Special Pointless Celebrities

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much indeed. Hello, I'm Alexander Armstrong

and a very warm welcome to this special edition of Pointless Celebrities,

the show where the aim of the game is to avoid the obvious answers

and find the obscure ones.

Let's meet today's Pointless Celebrities.

And couple number one.

My name is Bob Harris and I broadcast for BBC Radio 2

and I'm a massive fan of Squeeze.

I'm Chris Difford and I just happen to be in Squeeze.

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Couple number two.

I'm Kerry Godliman and I'm an actor and a comedian.

I'm Miles Jupp and I'm also an actor and comedian.

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Couple number three.

Hello, my name's Jenny Eclair.

And I am a writer and a performer

and I'm a massive fan of Squeeze.

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I'm Linda Robson. I'm a Loose Woman and an actress.

APPLAUSE

And finally, couple number four.

I'm the lovely Debbie McGee,

and I love being squeezed.

And I'm Angelos Epithemiou and I am the CEO of BP.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Thank you all very much indeed. A very warm welcome to Pointless.

It's great to have you all here. We'll get to chat to each of you

throughout the show as it goes along,

so that just leaves one more person for me to introduce.

He's friends with all the A-listers.

Campbell, Stewart, McGowan...

Sorry, Alistairs. He's friends with all the Alistairs.

It's my Pointless friend, it's Richard.

Hiya. Hey, everybody. Good evening.

-Good evening to you.

-Good evening.

-Blimey, what a line-up.

-I know!

I mean, no offence to podium two, but how classy is podium one?

Goodness me!

-Bob and Chris, what an absolute treat, eh?

-Yeah.

That's amazing. Lovely to have you both.

And Bob's been on before, of course. Did rather well as well.

Now, talking of people who've been on before,

Linda and Jenny have both been on before.

-Now, they came on together...

-Yep.

-It wasn't our finest hour.

..did very badly. They've both since come on separately with other people

-and done much better.

-Yeah, she brings me down.

And then... And then, for some reason,

-they've decided to come back on together again.

-I know.

-A bit tactically weird.

-We like each other!

-Well, that's good.

I'm worried about Angelos on podium four because, you know,

-he's a loose cannon, so we put him in safe...

-Don't worry about me.

Don't worry about me, please. Just relax.

Everything's going to be fine, Richard.

-If I'm honest with you, I'm a little bit worried about you.

-OK.

What's top of your list of concerns?

-Your height.

-Oh, yeah, yeah, no, look, that's fair enough.

You're quite an imposing character. And I'm also worried a little bit

about what you're wearing behind that desk.

Hey, this sarong is no-one's business but mine.

It's like having two alpha males,

like, rutting horns together, isn't it?

But we've put Angelos in very, very capable hands

-with Debbie McGee there.

-Absolutely.

Debbie, we need you to take control a little bit on podium four, please.

But genuinely, I'm looking forward to this so much.

-It's going to be an absolute cracker.

-Thanks very much.

Now, as usual, all today's questions

have been put to 100 people before the show. Our contestants

are looking for those all-important pointless answers.

These are the answers that none of our 100 people gave.

Find one of those, and we will add £250 to the jackpot.

Now, as today's show is a celebrity special and each of our celebrities

is playing for a nominated charity,

we are going to start off with a jackpot of £2,500. There it is.

And, if everyone's ready, let's play Pointless.

So, there's only one rule you have to remember and it is this -

the pair with the highest score at the end of each round

will be eliminated, so make sure your scores are nice and low.

Very, very best of luck to all four pairs.

Our first category this evening is...

Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first,

who's going to go second?

And whoever's going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and the question concerns...

-Question Songs, Richard.

-Yeah, on each board,

we're going to show you the titles of seven songs,

each of which have a title which is in the form of a question,

but we've missed out a word from each of those titles.

Can you tell us what that word is, please?

There's going to be seven on the first board,

seven on the second board. 14 in all to have a go at at home.

-Very best of luck.

-Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

OK, so what are the missing words from these question song titles?

Our first board reads like this. We have got...

I'll read those all again.

Bob, welcome to Pointless.

Is it true, Bob, that you co-founded Time Out?

-It is true.

-It is?

-Yes, yes, in 1968.

It was an incredible thing because, you know,

London was so vibrant in those days

-and there was the emerging what was known as the counterculture.

-Yeah.

You know, the underground scene in London at that time.

And there were lots of new magazines and newspapers appearing,

and Tony Elliott, whose idea it was to found the magazine,

had in his mind the idea of doing a one-off guide for students

-and tourists to the underground scene in London.

-Yeah.

And we sold the first edition to the crowd

at the Sunbury Jazz Festival

and the first edition then funded the second one and it began to roll.

-And now, of course, it's all over the world.

-Absolutely wonderful.

Now, Bob, what about this...?

What about our board of missing words?

I can't imagine there's any you don't know there.

No, it's just the one, isn't it, that the least number

of people would have been likely to guess?

On that basis, I'm going to go for The Mock Turtles' title,

which is Can You Dig It?

Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles. Let's see if that's right

and see how many of our 100 people went for dig.

It is Can You Dig It?

Down it goes to 25.

Great start to the round and the show.

25 for Can You Dig It?

