education's loss was show business's gain.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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There were so many gaps in the story, I just...

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-Yeah, the story wasn't really adding up right...

-Ah, yeah.

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-..for a maths teacher.

-I like that. I like that.

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-I think we think it's a lie, do we?

-I think it might be.

-Yeah.

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It's a lie for all of you? OK.

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Romesh, truth or lie?

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The story is...true.

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CHEERING

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It's true,

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Romesh did ACCIDENTALLY lock one of his pupils in a cupboard.

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LAUGHTER

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Tinchy, you're next.

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Sometimes I pretend to have broken something in my house

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so that when a man comes round to fix it, I can play him at ping pong.

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LAUGHTER

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So, hang on, just to be clear, what you're saying is

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you sometimes pretend that there's something broken in your house,

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to get an handyman round, so you can what?

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So we can play ping pong.

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But why, why do you get a strange man round to play ping pong?

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It's not really a strange man, he's a neighbour

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but he's like a handyman,

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when I want to play ping pong,

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I'll tell him something's broke.

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Why can't you just tell him you want to play ping pong?

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-Cos I don't know, I just...

-Are you telling me the relationship

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with your neighbour is so bad

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that the only way you can get him to come round to your house

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is by pretending something's broken at your place?

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No, it's not that bad, he likes ping pong.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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What's he called?

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-What's he called?

-I don't know, I've never met him.

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LAUGHTER

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What's he called? Handyman. You could call him Handyman.

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But what's his real name when he's not Handyman.

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-What's his real name? Paul.

-Paul, the handyman.

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Handyman Paul, really. Not Paul, the handyman.

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How long have you known Paul for?

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I've been living there for maybe the past three or four years

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-so, yeah, that long.

-How many times has he played ping pong with you?

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Oh, loads of times, always something wrong in my house.

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LAUGHTER

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So, so you might say... What might be broken, for example?

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For example I might say,

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"OK, the light's off in, like, the conservatory,"

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or something and then...

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"Conservatory?" You're very grime, aren't you?

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LAUGHTER

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So you've put all your hip-hop money into a conservatory and...

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LAUGHTER

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..so how would you go from "The light's broken in the conservatory"

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to "Do you want a game of table tennis?"

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Because when he comes round and then say, for example,

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sometimes it's not broken, I say "Ah, I've fixed it," as he gets there,

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and I'm like, "Are you sure...?

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"Pop in for a quick ping pong game then."

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LAUGHTER

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-David, do you play table tennis?

-I do, yeah.

-Really?

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-Yes, I...

-Are you good?

-I'm all right.

-OK.

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Ah, but can you, can you fix a light switch?

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Otherwise you've got no chance of playing him.

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Absolutely not.

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So, how do you serve, David?

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Do you serve like that, like that or...?

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David always gets someone to serve him.

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LAUGHTER

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Tinchy, I'd really like to, sort of,

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get an idea of how you move the conversation to ping pong.

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So, let's say you've broken your TV.

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How would it go?

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I'll be Paul, the handyman.

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-Hello.

-Hang on, we haven't opened the door yet.

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LAUGHTER

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"Is it sticking? I can fix that.

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"Actually, I can't because we're going to

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"play table tennis again, aren't we? I know how this goes."

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When someone knocks your door like, "Knock, knock," I say, "Who is it?"

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-I don't open and say, "Who is it?"

-OK.

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Who is it?

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LAUGHTER

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It's Paul, the handyman. You phoned me about three minutes ago

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about your television, who do you think?

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"Oh, hello, Paul." Open the door, you're in. "What's up?"

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"What's up?" You tell me, it's your telly.

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-That's, that's, that's what...

-Oh, I see. "What is happening, dude?"

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Your relationship with him is very sarcastic.

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LAUGHTER

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You try being his ping pong mate, you'll start being sarcastic.

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How do you introduce ping pong?

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I say "Oh, yeah, do you want a drink?"

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and then he'll be like "I'm all right."

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And I'm like, "Do you want a game?"

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And you give him the special drink

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and he wakes up in the table tennis room.

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LAUGHTER

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Answer me this, what is he wearing?

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-What's he wearing?

-When he wakes up.

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When he wakes up?

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Have you dressed him as a professional table tennis player?

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-Oh, no he's...

-Strapped to a mannequin...

