QI (2003) s11e13 Episode Script
Kitchens
Goo-oo-od evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to QI, where tonight we're looking at everything in the kitchen but the sink.
Joining me at the breakfast bar, cooking with gas, Jason Manford.
Sharp as a knife, Victoria Wood.
Pointless as a spoon, Richard Osman.
Hiya.
And I got this fork off Alan Davies.
Let's hear your pingers.
Jason goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP And Victoria goes TICK-TICK-TICK DING! Richard goes DRING! And Alan goes EXPLOSION AND ALARM We're having a kitchen supper tonight.
Which of the following do you fancy? Take me through these lovely dishes.
They're all real.
Is the buttocktongue Marks & Spencer's buttocktongue? It's "your" buttocktongue.
- Oh, right.
- Yes, exactly.
- Lovely.
- Work on tongue.
Well, I'll have to be careful when I say that if you just take the last three letters off tongue, you get? Oh, so like, like a biltong? Biltong is right.
It's a hindquarters tongue, which sounds weird, but that's what it is.
- Biltong, have you ever had biltong? - No, I'm a vegetarian.
- Ah.
Meet Alan.
He's a vegetarian, too.
- Hold on, is biltong not vegetarian? - No! So what is it? The bottom? It's dried - well, it's the dried hindquarters.
So, does it have the actual? The hindquarters, which are buttocks on an animal.
But does it have the arsehole in it? - Not the - LAUGHTER - I think not.
- That's in hot dogs, I think.
- Has it got a tube? - Yeah, that's in - They save that for hot dogs and pork pies.
- Yeah.
So, that's a good one.
You've started.
- Any other thoughts? - Kleftiko, that's That's on a menu in a Greek restaurant, isn't it? Yes, kleftiko, exactly, does exist.
And it was originally called "kleptiko", which might give you a hint.
Klept.
- Kleptomaniac? It's all stolen.
- Kleptomania, kleptos is a thief.
And it was anti-Ottoman empire bandits who lived in the hills, and they made up this dish, so it was named after them, it's a thieves' dish.
It's quite elaborate for a bandit person to be doing.
They were - you should see their souffles.
They were extraordinary.
Actually souffles brings us onto nun's farts.
Well, it's - when you pop one Why specifically a nun's, though? I mean Cos nun's farts smell like souffle.
Keep up! He's just given you that, - when he gives you one, for goodness' sake, grab it.
- Yes, take notice.
A lot of French dishes have - or, indeed, European dishes - have their - pumpernickel is a devil's fart, "pumpen", pump, fart, "nickel", Old Nick.
And that's a bread, so they have rude names.
And there's a - isn't there a cheese which is, er, angel's tits or something like that? - You can tell which ones are farting from their pained expressions.
- Yeah.
That's like the cast of Dad's Army on a fancy dress party.
I think out of them all there, I'd go, I'd say - Which one? - She's definitely She's definitely farted, and the rest don't know yet.
Look at the smile.
Look at the smile on her face.
That's a massive board and they all just put their faces through.
Like on a pier.
Yeah.
Nun's farts are little balls of pastry deep-fried, and they puff up.
They're also called whore's farts or Spanish farts, in French, "pets-de-nonne".
"Pets" is "fart" in French.
These days they've disappointingly been renamed as nun's puffs.
Or possibly poofs, I don't know how you would say it, it's hard to tell.
- Bishops, often, they're called that.
- Bishops, yes, exactly.
Treacle.
Treacle.
Anti-venereal treacle? Wouldn't want to lick it off.
You're right.
It sold much better than pro-venereal treacle, didn't it? - That didn't - Yes! - That didn't sell.
- It really didn't.
- Yeah, they really - The two great treacles.
- Yeah.
The word treacle has had an interesting history.
It now means, of course Yeah, it used to mean any sort of medicine, didn't it? Or any sort of Even without a computer in front of you, you're good.
That is very - or have you got one hidden under there? No, I'm very impressed, you're absolutely right.
A treacle was generally any kind of specific - against diseases and things.
- Or a term of endearment, weirdly.
"Treacle," yes, in EastEnders and that sort of thing, isn't it? "All right, Treacle?" "All right, anti-venereal treacle?" That's what they call some of those characters.
Auntie Venereal Treacle.
Yes.
"It's your Auntie Venereal, Treacle.
" "You come in for your tea, Chlamydia.
" Where was it? There was - in America, - Verruca's quite a popular name.
- Really?! People copy it from BOTH: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
They don't know - they don't call verrucas "verrucas" in America.
- So they don't know it's actually - They don't know it's an awful thing.
- Verruca Salt.
- Yeah.
- Brilliant.
I'm so pleased.
- So if they don't call chlamydia "chlamydia" - Yes All you need to do is put it in a popular children's book as a name - Brilliant.
- Before you know it It would be one of the most popular names.
- Barack Obama will have a daughter called Chlamydia.
- Called Chlamydia! Chlamydia Obama.
Which brings us to Dog and Maggot.
- Does it? - Well, it doesn't necessarily.
It sounds like rhyming slang for - someone of my persuasion.
- Taggart.
Oh - I was going to go with the ITV show Taggart.
- Oh, right.
"There's been a murder, Dog and Maggot.
" - A Scotsman in the mist.
See what I did there? - Yeah.
If I was to say "hard tack" to you, does that mean anything? Ship's biscuits? Very good.
Ship's biscuits were known as hard tack.
And there's a famous scene in the Battleship Potemkin, do you remember? If you've ever seen it.
- No, I'm a vegetarian.
- The great Eisenstein movie LAUGHTER That's going to be an answer to a lot of questions, isn't it? "No, I'm a vegetarian.
" The Potemkin was a ship in which there was a mutiny, and there's a scene of them cracking open a ship's biscuit - and the maggots it's really horrible.
- Eurgh.
And this is a British biscuit called "Dog" because it was the consistency of a dog biscuit and "Maggot" because it had maggots in it, but it was - in the First World War it was part of the rations.
God.
I think I'd rather eat the cutlery.
- I think you're right.
- If that choice came up.
I'll just have a chew on this knife, don't worry about it.
You know what I think I'd like with a fork? Rather than having all the prongs in a line, why can't they be in a kind of a square shape, so you've got a kind of - Do you know, hold that thought.
- That's a good idea.
- Because we might be coming on to that later in the exam.
- Really? - Wow.
- Yes.
It might come up.
"Sir said it wouldn't come up this term, but it might have come up.
