0:00:19 > 0:00:22APPLAUSE
0:00:22 > 0:00:23Thank you very much indeed.
0:00:23 > 0:00:26Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong and a very warm welcome
0:00:26 > 0:00:29to this special comedians edition of Pointless Celebrities,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31the show that makes big winners out of the lowest scorers.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.
0:00:38 > 0:00:39And couple number one.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42I'm Helen Lederer and I've written a funny book
0:00:42 > 0:00:46and I'm thrilled to be here with my very close friend.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49I'm Cariad, I'm a comedian and an improviser
0:00:49 > 0:00:53and I'm also very excited to be here with legend, Helen Lederer.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56- Legend. Thank you. - APPLAUSE
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Couple number two.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02Hi, I'm Jack. I'm a stand-up comedian and actor,
0:01:02 > 0:01:04and that sort of thing.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06And I'm Terry Alderton and I'm Jack's dad.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09- What?! - LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:01:14 > 0:01:15Couple number three.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Hello, my name's Gary Delaney, I'm a comic,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20and I'm currently doing a tour
0:01:20 > 0:01:22which has got a joke about Pointless in it,
0:01:22 > 0:01:25about how in Round Three, the stands look like giant robot owls.
0:01:25 > 0:01:27You'll see what I mean when we get to that point.
0:01:27 > 0:01:28And if I get knocked out
0:01:28 > 0:01:30before getting to stand on the giant robot owls,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32I'm going to be absolutely gutted.
0:01:33 > 0:01:38I'm Sarah Millican and I'm a comedian, according to some.
0:01:38 > 0:01:39APPLAUSE
0:01:42 > 0:01:44And finally, couple number four.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46My name's Lee Hurst and I'm a comedian
0:01:46 > 0:01:49as well as many of the other people here tonight.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52I'm Arthur Smith, semi-professional comedian
0:01:52 > 0:01:56and the hipster guru of a new treatment known as mindlessness.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:02:00 > 0:02:03Thanks very much, all of you. A very warm welcome to Pointless.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05It's lovely as ever to have you here. We'll get to chat
0:02:05 > 0:02:07to each of you throughout the show as it goes along.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10But that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12He likes to do his stand-up sitting down.
0:02:12 > 0:02:14It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17- Hiya. Hi, everybody. - APPLAUSE
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Good evening.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Good evening to you.
0:02:21 > 0:02:25- Good evening to you.- This has got long show written all over it.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28Don't you think? We've got some absolute legends of Pointless,
0:02:28 > 0:02:31people who have come back who have done unbelievably well.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Helen there got all the way through to Round One...
0:02:35 > 0:02:36Terry's been on before,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38he got all the way through to Round One as well.
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Arthur actually got all the way through to Round Two,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43- so he's very much...- AUDIENCE:- Ooh! - ..the star of the piece.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46So, yeah, it should be an absolute cracker today, I think.
0:02:46 > 0:02:49Round One... Round One is not going to cause too much trouble.
0:02:49 > 0:02:50Round One is one of those things, just...
0:02:50 > 0:02:53I don't think anyone's going to have too much trouble with it.
0:02:53 > 0:02:54There'll be stuff everyone can answer.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Round Two will put you through your paces a little bit more.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00- OK.- Ooh, hello.- Oh, and then, the robotic owls!
0:03:00 > 0:03:01- Then the giant robotic owls. - GARY CHEERS
0:03:01 > 0:03:03Oh, it's going to be fun.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05HE HOOTS AND GROWLS
0:03:05 > 0:03:08There we are, thank you very much. As usual, all of today's questions
0:03:08 > 0:03:10have been put to 100 people before the show.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12Our contestants here are on the hunt
0:03:12 > 0:03:14for those all-important pointless answers.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16These are answers that none of our 100 people gave.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18Find one of those and we'll add 250 quid to the jackpot.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Now, as today's show is a celebrity special,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23and each of our celebrities is playing for a nominated charity,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27we're going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500.
0:03:27 > 0:03:28There we are.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32Right, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39So, here's the only thing you have to remember -
0:03:39 > 0:03:41the pair with the highest score
0:03:41 > 0:03:42at the end of each round will be eliminated.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44The pair with the highest score.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46So, do everything you can to make sure your scores are low.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Very best of luck to all four pairs.
0:03:48 > 0:03:49Our first category of today...
0:03:51 > 0:03:53..is...
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Places. Can you all decide in your pairs who's going to go first,
0:03:56 > 0:03:57who's going to go second?
0:03:58 > 0:04:01And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08OK, and the question concerns...
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- Shared place names, Richard? - Yeah, on each board, we're going
0:04:13 > 0:04:15to show you seven descriptions of two places that share a name.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18You just have to give us the most obscure answer you can, please.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20There's going to be seven on the first board, seven on the second,
0:04:20 > 0:04:22so 14 in all to have a go at at home. Very best of luck.
0:04:22 > 0:04:23Thanks very much indeed.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26So, let's reveal our first set of clues, and here they come.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28We've got...
0:05:01 > 0:05:03There we go. I'll read that one last time.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37Now, Cariad, welcome to Pointless. Great to have you here.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Now, improv is your thing.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42- That is the realm of comedy you are here to represent.- Yeah.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- The ambassador from improv. - They sent me, the council sent me.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47How do you do that? I have to say, improv,
0:05:47 > 0:05:49I take my hat off to anybody who can do that,
0:05:49 > 0:05:52because it always just seems so immaculately polished.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- It can be! Sometimes. - Do you have tricks?
0:05:54 > 0:05:56I mean, do you have little things,
0:05:56 > 0:05:57little sleights of brain?
0:05:57 > 0:06:02No, you just... You practise not blocking people.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05So you always have to build, you must never disagree with someone?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Yeah, you "Yes, and", so you have to practise agreeing,
0:06:08 > 0:06:09which some people find hard.
0:06:09 > 0:06:12Do you think that nobody has any control at all, and it's just...?
0:06:12 > 0:06:13It's a sort of chaos theory
0:06:13 > 0:06:16and everyone's just a bit surprised by where it goes?
0:06:16 > 0:06:18No, because you're telling it. So the show I do, Austentatious,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21which is improvised Jane Austen, so you're telling a story,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24so that's what's driving it, the story structure.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Right. So, you know what the structure is?
0:06:25 > 0:06:27- I can get really boring! - No, I see what you mean.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30So, you don't know it, but if we're telling a story and you think,
0:06:30 > 0:06:33"Oh, well, that should happen next, that's the obvious thing to happen,"
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- that's what you're hoping for. - Very good. You've just made it sound
0:06:35 > 0:06:38even more difficult! I thought you were going to make it sound
0:06:38 > 0:06:40- just a little bit less terrifying. - No, it's very hard.- It is hard.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43- It is hard!- Yeah. Good. Good, well done! Anyway, there you are.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Sorry, eventually, we read through this board.- No, it's fine.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48How do you like it?
0:06:48 > 0:06:50I don't like it at all.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54But I think I can answer some of them.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I think I'm going to go for the Scottish city -
0:06:57 > 0:06:58Perth.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02- Perth?- Yeah.- Perth, says Cariad. Let's see if it's right.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Let's see how many of our 100 people said Perth.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08- It is right. Phew.- Oh, thank God!
0:07:10 > 0:07:11Oh!
0:07:11 > 0:07:1344, not bad.
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Gets us off to a good start, Cariad.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16Very well done, 44 for Perth.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17Well played, Cariad.
