QI (2003) s12e09 Episode Script

Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to QI, where this week we're looking at ladies and gentlemen.
And we have a pair of each.
A decorous Kathy Lette.
APPLAUSE A distinguee Sue Perkins.
APPLAUSE A dashing Ross Noble.
APPLAUSE And a-dorable Alan Davies.
APPLAUSE So let's listen to the ladies.
Kathy goes Three times a lady Ah.
And that's Lionel, who has two Ls himself.
- And Sue goes - It's also libellous.
- Yeah, libellous.
Sue goes # Oh, yes, it's ladies night And the feeling's right Oh, yes, it's ladies night And lo, the gentlemen.
Ross goes # I'm a man I spell M-A-N LAUGHTER Good blues harping.
- No, no, that was me adjusting my dentures.
- Oh, right.
And Alan goes # Girls and boys come out to play The moon is shining as bright as day Aw, that's sweet.
Now don't forget our L series Spend A Penny joker.
JINGLE FLUSHING So, if you play your joker because you think that the answer to the question is something to do with the lavatory, you'll get extra points.
Right, now, ladies first.
Oh, you smoothie.
Oh! Why shouldn't you have the vote? - LAUGHTER - That's a nice way to - start, isn't it? Finally.
Your true colours, Stephen.
Because we'll find out the size of your election? No.
Hey, hey, very good.
You must be talking about, are you talking about in suffragette days? - What they - Yes.
- OK.
What were the reasons advanced for women not being given the vote? Well, I mean it's unnecessary, isn't it? I imagine it was the aristocracy that were the most fervently against.
Oddly enough, in the days of the suffragette movement, possibly, you could argue, it was socialists who had the most objection.
Because the suffragette movement only asked for votes for property-owning women.
And the socialists regarded that as deeply wrong.
Because they said, well, that would just stuff parliament - with even more bourgeoisie.
- We wouldn't want that.
- Yeah.
And, in fact, a lot of the enemies of the votes for women were? - Were women.
- Were women, exactly.
- Yeah.
- There you are.
These are the women against it and they didn't want it.
It's the one behind going LAUGHTER I'm late, I'm late! - For a lobotomy.
- Yeah, the one behind has a hammer, which is, - obviously trying to suggest - Yes, she's off to perform a But there was sort of the Stockholm Syndrome.
That they were brain-washed.
- They'd been brought up to be decorative and demure.
- Yeah.
And they had this idea they had to be home looking after the children and being domesticated and doing the home cooking.
- Home cooking, that place where a husband thinks his wife is.
- Yes.
So And also I think they were, the women who thought that way, obviously they were also a bit braindead because of the corsetry.
Their corsets were so tight, it had cut off all circulation to the brain.
Do you know where Constance Wilde, Oscar Wilde's wife comes into this? - No.
- She was a very, very leading figure in a movement which was a precursor to votes for women, which was called the Rational Dress Society.
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, right.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Women in Victorian eras, as you say, were corseted to within an inch of their life.
They could barely breathe.
And they wanted to loosen out.
And that's why they would faint so often, in hot dinners and parties and things, balls.
But what you could do is, as the blood was cut off, you could turn them upside down LAUGHTER - And then it would rush to their legs - And make an egg timer.
- And you could have a lovely egg.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- The three-minute lady.
- Yeah.
And Constance Lloyd, then Wilde as she was, very intelligent, splendid woman, she was one of the first to say, well, we should wear rational dress, you know.
Straight, loose clothing that doesn't constrict us.
And that kind of was symbolic of a wider constriction that existed in society, in terms of what they were allowed to do.
And it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Because women were not in engineering, were not in politics, were not in anything involving the colonial system Therefore it was said, well, but they know nothing about politics.
They know nothing about Therefore they shouldn't vote.
But it's because they But there should have been something, when she sort of, you know, brought this up as a thing, rational dress, she should have gone, "But in the future, leggings must be approached with caution.
" - LAUGHTER That's the - That's true.
Yeah.