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I'm swinging this!

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So, Lee, is this looking plausible?

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-Gaby.

-I think it's true because

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he doesn't want to be too upfront with Paul, the handyman,

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so he invites him round to fix.

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Sorry, sorry, Handyman Paul.

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Sorry, Handyman Paul.

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With Handyman Paul for ping pong.

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Ping Pong Paul!

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Even that name is better, Ping Pong Paul.

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Ping Pong Paul.

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-So, what are we thinking?

-I think it's a lie.

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-So, Romesh says it's a lie.

-Yeah.

-I think it's true.

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-Gaby says it's true.

-Difficult decision.

-It's got to be a lie.

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It's a lie? OK. Tinchy, truth or lie?

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Everything I was saying was all...true.

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CHEERING

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You see.

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Good work, well done.

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Yes, it's true.

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Tinchy does like to play ping pong

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with a man that comes round to fix things in his house.

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Our next round is called This Is My,

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where we bring on a mystery guest who has a close connection

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to one of our panellists.

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Now, this week, each of Lee's team will claim it's them

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that has the genuine connection to the guest

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and it's up to David's team to spot who's telling the truth.

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So, please welcome this week's special guest, Georgia.

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APPLAUSE

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So, let's start with Gaby.

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What is Georgia to you?

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This is Georgia,

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and when she fell down a manhole,

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I was unable to help her because I couldn't stop laughing.

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Right, so, Romesh, how do you know Georgia?

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This is Georgia.

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I have an irrational fear of sock puppets

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and, last year, I had to leave a children's party

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when she put one on.

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Right, and finally, Lee, what's your relationship with Georgia?

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This is Georgia, after spending a weekend at her hotel

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I drove home only to find her cat

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asleep in the boot of my car.

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So there we have it, Gaby's mate in a manhole,

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Romesh's sock scarer or Lee's lost cat lady.

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David's team, where do you want to start?

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So, Gaby, what were the circumstances of Georgia's accident?

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We had been shopping.

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-So, you're friends?

-Yes.

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LAUGHTER

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How do you know each other?

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She used to be my next door neighbour.

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So, how old were you when the, when this happened, the manhole incident?

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About 13.

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And describe the mishap,

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if you can keep a straight face.

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LAUGHTER

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We'd been shopping and the bus was coming

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and I said, "Run for the bus,"

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and then I heard a scream

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and, suddenly, I realised that she'd fallen down a manhole.

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You see that, to me, that would have really hurt.

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JACK: I think if you're running, you don't fall

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vertically down a small opening...

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Well, she's only little.

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She's still able to run with a big enough stride to

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not fall directly down a manhole.

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Well, what if you had like a Tinchy Stryder doing it?

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Oh!

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APPLAUSE

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So, she got out and what was the, what was the extent of her injuries?

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How bad is this story?

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"She only started walking six months ago?"

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She had a very, she had a very bad...chin.

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-Chin.

-Chin?

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She'd broken her fall with her chin?

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LAUGHTER

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She wasn't even touching the floor,

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just resting on her chin.

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LAUGHTER

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You're going, "What's up? I can't speak cos I'm in a hole!

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"Help!"

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The key question there is what Jack alluded to,

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is that, if you're running along,

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-you've got forward momentum...

-Yes.

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..and only one foot will be where the manhole is,

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-you've got both feet.

-That tallies with what she's saying

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cos one foot would go in you go forward and... Chin.

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-No, it's not very no they're not very wide, manholes.

-No, it was...

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Cos manholes are about, you know they're only, you know,

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to go down it like that, you'd have to be aiming for it, wouldn't you?

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You'd have to be doing run, run, run, jump, legs together.

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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Right, Romesh,

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you have a fear of sock puppets.

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Yeah. I do, yeah.

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OK, I believe you. LAUGHTER

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Why?

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It's this.

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I find that terr... Like a snake!

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At any point, they can just turn towards you.

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Yeah, and it's the unpredictability of it,

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you know like... It's not fun.

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You know, they've got the sock puppet there

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then you're sitting down there going "Oh, ho-ho-ho!"

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That's not funny, that's terrifying. It's horrible.

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And what was the occasion with Georgia?

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Well, I don't actually know Georgia that well.

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What happened was it that I was going to a kids' birthday party

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-with my children...