0:07:17 > 0:07:22One of those cities has 3,000 hours of sunshine a year and 19 beaches.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25I'll just look up which one it is... I can't find it.
0:07:27 > 0:07:29Thanks very much, Richard. Terry, welcome back to Pointless.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- Thank you very much. - Round One last time.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- Nice to be back!- You've been setting your sights
0:07:33 > 0:07:35- on Round Two for this one, haven't you?- Hopefully.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Very exciting! Now, you've toured all over the place.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41- I have.- You've done shows in India, Australia...
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've been on Wikipedia, haven't you?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Yes, I have. Do you...
0:07:46 > 0:07:49Do you do the same set, or do you have a...?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52If you fly into Delhi, do you pull the Indian set out?
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Well, judging by some of the looks I'm getting,
0:07:54 > 0:07:58that "set" is quite loosely based. I don't really have a set.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01I kind of have a lot of islands to get to, shall we say?
0:08:01 > 0:08:05- Material, do you have...? - Well, material's debatable, but...
0:08:05 > 0:08:07Yeah, I haven't got an act, so...
0:08:07 > 0:08:09I'm... I haven't... Should I just go?
0:08:09 > 0:08:12- You've been found out. - I was found out a long time ago.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14I've blagged it up to this point. Now at least I'm on Pointless!
0:08:14 > 0:08:17- Hello, excuse the pun.- Now, Terry, what would you like here?
0:08:17 > 0:08:18Perth, obviously, is now gone.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21- Yes, it has.- What would you like to go for on this board?
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Er, well, one of them, I'm definitely sure on,
0:08:23 > 0:08:26but that's not going to be a good gamble to go for,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29to try and get less points, if that makes any sense on this show.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34So, I'm going to go with the Middle Eastern country.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36And I'm thinking it's Georgia.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39Georgia, says Terry. Let's see if that's right.
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Let's see how many of our 100 people said Georgia.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Oh! Oh, Terry.
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Oh, Terry. Well, you've got form at least.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Good grouping, in terms of your past Pointless form.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56- 100 points there, Terry.- Sorry.
0:08:56 > 0:08:57Yeah, not Georgia, I'm afraid.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01Sarah, welcome to Pointless.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Hi.- Lovely to have you here.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07- Nice to be here.- Sarah, you were a civil servant up to the age of 29?
0:09:07 > 0:09:11- Oh. Yeah.- And then just blossomed into comedy.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14Oh, blossomed! That's nice, isn't it?
0:09:14 > 0:09:17I thought I was a bit old to blossom at 29.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20But what was the thing? What made you leave the world,
0:09:20 > 0:09:23- leave the job? - Oh, erm, I got divorced.
0:09:23 > 0:09:27So I just got on a stage and told loads of, sort of, stories
0:09:27 > 0:09:30about my ex-husband. Which people laughed at, thank God!
0:09:30 > 0:09:33And then I was able to leave the civil service.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36Oh, so, yes, you kept them both going, obviously, for a bit.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38Oh, for a while. Oh, you have to. Yeah, yeah.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Because you don't get paid for ages in stand-up,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43- while you're learning your craft.- Yes.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- But you learnt it well! - Well, thanks very much.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47You're so flattering!
0:09:47 > 0:09:48Can I have a better board?
0:09:48 > 0:09:51Yes, you can. Erm, I'm afraid you can't.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55- But, look, there are six. - There's one that I definitely know,
0:09:55 > 0:10:00but I don't know whether to be safe or stupid.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02I'm going to be safe and I'm going to say
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- the home to the Eiffel Tower is Paris.- Paris.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06It's stupid, but it's...
0:10:06 > 0:10:09Paris, OK. Well, let's see how many of our 100 people went for Paris.
0:10:13 > 0:10:14- 88.- It's not 100!
0:10:14 > 0:10:16It's better than 100.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18It's better than 100, Sarah.
0:10:18 > 0:10:2088 for Paris.
0:10:20 > 0:10:21That is 12 short of 100.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25Every year, the Eiffel Tower lift travels over 100,000 kilometres.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26More than twice around the world.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29It doesn't actually go around the world, but it travels that distance.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- Up and down the Eiffel Tower. - Up and down the Eiffel Tower.
0:10:32 > 0:10:33There you are. Thank you, Richard.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35Arthur, welcome back to Pointless.
0:10:35 > 0:10:39It is one of the greatest moments of my life to be here.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42Well, it is lovely for us. It really is lovely to have you here.
0:10:42 > 0:10:44Yeah, no, it's great.
0:10:44 > 0:10:45Tell me about Are You Being Served?
0:10:45 > 0:10:51Oh, yes, I am in the new sitcom, in the pilot version,
0:10:51 > 0:10:55maybe that'll be the only one, of Are You Being Served, playing...
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Some of you will remember him, from the audience,
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Arthur English played the part originally.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Yeah, I'm sort of like the cockney bloke
0:11:01 > 0:11:04who works downstairs and doesn't have nothing to do
0:11:04 > 0:11:06with Mrs Slocombe's cat.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08LAUGHTER
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Now, Arthur, you'll forgive me
0:11:13 > 0:11:16if I say I think that you're a sort of senior statesmen
0:11:16 > 0:11:18- of comedy.- Yes, well, as such...
0:11:18 > 0:11:23And I did geography O-level, so, you know, I do know me geography.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25So, I know, I reckon, all those...
0:11:25 > 0:11:29I'm not entirely sure of the first one, though, but I think...
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Is it Lebanon, the top one?
0:11:31 > 0:11:32The third one,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35that's the one I reckon I'm going to go for, is Waterloo.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38Just to be... I'm not sure about that first one.
0:11:38 > 0:11:41Waterloo. Let's see how many of our 100 people went with that.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50Look at that, not bad. 39.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52Best score of the round so far, Arthur,
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- Very well done, 39 for Waterloo. - Very well played, Arthur.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58That's where the BlackBerry Corporation are - Waterloo, Ontario.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00Let's go through these. Now, you would have gone for Lebanon,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03- you think, for the top one?- Yeah. - I definitely would have.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Yeah, nice try, Terry.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08It is Lebanon, that is the correct answer.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Would have been a better score
0:12:09 > 0:12:11as well, would have scored you 35 points.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13The area of Los Angeles?
0:12:13 > 0:12:15- CARIAD:- It's Beverly Hills, isn't it?- It is Beverly Hills.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17- Yes!- Yup, 12 points for that. - Oh, my God!
0:12:17 > 0:12:19I thought everyone would know that!
0:12:19 > 0:12:22The good news with this one is, if you half know them, you know them.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24The capital city of Greece is Athens, of course,
0:12:24 > 0:12:26that's where REM are from as well.
0:12:26 > 0:12:2773 points for that.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29And the Russian city is Moscow.
0:12:29 > 0:12:31Although I bet they call it "Moss-cow" in America.
0:12:31 > 0:12:33And that would have scored you 65.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- Thank you very much indeed, Richard.- Pleasure.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Well, we're halfway through the round, so let's take a look
0:12:37 > 0:12:39at those scores. 39, the best score of that pass.
0:12:39 > 0:12:40Very well done, Arthur. Arthur and Lee,
0:12:40 > 0:12:43looking very strong contenders for Round Two at this juncture.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45As indeed are Cariad and Helen
0:12:45 > 0:12:46there on the first podium.
0:12:46 > 0:12:4888 is where we find Sarah and Gary.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50But Terry and Jack,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52not that far ahead of you on 100.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54But, Jack, a low score from you will keep you in the game.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- Right, let's hope! - Good luck with that.