" - I'll revise that.
- Yeah.
Anyway, there you are.
Here's some unusual cutlery.
I'd like you to tell me what kind of thing you could eat with them.
You've all got some, but I'll start off with the one that you mentioned, there.
- You said with tines, that were - You just invented that, a minute ago.
There you are.
Isn't it incredible? - You mentioned something like it.
- That's weird.
Isn't it? It's usage is very, very specific.
You don't actually handle it yourself, because you're so high-born that somebody else feeds you using that.
With what on it, though? - Some sort of fruit? - No.
Is it a testicle? It might include a testicle.
Is it a scrotum? It might include a scrotum.
What else really includes a testicle, Stephen? The whole schmear.
A-A whole mammal.
Yes, a whole mammal.
Let's just imagine I'm talking to one.
Oh, God.
A comedian.
No, a cannibal.
That's the point, a human being.
- Oh, human.
- Oh Yours is a reproduction, sold as a souvenir item on the island of? - Or islands of? - Wight.
Man.
LAUGHTER More accurate if you'd said the Isle of Man, I would have thought.
- Oh, yeah.
- Think of the cannibal island, - it was part of the British Empire.
- Oh, Guernsey.
- Fiji.
- Fiji.
Fiji.
- Oh, I might have known.
Yeah, you might have done.
Fiji is the answer.
These are Fijian human forks.
- Two cannibals are eating someone - Yes? .
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and one says, "you start at the toes, I'll start at the head.
" He says, "All right.
" Halfway through he says, "You all right?" He says, "Yeah, I'm having a ball.
" He says, "You're going too fast.
" - There you go.
- Excellent work.
- There you go.
- Excellent work.
- Old cannibal joke for you.
So there you are.
And what have you got, Victoria? - This, which is a strange - Very hard.
If you guess that - A spoon with holes in it.
- I'll give you 100 points if you guess what that is specifically for.
Oh, it's for Coco Pops so you get the milk at the bottom - chocolaty.
- It would work as that.
- It would.
It's actually very specifically for terrapins and turtles.
I don't usually eat them.
- You're a vegetarian.
I know.
- Exactly.
Oh, I see.
- The flesh is delicious, apparently.
- Oh, OK.
- The giant turtle, famously - Aren't they protected, Stephen? You're not supposed to be chomping away on them.
Oh, gosh, no, absolutely not.
No, the Ridleys and all those - Well, why are you saying we should kill them and eat them? - No! Why are you giving me cutlery to damage terrapins? - You said that.
- We used to.
- Weird thing to say on television, - that we should eat turtles.
- I take it back.
- We shouldn't be killing them.
- But they're delicious.
There is a special piece of cutlery for them.
- And apparently they're delicious.
- We have some cutlery for them, - and they're delicious.
- Just in case.
And Jason what have you got? Ahem Ooh.
Now this is interesting.
Don't look at your reflection in it, that'll only upset you.
I was seeing if that's what was unusual.
- No.
- Oh, my God, it's Tom Selleck.
That's weird, isn't it? Of all the people.
Have a grip and a twist.
- OK.
Oh! - Ah.
It turns, it turns like that.
- Yeah.
- Is it supposed to? - All the way.
Oh, all the way, OK.
Oh, and then it just becomes, like - It's broken.
- It's - It's a breakable spoon! - Brilliant.
No, but look in the spoon end.
The ladle end.
- It's hollow.
- Yeah.
Oh, inside there.
So you could fill it with something.
- A message.
Hot water? - Hot water.
Oh, I was going to say turtle blood.
- Oh, I see.
- You fill it with hot water and it's a gravy spoon that keeps the gravy nice and warm to stop the fat congealing.
- Oh, I like that.
- Richard? - Great idea.
Are we going to have anything that you can eat testicles with? - They may be coming up.
- Eat them with that.
- Here we go, here we go.
- Yes, now what's that? - Are they holes, in the end? - Ah! - Yeah, it's got all perforations.
- You see, you've learnt from your thing.
- Yes.
There are perforations in the ladle itself and the spoon part itself, the bowl.
What about the other end? - It's got a little hole in it.
- Ah.
So what could you do? - Well - You could hang it - I'm going to insert it into the - Cheese.
- .
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backside of a turtle.
Just there.
Literally just there.
And then, I think, you tell me if I'm wrong, you squeeze, is that right? Squeeze down on the shell.
And out it comes, and then you've essentially got yourself a smoothie which comes out of the end.
Is it a turtle blood smoothie maker? It's so close.
If I said the word "mate" to you, would that mean anything? Have you ever travelled to an area where you drink mate tea? - Audience? - AUDIENCE MEMBER: Argentina.
- Argentina and Peru, and various other places.
- Of course.
- It's called mate.
- There we go.
We've got that sorted.
So, basically, it does a marvellous job.
It stirs the leaves and allows you to drink the tea all in one without needing a strainer.
Oh, it's a straw.
- It's a straw, you suck it up.
- Ah, that's so good.
It's an Argentinian mate spoon.
Now, what's the quickest way to cool down my kitchen? I'm going to - just because I'd love to get a klaxon sound, - is it opening the fridge? - Ah! - KLAXON - That would make it hotter.
- Somehow that makes it hotter, doesn't it? - Turning on the oven.
- Turning on the oven would not cool - Turning on the top of the stove.
Put the gas on.
- Right.
Because the coolest place in front of a fire is right in front.
Oh, I see what you mean, but that would still warm up the room.
- Yeah, all right, it's just a thought.
- No, don't Don't be cross, it's good you didn't say turn on the fan, - which would have got you a klaxon.
- I wasn't going to say that.
- Exactly.
Can I just say, turn on the fan? - Oh, you've gone klaxon mad! - KLAXON - It is - Why - so why would opening the fridge? It's the second law of thermodynamics.
The energy you need to create the coolness creates work.
And energy and work are basically congruent, in physics, to heat.
And so the back of a fridge But what if the motor of my fridge is outside my - I'm thinking exactly that.
- Ah, if that were the case, yes.
- Cos you haven't been to my kitchen.
- No! - I said my kitchen, though, that was in the question.
- I'm so sorry.
We had it covered.
In the case of an air conditioner, of course, the back is always outside.
- So a fan that is just cooling the air - Yeah, the motor of the fan warms the room.
And what's up with them windows? Do they not open? Well, that would be a good answer.
Exactly.
What about opening the windows?! - Yes, that's fine, you might get a point for that.