Well played, Bob. Solid as a rock.

Yeah, Can You Dig It? The Mock Turtles.

Off a very good album, actually, Turtle Soup.

They were big for a while, weren't they, The Mock Turtles?

Steve Coogan's elder brother was the lead singer, Martin Coogan.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

-Kerry.

-Hello.

Listen, "The best comic timing on the Fringe."

That's the Sunday Times, that's what they have to say about you.

-Oh. That's nice.

-"The best comic timing on the Fringe."

What show was that?

That was a couple of years ago. That was a show called Wonder Woman.

-Was that the year I wasn't there?

-Yes!

That's why I got that title, because Jenny wasn't there.

What about that? Are you going up this year?

-I'm not going up this year, no.

-Do you generally do every year or..?

No, I'm every three years. That's what I like to do.

-That's nice. And then you can tour the show.

-Then you can tour.

-I'm doing a tour instead.

-That's very nice.

-And then meanwhile start writing your material for the...

-Exactly.

-It's an ongoing, fluid process.

-Good, lovely.

-Sort of rotational farming of comedy.

-Exactly, exactly.

Very good.

Now, Kerry, are you liking this round with the missing words?

Well, I was liking it until Bob chose The Mock Turtles.

Because everything else is something

either everyone will know or I don't know.

My second choice then might be...

..Who Let The Dogs Out?

That's the one you are going to go for, The Baha Men.

Who Let The Dogs Out? Let's see how many of our 100 people said dogs.

Well, it's right.

-Ooh, look at that.

-Oh...

-86.

It's very right, Kerry.

-86 for Who Let The Dogs Out?

-That is a...

That's a big scorer, Who Let The Dogs Out?

You know what the irony is?

-They never found out.

-LAUGHTER

Played all over the world. No-one, nobody grassed.

It was me, actually.

Oh, there we are. I knew it!

Thank you, Richard.

-Linda, welcome back.

-Yep. Thank you.

-Welcome back to Pointless.

-Now, Birds Of A Feather...

-Yep.

-It's been back.

-It has.

It's been back and it ran earlier this year.

Yeah, it's been back for three years now after a 15-year break.

And then when you're not doing that,

-you're doing your Loose Women.

-I am, yeah.

When you turn up, do you talk about what you're going to say?

-Yeah, we...

-Or is the idea...?

We get picked up at eight o'clock in the morning. Then we have a meeting.

Then two of us go off for make-up and the other two wait

and look through the notes. Then the other two go.

-Then we have another meeting before we go live on air.

-Yeah.

And then we finish at half past one.

We have a meeting to discuss what we've said

-that we shouldn't have said and...

-ALEXANDER LAUGHS

The lawyers come in and...

-So, yeah, it's a nice show to work on.

-A lot of meetings!

It's a great show, though, isn't it? You must love it.

-Yeah, I do love it.

-Now, Linda, what would you like to go for?

We've had a nice low score and quite a surprisingly high score.

Well, I wanted "dig" as well, The Mock Turtles,

but, I mean, the rest of them are all really, really well known.

I'm not sure if "What's My" is...

I don't know whether to go for that or...

See, all the others are so well known, aren't they?

I might go for Does Your Mother Know?

-Does Your Mother Know?

-Yeah.

-You're going to say Does Your Mother Know?

Says Linda. Let's see if that's right. Does Your Mother Know?

It's right.

-Oh, look at that, down it goes.

-Oh! Oh!

-46.

-Oh, there you go.

-There you go!

-That's good, well done.

46 for Does Your Mother Know?

They say that ABBA's flamboyant stage clothes and stage style

came because of the Swedish tax code which essentially said

that they could only claim for what they wore onstage

if it was so outrageous you wouldn't wear it in the street.

So that's the only way they could get free costumes.

-They couldn't wear any normal stuff.

-That's superb.

-Yeah, there you go.

Wow. Thank you, Richard.

-Debbie.

-Hello.

-Welcome to Pointless, Debbie.

-Thank you.

Now, an extraordinary career you have, Debbie. You started out,

-you were at the Royal Ballet School. Studied there.

-Yes.

-Then you joined the Iranian National Ballet.

-Yes.

Why did you go for the Iranian National Ballet?

Because they were paying five times more than the Royal Ballet!

-Wow.

-So I went for the money, yeah.

-So you were based in Tehran, how long for?

-Yeah.

Well, I planned to stay for three years,

-but if you've seen the movie Argo with Ben Affleck...

-Yep?

..that's what I went through, exactly. I was hidden in a house.

-Oh, really?

-I got stopped at the airport.

I chatted up one of the customs guys who stamped my passport

and I ran across the tarmac and escaped.

So this was pre-revolution or sort of just during...

-It was as the revolution was happening, yeah.

-Blimey.

But looking back over your career,

what would you say would be your highlight?

What's the thing that you look back with the most fondness?

-There's been loads.

-Yeah.

But probably meeting Paul,

because when I came back from Iran is when I needed a job,

so I auditioned as a dancer for a company that were putting on

lots of shows and they put me with the Paul Daniels Show.

I didn't know who he was or what he did and I hated magic!

Wow. And there he was.

I think a lot of us hated magic before Paul Daniels,

you know? He was... I mean, he was a great superstar.