0:12:56 > 0:12:57We're going to come back down the line now.
0:12:57 > 0:13:00Can the second players please step up to the podium?
0:13:03 > 0:13:07OK, let's put seven more pairs of cities up on the board,
0:13:07 > 0:13:08and here they are.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45I'm going to read those all again.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Lee, welcome to Pointless. Good to have you.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Now, Lee, you started out doing warm up, didn't you?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22I did. I did many TV shows.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Back in the '90s, that was. First one was Red Dwarf.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28I got that because Hattie Hayridge gave me a call,
0:14:28 > 0:14:30because apparently they were going through one a week.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32- Oh, really?- Yeah.- And then you stuck?- Well, no,
0:14:32 > 0:14:35I turned up, and I think I did the last three, and then from there,
0:14:35 > 0:14:37it kind of... The floor managers get to know you,
0:14:37 > 0:14:39and they just spin you from one show to another.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43And then, you leapt into They Think It's All Over, is that right?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Yeah, I actually... Ironically, I did the warm up
0:14:46 > 0:14:48for the original pilot of that.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52And it didn't quite work as a show, so they shelved it,
0:14:52 > 0:14:54and then I was brought back to play...
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Like, a dry-run pilot, you know,
0:14:56 > 0:14:58when there's just, like, about 30 people watching it,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00and I came along and I thought,
0:15:00 > 0:15:02"Oh, good, you know, I'll get paid during the day."
0:15:02 > 0:15:05For a comedian to earn 100 quid in the daytime, excellent, you know?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09And after the second time we did it, the producer, Harry Thompson, said,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12"I actually want you on the show, but nobody knows who you are.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15"I've got a real fight on my hands." And he obviously fought hard,
0:15:15 > 0:15:17and they put me on the show when it came back.
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Brilliant. Now, if you can score 60 or less,
0:15:19 > 0:15:21you will remain in the game for sure.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Right. I don't know a lot of these.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27I can play it safe, I suppose, can't I? I'm going to go for...
0:15:27 > 0:15:31..er, Aberdeen, for the Scottish city known as the Granite City,
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- area of Hong Kong. - Aberdeen says Lee.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36Here is your red line. If you get below that with Aberdeen,
0:15:36 > 0:15:38you're through to the next round.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Let's how many of our 100 people said Aberdeen.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43It's right.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Look at that, through you go. Very well done.
0:15:47 > 0:15:4938 for Aberdeen.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Taking your total up to 77.
0:15:54 > 0:15:55Very well played, Lee.
0:15:55 > 0:15:59Yeah, Aberdeen in Hong Kong has got an Abba shopping centre as well.
0:15:59 > 0:16:03- It's just called Abba.- It's called Abba? Oh, I see. Right, yeah.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05- Whoa!- You thought it had an Abba shopping centre?
0:16:05 > 0:16:07I thought it might have had an Abba shopping centre.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09- It would be a bit boring... - It would be a bit limited.
0:16:09 > 0:16:11- Yeah.- What happens in the floating village?
0:16:11 > 0:16:12What happens in the floating village
0:16:12 > 0:16:15stays in the floating village, I'm afraid. I can't tell you.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17LAUGHTER
0:16:17 > 0:16:19As it should. Gary, welcome to Pointless.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Good to have you.- Hello, Xander. - Now, how, honestly,
0:16:22 > 0:16:23does the husband and wife thing work
0:16:23 > 0:16:26when you're both in exactly the same industry?
0:16:26 > 0:16:28I mean, not just different areas of the same industry,
0:16:28 > 0:16:30the same bit of the same industry.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Well, broadly, we've got different senses of humour,
0:16:33 > 0:16:36so obviously we keep the tours separate and whatnot.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38But if something funny happens at home...
0:16:38 > 0:16:41Like, we just got a little dog and he's actually in the dressing room,
0:16:41 > 0:16:43too, he's a lovely little thing.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45And I was taking him for a walk a few months back,
0:16:45 > 0:16:49and as I was leaving the house, Sarah said "Don't forget poo bags,"
0:16:49 > 0:16:50because I had to take the poo bags.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53And I thought, "Well, that's great. That sounds ideal for a pun."
0:16:53 > 0:16:54So I spun that off into a joke,
0:16:54 > 0:16:58and the joke became I went around Grandad's to walk his dog.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00As I was leaving the house, he said, "Don't forget poo bags."
0:17:00 > 0:17:03I was like, "All right, Gran, you can come as well."
0:17:05 > 0:17:08That's how it works, and basically Sarah just relates the stupid things
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- that I've done, which there's plenty of.- Yeah.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12I can get a good hour and a half out of that.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- So that's how it works.- Gary, 88. - Yeah.- Ideally,
0:17:17 > 0:17:20you'd be scoring 11 or less to be sure of a place in the next round.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23Well, I've set my target on the robot owls, and also,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26I'll have to take all the flak on drive home if I get this wrong.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30So I'm going to go for the Yorkshire town
0:17:30 > 0:17:33that gives its name to a high street bank - Halifax.
0:17:33 > 0:17:34Halifax says Gary.
0:17:34 > 0:17:36Here's your red line. It's quite low.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40If you can get near it, at least, you should be in with a good shout.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Let's see how many of our 100 people said Halifax.
0:17:43 > 0:17:44- WHISPERS:- Come on...
0:17:45 > 0:17:46It's right.
0:17:49 > 0:17:50Not bad, 45.
0:17:50 > 0:17:5345 takes your total up to 133.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58Well played, Gary. In the context of this round, not a bad score at all.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00They've had a continuously running market in Halifax,
0:18:00 > 0:18:02Nova Scotia since 1750.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Continuously running, what, every Saturday or every day?
0:18:05 > 0:18:08- Everyday, 24 hours a day, it doesn't stop.- It doesn't stop.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12Thanks very much. Jack, welcome to Pointless.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- Hello, it's good to be here. - Lovely to have you.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17Now, Jack, what was your in into comedy? How did you get started?
0:18:17 > 0:18:20Into comedy, well, I did a set
0:18:20 > 0:18:24at my parents' silver wedding anniversary party
0:18:24 > 0:18:25when I was, like, 11 years old.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29And my uncle put that on YouTube, and that sort of got shared round,
0:18:29 > 0:18:34and then a few other things happened and, yeah, here I am.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36And here you are. But you did Britain's Got Talent.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39- Yes.- And I have to say that is... I mean, that's gutsy.
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Well, I'm not quite as...
0:18:41 > 0:18:43I'm was not quite as nervous for that as I am for this.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46It seems awfully easy to play Pointless
0:18:46 > 0:18:49when you're literally an armchair contestant,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53but, like, now, the harsh reality of it has set in,
0:18:53 > 0:18:55- so I'm hoping I do all right. - I'm hoping you do all right.
0:18:55 > 0:18:58Now, 133 is our high score,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00which means 32 or less ideally.
0:19:00 > 0:19:05Right, OK. Could I go for the West Midlands city, please?
0:19:05 > 0:19:07And that is, er,
0:19:07 > 0:19:08Birmingham, Alabama.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Birmingham, Alabama.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12Birmingham, Alabama says Jack.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Let's see if that's right. Here is your red line.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Be nice if that were a bit higher, but let's see.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Birmingham, Alabama, let's see if you can get below that with that.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22How many of our 100 people said it, Birmingham, Alabama?
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Oh, 69.
0:19:31 > 0:19:3469 takes your total up to 169.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Look at Gary Delaney pretending not to be delighted there!
0:19:38 > 0:19:40That's my people as well, the Brummies, so...