- Yes! - Why's it so hot in your kitchen? - I know.
What have you been doing? Cooking.
What protected species have you been slaughtering in your kitchen? Boiling terrapins by the dozen.
"Open a window, Stephen!" "No, I like it hot and sweaty!" Scraping the froth off.
Oh, don't! Where's my mate spoon? Anyway, let's move on.
if you leave the fridge door open, the room will actually get warmer.
Which breed of dog makes the best kebab? You need one with an opposable digit to make any kind of sandwich.
Hey, very good! What about a sheep dog? - KLAXON - Whoa.
I was going to say sausage dog, so I'm glad I went for that.
KLAXON Oh, dear, oh, dear.
Yeah, what about a kebab dog? There isn't such a dog, fortunately.
There's a shop near me, there's a takeaway near me called Kebabish.
And I like it, because it sort of sounds like the guy who owns it, even he doesn't know what's in the meat.
"What is it?" "I don't know, it's just kebabish, it's just like a kebab.
" Funny you should say that, because doner kebabs have come under scrutiny lately.
The average doner has - half a woman's recommended daily allowance.
- Wow.
Even a woman called Donna.
Even a woman called Donna, in fact.
The worst have almost An average has 98% of the recommended daily allowance of salt, and 148% of the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat.
I know reading those out is supposed to put us off, but I could kill for one now.
It did sound - all the stuff about saturated fat sounded delicious.
- Oh, yes.
- It did, didn't it? - That just sounds like a bargain, if you're getting 98% of your salt, means you don't have to get it anywhere else, do you? APPLAUSE It's called a doner kebab - I mean, because it's Turkish for a spit, generally, a going-round thing, a rotisserie.
Because the standard kebab is, like, on a skewer, isn't it? - A shish.
- A shish.
And I never knew you could pull them off the skewer before you ate them, when I was a boy, I was going to go like that, and then I'd go, "Argh" And then I saw someone just pulling them all off.
Exactly! Ow! - That's how the Queen eats them.
- Yeah, I'm sure she does.
So, do you have dogs? No, I don't like things that don't talk.
You don't like things that? I love that rule.
I don't like things that don't make jokes.
That's a really good rule.
It excludes some men, obviously.
Yeah, I was going to say, some men as well.
Because we are literally speaking about a breed of dog that has since gone out of existence.
It's no longer bred and it's become extinct as a breed.
But it used - but it used to talk? No, no, sorry.
We're conflating, unfortunately, here.
It was a spit dog, a turnspit dog.
It was actually bred - Spit the Dog.
- There is one.
- Oh, Spit the Dog! - It's a really cute - Bob Carolgees It's a cute breed, look at it.
Isn't it cute? It's not cute, it's weird.
No, it's not, it's horrible.
- It's like a Star Wars dog.
- Oh, I think it looks lovely.
It's - this is a stuffed one in Abergavenny museum, I ought to say.
- The taxidermist has bollocksed that right up.
- Well - The head's wrong.
- It's stuffed with feta and vine leaves.
Their job was to walk round keeping the roast meat on a spit evenly cooked.
They were actually bred for that job.
They were inside a wheel and they turned the wheel.
Like a hamster in a Ferris wheel.
And it worked beautifully well.
And on their day off they would get taken to church and used as foot warmers.
That was the life of It sounds like they went into extinction through choice.
- "I've had enough of this.
Come on, lads.
" - Yes.
And Queen Victoria kept retired ones as pets.
She actually liked them rather a lot.
- It's a nice thought, isn't it? - It looks sad.
- Yeah.
- Well, yeah.
- It is dead.
- Because the box is too small.
- Yes! There were, in 1765, estimated to be Not everyone liked them.
William Cotesworth of Gateshead wrote that he had got rid of his turnspit, "To keep the dog from the fire, the wheel out of the way "and the dog prevented from shitting upon everything it could.
" That's the problem, you don't want poo.
That's northerners for you, though.
Well, that's your answer.
Turnspit dogs.
They got hot during the working week and on Sunday were used as foot warmers.
Now, when Koreans went into space, what did they take to chow down on? - You've got a bowl, Victoria - I've got a bowl? .
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and you can eat some.
- Phwoar, blimey! - It is quite a strong smell.
- Oh, you really can.
- It really is.
- They took that into space? - Yeah.
- Was that to get rid of it? It is a bit smelly, it's actually delicious.
- Let's hope there's pudding.
- Korean astronaut food? Well, they developed a special breed of it for astronauts.
I think it's got cabbage in it.
It has, it's mostly cabbage.
It's almost like a kind of sauerkraut.
Sorry, I dropped my chopsticks.
You can't drop anything in space.
You merely release.
The point about this food is that it is generally reckoned that this food is more celebrated and loved by the Koreans than any food in any other culture is loved by any other culture.
It is absolutely their identity.
They've not They've not had a pie in the north.
No, well, believe me, they talk about this food far more even than northerners talk about pies.
In Wigan, you know, on the back of bakers' vans they've got a sign that says, "No pies are left in this van overnight.
" It's true, that.
That's how important they are.
That is very good.
But if you can name this food, I'd be very impressed, because it really is the essence of Korea.
They really are obsessed with it.
- Have you ever heard of it? - No.
- It begins with K, which is a help.
- AUDIENCE: Kimchi.
Kimchi is the right answer, from the audience.
K-I-M-C-H-I.
- Well, it's bloody lovely.
- It is really good, isn't it? - It's pretty healthy.
- Have you got any more? Do you want mine? It's mostly cabbage - I tell you what, I'm going to Korea on holiday.
- Yeah! It is genuinely delicious, isn't it? - It's quite piquant, it's quite hot, it's got a bit of chilli.
- Yeah.
It's mostly radish and cabbage, and it's very, very simple.
But there are lots of different - I can feel myself becoming more obedient.
- Yeah.
Finally! At last.
- Do you know what, though? - Tell me.
- You know when you want a second one - Yeah.
- You don't, really.
- It's just too much.
Yeah.
They eat two million tonnes of this a year.
- Each?! - In South Korea on its own.
I think that would be - even that is too much.
Some make their own and bury it in a sealed jar over winter.
Others have special kimchi refrigerators.
- When you open the door of them, they heat the room up.
- Whooo! - It is quite hot.
- It's quite hot, it's quite hot.
- Yeah.
It's really HO-O-OT! In 2010 they had a KOREAN ACCENT: "You like kimchi, ha, ha, ha! You western fool! - "Afterburn!" - No racial stereotyping here, then.