-OK.

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..and the problem that we have is that our oldest child

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is very, sort of, chilled out and he just has a nice time.

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The second one is...

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Well, he's not.

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And so, we arrived at the party

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and his behaviour was unacceptable,

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he was shoving kids and it was getting pretty embarrassing

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and we were trying to control it and so, basically,

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she saw that there was an emergency situation,

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I, sort of, wandered over

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and she was reaching into her pocket

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to pull out what I thought...

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What I hoped was a gun, but...

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LAUGHTER

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..but it turned out to be the sock puppet

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and she put the sock puppet on and then,

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"Here he comes again, hello, ho-ho-ho!"

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See he says a lot of, it's unpredictable, it's not...

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-Yeah, but you don't know what the...

-We know.

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You don't know what the puppeteer might do,

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what they might think is funny.

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-Well, they're either going to do that or that.

-Yeah.

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No, but they can do that - "Attack, attack, attack."

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Yeah, but the sock is not what enables them to do that.

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In many ways, any human might suddenly do that to you.

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No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not...

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-That's the risk we live with whenever we interact.

-I'm not...

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-Is that what you're thinking when you're chatting?

-Yeah, I...

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I always wondered about that strange look you give me

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when we're having a drink afterwards and you go like that, constant.

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I always think you give it a couple of yards

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so, if you suddenly do that, you can get away.

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So, how did you react, Romesh?

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I just, sort of, grabbed my son and I went,

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"I'll get him, I'll sort him out. Don't worry, thank you, ha-ha-ha!"

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and just tried to not look,

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and then I ran out the party into the back garden.

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Right. She's not going to come after you with the sock(?)

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No, if she'd have come out to the garden with like this,

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I would have just knocked her out.

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LAUGHTER

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So, Lee, "cat in car post-hotel" I've written down.

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-That's her name, yeah.

-Yeah.

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LAUGHTER

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What kind of cat was it, Lee?

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Oh, it's a black one.

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-Oh, yeah.

-What kind of hotel?

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Red.

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LAUGHTER

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What kind of car?

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Blue!

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Were you there for the weekend?

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I'd taken my wife away for a weekend in a boutique hotel

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in the New Forest - the old forest wasn't doing it for me.

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Right. Had you got home when you discovered the cat?

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Yes, I'd got home and I opened up the boot...

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-to let the wife out. No.

-LAUGHTER

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I'd opened up the boot to get the...

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To get the luggage out...

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And there was a flattened cat.

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No. What had happened is,

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I opened up the boot of the car,

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I'd gone into the hotel

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because I put my bag in but my wife was chatting away to someone,

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I was trying to get her away, I said,

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"Come on, we should probably drift off now,"

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-that's when the cat had jumped in.

-And you drove back home...

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-Drove back home.

-..no incident,

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no sound of purring or yowling

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that you couldn't attribute to your wife.

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Yeah. No, I just...

0:18:470:18:49

-Bit rude, David, And I...

-LAUGHTER

0:18:490:18:53

Shame, that, you let yourself down.

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Still doing all that old school comedy, I see.

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And yeah, we hadn't heard anything,

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we had the radio playing quite loudly and

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we all know that the sound of Spandau Ballet

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is a lot louder than "meow."

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LAUGHTER

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And you remembered, when you saw the cat in the car,

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"That's the cat from the hotel."

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Well, yeah, I mean the, a jet black cat in a hotel...

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You don't see a lot of cats in hotels anyway, do you?

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No, you don't any more cos you've taken them home in your car clearly.

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Did you drive him straight back?

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I immediately rang the hotel and said,

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"The bacon was a bit burnt, but whatever.

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"I've got your cat." And she said, "Blooming heck, all right.

0:19:290:19:31

"Next time I won't cook it so much." I went "No, it's not a threat,

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"I'm just letting you know I've got your cat.

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"That was just an aside.

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"I'm not going to start sending you an ear and then a paw

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"I mean, you know, you're getting the cat back...

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"Well, eventually."

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But no, I said "You know, why don't we meet halfway?

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"We'll meet at a service station and I will give you the cat."

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So, David's team, we need an answer.

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Is Georgia...

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Gaby's mate in a manhole?

0:19:560:19:57

Romesh's sock scarer?

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Or Lee's lost cat lady?