0:19:40 > 0:19:42They have a pen museum in Birmingham.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44They used to make all pens in the world, virtually, in Birmingham.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46In the 19th century, they said 75%
0:19:46 > 0:19:48of everything written in the 19th century
0:19:48 > 0:19:50was written with a Birmingham pen.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51- GARY:- And so few of it by us.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55Thanks very much, Richard.
0:19:55 > 0:19:59- Helen, welcome back to Pointless. - Yes, thank you.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Now, Helen, you're writing a book at the moment I gather.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05- It's my second book. Yeah, a comedy book.- Only your second book?
0:20:05 > 0:20:07You have to sit down a lot to write,
0:20:07 > 0:20:11so it's quite nice to just move around, stretch my legs here.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13- Yeah!- Do you sit on a ball?
0:20:13 > 0:20:16No, I should... Ball! I should do the ball.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21I love writing. And I'm even more excited because I'm last,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24because obviously I knew all those other answers.
0:20:24 > 0:20:28This is... Obviously, you hear this every time, don't you?
0:20:28 > 0:20:30- Yes.- So I'm second from the bottom...
0:20:31 > 0:20:34- Yeah?- Yeah.- And the answer is...
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- ..Boston.- Boston says Helen. Let's see how many of our 100 people
0:20:37 > 0:20:40said Boston. There's no red line for you because you're already through,
0:20:40 > 0:20:42but how many people said it?
0:20:43 > 0:20:44It's right.
0:20:48 > 0:20:5037, very well done indeed.
0:20:50 > 0:20:5237 is in fact...
0:20:52 > 0:20:53When he paused, I was like, "Oh..."
0:20:53 > 0:20:55..the lowest score of the whole round,
0:20:55 > 0:20:57so very, very well done indeed.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59- 81 is your total. - Well played, Helen.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02The American one was named after the Lincolnshire one,
0:21:02 > 0:21:03directly named after it.
0:21:03 > 0:21:0537 points. Now, the rest of this board.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07The best answer on the board is right at the top there.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09- Is it Odessa?- It is Odessa, yeah.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12The Odessa Steps, four points for that.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14- The Australian city...- Sydney. - ..is Sydney.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16That would have scored you 82.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Now this bottom one, the host of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21- A testing one, isn't it? - London is the answer,
0:21:21 > 0:21:22but what do you think it scored?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25I would hope 96.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Ooh...
0:21:26 > 0:21:2858.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- SHOCKED MURMURS - What?- 58 points.- What?
0:21:31 > 0:21:33- ARTHUR:- Where is London, anyway?
0:21:35 > 0:21:36- Thank you, Richard.- Pleasure.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Well, we've come to the end of our first round,
0:21:38 > 0:21:40which means we have to say goodbye to one of the pairs in front of me,
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- and I'm very, very sorry to say, Terry and Jack...- My fault.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45..it is you. Shall I tell you about Round Two?
0:21:45 > 0:21:48- You can tell it, laddie. - Oh, it's a glorious place.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49I bet it's lovely.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Sounds fantastic.- Terry, Jack, it's been lovely having you.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56- Thank for having us! - Thanks so much, Terry and Jack.
0:21:56 > 0:21:57APPLAUSE
0:21:59 > 0:22:02But for the remaining three pairs, it's now time for Round Two.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08And so, suddenly, we're down to three pairs.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11And at the end of this round, we'll have to say goodbye to another pair.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Well, very well done, Helen, our lowest individual scorer there.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18Good work, Helen. And Lee and Arthur, our lowest combined score.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20Very well done indeed.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21And Sarah and Gary, just well done.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25- We'll take that.- Lovely having you here.- On still being married.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28- Yeah, absolutely. - And best of luck to all three pairs.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30Our category for Round Two today is...
0:22:32 > 0:22:34It's a Words round. Can you all decide in your pairs
0:22:34 > 0:22:37who's going to go first, who's going to go second?
0:22:37 > 0:22:40And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44OK, let's find out what the question is.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49Here it comes. We gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many...
0:22:52 > 0:22:55..as they could. O-U-R.
0:22:55 > 0:22:58Yeah, we're looking for any word in the British and World English
0:22:58 > 0:23:01section of oxforddictionaries.com, please, that ends in O-U-R.
0:23:01 > 0:23:02As always, no proper nouns,
0:23:02 > 0:23:05no hyphenated words, anything like that.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07- Very best of luck. - I'm going to think of one.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09I've got a little thought in my head of what you're going to say.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- OK.- And I'm writing it down.- In which case, I'm going to change it.
0:23:14 > 0:23:18Thanks very much indeed. Now then, Cariad, words ending O-U-R.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20OK, yeah, I can think of...
0:23:20 > 0:23:22I've got some.
0:23:22 > 0:23:24Do I have to just say one, sorry?
0:23:24 > 0:23:26- Yes.- Yes, OK.- Just the one.- OK.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30Erm, I'm going to go for devour.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- Devour.- Yeah.- Devour says Cariad.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35You got a little "Hmm!"
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- "Devour, says Cariad," it sounds good, doesn't it?- Brilliant.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40Let's see how many of our 100 people said devour.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47- Ooh!- Excellent.
0:23:50 > 0:23:5217 for devour, very well done.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59Well played, Cariad. It's to eat hungrily or quickly - to devour.
0:23:59 > 0:24:00Thank you very much, Richard.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03- Gary.- Hello.
0:24:03 > 0:24:06Gary, words ending O-U-R.
0:24:06 > 0:24:07- Succour.- Ooh!
0:24:09 > 0:24:13- Succour?- Yeah.- OK, succour says Gary. Let's see if it's right.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Let's see how many of our 100 people said succour.
0:24:18 > 0:24:19It's right.
0:24:19 > 0:24:2017's our only score so far.
0:24:25 > 0:24:262 for succour!
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Smack!- Very well done, indeed.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Yeah, to provide assistance and support, as in,
0:24:34 > 0:24:37"The giant robotic owls provided succour for Gary."
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Aw!
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Thank you very much indeed.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Now, Arthur.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Yes. I think I might do one that people just wouldn't have done
0:24:46 > 0:24:47cos it's too short.
0:24:47 > 0:24:49I'll go for dour.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53Dour? Let's see if that's right. I mean, we know it's right.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Let's see how many of our 100 people said dour.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Well, 17 is the high score, 2 is the low.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Oh, 31.
0:25:05 > 0:25:0631 for dour.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Relentlessly stern or gloomy, dour.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Thank you very much, Richard. Well, we're halfway through the round,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16so let's just have a quick look at those scores.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Gary and Sarah, look at that, 2.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19No arguing with that.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22The owls beckon, is all I'm saying.
0:25:22 > 0:25:2417 is where we find Cariad and Helen,
0:25:24 > 0:25:26and then 31, Arthur and Lee.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28I mean, anything could happen in the next pass, Lee,
0:25:28 > 0:25:30but we definitely need a low score from you.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32So good luck with that. We're going to come back down the line now.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35Can the second players please step up to the podium?
0:25:38 > 0:25:42OK, so Lee, yes, a word ending in O-U-R.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45I'm going to go for glamour.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Glamour says Lee.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49- Let's see how many of our... - You always go for glamour!
0:25:49 > 0:25:51Thank you, Arthur.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Glamour. No red line for you as you're the high scorers.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55How far down the column will we get?
0:26:05 > 0:26:074 for glamour.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Very well done indeed.