But you have an awful lot to thank the Ayatollah Khomeini for.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

So, no, I think the highlight was probably when the TV show,

The Paul Daniels Magic Show, won the Golden Rose of Montreux.

-I think that was probably the highlight.

-Fantastic.

-Yeah.

Now then, Debbie, from that highlight to this highlight.

What are you going to go for on this board?

I'll just go for something that's safe

and hope it keeps us in for the next bit.

It's which one to go for, really.

I think I might hope that you've asked 100 younger people

so they might not know so much about Tom Jones,

so I'll go What's New Pussycat?

Pussycat, says Debbie.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said What's New Pussycat?

It's...

-Oh...

-I didn't have time to say it was right.

It's right, though, it is. 96

is what it scores you. Wow. A few people did know that.

-Better than 100.

-Yes, much better.

-It is four better than 100, Debbie.

-Four better.

-Very well done.

Yeah, there's some very, very big scores on that board.

Got the Rod Stewart one...

Not quite as bad, but almost as much damage.

Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? would have scored you 93.

The Elton one, Are You Ready For Love? 69 points.

And Blink 182 is the best answer on the board.

-What's My...

-Age.

-What's My Age Again?

Would've scored you two points.

-It's a good song as well, What's My Age Again?

-It is good.

Thanks very much indeed.

So, let's take a look at the scores. We're halfway through the round.

25, the best score of the pass,

Bob, very well done. Bob and Chris, I think,

looking like dead certs for Round Two at this point.

Then up to 46, where we find Linda and Jenny.

Then we travel up to 86, where we find Kerry and Miles.

96, Debbie and Angelos.

So, yes, Angelos,

-you get the new board, so...

-Oh, good.

-Yeah.

-Make sure you find a nice low score on there.

-OK, mate, yeah.

-No pressure.

-Good luck with that.

We're going to come back down the line now.

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

OK, let's put seven more song titles with missing words up

on the board, and here they come. We have got...

Let me read those all again.

-OK, Angelos.

-Yes.

-Welcome to Pointless.

-Thanks, mate, thank you.

-It's good to have you.

-How is everything, Angelos?

-Yeah, not bad, actually.

-How's business, all right?

-Business is very good at the moment, yes.

I don't actually run BP like I said.

I run a burger van.

Erm... And I park it outside all the football grounds

and all that sort of carry-on. I went over to Europe.

Erm... And I made a bit of money.

-Did you?

-Really?

-Yes, I did.

And I spent it on new clothes, thank you.

That's very good. Is there a sort of seasonal thing to the burger van?

Do you find that? Does that...?

Yeah, yeah, it is a seasonal thing, yeah.

It's autumn, winter,

summer and spring.

I work all them seasons.

-Very good.

-Thank you.

-Very good. Now, Angelos...

I'm pleased to be here, by the way.

This is my second-favourite game show on the telly.

It's great to have you here, Angelos.

-LAUGHTER

-What's your favourite, Angelos?

Oh, don't ask...

The football.

-Yeah.

-Angelos, you're on 96. You're the high-scorers at the moment.

-I know, mate.

-Not by much, though.

-No.

-There's not a lot in it.

A nice low score from you at this point will keep you in the game.

What would you like to go for?

I think I'll go...

..Where's Your Head At? Basement Jaxx.

Where's Your Head At? says Angelos.

No red line for you as you're the high-scorers.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Where's Your Head At?

It's right.

-27.

-Not bad.

Very well done indeed, Angelos.

Taking your total up to 123.

Very much back in the game there.

Very well played. Top 10 hit from 2001.

Thanks very much, Richard.

Now, Jenny, welcome back to Pointless.

-Well, it's a pleasure to be here.

-Talk to me about Just A Minute.

Tactically, do you just talk, or do you think very carefully as you are talking?

-Both at the same time...

-Both.

-..if I possibly can, without falling off my chair.

It's quite hard. It's one of those jobs that I sort of hate and love with equal measure.

-Yes.

-But I'm a big fan of Nicholas Parsons.

-He is 123, you know, but he still sounds great on the radio.

-He does.

He absolutely does. Brilliant man.

Is it terrifying? It must be terrifying.

-Everything is terrifying.

-Is it a God-given thing, or can you work at it?

-Can you improve your Just A Minute?

-You can improve.

You've got to sort of go into a slight zone, and just keep going even if it's rubbish.

I've started doing it now, I don't like doing it.

Some people take a run at it and go... HE SPEAKS FAST GIBBERISH

I try all the tricks.

-I try going very fast sometimes, and then slow right down.

-Yeah.

Now, Jenny, you're on 46.

If you can score 76 or less, you are into the next round.

It's really tricky. May I just say that I danced on

the video to Do You Really Want To Hurt Me by Culture Club?

You've got to use that one now cos you've given it away.

Have I got to use that? Does it work like that?

-You just told them the word now!

-LAUGHTER

-Do you see what I've done?

You danced on the video? How come?

I used to make a living as a younger woman as a dancer on pop videos.

Well, I wouldn't have paid to see you.

LAUGHTER

-So, that's what you're now going for, I'm afraid.

-You've got to now!

-I've spoiled the game.

-It might be fine.

-It might not be.

Here's your red line, nice and high.