Because there are certain people who, I think, if you're not fighting crime, no, thanks to the Spandex.
Well, look at Spanx.
Spanx are back like corsets, aren't they.
- What are Spanx? - Oh, Spanx are life-savers.
- They just move it around.
- What are Spanx? It's basically anatomy roulette.
It's like, put them on, who knows where it'll end up? What is a Spanx? They're these tight pants that some women wear to hold all their little bits of flesh in.
But honestly, they're a contraceptive, because once you get them on, you can never get them off again.
But the best thing about Spanx is, is if you go to a wedding and at the start of the night there's these, loads of women just looking amazing, then they get a few drinks in them, have a bit of a dance and then just boobs start appearing in different places.
LAUGHTER And you go, "Have you got leg boobs? "I didn't know you could have leg boobs.
" It does, it moves the boobs.
It just, whoa, there's one.
And then you, look, I've got, I've got a side boob, and then push that and then boom, out there.
And you get a nice shoulder tit.
What, hey? Oh, oh, oh! So what is it, is this like a body tube? - Yeah.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Wow! So, anyway, just to sort of sum up what's happening here.
- Um - LAUGHTER Are you referring to what's happening in my Spanx right now? The pro-suffrage movement was divided against itself.
There was the suffragists, who followed the Liberal Party, and then there were the suffragettes, as you can see there, Mrs Pankhurst being the most famous, and they believed in smashing windows, chaining themselves to railings, and in the worst possible case, Emily Davidson, deliberate or not, throwing herself - in front of the King's horse and dying.
- It looked pretty deliberate.
Although I don't suppose she intended to die.
I think she intended to stop the horse.
There's the saddest thing, at the British Library they've got her purse and in her purse is a return ticket.
Which, was she But was she just being female and thinking, "Oh, it's cheaper to get the return"? Presumably, I don't know if this is true, but if, but pre-suffrage, would women have been seen as sort of goods and chattels? So if they did something wrong, would it then, would the husband be liable? - What a fabulously good idea.
- No, no, they'd just be - Speaking as criminal stock, you know.
- They'd just be burned.
Well, burned is That's going a long way back.
They would be burnt or ducked.
Or tried as witch or something like that.
But actually Stephen, I don't think It's amazing women got the vote, it's amazing they went out to protest.
Women weren't supposed to go out without a chaperone.
If you did, you were seen as a prostitute.
We're a couple of slappers being here right now.
I suppose the most amazing thing is those women who existed before the vote, who managed to achieve things.
The trouble is, you could name them almost on the fingers of a pair of hands, the women who managed to break through, what was not a glass ceiling, but basically a rock ceiling, you know.
Yeah, and they had crazy ideas.
There was one professor who said that women shouldn't be educated and shouldn't vote because it would mean their brains would grow.
And if their brains grew, - their wombs would shrink.
- They would vote for Nigel Farage.
And he based that evidence on the fact that women who were educated didn't have children, mainly because we were smart enough to know that, you know, our careers would end.
He clearly didn't foresee the Katy Price scenario then, did he? Who said this, "Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise.
" - It was said in 1905 at a national election rally.
- I bet it's a woman.
- Churchill.
- Who? - Churchill.
- Is the right answer.
- Oh.
- Yeah, I'm afraid so.
- APPLAUSE Yeah, he did say that.
He was not, let's face it, the most liberal and progressive man, when it came to empire and things like that, marvellous as he was in all kinds of other ways.
So "We will fight them on the beaches" was originally - something he said about women.
- We'll fight them on the bitches.
- We'll fight the bitches.
- Yeah.
Well, we seem to have covered that very well.
The fact is, strange as it seems to us today, many women were against votes for women.
Now, I've got some little toys for you to play with.
- What would you use them for? - Oh, hello.
You can have the blue one.
- Well - Hello? Hello? - It's an alarm key.
LOUD WHIRRING Ah, you've pressed the button.
That's a very good start.
It's the world's worst rape alarm.
If you're wearing a microphone, it sounds like a million voles having a heart attack.
If you can hold them away from the mics because you're sending the audience mad.