0:26:09 > 0:26:1135 is your total.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15Given yourself chance there, Lee, well played. Yeah, it's a magazine.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17LAUGHTER
0:26:19 > 0:26:23- Sarah.- Hi.- Sarah, ideally you'd score 32 or less.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26I'm going to go with splendour.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29Splendour. Oh, you get the buzz as well.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30- I do!- Oh, that's nice.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33There's your red line. Get below that with splendour
0:26:33 > 0:26:36and it'll be splendid. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Well done!
0:26:45 > 0:26:47Oh, it's 2.
0:26:47 > 0:26:48You've equalled Gary's score.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Look at that! Fabulous. A total of 4, very well done.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55That's nice, isn't it? Two each. That's very, very impressive.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58You two should form a crime-fighting duo called Succour and Splendour.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Thanks very much. Now, Helen.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Well, obviously, I had all of those, we know that.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Now, 17 is what you've got, 17 is also your target.
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- 17 or less.- OK.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14May I suggest fervour?
0:27:14 > 0:27:16Fervour. Fervour.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18Was there a buzz? Was there a buzz there?
0:27:18 > 0:27:20Here's your red line. There was buzz, there was buzz.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Here's your red line. If you can get below this with fervour,
0:27:22 > 0:27:24you are into the head-to-head.
0:27:24 > 0:27:25- LEE:- Are you sure she said...?
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Did she not say further, a completely wrong word?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Actually, I didn't.- You did not? Are you sure?- I did not.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- Can we play that back?- No!
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Let's see how many of our 100 people said fervour.
0:27:44 > 0:27:45Oh, look at that!
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Oh, and it's pointless! CHEERING
0:27:49 > 0:27:50It's a pointless answer,
0:27:50 > 0:27:53which means it adds £250 to today's jackpot,
0:27:53 > 0:27:55takes the total up to £2,750.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58It scores you nothing, sees you into the head-to-head,
0:27:58 > 0:28:00and earns you a pat on the back. Well done, you, Helen.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02Fervour, brilliant. 17 is your total.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04Great work. There's some very big pointless answers,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07actually in this round. Now, have you got an answer?
0:28:07 > 0:28:09- Yes.- What's your answer?
0:28:09 > 0:28:12- Troubadour.- Oh! - AUDIENCE:- Ooh!
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Oh, they like that, don't they?
0:28:14 > 0:28:17- Oh, that was good buzz, wasn't it? - I did not predict troubadour.- Oh?
0:28:17 > 0:28:18I'll admit. Troubadour...
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- Yeah.- Pointless answer.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22Oh, good. APPLAUSE
0:28:22 > 0:28:27- ARTHUR:- Dang! I rejected troubadour for dour,
0:28:27 > 0:28:29which makes me dour.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33Now, there's some very, very well-known words
0:28:33 > 0:28:36amongst these pointless answers. Let's take a look at a few of them.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38All of these would have added £250 to the jackpot.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Parkour, which is, you know, the free running.
0:28:47 > 0:28:52Perfervour, although fervour itself was a pointless answer anyway.
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Troubadour, very well done. Vapour also a pointless answer.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56Watercolour, a Pointless answer too.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Let's take a look at the top three answers.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01The ones that most of our 100 people said when we asked them online.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03Flour - 54.
0:29:03 > 0:29:06Hour - 57
0:29:06 > 0:29:08And sour, up the top on 60.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09Thanks very much indeed, Richard.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12So the end of our second round, the pair we have to say goodbye to,
0:29:12 > 0:29:16with not that high a score, but it is the highest score, 35.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18Lee and Arthur, I'm so sorry to say goodbye to you.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21It's probably for the best because at our combined age,
0:29:21 > 0:29:22our knees are starting to go.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24LAUGHTER
0:29:24 > 0:29:27Please come back and play again. It's been lovely having you here.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29Lee and Arthur, thanks so much.
0:29:29 > 0:29:30APPLAUSE
0:29:32 > 0:29:34But for Sarah and Gary, Cariad and Helen,
0:29:34 > 0:29:36it's now time for our head-to-head.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42Congratulations, Cariad and Helen, Sarah and Gary,
0:29:42 > 0:29:44you are now one step closer to the final
0:29:44 > 0:29:46and a chance to play for our jackpot,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48which currently stands at £2,750.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Well, this is the point where we decide who goes through to the final
0:29:55 > 0:29:58to play for that jackpot and we do it by making you go head-to-head.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00But the big difference is you're now allowed to confer.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02So you can chat before you give your answers,
0:30:02 > 0:30:04and the first pair to win two questions
0:30:04 > 0:30:05will be playing for that jackpot.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08You've made it to the giant robot owls!
0:30:08 > 0:30:10This is everything I've ever dreamed of. This is excellent.
0:30:10 > 0:30:13Me and my wife are riding a giant robot owl on Pointless!
0:30:13 > 0:30:15This is just a fantastic, happy thing!
0:30:15 > 0:30:17Gary, would you like me to take a photograph?
0:30:17 > 0:30:19I would absolutely love that, yes.
0:30:19 > 0:30:20That would be amazing!
0:30:20 > 0:30:21- One for the album.- Smile.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23- Lovely!- And then can I be in one?
0:30:23 > 0:30:24Aww!
0:30:26 > 0:30:28- You can go in the middle. - I'll go in the middle.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30Cos you're the mack daddy.
0:30:30 > 0:30:32LAUGHTER
0:30:32 > 0:30:34Ah, that's lovely.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Can I also say - other cameras are available.
0:30:36 > 0:30:37LAUGHTER
0:30:38 > 0:30:41- Beautiful.- There we are.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43Let's play the head-to-head.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45APPLAUSE
0:30:49 > 0:30:53Here is your first question and it concerns...
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Tabloid History. Richard.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59We're going to show you five tabloid-style headlines now
0:30:59 > 0:31:00about events in history.
0:31:00 > 0:31:02You just need to tell us the century
0:31:02 > 0:31:04in which these things occurred, please.
0:31:04 > 0:31:09OK, so in which century might these tabloid headlines have been written?
0:31:09 > 0:31:11And here they are. We've got...
0:31:24 > 0:31:26These are very good headlines.
0:31:26 > 0:31:27- LAUGHING:- Thank you.
0:31:39 > 0:31:42There we go. So then, Cariad and Helen,
0:31:42 > 0:31:45you've been our low scorers, so you will go first.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48- Oh, good.- You've got your pick of these headlines.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51I'm just trying to think what one would be the least...
0:31:51 > 0:31:54I know three of them definitely.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59OK, go for C, 1666.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01- OK, C.- So that would be the 17th century.
0:32:01 > 0:32:05Oh, nicely done. 1666, 17th century.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Very good. Sarah and Gary, all those headlines are yours.
0:32:08 > 0:32:09Do you want to talk us through them?
0:32:09 > 0:32:11We think that the boat is Titanic,
0:32:11 > 0:32:14- and that was 1912, so the 20th century.- Yeah.
0:32:14 > 0:32:15And you know the last one.
0:32:15 > 0:32:20Well, the arrow in the eye was Bayeux Tapestry, 1066, wasn't it?
0:32:20 > 0:32:22It's probably less than Titanic, so shall we go for that?
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Yeah. I think we should go with Harold.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27Yeah, let's go for that, then. So E on 1066, 11th century.
0:32:27 > 0:32:29OK, E, 1066.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31So we have 1666, 1066.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Cariad and Helen went for 1666 for C.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people said it.
0:32:38 > 0:32:39It's right.
0:32:42 > 0:32:44- Ooh.- 47.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46APPLAUSE
0:32:46 > 0:32:4847 for the 17th century.