If you can get below that with hurt, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?,

you are through to the next round. Let's see how many people said it.

It is hurt.

83 is what it scores. APPLAUSE

83 takes your total up to 129.

Great news for Angelos and Debbie behind you.

You could still be in the game.

Could be a lot worse than 83. And a number one in '82.

-There we are, thank you very much.

-That's nice, isn't it?

-That's very nice.

-Miles, welcome to Pointless.

-Thank you for having me.

Trying to work out if there's any section of the population

that doesn't know and love you, because Balamory, obviously.

And then of course I was in the Iranian Balamory as well.

Very well paid but ultimately quite terrifying.

Running across the tarmac in my pink kilt, being shot at by...

I think it was Ben Affleck, but...

The more discerning sitcom fan, Rev...

Featuring Alexander Armstrong.

In episode one, yes.

Mock The Week, obviously for a slightly cooler demographic.

Then you've got The News Quiz, which just picks up any loose balls.

I mean, there is no section of the demographic that you haven't

got in your pocket.

I don't know if that's the case but it's a very nice thing for you to say, certainly.

-And how is The News Quiz?

-It's absolutely fine.

We record on a Thursday.

At the moment the news happens so fast

obviously it would be irrelevant by Friday, but I'm quite good...

If this was a different sort of quiz, that would be my specialist subject -

-news that happens on a Thursday.

-LAUGHTER

Miles, what are the missing words from these song titles?

You have to aim for 42 or less.

I'm going to have to go for,

on the basis that people... They may not be at the forefront of people's

consciousness, the Bros song, When Will I Be Famous?

Famous, says Miles. Here is your red line.

If you can get below that red line with When Will I Be Famous?,

you are into Round Two.

How many of our 100 people said it, famous?

It's right.

-68.

-What a bitter disappointment.

68, Miles, takes your total up to 154.

Yeah, a number two hit, nearly 30 years ago now.

-No!

-Yeah.

Thank you, Richard. Chris, welcome to pointless.

Lovely to have you here.

Now, the story goes that when Squeeze started it was really

just you, you were advertising for people to come and join your band.

Yeah, I put an advert in a sweet shop window for a guitarist

to join a band. I didn't have a band, but...

And I didn't have any friends, and that's why I put the ad there.

And Glenn Tilbrook was the only person to answer the ad. So...

And then you found some others along the way.

And when did you come up with Squeeze?

Well, we were a very democratic band,

so we put lots of names in a hat,

and Squeeze was one of the names in the hat.

Jools Holland put a very rude word in a hat, which we never used.

LAUGHTER

Probably sensibly, really...

You run a songwriting workshop, or you are part of a songwriting workshop.

Yeah, I've been running songwriting workshops for 26 years now.

Bob has been to a couple of them.

-Not to write songs, but to be a gifted friend.

-Excellent.

Chris, you are through to the next round,

doesn't matter what you score at this point.

So, you can talk us through this board and fill in the blanks for us, if you felt like it.

-Or just give us an answer.

-I'm going to go for...

All the ones I wanted to go for have just gone, so...

-Is This The Way To Amarillo?

-Is This The Way To Amarillo?

No red line for you, you are already through.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Way To Amarillo.

It's right. 91 is the score for that. Very high score.

116 is your total, but you're through.

Yes, only big answers up there on the board

apart from the two tougher ones.

That was a number 18 hit in 1972,

and then in 2005 it was number one for seven weeks.

Let's fill in this board.

There is another very obvious one, How Much Is That Doggie In The...

-Window.

-Window, yes. That would have scored you 96 points.

And now these two are the best two answers.

Do I Wanna Know? by Arctic Monkeys

would have scored you 4 points, and the best

answer on the board, our old friends from Busted with Who's...

-Who's David?

-Who's David? Would have scored you 1 point,

so, very well done if you said that.

Thanks very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our first round,

the pair heading home with our high score of 154...

There is nothing about this I would change, it's been lovely.

LAUGHTER

Listen, come and play again, it's been lovely having you here.

-Thanks so much for playing.

-Thank you.

-Miles and Kerry.

APPLAUSE

But for the remaining three pairs it's now time for Round Two.

We are down to three pairs,

and at the end of this round we will be down to two pairs.

But well done, that was a tough round.

-But Angelos...

-Yes?

-..very well done.

-Yeah.

Bob, lovely low scores, there. Best of luck to all three pairs for our next round.

Our category for Round Two this evening is Famous People.

Can you decide in your pairs who's going to go first, who's going to go second?

And whoever is going first, please step up to the podium.

OK, and our question concerns...

Jims and Jimmys, Richard.

We're going to show you a picture of 16 famous people

known by the name Jim or Jimmy.

Can you identify the most obscure of these, please?

OK, thanks very much.

We're going to put an image up that has all 16 people there.

We won't be changing it halfway through the round,

it will stay up for the entire round.

Let's see who is up on the board, shall we? We have got these people.

There we are.

16 Jims or Jimmys.

Bob, we will come to you first.

-Well, it is quite a mix, isn't it?

-It is.

-That's a drinks party, isn't it?

-Yes.

There's a few music people up there.

And I am going to choose one of them.

It's on the right-hand column, and it's the third face down.

-And that is the face of Jim Morrison.