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Any initial instincts?

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It feels like none of them know Georgia.

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LAUGHTER

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I'm not buying it about the sock puppet,

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although it is definitely possible.

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The problem that we have here

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is that not all of you are telling the truth.

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LAUGHTER Yeah.

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-LEE:

-That is true.

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I think Gaby knows Georgia,

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that's my instinct.

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-I think we're going manhole?

-Yeah.

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-Manhole? Manhole?

-Let's call her Gaby.

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-Gaby. Gaby, please.

-LAUGHTER

0:20:310:20:35

Farther than I ever intended it to be.

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I'm so sorry.

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That was just....

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If I thought that through, I would never have said that.

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So, we're saying that it's Gaby.

0:20:520:20:55

-It's Gaby that's telling the truth.

-It's the manhole.

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Georgia, would you please reveal your true identity?

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My name is Georgia,

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I'm a friend of Gaby,

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-and I fell down the manhole.

-APPLAUSE

0:21:040:21:08

Yes, Georgia is Gaby's fallen friend.

0:21:100:21:14

Thank you very much, Georgia, thank you.

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APPLAUSE

0:21:160:21:19

Which brings us to our final round,

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Quick Fire Lies,

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and we start with...

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BUZZER

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-It's Jack.

-Hmm.

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I had to reprimand my builder

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after I came home early one day

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and caught him eating doughnuts in the bath.

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LAUGHTER

0:21:360:21:37

Lee's team.

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How did you reprimand him?

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I said "What do you think you're playing at? What's going on?"

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Were they the ones with jam in the middle or the rings?

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What - the doughnuts or the bath?

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The doughnuts.

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Well, they're a popular brand.

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They were Krispy Kreme.

0:21:520:21:54

Other brands are available but that's what he was eating.

0:21:540:21:56

What did he say when you said? "What the hell are you playing at?"

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He said, "Oh, sorry, I didn't know you were coming home."

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LAUGHTER

0:22:010:22:04

In mitigation, the bath wasn't filled with water,

0:22:040:22:06

it actually wasn't even plumbed in yet,

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but he was lying in it

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and just taking a bit of a break having some doughnuts -

0:22:110:22:13

having my doughnuts.

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Did you offer him biscuits and doughnuts beforehand?

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Before you left that day?

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Certainly not, no.

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No, because I wanted him to plumb the bath in.

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LAUGHTER

0:22:230:22:25

Lay on a load of confectionery

0:22:250:22:26

and he's not going to get on with the work,

0:22:260:22:28

but anyway, he helped himself anyway.

0:22:280:22:30

What upset me is he'd gone into the kitchen and helped himself to the...

0:22:300:22:33

-They're yours, he hadn't even brought them in.

-No, they were mine.

0:22:330:22:36

How many doughnuts were there?

0:22:360:22:37

We'd bought 36 because we were...

0:22:370:22:39

Whoa, whoa. What are you doing with 36 doughnuts?

0:22:390:22:41

Well, because we were expecting friends round

0:22:410:22:44

because it's a new house.

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And you are, you're having this house-warming, curiously...

0:22:450:22:48

before the bathroom had been finished.

0:22:480:22:49

-GABY:

-Yes, I'm concerned about your plumbing.

0:22:490:22:51

Yeah, well, you know, the builder had...

0:22:510:22:54

Not the first time a woman said that to Jack.

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The builder had...

0:22:550:22:57

The loo was done - in fact, one of them wasn't done but, yes.

0:22:570:23:00

I'm obsessed with the boldness of taking a whole box to the bathroom,

0:23:000:23:04

-more so than getting in the bath.

-Yeah.

-I don't care where he's sat.

0:23:040:23:07

-I agree.

-How far would he have...?

-You don't care?!

0:23:070:23:09

You don't care if a builder was in your house

0:23:090:23:11

and sat in your empty bath?

0:23:110:23:12

Only after it's been plumbed in does that bother me.

0:23:120:23:14

Oh, so an empty bath that's not plumbed in,

0:23:140:23:16

you don't mind anybody sitting in your empty bath?

0:23:160:23:18

He can wee in it for all I care, it's empty, it's not plumbed in.

0:23:180:23:21

Can I just say, if you're thinking of breaking into my house,

0:23:210:23:24

that was a joke, do not urinate in my bath.