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Now then, Sarah and Gary have gone for 1066 for E.
0:32:51 > 0:32:52Let's see if that's right.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54Let's see how many of our 100 people said 1066.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59It's right.
0:33:00 > 0:33:02- And 62. There we are.- Well done.
0:33:02 > 0:33:03APPLAUSE
0:33:03 > 0:33:07Very well done, Cariad and Helen. After one question, you're up 1-0.
0:33:07 > 0:33:08Very well played.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Now let's fill in these top two.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14The top one is the Battle of Agincourt, 1415.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16Would have scored you 21 points.
0:33:16 > 0:33:19- The second one...- This is Henry II.
0:33:19 > 0:33:21- It is Henry II.- Seeing off Becket.
0:33:22 > 0:33:2412...?
0:33:24 > 0:33:27- Are you asking me or telling me? - Er...
0:33:27 > 0:33:29VAGUELY: 12? LAUGHTER
0:33:29 > 0:33:31- 12...12...- 12 or 12th?
0:33:31 > 0:33:3312th...
0:33:33 > 0:33:35- The 12th century.- ..century.
0:33:35 > 0:33:38So you think it's 1170.
0:33:38 > 0:33:39Yes!
0:33:39 > 0:33:41- You are right. You are right. - Oh, phew.- It is 1170.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44- And that would have scored you five. - Good.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46And the "unsinkable" boat sinks...
0:33:46 > 0:33:48- 20th century.- Yeah, 1912.
0:33:48 > 0:33:53And 91 points for that, as you would hope.
0:33:53 > 0:33:54Good. Good.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57Well done, our 100 people. Here comes your second question.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00Now then, Sarah and Gary, you have to win this one to stay in the game.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02- But you get to answer it first, which is nice.- Yeah.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Our second question today is all about...
0:34:07 > 0:34:08- LAUGHTER - Oh, wow! That's quite niche.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Oh, well, we all researched him beforehand, so that's easy.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14It's five clues now to facts about Christopher Biggins.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16The most obscure answer wins the point.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19OK, so let's reveal our five clues to facts about Christopher Biggins.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21And here they are. We have...
0:34:35 > 0:34:37I'll read those all again.
0:34:50 > 0:34:52Now then, Sarah and Gary.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54It's over to you. You're free to confer.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57We know a lot less about Christopher Biggins than we thought we did.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01- Yeah, yeah.- Which we thought we knew, like, nothing.
0:35:01 > 0:35:02And we know less than that.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04Yeah. We know one thing.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07He was Lukewarm in Porridge.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09Porridge. Porridge, say Sarah and Gary.
0:35:09 > 0:35:13Now then, Cariad and Helen, that board is all yours.
0:35:13 > 0:35:16- Great, fantastic.- We love you both a lot. Thanks for that.
0:35:16 > 0:35:17- LAUGHTER - Sorry!
0:35:18 > 0:35:20I want to say Augustus for I, Claudius,
0:35:20 > 0:35:23but I don't think that's right. He wasn't Nero, was he? Was he Nero?
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Nero sounds right, but I think we should play safe.
0:35:25 > 0:35:27- Yeah, let's go for decades. - Permission to do decade?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30- Just go for it, yeah. - If I'm wrong on this...
0:35:30 > 0:35:32'50s?
0:35:32 > 0:35:33'50s.
0:35:33 > 0:35:34I mean the 1950s.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37The 1950s, say Cariad and... LAUGHTER
0:35:37 > 0:35:39- ..Helen.- In the 12th century.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41So we have Porridge and the 1950s.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43So Sarah and Gary went for Porridge.
0:35:43 > 0:35:44Let's see if that's right for Lukewarm.
0:35:44 > 0:35:47Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51- It's right. WHISPERING:- That's good.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53Ooh, it's quite low!
0:35:53 > 0:35:5447.
0:35:54 > 0:35:5547 for Lukewarm.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01Cariad and Helen are saying that Biggins was born in the 1950s.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people got that.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10- Ooh!- Oh, no!- Oh!- Ooh! - Oh, no! That's terrible.
0:36:10 > 0:36:14- Not the 1950s...- No. - ..as it turns out,
0:36:14 > 0:36:15which means very well done indeed...
0:36:15 > 0:36:18LAUGHING: Look at that - the robotic owl is about to wink
0:36:18 > 0:36:20because, Sarah and Gary, after two questions, it's 1-1.
0:36:20 > 0:36:23- BOTH:- Yay! - CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:36:26 > 0:36:28I've never been so excited to make an owl wink!
0:36:30 > 0:36:32I tell you what, at least next time you see Biggins,
0:36:32 > 0:36:34he'll be very grateful to you cos he was born in the 1940s.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36- Oh!- 1948.
0:36:36 > 0:36:38Would have scored you 25 points.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40Now, the year he was crowned King of the Jungle
0:36:40 > 0:36:42in I'm A Celebrity was 2007...
0:36:43 > 0:36:45..which would have scored you five points.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48- Now you were going to go for Nero... - No, Augustus or Nero.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50But I think you probably would've gone for Nero.
0:36:50 > 0:36:52- Do you think?- I don't...
0:36:52 > 0:36:53What...what was it?
0:36:53 > 0:36:56- You're teasing us!- Yeah, I want to know.- I am teasing you.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58- It was Nero.- Oh...!- Yeah. - It was Nero.
0:36:58 > 0:37:02And that would have scored you 17 points as well -
0:37:02 > 0:37:03would have seen you into the final.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06And this final answer, it's the Reverend Osborne Whitworth.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08And, if you knew that, you just got yourself a pointless answer.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10Very well played.
0:37:10 > 0:37:12Thanks very much indeed. So here comes your third question.
0:37:12 > 0:37:15This is the decider. Whoever wins this one goes through to the final
0:37:15 > 0:37:17and plays for that jackpot for their charities.
0:37:17 > 0:37:18So best of luck to both pairs.
0:37:18 > 0:37:21Our third question is all about...
0:37:24 > 0:37:25Types Of Footwear, Richard.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29Look, we've done History, we've done Biggins.
0:37:29 > 0:37:30There's only one thing left,
0:37:30 > 0:37:32and that is anagrams of Types Of Footwear.
0:37:32 > 0:37:33- LAUGHTER - Five of them coming up,
0:37:33 > 0:37:35and whichever team gives us the most obscure answer
0:37:35 > 0:37:37is going to go through to play for the jackpot.
0:37:37 > 0:37:39- Very best of luck. - Thanks very much indeed.
0:37:39 > 0:37:41So let's reveal our five anagrams of Types Of Footwear,
0:37:41 > 0:37:43and here they come. We have got...
0:37:59 > 0:38:01Cariad and Helen will go first.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04OK, go, my friend.
0:38:04 > 0:38:05OK.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07- We are both dyslexic.- Yes.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11So this could be really wrong. The seed pillars one -
0:38:11 > 0:38:14- espadrilles? - Espadrilles, seed pillars.
0:38:14 > 0:38:17Espadrilles. Now then, Sarah and Gary,
0:38:17 > 0:38:20can you talk through the rest of the board?
0:38:20 > 0:38:22We think the first one is Wellington boots
0:38:22 > 0:38:24- and the second one is stilettos. - Yeah.
0:38:24 > 0:38:28And we haven't got down to the fourth and fifth...
0:38:28 > 0:38:30We don't really... Oh! No... Moccasins!
0:38:30 > 0:38:32- Bottom one, moccasins.- Oh, yeah. Shall we go for that?