-Jim Morrison, says Bob.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people went for Jim Morrison.

It's right.

25 for Jim Morrison. Good start to the round. 25.

Well done, Bob.

Can I also commend you on the coolest given answer, I think, ever.

That was from start to finish beautiful, wasn't it?

-So polished.

-So polished.

Now, if everyone else can do the same. Jenny...

Probably not. OK...

Now, the trick here is not to give anybody's name away

-before I choose my person.

-Yes.

-I'm just going to say Jimmy Kimmel.

-Jimmy Kimmel, says Jenny.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Jimmy Kimmel.

-Oh!

-Oh, I'm sorry.

-Who's the guy top right?

-We'll discover in...

-At the end.

-As soon as she did it she knew she had gone wrong.

I'm afraid it's not Jimmy Kimmel, though, that I can tell you.

It scores you 100 points, I'm sorry.

-I've done well! Oh, no, I haven't.

-You've done rubbish!

I'm so sorry.

I'll give all the correct answers at the end of the pass.

-Thank you very much indeed. Angelos.

-Yes.

-Angelos.

OK. I'm just going to come straight out with it.

Um...

I'm going to go for...

Yes.

Yes, it's very tricky, there is so many.

-Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

-Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Let's see if that is right,

let's see how many of our 100 people said Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

It is right.

Well, 100 was our high score, you passed that,

25 was our low score, and you passed that.

18 for Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

APPLAUSE

-18, well done.

-Yes, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, second row down.

Born in Suriname and became manager of QPR.

Thanks very much indeed. Now, let's have a quick look at the scores.

We're halfway through the round. 18, the best score of the pass.

Very well done indeed, Angelos. Angelos and Debbie, I think there is

a place in the head-to-head for you, but we shall see.

Bob and Chris we find on 25, and then, yes,

we travel up to 100, where we find Jenny and Linda.

-So, Linda...

-Yes.

-Who knows what might happen,

-but a low score from you certainly isn't going to hurt.

-Yep.

-What are you laughing at? I can't do worse than you.

-LAUGHTER

Can the second players please step up to the podium?

-OK. Now, Debbie.

-Yes, Alexander.

What would you like to go for?

If you can score 81 or less you are through to the next round.

I know quite a few,

so it's deciding on who you think

-they don't know.

-Exactly.

So, I think I'm going to go for

Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter, says Debbie.

OK, here's your red line,

if you can get below this red line you are through to the next round.

How many of our 100 people said Jimmy Carter?

It's right.

And you are through. Very well done indeed.

Down to 54, taking your total up to 72.

That's a strong pairing on that third podium there,

very well played.

Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States.

-In simpler times.

-Mm.

-Thank you, Richard. Now, Linda.

-Yes, love.

What we absolutely need from you is a low score.

I mean, if you can score less than 24,

then there is a world in which you could go through

-to the next round.

-It would be a very strange world. OK.

I'm going to go for...

-Go for Jimmy Kimmel.

-Shut up, you!

I'm going to go for Jimmy Nail.

Jimmy Nail, says Linda. Jimmy Nail.

No red line for you as you are the high-scorers,

but let's see how far down the column we get with Jimmy Nail.

It's right.

39. Takes your total up to 139.

He had seven UK top 40 singles, Jimmy Nail. And a number one.

And a number one. Thank you very much indeed.

Now, Chris, good news again.

It's always good news on your podium.

You are through to the next round, doesn't matter what you score.

Do you want to talk us through some Jims and Jimmys?

I'm a huge fan of Jim Reeves.

So he would be one of my first to pick.

And Jim Henson.

I'll go for Jim Reeves.

Jim Reeves, says Chris.

No red line for you, cos you are already through.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Jim Reeves.

Look at that! 5.

Taking your total up to 30, very well done.

It's a terrific answer, Chris. Jim Reeves, 5 points.

But the other one you knew, Jim Henson,

there he is on the second row down, was a pointless answer.

So, it's a shame you didn't go for that.

-JENNY:

-I knew who he was, but...

Let's take a look at the rest.

Next to Jim Reeves there on the top left is Jimmy White.

Would've scored you 55.

Then next Jimmy Carter. It is not Jimmy Kimmel,

-it's the other one, Jimmy Fallon.

-LINDA AND JENNY: Oh!

Would've scored you 17 points.

Next row, Jimi Hendrix, 73.

The next row down, it's the physicist Jim Al-Khalili.

Would've scored you 2 points.

Then Jim Broadbent, 27.

From Big Bang Theory, Jim Parsons, would have scored you 13.

And the bottom row, from many things,

including LA Law, Jimmy Smits. Would've scored you 5.

Jimmy Carr, 64. Jim Carrey, 44.

And do you know the one on the bottom right?

It is the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales.

That would have scored you 1 point.

Thank you very much indeed, Richard.

So, at the end of our second round, the pair we have to say goodbye to with our high score of 39,

-Linda and Jenny, I'm so sorry.

-It's all my fault.

-It's not all your fault.

-It is a bit my fault.

-It is. It is.

-It is all your fault.

-It's been lovely having you here, come and play again soon, please.

-But just not together!

-Thank you very much. Linda and Jenny, everyone.

-Thank you very much!