Just cheap laughs, cheap laughs, Stephen.
That is just - that's razy lacism, and you know it.
Um, in 2010 they had a cabbage crop failure - and the price rose by 400%.
- Shut up! Oh! And they spent millions on the South Korean astronaut, who went up into space.
Andso she could have a kimchi that was bacterially more sound and would survive in space better, because it was absolutely crucial to her wellbeing as a Korean.
And indeed, Chung Il-kwon, when he was President, during the Vietnam war, said to President Johnson, who asked, when he was away, "What do you miss in Korea?" He said, to be honest he missed kimchi more than he missed his wife.
Is Kimchi the name of his mistress? Possibly.
Anyway, for Koreans, kimchi is literally out of this world.
Now, here's the skull of King Richard III, but what can you tell me about his table manners, just by looking at it? Well, he was very good at eating Toblerone.
Anything else you can tell? What's unusual about his teeth compared to ours? - Space for a straw, that would be - Space for a straw, yes! Notice your teeth, the top row and the bottom row.
Close your mouth, naturally.
- Yeah.
- Your top row Overbite.
We've all got an overbite.
Cruelly called by Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, dancing, "white man's overbite.
" But the actual overbite, literally like that, is a recent thing in human beings.
And it comes after forks, because we cut up our food.
And in the days when we wrenched our food, the incisors would get smoothed down more, and the teeth would fit exactly.
And it shows that Richard III didn't use a fork for cutting his food, which we know, because forks were not used for transferring food to your mouth.
Right up to Tudor times, you would use? - Your hands.
- Your hands.
So if we brought up children without knives and forks, - they wouldn't develop an overbite? - No.
- You know what? I'm going to try.
I'll come back here in 21 years' time.
- Call me a liar.
- We'll see.
- It's true.
- With a really resentful-looking boy.
- I've got twins, so - one I'm going to give a fork.
- Brilliant! - Brilliant! - And one - I'll have the perfect experiment.
- It is superb.
Unethical, but perfect.
- Yeah.
And you can sort of show this by the difference in civilisations who've developed overbites.
And 1,000 years ago you can see where Chinese aristocratic skulls have an overbite, but peasants don't.
And it's when they started to use chopsticks and chop up their food, and then it spread throughout the population.
So it really does - it sounds weird, but this overbite we have is an acquired characteristic because of our chopping-up of food.
You can just tell by looking at skulls.
Just go through any graveyard, dig people up, - and you'll see I'm right, Jason.
- "Stephen Fry told me to do it.
" - Yes, absolutely! - While I'm chewing on a turtle.
- "Really bad influence.
" - Yeah.
So, anyway, I'll give you 100 points if you can name two traditional Italian breads.
Oh, so tempting! Well, nowciabatta.
- KLAXON - Oh! - Er - We're already there.
Ciabatta was invented in 1982, can you believe? It's that recent.
- No, shut up.
- Yeah, it was an Italian baker who was worried about the threat of French baguettes, and it's the Italian for, you can redeem yourself if you know? Baguette.
That would be too easy, no.
It's not really the shape of it.
- Handbag? - Well that's closer, it's - Slipper.
- Yes! Brilliant, it was a slipper, yes.
It was - he was Arnaldo Cavallari, was his name, and it was a specific invention, he called it "Ciabatta Polesano", Polesine is a part of northern Italy.
So it really is very recent.
Some people claim that it was around since the '40s, but there doesn't seem to be any proof of this, the name doesn't appear before 1982.
Now, what can you see coming out of your kettle as it boils? Vapour.
- Is the right answer.
- Hurray! Not steam.
- I wasn't going to say steam.
- No, as if you would(!) - Because steam is? - The stuff that comes out of the kettle.
Oh! Steam is invisible.
- It does come out of the kettle - Oh, really? .
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but sometimes you see a gap, you know? - you get the little gap and then you see the vapour.
- Oh, yeah.
And the gap is steam, it's an invisible gas.
And as soon as it cools, even slightly, it turns to water vapour, and that's the bit you see.
We call it steam, but it isn't.
Steam is actually invisible.
Isn't that interesting? - Very interesting.
- Thank you.
So it's "VI".
Because I tell my children not to eat their food till the steam's gone.
Now what am I going to say? But I mean, yeah, in ordinary everyday speech, things steam, and "steamy" are You know, manure steams and Oh, I tell them not to eat manure as well.
Not till the steam's gone off it.
I'm glad to hear it.
Well, we have to end now with a Knick Knack, which I sometimes end with.
This is Ooh, this is exciting.
This is a remarkable substance.
It's called polyethylene oxide, and it's very gloopy, and also it reacts rather excitedly under ultraviolet light.
And Alan and Victoria, you've got ultraviolet torches and you can point them at it.
I think we might have some ultraviolet light in the studio.
- Shall I point them now, sir? - Yes, please do.
Ooh, look.
See? - Wow! - Ooh! Now, what I'm going to try and do, I'm going to stand up to do this, it's a very remarkable effect.
The effect is, when you pour it, if I get it at the right angle, it pulls itself out of the flask and into here.
It flows uphill and out and down again.
All right.
There we go.
Oh, it's pulling itself up, it's pulling itself up You see what I mean? It's pulling itself up from the bottom.
If you look at the top one, it's actually flowing uphill there.
And then it thins out into a little trail of snot.
I'll try that again, so we'll just get a few takes.
That's like when It's like when you have a wee after a Berocca, isn't it, that? It is! It's exactly what it's like.
Oh, goodness.
So disgusting.
Polyethylene oxide.
I don't know what else What's it used for? It's a very good masturbatory lubricant.
Particularly in the dark.
Yeah.
All right, we'll try again.
It's a little bit awkward getting two friends to hold the torch, though.
Isn't it? Yeah.
There we go, that's pulling itself up there nicely.
Excellent, there we go.
Phew! Thank you.
And thank you Thank you, my special ultraviolet helpers.
Well, on that exciting note, let's go to the scores.
Oh, my actual goodness.
It's really remarkable.
I'm afraid, possibly because he was booby-trapped into it, in last place, with -38 is Jason Manford.
I'm quite happy.
In a highly creditable third place, with -17, is Richard Osman.
Oh, thank you.
Which is very impressive.
And in second place with -7 is Victoria Wood.
But, scraping into a lead by one point, on -6, is Alan Davies! Well.
Put that away.
I got points for eating that food.