0:38:32 > 0:38:35- Let's do that.- OK.- Yeah. Moccasins? - Moccasins.- For the last one?
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Moccasins. Espadrilles and moccasins.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40So Cariad and Helen went for espadrilles.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46- It's right.- Oh, thank God!
0:38:51 > 0:38:53Ooh, seven!
0:38:55 > 0:38:58Seven. Very well done with your seed pillars there.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Now then, Sarah and Gary have gone for moccasins for sonic scam.
0:39:01 > 0:39:05Let's see if that's right. Let's see how many people said moccasins.
0:39:07 > 0:39:08It's right.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13- Ooh, it's going to be close. - It's not.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15- Ah!- Ooh, 14 for moccasins!
0:39:15 > 0:39:17APPLAUSE
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Which means, very well done, Cariad and Helen.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23After three questions, you're through to the final, 2-1.
0:39:23 > 0:39:25Yeah, espadrilles is the best answer on the board.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28- Nothing you could have done about that.- Oh, that's all right.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30- Your owl remains winking, I'm afraid.- Aww.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33Wellington boots was a slightly better answer than moccasins.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35Would have scored you ten points.
0:39:35 > 0:39:38Stilettos is a bigger scorer.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40Stilettos scores 64.
0:39:40 > 0:39:41And SAS land...?
0:39:41 > 0:39:43- Sandals.- Sandals.
0:39:43 > 0:39:44- CARIAD:- Oh, of course.
0:39:44 > 0:39:45And that's 65.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47Thank you very much indeed.
0:39:47 > 0:39:50So the pair leaving us, I'm afraid, Sarah and Gary, it is you.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Oh, it's been lovely having you on. I'm so thrilled you've made it to...
0:39:53 > 0:39:56- This is all we wanted! - I met the owl.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58Once I'd reached this stage, I was happy to be defeated,
0:39:58 > 0:40:00- so that's fine.- Well, it's been wonderful having you on.
0:40:00 > 0:40:03Please come back and play again as soon as possible.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05- Thank you very much.- Thank you both for showing me your owl.
0:40:05 > 0:40:07Sarah and Gary! APPLAUSE
0:40:09 > 0:40:12But for Cariad and Helen, it's now time for our Pointless final.
0:40:12 > 0:40:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:40:16 > 0:40:18Well, congratulations, Cariad and Helen.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20You have seen off all the competition
0:40:20 > 0:40:22and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30- We're shocked.- We are in shock. - We didn't expect this.
0:40:30 > 0:40:32Most genuinely humble.
0:40:32 > 0:40:34Well, it gets even more exciting cos you now have the chance
0:40:34 > 0:40:36- to win our Pointless jackpot for your charities.- Yes.
0:40:36 > 0:40:41And at the end of today's show, the jackpot is standing at £2,750.
0:40:44 > 0:40:45See, I think that's fitting.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48I think that's fitting and neat and right that you are playing for that
0:40:48 > 0:40:51cos you've added to that. You're our only pointless answer.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Yeah, again, shock, but feeling good.
0:40:53 > 0:40:56- So glad I turned up today. - Well, so are we!
0:40:56 > 0:40:58LAUGHTER
0:40:58 > 0:41:00As usual, you know what happens. You get to choose your category
0:41:00 > 0:41:02from the four we put on the board.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05And there's usually something you'll quite like, I'd have hoped.
0:41:05 > 0:41:07Er, so we have...
0:41:14 > 0:41:17I don't know. It's up to you. I'd go for Poetry or Seans.
0:41:17 > 0:41:18- But I'm not keen on either.- Same.
0:41:18 > 0:41:22- No.- I'm afraid if we go for Acting Seans,
0:41:22 > 0:41:27we'll get James Bond questions, and I don't know James Bond.
0:41:27 > 0:41:29- Oh, I see. Correct.- That's my worry. - Let's go with the Poetry.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32All right, we'll just... Nation's Favourite Poetry.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34- Nation's Favourite Poetry. - Please, oh, please!- There we are.
0:41:34 > 0:41:36I think you made the right choice here.
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Hopefully something here that you like.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40I suspect you'll be able to have a good crack at it.
0:41:40 > 0:41:41We're looking for any poet featured
0:41:41 > 0:41:43in any of the following three collections, please.
0:41:43 > 0:41:45They're all BBC collections.
0:41:45 > 0:41:46From 1996...
0:41:47 > 0:41:49So any poet featured in that.
0:41:49 > 0:41:50From 1997...
0:41:52 > 0:41:54And from 1998...
0:41:56 > 0:41:58So the name of any poet who has a poem
0:41:58 > 0:42:00featured in one of those three, please.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Very, very best of luck.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Thank you very much indeed. Now, as always, you've got up to one minute
0:42:05 > 0:42:07to come up with three answers, and all you need to win the jackpot
0:42:07 > 0:42:10is for just one of your answers to be pointless. Are you ready?
0:42:10 > 0:42:12- Yes.- Yeah.- OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14There they are. Your time starts now.
0:42:14 > 0:42:16So the nation's favourite...
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Must be like a Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Yeah, for the nation's favourite ones.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24And then do we then go into another category?
0:42:24 > 0:42:26- Yeah, so we can choose more... - So the love poems -
0:42:26 > 0:42:29- Elizabeth Barrett Browning. - Elizabeth Browning.
0:42:29 > 0:42:32Comic poems, Spike Milligan and also Michael Rosen writes comic poetry.
0:42:32 > 0:42:36- And Roger McGough.- Roger McGough will definitely be in there.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38Um... How many have we offered?
0:42:38 > 0:42:40- Oh, we just keep saying them? - You just keep going.
0:42:40 > 0:42:43What about love poems? So, um...
0:42:43 > 0:42:44Would Shakespeare...?
0:42:44 > 0:42:46Oh, well, Shakespeare. Yeah, there'd be sonnets.
0:42:46 > 0:42:49- Tennyson would be in the favourite poems as well.- Yeah.
0:42:49 > 0:42:50WH Auden.
0:42:50 > 0:42:53Oh, he'll definitely be in there.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56- Um...- What other love poems are there?
0:42:56 > 0:42:57I think we could probably name one...
0:42:57 > 0:43:00TS Eliot, but I don't know if it was a love poem.
0:43:00 > 0:43:02That would be The Nation's Favourite Poems, TS Eliot.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05- CS Lewis.- Ten seconds left.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07I think we've got an answer for each one.
0:43:07 > 0:43:09- But we...- I can't remember what we've said now.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11We're just listing poets.
0:43:11 > 0:43:12- We just said words.- Yeah.
0:43:12 > 0:43:14What do we do now?
0:43:14 > 0:43:16OK, that is your time up, I'm afraid.
0:43:16 > 0:43:18I now need your three answers.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21- So should we do Roger McGough for the comic poems?- Yes.
0:43:21 > 0:43:22So Roger McGough is one answer...
0:43:22 > 0:43:24- For the comic?- Comic.- Yep.
0:43:24 > 0:43:26- And then the love poems... - Oh, Wendy Cope
0:43:26 > 0:43:28will definitely be in the comic one and won't be very...
0:43:28 > 0:43:30Yes, put Wendy Cope.
0:43:30 > 0:43:31- And Wendy Cope?- Yes, for comic.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34- And your third answer? - For favourite poem. Ted Hughes?
0:43:34 > 0:43:37- Yeah, all right.- Ted Hughes. - And Ted Hughes. There we are.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39Now of those three, which is your best shot at a pointless answer?