- I can't turn it off! - No.
- Yes, you can.
Just leave it.
It's a tiny stadium audience in a box.
And you just go, "Good evening, Wembley!" It seems to be white noise.
- This is what it's trying to do.
- Oh, go on.
SOUND OF RUSHING WATER That's just frightening.
Oh, that's better.
That's like a toilet.
- Yeah.
- Why, is the word? Why would you want to replicate the sound of a flushing toilet wherever you go? More to the point, why has Stephen got an app on his phone? LAUGHTER Because there is nothing I wouldn't do to make things clear for you, because of my love for you all.
Is it to make people urinate after an operation or something? Yes, it's not exactly to make people urinate.
It's designed by the Japanese for the Japanese.
Oh, to cover the sound of yourself in the toilet, you put it on.
Yes, I bet that's it.
You could have played your Spend A Pennies here.
- Oh, I could have done.
- Oh, we could.
It's to cover the noise of peeing.
Because Japanese are traditionally rather pee-shy, and it's called a Sound Princess.
- A Sound Princess! - LAUGHTER Oh, that's marvellous.
They're actually built into some lavatories in Japan, but these are the ones for if you don't have a built-in one.
"This clever little key chain gadget from Japan "solves a real problem for those that are shy, "namely the embarrassing sounds of our noises as we go to the bathroom.
"Push the button and 25 seconds of continuous sounds "of a running refilling toilet permeate the room "in a natural, unobtrusive way.
" It's just going to run out.
- 25 seconds is not going to do it.
- "Masking the sounds you make" It finishes and then you hear HE BLOWS A RASPBERRY Yeah.
Do they do another one for sort of number twos, - the sound of sort of an avalanche or something.
- You'd think so.
"Press it again, press it again.
" RASPBERRY Well, push the button again for another 25 seconds of bliss.
"I've dropped it!" RASPBERRY You mean in the cubicles.
I thought you had to hang it off your downstairs.
Oh, no! And then you're stood at the urinal, just weeing.
The fella next to you hears.
"Why is there cheering coming from the?" "We will rock you!" Imagine that whacking off your plums.
It comes in three colour-ways.
We've got two.
"It comes pink with a cute little heart, "for the inner girl in every woman.
" - But this is I don't want - Do you have an inner girl? - Well, not with that in it, no.
- No, you don't.
- No.
- "Baby blue with a ribbon for that free and fresh feeling.
" - Yeah.
"And a white Save The Earth unisex model for both men and women.
" But it's an Eco Otome, because it saves you having to flush the loo to disguise your noise.
So you're saving water, in theory.
I took my children to the toilet today - Yes? - They're 18 and 19.
And we all went in, we were all in a cubicle together.
- They're two and four.
- Right.
And then someone went into the next door cubicle and started going about some, obviously some quite serious business.
After about four minutes of this, my little girl started saying, "Oh, oh, that stinks! "Oh, that's terrible! It's really smelly in here! Oh! "That's awful!" - If only you'd had this! - Princess poo! - If only you'd had your princess.
And I could hear the person in the next cubicle laughing.
Where was the loo? The O2 Centre on the Finchley Road.
- Oh, no.
- Oh, look, was it you? It was me.
I know the very one.
Well, there's only one other thing that's vaguely connected to this, and that's the architect, Sir Edmund Beckett, the 1st Baron Grimthorpe, and he was considered the best locksmith of the century.
And he hated it when people didn't pull the flush in his lavatory.
So he set it up such that if you went into his loo and locked the door, then if you didn't flush, you couldn't get out.
It was locked.
Only when you flushed did it unlock the door.
- Isn't that brilliant? - That is quite brilliant.
- Yeah.
And maybe, for the ladies' sake, it would be the same if you lifted the seat or lowered it, rather than lifted it.
Which is it you like? I always forget.
- Well, we like it where you do the wee in the hole bit.
- Oh, really? - As opposed to all the way round.
- That never occurred to me.
Just the rest of the toilet, anywhere in the rest of the toilet.