And with thanks to Victoria, Richard, Jason and Alan, it's good night!
Joining me at the breakfast bar, cooking with gas, Jason Manford.
Sharp as a knife, Victoria Wood.
Pointless as a spoon, Richard Osman.
Hiya.
And I got this fork off Alan Davies.
Let's hear your pingers.
Jason goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP And Victoria goes TICK-TICK-TICK DING! Richard goes DRING! And Alan goes EXPLOSION AND ALARM We're having a kitchen supper tonight.
Which of the following do you fancy? Take me through these lovely dishes.
They're all real.
Is the buttocktongue Marks & Spencer's buttocktongue? It's "your" buttocktongue.
- Oh, right.
- Yes, exactly.
- Lovely.
- Work on tongue.
Well, I'll have to be careful when I say that if you just take the last three letters off tongue, you get? Oh, so like, like a biltong? Biltong is right.
It's a hindquarters tongue, which sounds weird, but that's what it is.
- Biltong, have you ever had biltong? - No, I'm a vegetarian.
- Ah.
Meet Alan.
He's a vegetarian, too.
- Hold on, is biltong not vegetarian? - No! So what is it? The bottom? It's dried - well, it's the dried hindquarters.
So, does it have the actual? The hindquarters, which are buttocks on an animal.
But does it have the arsehole in it? - Not the - LAUGHTER - I think not.
- That's in hot dogs, I think.
- Has it got a tube? - Yeah, that's in - They save that for hot dogs and pork pies.
- Yeah.
So, that's a good one.
You've started.
- Any other thoughts? - Kleftiko, that's That's on a menu in a Greek restaurant, isn't it? Yes, kleftiko, exactly, does exist.
And it was originally called "kleptiko", which might give you a hint.
Klept.
- Kleptomaniac? It's all stolen.
- Kleptomania, kleptos is a thief.
And it was anti-Ottoman empire bandits who lived in the hills, and they made up this dish, so it was named after them, it's a thieves' dish.
It's quite elaborate for a bandit person to be doing.
They were - you should see their souffles.
They were extraordinary.
Actually souffles brings us onto nun's farts.
Well, it's - when you pop one Why specifically a nun's, though? I mean Cos nun's farts smell like souffle.
Keep up! He's just given you that, - when he gives you one, for goodness' sake, grab it.
- Yes, take notice.
A lot of French dishes have - or, indeed, European dishes - have their - pumpernickel is a devil's fart, "pumpen", pump, fart, "nickel", Old Nick.
And that's a bread, so they have rude names.
And there's a - isn't there a cheese which is, er, angel's tits or something like that? - You can tell which ones are farting from their pained expressions.
- Yeah.
That's like the cast of Dad's Army on a fancy dress party.
I think out of them all there, I'd go, I'd say - Which one? - She's definitely She's definitely farted, and the rest don't know yet.
Look at the smile.
Look at the smile on her face.
That's a massive board and they all just put their faces through.
Like on a pier.
Yeah.
Nun's farts are little balls of pastry deep-fried, and they puff up.
They're also called whore's farts or Spanish farts, in French, "pets-de-nonne".
"Pets" is "fart" in French.
These days they've disappointingly been renamed as nun's puffs.
Or possibly poofs, I don't know how you would say it, it's hard to tell.
- Bishops, often, they're called that.
- Bishops, yes, exactly.
Treacle.
Treacle.
Anti-venereal treacle? Wouldn't want to lick it off.
You're right.
It sold much better than pro-venereal treacle, didn't it? - That didn't - Yes! - That didn't sell.
- It really didn't.
- Yeah, they really - The two great treacles.
- Yeah.
The word treacle has had an interesting history.
It now means, of course Yeah, it used to mean any sort of medicine, didn't it? Or any sort of Even without a computer in front of you, you're good.
That is very - or have you got one hidden under there? No, I'm very impressed, you're absolutely right.
A treacle was generally any kind of specific - against diseases and things.
- Or a term of endearment, weirdly.
"Treacle," yes, in EastEnders and that sort of thing, isn't it? "All right, Treacle?" "All right, anti-venereal treacle?" That's what they call some of those characters.
Auntie Venereal Treacle.
Yes.
"It's your Auntie Venereal, Treacle.
" "You come in for your tea, Chlamydia.
" Where was it? There was - in America, - Verruca's quite a popular name.
- Really?! People copy it from BOTH: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
They don't know - they don't call verrucas "verrucas" in America.
- So they don't know it's actually - They don't know it's an awful thing.
- Verruca Salt.
- Yeah.
- Brilliant.
I'm so pleased.
- So if they don't call chlamydia "chlamydia" - Yes All you need to do is put it in a popular children's book as a name - Brilliant.
- Before you know it It would be one of the most popular names.
- Barack Obama will have a daughter called Chlamydia.
- Called Chlamydia! Chlamydia Obama.
Which brings us to Dog and Maggot.
- Does it? - Well, it doesn't necessarily.
It sounds like rhyming slang for - someone of my persuasion.
- Taggart.
Oh - I was going to go with the ITV show Taggart.
- Oh, right.
"There's been a murder, Dog and Maggot.
" - A Scotsman in the mist.
See what I did there? - Yeah.
If I was to say "hard tack" to you, does that mean anything? Ship's biscuits? Very good.
Ship's biscuits were known as hard tack.
And there's a famous scene in the Battleship Potemkin, do you remember? If you've ever seen it.
- No, I'm a vegetarian.
- The great Eisenstein movie LAUGHTER That's going to be an answer to a lot of questions, isn't it? "No, I'm a vegetarian.
" The Potemkin was a ship in which there was a mutiny, and there's a scene of them cracking open a ship's biscuit - and the maggots it's really horrible.
- Eurgh.
And this is a British biscuit called "Dog" because it was the consistency of a dog biscuit and "Maggot" because it had maggots in it, but it was - in the First World War it was part of the rations.
God.
I think I'd rather eat the cutlery.
- I think you're right.
- If that choice came up.
I'll just have a chew on this knife, don't worry about it.
You know what I think I'd like with a fork? Rather than having all the prongs in a line, why can't they be in a kind of a square shape, so you've got a kind of - Do you know, hold that thought.
- That's a good idea.
- Because we might be coming on to that later in the exam.
- Really? - Wow.
- Yes.
It might come up.
"Sir said it wouldn't come up this term, but it might have come up.
" - I'll revise that.
- Yeah.
Anyway, there you are.
Here's some unusual cutlery.