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But for Debbie and Angelos, Chris and Bob, it's now time for our head-to-head.

Congratulations, Chris and Bob, Debbie and Angelos,

you are now one step closer to the final and the chance to

play for our jackpot, which currently stands at £2,500.

So, this is the point where we decide who goes through to the

final to play for that jackpot for their charities,

and we do that by making you go head-to-head.

The good news is you are now allowed to confer before you

give your answers, and the first pair to win

two questions will be playing for that jackpot.

Chris and Bob, I don't think you've put a foot wrong.

We've had lovely low scores from you, all the way through.

As we have on that far podium, as well.

Angelos, you see a hell of a lot through that hatch in the van, don't you?

Yes, I do, I've got a computer in it,

-so, I'm just always looking stuff up, you know?

-Very good.

-It's my hobby.

-That's nice. Good.

Very best of luck to both pairs, let's play the head-to-head.

OK, here is your first question, and it concerns...

-Richard.

-We're going to show you five pictures now of comic book heroes

from TV or film. We just need you to tell us who the hero is, please.

OK, let's reveal our five heroes, and here they come.

We have got...

There we go, five comic book heroes. Now, Chris and Bob,

you've been low scorers, so you will go first.

Feel free to confer.

Well...

-WHISPERING:

-It's what?

-Wonder Woman.

-Yes.

We're going to go for A, which is Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman for A, say Chris and Bob.

Now, Debbie and Angelos, would you like to talk us through that board?

Put a name to

all those other heroes.

-ANGELOS:

-Yes. We'd like to do that.

A is Wonder Woman.

-DEBBIE:

-Yeah.

B is Captain America.

We don't know C.

We don't know that. No.

D is Ironman.

And E is Deadpool.

And we think

we're going to go with E?

If we think that

-would be the least?

-We do think that.

-Yes.

LAUGHTER

-Yes, we think that.

-E.

-You're going to say E.

-Deadpool.

-Deadpool.

-Yes.

-Deadpool.

OK. So we have Wonder Woman and Deadpool.

Chris and Bob said Wonder Woman. Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

Wonder Woman is 88.

Wow. OK.

Now, Debbie and Angelos,

that is what you have to beat with

Deadpool, which you are saying is E.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how any of our 100 people said Deadpool.

It's right

and it wins you the point. Well done.

-Oh, yes.

-Well done, you.

APPLAUSE Very good indeed.

26 for Deadpool, which means, Debbie and Angelos,

after one question you are up 1-0.

Well played, Debbie and Angelos. Yes, played by Ryan Reynolds in the film.

A really good film, Deadpool.

Not for younger children but a very, very good film.

Surprisingly funny.

B, you're right with Captain America.

Captain America would have

scored you 69 points.

We'll leave C for a moment

cos it's the best answer.

D is Ironman.

Not a huge score, actually, Ironman,

39. And the best answer on the board,

that's Halle Berry

and a character from the X-Men

universe, and it's Storm.

Well done if you said that.

It would have scored 19 points.

Thanks very much indeed. OK, here comes your second question.

Chris and Bob, you have to win this one to stay in the game

but Debbie and Angelos will get to answer it first.

Best of luck with that.

Our second question this evening is all about...

LAUGHTER

Yes, at the start of that fateful season Leicester City

were 5,000/1 to win the Premier League.

We're now going to give you five things bookies considered more likely than that.

We've missed out alternate letters from some of these bets.

Can you work out what they are, please?

OK. Bets more likely,

bets shorter than Leicester City winning the league. Here they are.

Five of them.

I'll read those all again.

There we are. Debbie and Angelos, you will go first.

-DEBBIE:

-We do know some.

We've worked out some.

But it's what we'll get for the

least points.

-ANGELOS:

-That's the game.

LAUGHTER

That's the game.

We're in the business end now.

Yeah.

-What do you think?

-I don't know.

I don't know what to do, actually,

which is very unusual for me.

We'll just have to go for

-one of them.

-OK.

Well, och aye the noo,

we're going to go for the Loch Ness Monster to be discovered.

OK, the Loch Ness Monster to be discovered, say Debbie and Angelos.

Now, Chris and Bob, can you talk us through all of those?

-CHRIS:

-After you.

-BOB:

-Simon Cowell to become

UK Prime Minister.

The UK Christmas number 1 is

The something. We're not sure what.

And Kim Kardashian to

become US president.

What shall we go for?

Shall we go for Kim Kardashian?

Yeah.

-We're going to go for Kim Kardashian.

-Kim Kardashian, say Chris and Bob.

So we have Loch Ness Monster and Kim Kardashian.

Debbie and Angelos went for the Loch Ness Monster.

Let's see if that's right.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said it.

It's right.

48 for the Loch Ness Monster.

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48, the Loch Ness Monster.

-Now, Chris and Bob, meanwhile, have gone for Kim Kardashian.

-This is crucial.

Yeah.

HE EXHALES

Let's see if it's right. Let's see how many of our 100 people

said Kim Kardashian.

It's right. Now you have to win this.

Oh, no. 51 for Kim Kardashian.

APPLAUSE

Which means after only two questions, Debbie

and Angelos, you are straight through to the final, 2-0.

Yeah, and we've finally found out who would

win in a fight between the Loch Ness Monster and Kim Kardashian.