It takes all the fun out of it.
Who made the ladies' toilet, was it George Bernard Shaw? I think he definitely was the one who pushed for it, as it were.
Because they'd previously Previously there'd been lots of public conveniences for men, but never for women, because it was thought rather Women didn't wee.
.
.
inappropriate for women to go, you know, outside their own home.
Well, the building of theatres in the 19th century, did not take women into account, did it? And to this day, you can see it at the intervals of plays, women are having to queue up, while men are just peeing all over the place.
Just one bog and a tannoy bellowing - you've got one minute till the You know.
- Minute to go, yeah.
Till View From A Bridge starts and you've got a bladder the size of a spaceship and then you just do it on the seat and cry.
And go home with a wet bottom on the night bus.
- LAUGHTER I imagine.
- Aw! That's the title of your autobiography already, - Wet Bottom on the Night Bus.
- Wet Bottom on the Night Bus.
- I love it.
Anyway, next question.
What can you catch from a lavatory seat? A tennis ball.
If you position it right, so that they're just serving through a slightly open window.
- Yeah, you can just get it.
- Very good.
- Lob it through.
Nothing.
- Nothing? No, that's not right.
- KLAXON It's so not right, you get a klaxon.
Something.
- Everything.
- Not good enough.
Everything is not right either.
There are quite a few diseases.
Gonorrhoea.
- Um - Syphilis.
Is it the crabs? Is it the tiny crabs? Well, there are a number that are very much known to be caught.
- Hepatitis, dysentery, fungal infections, puerperal fever.
- Ugh! Viral gastro-enteritis, but the only way you catch it from the loo seat is from the loo seat to your hand - to what is nicely known as a "soft entry point.
" - Oh.
Which tends to be the nose or the mouth.
So as long as you wash your hands, you're perfectly safe.
You don't get it through the thighs and bottom.
- Yes, that would be weird.
- That would be weird.
Surely the bottom is something of a soft entrance, isn't it? It is, but unless you're doing it very, very wrong, it should be hovering over a nice hole in-between the seat.
Well, you just stand up.
I tend to slide off onto the floor like that.
Do you? Well, I advise you from now on not to.
That is why they have a gap under the door.
- Just so your feet can go through.
- No, what I do, what I do is That's brilliant.
So you leave all your doings, and then get out with the door locked.
- What's happened here? - Yes.
So somebody goes, "Oh, my God, he didn't even flush it.
" "I don't need to flush it.
"It will not unlock the door.
" Whoosh! Like that.
In fact sometimes, if you time it right Don't you catch your testicles, as they go under? No, no, it's a sort of a reverse limbo, you pull them in like a sumo.
Oh, right, OK.
But what you do is, you time it right so that when the fella or the lady is mopping the floor, I slip out from under the door, it's like the curling, like that.
And then somebody opens the door, all the way down, "What are you doing?" "I'm fine, I'm fine.
" And then as you're moving, it pulls your trousers up.
- Superb.
- KATHY: That should be an Olympic category, I think.
- It should be an Olympic category, that is superb.
- Yeah, excellent.
Never do it on the ice though, never on the ice.
- No.
- Never.
- Those of us who use lavatories in a more, - shall we say, normal - Conventional.
Usual, conventional way, tend not to do that.
We tend to keep the soft entry points of our bottoms That is why I'm riddled with disease.
- Yes.
- Riddled, riddled with disease.
That would explain it.
Yeah, absolutely.
But who was responsible for the myth that you can catch sexually transmitted diseases from lavatory seats? - It's, erm, Brian Blessed.
- Brian.
- "Yes!" "Oh, you can!" - "No, I don't think No, no, no.
" "My soft entrance has been violated! "Yes! I can't believe it!" "It's hairier than the rest of me.
" - So who put it about? - My grandmother, I think.
Your grandmother may have Would it be a pharmaceutical company with profits to be made? No, it's actually doctors.
Doctors suggested that you could catch it.
I love that show.
They suggested you could catch it from lavatory seats.