I'd like you to tell me what kind of thing you could eat with them.
You've all got some, but I'll start off with the one that you mentioned, there.
- You said with tines, that were - You just invented that, a minute ago.
There you are.
Isn't it incredible? - You mentioned something like it.
- That's weird.
Isn't it? It's usage is very, very specific.
You don't actually handle it yourself, because you're so high-born that somebody else feeds you using that.
With what on it, though? - Some sort of fruit? - No.
Is it a testicle? It might include a testicle.
Is it a scrotum? It might include a scrotum.
What else really includes a testicle, Stephen? The whole schmear.
A-A whole mammal.
Yes, a whole mammal.
Let's just imagine I'm talking to one.
Oh, God.
A comedian.
No, a cannibal.
That's the point, a human being.
- Oh, human.
- Oh Yours is a reproduction, sold as a souvenir item on the island of? - Or islands of? - Wight.
Man.
LAUGHTER More accurate if you'd said the Isle of Man, I would have thought.
- Oh, yeah.
- Think of the cannibal island, - it was part of the British Empire.
- Oh, Guernsey.
- Fiji.
- Fiji.
Fiji.
- Oh, I might have known.
Yeah, you might have done.
Fiji is the answer.
These are Fijian human forks.
- Two cannibals are eating someone - Yes? .
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and one says, "you start at the toes, I'll start at the head.
" He says, "All right.
" Halfway through he says, "You all right?" He says, "Yeah, I'm having a ball.
" He says, "You're going too fast.
" - There you go.
- Excellent work.
- There you go.
- Excellent work.
- Old cannibal joke for you.
So there you are.
And what have you got, Victoria? - This, which is a strange - Very hard.
If you guess that - A spoon with holes in it.
- I'll give you 100 points if you guess what that is specifically for.
Oh, it's for Coco Pops so you get the milk at the bottom - chocolaty.
- It would work as that.
- It would.
It's actually very specifically for terrapins and turtles.
I don't usually eat them.
- You're a vegetarian.
I know.
- Exactly.
Oh, I see.
- The flesh is delicious, apparently.
- Oh, OK.
- The giant turtle, famously - Aren't they protected, Stephen? You're not supposed to be chomping away on them.
Oh, gosh, no, absolutely not.
No, the Ridleys and all those - Well, why are you saying we should kill them and eat them? - No! Why are you giving me cutlery to damage terrapins? - You said that.
- We used to.
- Weird thing to say on television, - that we should eat turtles.
- I take it back.
- We shouldn't be killing them.
- But they're delicious.
There is a special piece of cutlery for them.
- And apparently they're delicious.
- We have some cutlery for them, - and they're delicious.
- Just in case.
And Jason what have you got? Ahem Ooh.
Now this is interesting.
Don't look at your reflection in it, that'll only upset you.
I was seeing if that's what was unusual.
- No.
- Oh, my God, it's Tom Selleck.
That's weird, isn't it? Of all the people.
Have a grip and a twist.
- OK.
Oh! - Ah.
It turns, it turns like that.
- Yeah.
- Is it supposed to? - All the way.
Oh, all the way, OK.
Oh, and then it just becomes, like - It's broken.
- It's - It's a breakable spoon! - Brilliant.
No, but look in the spoon end.
The ladle end.
- It's hollow.
- Yeah.
Oh, inside there.
So you could fill it with something.
- A message.
Hot water? - Hot water.
Oh, I was going to say turtle blood.
- Oh, I see.
- You fill it with hot water and it's a gravy spoon that keeps the gravy nice and warm to stop the fat congealing.
- Oh, I like that.
- Richard? - Great idea.
Are we going to have anything that you can eat testicles with? - They may be coming up.
- Eat them with that.
- Here we go, here we go.
- Yes, now what's that? - Are they holes, in the end? - Ah! - Yeah, it's got all perforations.
- You see, you've learnt from your thing.
- Yes.
There are perforations in the ladle itself and the spoon part itself, the bowl.
What about the other end? - It's got a little hole in it.
- Ah.
So what could you do? - Well - You could hang it - I'm going to insert it into the - Cheese.
- .
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backside of a turtle.
Just there.
Literally just there.
And then, I think, you tell me if I'm wrong, you squeeze, is that right? Squeeze down on the shell.
And out it comes, and then you've essentially got yourself a smoothie which comes out of the end.
Is it a turtle blood smoothie maker? It's so close.
If I said the word "mate" to you, would that mean anything? Have you ever travelled to an area where you drink mate tea? - Audience? - AUDIENCE MEMBER: Argentina.
- Argentina and Peru, and various other places.
- Of course.
- It's called mate.
- There we go.
We've got that sorted.
So, basically, it does a marvellous job.
It stirs the leaves and allows you to drink the tea all in one without needing a strainer.
Oh, it's a straw.
- It's a straw, you suck it up.
- Ah, that's so good.
It's an Argentinian mate spoon.
Now, what's the quickest way to cool down my kitchen? I'm going to - just because I'd love to get a klaxon sound, - is it opening the fridge? - Ah! - KLAXON - That would make it hotter.
- Somehow that makes it hotter, doesn't it? - Turning on the oven.
- Turning on the oven would not cool - Turning on the top of the stove.
Put the gas on.
- Right.
Because the coolest place in front of a fire is right in front.
Oh, I see what you mean, but that would still warm up the room.
- Yeah, all right, it's just a thought.
- No, don't Don't be cross, it's good you didn't say turn on the fan, - which would have got you a klaxon.
- I wasn't going to say that.
- Exactly.
Can I just say, turn on the fan? - Oh, you've gone klaxon mad! - KLAXON - It is - Why - so why would opening the fridge? It's the second law of thermodynamics.
The energy you need to create the coolness creates work.
And energy and work are basically congruent, in physics, to heat.
And so the back of a fridge But what if the motor of my fridge is outside my - I'm thinking exactly that.
- Ah, if that were the case, yes.
- Cos you haven't been to my kitchen.
- No! - I said my kitchen, though, that was in the question.
- I'm so sorry.
We had it covered.
In the case of an air conditioner, of course, the back is always outside.
- So a fan that is just cooling the air - Yeah, the motor of the fan warms the room.
And what's up with them windows? Do they not open? Well, that would be a good answer.
Exactly.
What about opening the windows?! - Yes, that's fine, you might get a point for that.
- Yes! - Why's it so hot in your kitchen? - I know.
What have you been doing? Cooking.