That's good news. Let's fill in the rest of these, shall we?

We'll leave the Christmas number 1.

It is Simon Cowell to become

Prime Minister.

That would have scored you 67.

And to win Strictly Come Dancing...

-Alex Ferguson.

-..Alex Ferguson...

..would have scored you 12.

Now, this one is tricky

because it's obviously

The something, which makes you think,

well, you're thinking of bands

that begin The something.

In fact, 10 of 100 people said The Cure

even though it doesn't fit. But they said The Cure.

But it's not a band at all.

The Queen...

It was a Q-U.

..to have a Christmas number 1 would

-have scored you 15.

-Very clever. Very clever.

-There we go.

-All of the things considered more likely than Leicester City winning

the Premiership...or Debbie McGee and Angelos Epithemiou winning Pointless Celebrities.

Yeah, winning Pointless Celebrities. Well, thank you very much.

The pair leaving us at the end of the head-to-head round,

I'm so sorry, Chris and Bob. Very much

against the grain of play, I have to say.

You've been low scorers every time.

Nothing wrong with either of your answers but they were

under-scored by Debbie and Angelos, I'm afraid.

It's been lovely having you here.

-Thank you so much for playing, Chris and Bob.

-Thank you.

Brilliant.

APPLAUSE

But for Debbie and Angelos it's now time for our Pointless final.

Congratulations, Debbie and Angelos. You have fought off all

the competition and you have won our coveted Pointless trophy.

That's all we came for.

Better still,

you now have a chance to win our Pointless jackpot for your charity.

And at the end of today's show the jackpot is standing at £2,500.

There we are.

APPLAUSE

Your first answer in Round One was pussycat, What's New Pussycat?

It scored 96.

Did you imagine for a moment that you would then go sailing

through the head-to-head round 2-0 up against Chris and Bob...

I know, I thought we would be out.

..who... They know a thing or two.

But you found something. There was something in your locker,

-in your bag.

-In my bag, yeah.

-What is in your bag?

There was some real chemistry going on here as well.

-That is undoubtedly the case.

-That has helped.

-What is in the bag?

-Don't ask. Don't ask, Alexander.

-Well...

-Don't.

-I've got...

-It's not been washed, I don't think.

-No, you can't wash that.

-OK.

I've got one of them referee lines things, you know?

That's nice.

Isn't it?

It's going to come in very handy for this final round!

Christmas, Debbie?

-Yeah, yeah.

-You can never not be prepared for Christmas.

And then of course I've got my ball in a hanky. Just in case,

just in case.

-You did ask.

-I did ask.

-Yes.

Listen, very good luck for this part of the round, where we

put four different categories up on the board behind me.

Today's selection looks like this.

We've got...

What do you reckon?

I think we should either go for letter K or the grand...

-What are you like on tennis?

-I'm pretty

-good on the K.

-Yeah? Shall we risk the letter K?

-Letter K, then.

-Are you sure?

-Oh, yes.

-We might regret it. I don't know.

-It's nice and broad.

-It covers all the Ks.

-We said we wanted geography and bridges.

K could come under that.

-Kettering.

-Yeah. Exactly.

-Kidderminster.

-You wanted sport and films, didn't you?

-Well, we've got sport

there, really. Men's Grand Slam titles. But that's quite specific.

-So let's go for the letter...

-If you want to go for the tennis

I'll go for the tennis with you.

I don't know any obscure ones. Let's go for the letter K.

-OK.

-Yeah, that's it.

-Letter K. Letter K it is.

-Thank you.

Richard.

That didn't take too long, did it?

LAUGHTER

And I think if you wanted geography you made the right choice, Debbie,

so, well done, because this is what we're looking for.

We're looking for any country in the world which contains a K

in its usual short-form English name.

We are looking for any capital city in the world which contains

a K in its usual English short-form name.

Or we're looking for any London Underground station

containing a K in its name.

So any country containing a K,

as always, by country we mean

a sovereign state that's a member of the UN in its own right.

The capital city of any country in the world containing a K.

Or any London Underground station, so that's just the regular lines,

not DLR and overground or anything like that.

Very best of luck.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, as always you've got up to one minute to come up with three answers

and all you need to win that jackpot for your charities

is for just one of those answers to be pointless.

-Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Yes.

-Yeah?

-OK, let's put 60 seconds up on the clock.

There they are.

Your time starts now.

OK. Capital cities, Tokyo.

-Yeah, very good.

-OK. Countries.

They've only got to contain the

-letter.

-Kazakhstan.

-Kazakhstan.

-Yes.

-Uzbekistan. It's got a K in the middle.

-That's brilliant.

-Uzbekistan.

-What about London Underground stations?

-Bank.

-Yeah. Very good.

-Thank you. Thank you. Camden.

I'm joking.

LAUGHTER

Yeah. Bank.

OK.

-Kentish Town.

-Kentish Town. Very good.

You travel on the Underground, don't you? See, I don't.

No, no, I just look at the map all day.

LAUGHTER

We had 60 seconds,

we've got 21 left.

OK, what are we going for?

Uzbekistan. That's good.

And Kazakhstan.

-Well, K is the start.

-Uzbekistan.

-Ten seconds left.