- There's something very, very wrong with that torso.
- There is.
- I think she's past hope.
- Is it a she or a he? It's very hard to tell.
Your problem is It's Tilda Swinton.
It's beautiful Tilda Swinton with gangrene of the upper rib.
Yeah.
"Your head is much too small for your body.
" That's not a usual It's not a usual soft opening part, that he's poking his tube into.
I don't know what He's draining it, presumably.
He's harvesting tit juice.
- All right.
He's harvesting tit juice.
- Gangrenous tit juice.
No, it was doctors.
Doctors suggested it because they thought it would make more people come forward with STDs, because they would be less embarrassed to say they caught it from a lavatory seat than - that they caught it from a whore, strumpet, harlot.
- Sex worker.
- Or parent.
- Puttanesco.
Or parent.
Parent?! Don't make me repeat things without thinking.
It's all wrong.
This is a thing that's happened to me.
- I'll share, cos I feel I'm amongst friends.
- All right.
I went to the doctor, had terrible, like a sort of a - It was almost like welts - Did you say whelks? - Welts.
- Welts.
Not whelks.
- It was a red - No, welts with a T, not with a K.
I thought you said whelks, as in cockles and There was You know, whelks.
I was bothered by Cockneys.
And all the time I had chimney sweeps around me, I was batting them off.
"Feed the birds.
" Went to the doctor and I thought I've got some sort of MUMBLES: Sexually transmitted disease.
Went into the doctor, he went, "Pants are too tight.
" That's what he said.
- He said "Your pants are too tight.
" - You had your Spanx on.
- Just had So you were kidding yourself that you were a medium and in fact you were an extra, extra large.
I've done it, I've been there.
Yeah.
And you do get welts, you get awful webbing marks, you get - Webbing? - Yeah, well, the You know, the webbing of the You need to just loosen that banana hammock and let it fly.
I got the larger I went for the larger pant, - and since, trouble-free.
- It's been simple.
Yeah, I know.
What a wonderful, wonderful thing.
So, there you are.
Now can you finish these real suggestions from agony aunts? Here they are.
"There is no more harm in a kiss than?" Shaving a monkey and pretending it's a woman.
I don't know where that's coming from or where it's going.
Sorry.
Sorry, I'm so sorry.
Is it the common cold? It's actually a loaded revolver.
It's from Ally Sloper's Half Holiday of 1911.
Next one.
"Kidney troubles, coughs, colds, toothache and neuralgia, "diarrhoea and stomach catarrh are frequently brought on by?" - Kissing? - Exposing one of your soft entrances.
In a public convenience.
I tell you, it's true.
"Kidney troubles, coughs, colds, toothache and neuralgia, diarrhoea "and stomach catarrh are frequently brought on bypaddling, rowing.
" Paddling is the right answer! Yes.
Bizarrely.
It's Mother and Home, 1910.
And finally, "If your friend is too fat she should" - Only be seen - Try presenting Bake Off.
KLAXON Ta-dum boom! Well, well, we Should not live in glass houses.
This is a very strange 1928 cure for obesity, which is, "She should try doing rolling exercises on the floor.
" For the amusement of the family.
They're all collected in a book, Never Kiss A Man In A Canoe, Words of Wisdom From The Golden Age Of Agony Aunts, by Tanith Carey.
Who's collected them all for your pleasure and enjoyment.
Now, ladies you should be covering your ears, because you're very sensitive, I know.
Can you name an Anglo-Saxon swearword? - BLEEP.
- I would say - Oh.
- KLAXON That's We've covered all bases there.
In for a penny.
BLEEP, BLEEP, BLEEP! KLAXON CONTINUES - Knob-gobbler.
- Knob-gobbler?! Knob-gobbler is Anglo-Saxon.
It's also a delightful wading bird.
The amount of times Bill Oddie's gone after a knob-gobbler on the He does spend a lot of time on Hampstead Heath, it's certainly true.
That's where he comes from.
Yeah.
"Ooh, look at the plumage on that knob-gobbler.