What protected species have you been slaughtering in your kitchen? Boiling terrapins by the dozen.
"Open a window, Stephen!" "No, I like it hot and sweaty!" Scraping the froth off.
Oh, don't! Where's my mate spoon? Anyway, let's move on.
if you leave the fridge door open, the room will actually get warmer.
Which breed of dog makes the best kebab? You need one with an opposable digit to make any kind of sandwich.
Hey, very good! What about a sheep dog? - KLAXON - Whoa.
I was going to say sausage dog, so I'm glad I went for that.
KLAXON Oh, dear, oh, dear.
Yeah, what about a kebab dog? There isn't such a dog, fortunately.
There's a shop near me, there's a takeaway near me called Kebabish.
And I like it, because it sort of sounds like the guy who owns it, even he doesn't know what's in the meat.
"What is it?" "I don't know, it's just kebabish, it's just like a kebab.
" Funny you should say that, because doner kebabs have come under scrutiny lately.
The average doner has - half a woman's recommended daily allowance.
- Wow.
Even a woman called Donna.
Even a woman called Donna, in fact.
The worst have almost An average has 98% of the recommended daily allowance of salt, and 148% of the recommended daily allowance of saturated fat.
I know reading those out is supposed to put us off, but I could kill for one now.
It did sound - all the stuff about saturated fat sounded delicious.
- Oh, yes.
- It did, didn't it? - That just sounds like a bargain, if you're getting 98% of your salt, means you don't have to get it anywhere else, do you? APPLAUSE It's called a doner kebab - I mean, because it's Turkish for a spit, generally, a going-round thing, a rotisserie.
Because the standard kebab is, like, on a skewer, isn't it? - A shish.
- A shish.
And I never knew you could pull them off the skewer before you ate them, when I was a boy, I was going to go like that, and then I'd go, "Argh" And then I saw someone just pulling them all off.
Exactly! Ow! - That's how the Queen eats them.
- Yeah, I'm sure she does.
So, do you have dogs? No, I don't like things that don't talk.
You don't like things that? I love that rule.
I don't like things that don't make jokes.
That's a really good rule.
It excludes some men, obviously.
Yeah, I was going to say, some men as well.
Because we are literally speaking about a breed of dog that has since gone out of existence.
It's no longer bred and it's become extinct as a breed.
But it used - but it used to talk? No, no, sorry.
We're conflating, unfortunately, here.
It was a spit dog, a turnspit dog.
It was actually bred - Spit the Dog.
- There is one.
- Oh, Spit the Dog! - It's a really cute - Bob Carolgees It's a cute breed, look at it.
Isn't it cute? It's not cute, it's weird.
No, it's not, it's horrible.
- It's like a Star Wars dog.
- Oh, I think it looks lovely.
It's - this is a stuffed one in Abergavenny museum, I ought to say.
- The taxidermist has bollocksed that right up.
- Well - The head's wrong.
- It's stuffed with feta and vine leaves.
Their job was to walk round keeping the roast meat on a spit evenly cooked.
They were actually bred for that job.
They were inside a wheel and they turned the wheel.
Like a hamster in a Ferris wheel.
And it worked beautifully well.
And on their day off they would get taken to church and used as foot warmers.
That was the life of It sounds like they went into extinction through choice.
- "I've had enough of this.
Come on, lads.
" - Yes.
And Queen Victoria kept retired ones as pets.
She actually liked them rather a lot.
- It's a nice thought, isn't it? - It looks sad.
- Yeah.
- Well, yeah.
- It is dead.
- Because the box is too small.
- Yes! There were, in 1765, estimated to be Not everyone liked them.
William Cotesworth of Gateshead wrote that he had got rid of his turnspit, "To keep the dog from the fire, the wheel out of the way "and the dog prevented from shitting upon everything it could.
" That's the problem, you don't want poo.
That's northerners for you, though.
Well, that's your answer.
Turnspit dogs.
They got hot during the working week and on Sunday were used as foot warmers.
Now, when Koreans went into space, what did they take to chow down on? - You've got a bowl, Victoria - I've got a bowl? .
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and you can eat some.
- Phwoar, blimey! - It is quite a strong smell.
- Oh, you really can.
- It really is.
- They took that into space? - Yeah.
- Was that to get rid of it? It is a bit smelly, it's actually delicious.
- Let's hope there's pudding.
- Korean astronaut food? Well, they developed a special breed of it for astronauts.
I think it's got cabbage in it.
It has, it's mostly cabbage.
It's almost like a kind of sauerkraut.
Sorry, I dropped my chopsticks.
You can't drop anything in space.
You merely release.
The point about this food is that it is generally reckoned that this food is more celebrated and loved by the Koreans than any food in any other culture is loved by any other culture.
It is absolutely their identity.
They've not They've not had a pie in the north.
No, well, believe me, they talk about this food far more even than northerners talk about pies.
In Wigan, you know, on the back of bakers' vans they've got a sign that says, "No pies are left in this van overnight.
" It's true, that.
That's how important they are.
That is very good.
But if you can name this food, I'd be very impressed, because it really is the essence of Korea.
They really are obsessed with it.
- Have you ever heard of it? - No.
- It begins with K, which is a help.
- AUDIENCE: Kimchi.
Kimchi is the right answer, from the audience.
K-I-M-C-H-I.
- Well, it's bloody lovely.
- It is really good, isn't it? - It's pretty healthy.
- Have you got any more? Do you want mine? It's mostly cabbage - I tell you what, I'm going to Korea on holiday.
- Yeah! It is genuinely delicious, isn't it? - It's quite piquant, it's quite hot, it's got a bit of chilli.
- Yeah.
It's mostly radish and cabbage, and it's very, very simple.
But there are lots of different - I can feel myself becoming more obedient.
- Yeah.
Finally! At last.
- Do you know what, though? - Tell me.
- You know when you want a second one - Yeah.
- You don't, really.
- It's just too much.
Yeah.
They eat two million tonnes of this a year.
- Each?! - In South Korea on its own.
I think that would be - even that is too much.
Some make their own and bury it in a sealed jar over winter.
Others have special kimchi refrigerators.
- When you open the door of them, they heat the room up.
- Whooo! - It is quite hot.
- It's quite hot, it's quite hot.
- Yeah.
It's really HO-O-OT! In 2010 they had a KOREAN ACCENT: "You like kimchi, ha, ha, ha! You western fool! - "Afterburn!" - No racial stereotyping here, then.