0:43:39 > 0:43:42- I think Wendy Cope might be. - Wendy Cope. We'll put her last.
0:43:42 > 0:43:43Least likely to be pointless?
0:43:43 > 0:43:46- Ted Hughes, probably. - Let's put Ted Hughes first.
0:43:46 > 0:43:48Let's put those answers up on the board in that order, then,
0:43:48 > 0:43:50and here they are. We have got...
0:43:53 > 0:43:55Three excellent answers on the board there.
0:43:55 > 0:43:57Surely one of those will win you that jackpot for your charities.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Can I just quickly ask what charities you're playing for?
0:44:00 > 0:44:03- Cariad, you first.- The Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, the PCRF,
0:44:03 > 0:44:07who are an amazing charity who do sort of laboratory research
0:44:07 > 0:44:10because pancreatic cancer is the fifth biggest cancer,
0:44:10 > 0:44:13but its funding hasn't changed since the 1950s,
0:44:13 > 0:44:14and neither has its survival rate.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16So it kills quite a lot of people every year
0:44:16 > 0:44:18and it's not a very popular, fun cancer,
0:44:18 > 0:44:19but they're changing that.
0:44:19 > 0:44:20Very good. Helen?
0:44:20 > 0:44:25I'm patron of quite a new charity called Basic Needs,
0:44:25 > 0:44:29which deals with mental health, both abroad and in the United Kingdom.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33Very good indeed. Very well done. Two excellent charities there.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35Let us hope that one of these answers
0:44:35 > 0:44:38wins that jackpot for your charities. Best of luck.
0:44:38 > 0:44:40Ted Hughes, your first answer. In this case,
0:44:40 > 0:44:43we're looking for any poet listed in The Nation's Favourite Poems.
0:44:43 > 0:44:45Let's find out if Ted Hughes is right.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48Let's see, for £2,750, if it's pointless.
0:44:52 > 0:44:53It's right.
0:44:53 > 0:44:56Now then, if Ted Hughes takes us all the way down to zero,
0:44:56 > 0:45:00you leave with that jackpot of £2,750 for your charities.
0:45:00 > 0:45:02Down goes Ted Hughes into single figures.
0:45:02 > 0:45:03Still going down. Still going down.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05And... Oh!
0:45:05 > 0:45:06Two!
0:45:10 > 0:45:12Two for Ted Hughes.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14So I'm afraid not a pointless answer.
0:45:14 > 0:45:16Which means you have two more shots at today's jackpot.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18Your next answer was Roger McGough.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21Again, this has to be pointless for you to win the jackpot.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24So, for £2,750, let's see how many people
0:45:24 > 0:45:28named Roger McGough in The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems.
0:45:31 > 0:45:33Again, it's right.
0:45:33 > 0:45:35Ted Hughes was right, took us all the way down to two.
0:45:35 > 0:45:39Roger McGough now takes us down through the 30s and into the 20s.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42Into the teens, into single figures. Down it goes. Still...
0:45:42 > 0:45:44Six for Roger McGough.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH
0:45:49 > 0:45:52Two excellent scores so far. Excellent scores.
0:45:52 > 0:45:54Nothing wrong with those, apart from the slightly boring fact
0:45:54 > 0:45:57that we only take pointless answers in this last round.
0:45:57 > 0:45:59- It's harsh!- Very harsh.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01But anyway, your third answer was a wonderful answer,
0:46:01 > 0:46:03and it was Wendy Cope.
0:46:03 > 0:46:06In this case, we were looking for The Nation's Favourite Comic Poems.
0:46:06 > 0:46:08This has to be pointless for you to win that jackpot.
0:46:08 > 0:46:12So, for £2,750, let's see how many people said Wendy Cope.
0:46:16 > 0:46:17Well, it's right.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20Ted Hughes, your first answer, took us all the way down to two.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23Roger McGough took us all the way down to six.
0:46:23 > 0:46:25Now Wendy Cope takes us through the teens and into single figures.
0:46:25 > 0:46:28Down it goes, still going down, passes six. Still it goes past...
0:46:28 > 0:46:29Ooh, no!
0:46:29 > 0:46:31AUDIENCE GROANS Oh, no!
0:46:31 > 0:46:32One!
0:46:34 > 0:46:38- Aw, man!- Oh, that is so harsh!
0:46:38 > 0:46:40One!
0:46:40 > 0:46:41Three amazing answers,
0:46:41 > 0:46:44but I'm afraid you didn't quite find that all-important pointless answer,
0:46:44 > 0:46:47so I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,750.
0:46:47 > 0:46:50However, as it's a celebrity special,
0:46:50 > 0:46:53we're going to donate £500 to each of our celebrity pairs
0:46:53 > 0:46:55- so they can give that to their charity.- Thank you!
0:46:55 > 0:46:57It's been lovely having you on. You've been fantastic.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00We had a pointless answer from you. We had a wonderful low-scoring...
0:47:00 > 0:47:03All low-scoring rounds, actually. But, listen, you get to take home
0:47:03 > 0:47:06a Pointless trophy each, so there you are. Very well done.
0:47:06 > 0:47:08Come back and play again. Cariad and Helen! Wonderful.
0:47:08 > 0:47:10APPLAUSE
0:47:11 > 0:47:14Let's take a look at those pointless answers.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16I think you said an awful lot of answers that were pointless
0:47:16 > 0:47:18during your minute, I have to say.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20Let's take a look at The Nation's Favourite Poems.
0:47:20 > 0:47:21A few pointless answers here.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24Michael Rosen, who you mentioned for comic poem,
0:47:24 > 0:47:26Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, WB Yeats.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29You could've had Andrew Marvell, Christina Rossetti, DH Lawrence,
0:47:29 > 0:47:33GK Chesterton, Siegfried Sassoon, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
0:47:33 > 0:47:35Lots of pointless answers there.
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Nation's Favourite Love Poems.
0:47:37 > 0:47:39Carol Ann Duffy, a pointless answer.
0:47:39 > 0:47:40Christina Rossetti again.
0:47:40 > 0:47:43Emily Dickinson, Kahlil Gibran.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46You could've had Andrew Marvell again, Dorothy Parker,
0:47:46 > 0:47:49Edward Lear, Emily Bronte. Roger McGough was on that one.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath both in that list.
0:47:52 > 0:47:54WB Yeats as well.
0:47:54 > 0:47:55And comic poems.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Benjamin Zephaniah, a pointless answer, Dorothy Parker.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02Ogden Nash, TS Eliot.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Clive James was on that list. WH Auden.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07Williams Shakespeare on the best comic poems list as well.
0:48:07 > 0:48:09You did really, really well in your minute.
0:48:09 > 0:48:11And I have to say, if all you've done
0:48:11 > 0:48:14- is introduce the poems of Wendy Cope to a Pointless audience...- Yes.
0:48:14 > 0:48:15Just buy her books. She's wonderful!
0:48:15 > 0:48:17What an absolutely amazing poet she is!
0:48:17 > 0:48:21But thank you so much for being so brilliant throughout the whole show.
0:48:21 > 0:48:24Thanks very much indeed. Thank you, Cariad and Helen.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26We've absolutely loved having you on the show.
0:48:26 > 0:48:28Thanks you so much. Cariad and Helen!
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0:48:30 > 0:48:33Join us next time, when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge
0:48:33 > 0:48:36- to the test on Pointless. Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.- Goodbye.
0:48:36 > 0:48:38And it's goodbye for me. Goodbye!
0:48:38 > 0:48:42APPLAUSE