0:23:240:23:26

I must say I agree with Lee,

0:23:270:23:29

I think an unplumbed bath is still the builder's province.

0:23:290:23:32

-Yeah.

-Once it's plumbed in, they've signed off on it, then it's yours,

0:23:320:23:36

it's your place of washing -

0:23:360:23:38

before then, who knows?

0:23:380:23:39

GABY: So, anybody can go and sit in an unplumbed bath?

0:23:390:23:42

No, not anyone, no.

0:23:420:23:43

A qualified builder-slash-doughnut eater.

0:23:430:23:47

LAUGHTER

0:23:470:23:49

I want to know if the party still happened though.

0:23:490:23:51

Everyone arrived, didn't they, they didn't know this had happened.

0:23:510:23:54

Was this a showbiz event?

0:23:540:23:56

-Cos I don't remember getting the invite.

-Yeah...

0:23:560:23:58

LAUGHTER

0:23:580:23:59

..are you in showbiz, are you, Lee?

0:23:590:24:01

All right, all right.

0:24:010:24:03

Come on, there's no need for that, Jack.

0:24:050:24:09

Lee, what are you thinking?

0:24:090:24:10

I don't know. Romesh, what do you think?

0:24:100:24:12

I find your idea of serving doughnuts at a party unacceptable.

0:24:120:24:15

That is unacceptable.

0:24:150:24:16

And if I turn up to a party expecting doughnuts

0:24:160:24:18

and they said, "There are no doughnuts," you know what I'd say?

0:24:180:24:21

"Well, at least, can I just have a hot bath?"

0:24:210:24:23

-And you can't even offer that.

-LAUGHTER

0:24:230:24:26

-I think it's a lie.

-Gaby?

-Must be lying.

0:24:260:24:28

Both say it's a lie, I'll go with my team and say it's a lie.

0:24:280:24:30

Oh, you're saying it's a lie. Jack, truth or lie?

0:24:300:24:33

It is...a lie.

0:24:330:24:35

APPLAUSE

0:24:350:24:38

Yes, it's a lie,

0:24:380:24:40

Jack didn't catch his builder eating doughnuts in the bath.

0:24:400:24:43

Next.

0:24:430:24:44

BUZZER

0:24:440:24:46

It's Gaby.

0:24:460:24:47

If I'm ever worried about something silly,

0:24:490:24:51

I write it on a sheet of loo roll,

0:24:510:24:54

eat it and the worry goes away.

0:24:540:24:56

LAUGHTER

0:24:560:24:58

David's team.

0:24:580:25:00

Right, but only if you're worried about something silly?

0:25:000:25:02

Well, it's those little things, you know those things that just bug you

0:25:020:25:05

-and you can't get out of your mind.

-No.

0:25:050:25:08

LAUGHTER

0:25:080:25:10

What sort of silly worry then?

0:25:100:25:12

You know when you wake up at three o'clock in the morning

0:25:120:25:14

and it's those, it's those little things,

0:25:140:25:16

"Did I close the cat flap?" Or,

0:25:160:25:19

-"Did I put the rubbish out?" Or...

-That's up to the cat.

0:25:190:25:21

"Did I...?

0:25:210:25:22

"Did I turn the lights off?"

0:25:220:25:24

All of those, the little, silly things

0:25:240:25:26

so then I'd go to the bathroom, and I write it down.

0:25:260:25:28

It's not quicker just to check whether you've turned the lights off?

0:25:280:25:31

No because the bathroom's closer than going all the way downstairs.

0:25:310:25:34

-Is it an en-suite, Gaby?

-Is it an en-suite?

-No, it's not.

0:25:340:25:37

Tinchy's off again, "Is it en suite? Mine is."

0:25:370:25:39

LAUGHTER

0:25:390:25:41

"I had it put in at the same time as the conservatory."

0:25:410:25:43

"And the ping pong room."

0:25:430:25:45

"There's a lot of money in grime, I'll have you know."

0:25:450:25:48

So, you...? So, it's like a silly domestic...

0:25:500:25:53

Oh, it's just silly things.

0:25:530:25:54

"..have I locked the back door?" that sort of thing.

0:25:540:25:57

When the kids go swimming with school,

0:25:570:25:59

I sometimes worry that their swim kit isn't ready.