Just cheap laughs, cheap laughs, Stephen.
That is just - that's razy lacism, and you know it.
Um, in 2010 they had a cabbage crop failure - and the price rose by 400%.
- Shut up! Oh! And they spent millions on the South Korean astronaut, who went up into space.
Andso she could have a kimchi that was bacterially more sound and would survive in space better, because it was absolutely crucial to her wellbeing as a Korean.
And indeed, Chung Il-kwon, when he was President, during the Vietnam war, said to President Johnson, who asked, when he was away, "What do you miss in Korea?" He said, to be honest he missed kimchi more than he missed his wife.
Is Kimchi the name of his mistress? Possibly.
Anyway, for Koreans, kimchi is literally out of this world.
Now, here's the skull of King Richard III, but what can you tell me about his table manners, just by looking at it? Well, he was very good at eating Toblerone.
Anything else you can tell? What's unusual about his teeth compared to ours? - Space for a straw, that would be - Space for a straw, yes! Notice your teeth, the top row and the bottom row.
Close your mouth, naturally.
- Yeah.
- Your top row Overbite.
We've all got an overbite.
Cruelly called by Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally, dancing, "white man's overbite.
" But the actual overbite, literally like that, is a recent thing in human beings.
And it comes after forks, because we cut up our food.
And in the days when we wrenched our food, the incisors would get smoothed down more, and the teeth would fit exactly.
And it shows that Richard III didn't use a fork for cutting his food, which we know, because forks were not used for transferring food to your mouth.
Right up to Tudor times, you would use? - Your hands.
- Your hands.
So if we brought up children without knives and forks, - they wouldn't develop an overbite? - No.
- You know what? I'm going to try.
I'll come back here in 21 years' time.
- Call me a liar.
- We'll see.
- It's true.
- With a really resentful-looking boy.
- I've got twins, so - one I'm going to give a fork.
- Brilliant! - Brilliant! - And one - I'll have the perfect experiment.
- It is superb.
Unethical, but perfect.
- Yeah.
And you can sort of show this by the difference in civilisations who've developed overbites.
And 1,000 years ago you can see where Chinese aristocratic skulls have an overbite, but peasants don't.
And it's when they started to use chopsticks and chop up their food, and then it spread throughout the population.
So it really does - it sounds weird, but this overbite we have is an acquired characteristic because of our chopping-up of food.
You can just tell by looking at skulls.
Just go through any graveyard, dig people up, - and you'll see I'm right, Jason.
- "Stephen Fry told me to do it.
" - Yes, absolutely! - While I'm chewing on a turtle.
- "Really bad influence.
" - Yeah.
So, anyway, I'll give you 100 points if you can name two traditional Italian breads.
Oh, so tempting! Well, nowciabatta.
- KLAXON - Oh! - Er - We're already there.
Ciabatta was invented in 1982, can you believe? It's that recent.
- No, shut up.
- Yeah, it was an Italian baker who was worried about the threat of French baguettes, and it's the Italian for, you can redeem yourself if you know? Baguette.
That would be too easy, no.
It's not really the shape of it.
- Handbag? - Well that's closer, it's - Slipper.
- Yes! Brilliant, it was a slipper, yes.
It was - he was Arnaldo Cavallari, was his name, and it was a specific invention, he called it "Ciabatta Polesano", Polesine is a part of northern Italy.
So it really is very recent.
Some people claim that it was around since the '40s, but there doesn't seem to be any proof of this, the name doesn't appear before 1982.
Now, what can you see coming out of your kettle as it boils? Vapour.
- Is the right answer.
- Hurray! Not steam.
- I wasn't going to say steam.
- No, as if you would(!) - Because steam is? - The stuff that comes out of the kettle.
Oh! Steam is invisible.
- It does come out of the kettle - Oh, really? .
.
but sometimes you see a gap, you know? - you get the little gap and then you see the vapour.
- Oh, yeah.
And the gap is steam, it's an invisible gas.
And as soon as it cools, even slightly, it turns to water vapour, and that's the bit you see.
We call it steam, but it isn't.
Steam is actually invisible.
Isn't that interesting? - Very interesting.
- Thank you.
So it's "VI".
Because I tell my children not to eat their food till the steam's gone.
Now what am I going to say? But I mean, yeah, in ordinary everyday speech, things steam, and "steamy" are You know, manure steams and Oh, I tell them not to eat manure as well.
Not till the steam's gone off it.
I'm glad to hear it.
Well, we have to end now with a Knick Knack, which I sometimes end with.
This is Ooh, this is exciting.
This is a remarkable substance.
It's called polyethylene oxide, and it's very gloopy, and also it reacts rather excitedly under ultraviolet light.
And Alan and Victoria, you've got ultraviolet torches and you can point them at it.
I think we might have some ultraviolet light in the studio.
- Shall I point them now, sir? - Yes, please do.
Ooh, look.
See? - Wow! - Ooh! Now, what I'm going to try and do, I'm going to stand up to do this, it's a very remarkable effect.
The effect is, when you pour it, if I get it at the right angle, it pulls itself out of the flask and into here.
It flows uphill and out and down again.
All right.
There we go.
Oh, it's pulling itself up, it's pulling itself up You see what I mean? It's pulling itself up from the bottom.
If you look at the top one, it's actually flowing uphill there.
And then it thins out into a little trail of snot.
I'll try that again, so we'll just get a few takes.
That's like when It's like when you have a wee after a Berocca, isn't it, that? It is! It's exactly what it's like.
Oh, goodness.
So disgusting.
Polyethylene oxide.
I don't know what else What's it used for? It's a very good masturbatory lubricant.
Particularly in the dark.
Yeah.
All right, we'll try again.
It's a little bit awkward getting two friends to hold the torch, though.
Isn't it? Yeah.
There we go, that's pulling itself up there nicely.
Excellent, there we go.
Phew! Thank you.
And thank you Thank you, my special ultraviolet helpers.
Well, on that exciting note, let's go to the scores.
Oh, my actual goodness.
It's really remarkable.
I'm afraid, possibly because he was booby-trapped into it, in last place, with -38 is Jason Manford.
I'm quite happy.
In a highly creditable third place, with -17, is Richard Osman.
Oh, thank you.
Which is very impressive.
And in second place with -7 is Victoria Wood.
But, scraping into a lead by one point, on -6, is Alan Davies! Well.
Put that away.
I got points for eating that food.
And with thanks to Victoria, Richard, Jason and Alan, it's good night!