-Tokyo.

And what, Bank?

-Or Kentish Town?

-We'll go for Bank cos it's right at the end,

-it may have fooled some people.

-OK.

-OK.

-All right, then.

-OK, you've decided?

OK, your minute is now up.

What would you like to go for?

-We're going to go for one of each.

-Yes.

-Uzbekistan.

-Uzbekistan.

-Tokyo.

-Tokyo.

-And Bank.

-And Bank.

-Yeah.

OK. Of those three, which is

-your best shot at a pointless answer?

-I think Uzbekistan.

-OK, Uzbekistan goes last. Least likely?

-Tokyo.

-Yeah.

Tokyo, Bank, Uzbekistan.

OK, let's put those answers up on the board in that order, then,

and here they are.

We have got...

Three good answers on the board.

What if one of these turns out to be pointless and wins that jackpot for you?

What charities are you playing for?

Debbie, you first.

I'm playing for The Royal Theatrical Fund and they help actors

and performers.

Very good. Angelos, how about you?

I'm playing for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

Very good indeed.

APPLAUSE

Two excellent charities there.

Now, let's hope one of these answers is pointless and will win that

jackpot for you to share between them.

Your first answer was Tokyo.

In this case we were looking for capital cities containing

the letter K. If this is pointless it will win you £2,500.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Tokyo.

It's right.

Down it goes.

Now, if Tokyo goes all the way down to zero you leave

here with £2,500 for your charities.

Tokyo now takes us down through the 20s into the teens

to 16. There we are.

APPLAUSE

16 for Tokyo.

So not a pointless answer, which means

we move on to your next answer, which was Bank.

In this case we were looking for London Underground stations.

If this is pointless, again it will win you £2,500.

Let's see how many people said Bank.

It's right.

Tokyo took us all the way down to 16.

Bank now takes us down through the 40s and in the 30s,

down through the 20s, into the teens, passing 16,

into single figures,

still going down to 5.

APPLAUSE

-It's tough, innit?

-That's a great score.

-It's tough, though, this game.

-Yeah.

It is tough, I'm afraid,

and it's only pointless answers in this round that we're interested in.

So we move on to your third and final answer.

This is the one you thought was broadly your best shot at a pointless answer.

We're looking for countries with a K in their name.

-You've gone for Uzbekistan.

-Good answer.

-It's a great answer. It has to be pointless.

If it is pointless it will win you £2,500 for your charity.

Let's see how many of our 100 people said Uzbekistan.

It's right.

Now then, your first answer, Tokyo, took us down to 16.

Your second answer, Bank, took us down to 5.

Uzbekistan passes 16, down in single figures,

it passes 5, still going...

-Oh!

-Oh!

3. APPLAUSE

-What a shame.

-3.

-Well, that is a shame.

-Three excellent scores there.

Nothing wrong with any of those scores.

-Nice low scores, but sadly they weren't pointless.

-Pointless.

-Just not enough.

-I'm afraid you don't win today's jackpot of £2,500.

-So close.

However, as it is a celebrity special, and each of our celebrity

pairs is playing for a charity, we are going to donate £500 to

each celebrity pair for their respective charities, so there you are.

APPLAUSE

It was a fabulous game, though. Very, very well played right across the show.

2-0 in the head-to-head, which is fantastic,

and it's been just such a treat having you on.

-And you get to take home a Pointless trophy.

-I know.

-Thank you very much.

-Debbie and Angelos.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

-That was a good answer.

-Yes.

Yeah, there's going to be lots of answers you know as well,

especially on the Tube station question, I think.

The toughest one of all was the countries.

There was only two pointless answers. We'll take a look at them.

Very well done at home if you said either...

Terrific stuff. Both pointless answers.

Now, the capitals. Lots of these are pointless answers.

Jakarta, Indonesia.

Kigali, which is Rwanda.

Minsk, Belarus.

Tashkent, which is the capital of Uzbekistan, would've been a pointless answer.

Also Bishkek, Conakry, Dakar, Kuwait City, Lusaka,

Palikir, Skopje, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte in Sri Lanka,

Windhoek, Yamoussoukro in Cote d'Ivoire. All of those are pointless answers.

Well done if you said one of them.

There's lots and lots

and lots of London Underground stations that are pointless answers.

Anything with a Park. There's loads of those.

Belsize Park is a pointless answer.

Canons Park, Chiswick Park. Then Goldhawk Road,

Holland Park, Kew Gardens, Ladbroke Grove.

St James's Park, a pointless answer.

Stamford Brook, Ravenscourt Park, Regent's Park, Royal Oak, West Kensington, Westbourne Park.

Lots and lots of pointless answers. Turnpike Lane as well.

Well done if you said one of those. And unlucky, in the studio.

That 60 seconds, it just goes so quickly, but three great answers.

-Thank you.

-Thanks very much indeed.

Thank you so much, Debbie and Angelos.

-It's been fantastic to have you on the show.

-Thank you.

-Superb play. Debbie and Angelos.

-Thank you.

-Well done.

APPLAUSE

Join us next time,

when we'll be putting more obscure knowledge to the test on Pointless.

-Meanwhile, it's goodbye from Richard.

-Goodbye.

And it's goodbye from me. Goodbye.

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