0:25:590:26:03

What happens if you wake up in the night

0:26:030:26:04

and worry about all the loo roll you've been eating?

0:26:040:26:07

LAUGHTER

0:26:070:26:09

So, what do you do when you got bigger worries?

0:26:090:26:12

THEN I don't write it on the loo roll.

0:26:120:26:14

-Oh, what do you write it on? What do you eat?

-Kitchen roll.

0:26:140:26:17

-No, that...

-Kitchen roll.

0:26:170:26:18

APPLAUSE

0:26:180:26:21

So, OK, let's say you're worried about swim...

0:26:210:26:24

-Swim.

-"Swim."

0:26:240:26:26

You write swim on a bit of loo roll,

0:26:260:26:28

and is that a whole piece?

0:26:280:26:31

Yeah, but, just one section, not the whole roll.

0:26:310:26:33

Yes, well it's a lot... It's not a lot of loo roll,

0:26:330:26:35

but it's a lot to eat.

0:26:350:26:36

No, they're only little.

0:26:360:26:38

But they're not food. LAUGHTER

0:26:380:26:40

-But it's paper.

-I mean, this is only little

0:26:400:26:43

but I don't fancy my chances

0:26:430:26:44

of getting it down me.

0:26:440:26:46

It's not like a sandwich.

0:26:460:26:49

No, but I don't want a sandwich in the middle of the night.

0:26:490:26:51

But, just as delicious... LAUGHTER

0:26:510:26:55

Just a piece of loo roll with a slight flavour of ink.

0:26:550:27:00

What was the first worry that led you to go round loo roll

0:27:000:27:03

-and eat the loo roll?

-Yeah.

0:27:030:27:05

Do you know, it was probably when I was young,

0:27:050:27:07

I think I was worried about doing my exams and things like that

0:27:070:27:10

so I put the subject that I was worried about

0:27:100:27:12

and I just chewed it up and the worry went away.

0:27:120:27:15

Yeah. Did you do well in the exam?

0:27:150:27:17

-No.

-OK. LAUGHTER

0:27:170:27:19

We know that was the worry

0:27:190:27:21

but what all the rational people here are still wondering is,

0:27:210:27:25

"OK, I'm worried,

0:27:250:27:26

"but why am I writing on toilet paper and then eating it?"

0:27:260:27:29

Because, because I wanted to go and sit in the light

0:27:290:27:32

and the loo, the bathroom light is on...

0:27:320:27:34

-Good, fine, yes.

-..and I needed a wee.

-Right.

0:27:340:27:37

But what's the logic?

0:27:370:27:38

Because I thought... People say that if you write things down,

0:27:380:27:41

-it takes the worry away.

-Yes, not...

0:27:410:27:43

-They don't say, "If you write it down and eat it."

-Yes.

0:27:430:27:45

-Do you think...?

-I didn't know what else to do, it does,

0:27:450:27:48

I didn't know how else to get rid of the loo paper.

0:27:480:27:50

But you're on the toilet!

0:27:500:27:52

LAUGHTER

0:27:520:27:57

So, what do you think?

0:27:570:27:58

I'm on the lie side.

0:27:580:28:00

All right, I'm thinking it's a lie.

0:28:000:28:02

I think we think it's a lie.

0:28:020:28:03

OK, conclusively a lie.

0:28:030:28:05

Gaby, truth or lie?

0:28:050:28:08

It's actually...

0:28:080:28:09

a lie.

0:28:090:28:11

APPLAUSE

0:28:110:28:14

-END BUZZER

-And that noise signals time is up,

0:28:150:28:18

it's the end of the show and I can reveal

0:28:180:28:19

that David's team have won by three points to two.

0:28:190:28:22

APPLAUSE

0:28:220:28:25

But, it's not just a team game

0:28:250:28:27

and my individual liar of the week,

0:28:270:28:29

this week, is Tinchy Stryder.

0:28:290:28:32

APPLAUSE

0:28:320:28:35

And Tinchy's invited us, now,

0:28:350:28:38

to hang with his crew and get on the decks, so,

0:28:380:28:40

thank you, Tinchy, I love a regatta.

0:28:400:28:42

Goodnight.

0:28:420:28:44

LAUGHTER

0:28:440:28:48

APPLAUSE

0:28:480:28:51

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