" - This isn't rude, it's a type of - No.
- It's a type of bird.
You know, who wouldn't want to stroke a knob-gobbler? But no, you see the fact is, we have no knowledge whatsoever of Anglo-Saxons swearing, because the only Saxons we know of are those who wrote.
And those who wrote were in Holy Orders, and tended not to swear.
And didn't swear, of course.
- But we have no evidence for them.
- There must have been swear words.
But we do know that Vikings swore, because we actually know, there's a particular word, and this is rassragr.
It's such an appalling word that if one Viking called another Viking rassragr, the Viking who was called it - would be entitled to kill the man who called him that.
- Gosh! And indeed, if he didn't try and kill him, he would be expelled from the community and indeed be proved to be a rassragr.
- I've been told what rassragr means, but I just cannot tell you.
- Aw! - Is it - I just can't.
- Rassragr.
- Rassragr.
- Rassragr.
- Is it to do with colouring? - I just can't.
- Russet beard or something? - My mind has got the idea of it in its head - and I will never be the same.
- He must tell us! - I don't know what it means.
- We all want to know, right? - Rassragr.
Anyway, the fact is, there are no known Anglo-Saxon swear words, in the sense that Anglo-Saxon peoples use them.
And now hold your horses, ladies, fingers on buzzers, gentlemen, because it's time for a bit of General Ignorance.
Right, what did Lady Godiva do? A lady - Yes? - Well, of course she rode naked through the town, because she wanted to I forget, what was it she was doing it for? - She had She wanted No.
- KLAXON - Whoa.
- No.
No, which town was it that she didn't ride naked through? - Birmingham, I think.
- Birmingham! No.
Coventry is the one that people suppose that she - She owned Coventry, interestingly.
- Did she? - Yes, she owned it.
And the first story of her riding naked is the early 13th century, but actually, that's some And this story was a fellow called Roger of Wendover, who was a notoriously unreliable purveyor of anecdotes and gossip.
In fact, the story that he gave was that her husband, who was the Earl of Mercia, had put large taxes on the citizens of Coventry, and she thought this was unfair, and she said, "You must get rid of these taxes.
" He said, "I'll do it if you ride naked through Coventry.
" And so she thought, "All right, "I like the people of Coventry, I'll ride naked.
" And they all obediently closed their eyes.
But there's no evidence for any of this.
All this is later.
Do you think that would work today if we suggested that to Boris Johnson, if we rode naked through the town, we could stop paying our taxes? To bicycle on a Boris bike through the streets of London.
- Yeah.
- Yes, naked.
Yeah.
The story of Lady Godiva is horseshit, frankly.
So what did Mary Magdalene do for a living? Mary Magdalene, what did she do for a living? - Ah - Oh.
- Are we? Do we dare? Ladies night I just want to hear that again, - because I am so in the groove with that shit.
- Yay.
She was a - DUTCH ACCENT: Sex worker.
- A sex worker, a prostitute? - KLAXON We call them sex workers now.
Sex workers.
They are called sex workers.
The sex workers, like prostitutes.
No.
In as much as we know anything about her, or anything about anybody in the "Bibble".
- She's got jaundice that's what we know about her.
- Well, that's true.
I think we've taken faces from some sort of Sienese school rendering of her.
But she's mentioned in each of the four Gospels, Mary Magdalene.
And not one of them says she was a prostitute or even a sinner.
At some point she became confused with two other women in the Bible, Mary the sister of Martha and the unnamed sinner from Luke's Gospital, chapter Gospital?! Gospel, both of whom washed Jesus' feet with hair, if you remember.
In the sixth century, Pope Gregory the Great made this confusion official by declaring in a sermon that these three characters were the same person.
This remained the official line for over a thousand years until the Catholic church finally ruled that Mary Magdalene was not the penitent sinner in 1969.
And the whole world went, "Ooh!" Oh, I've been calling her a slag for 2,000 years.
Can I just ask, right? I'm no art historian, but why is there a severed baby's head with no body attached, just? It's like a flying tray with a head on it, isn't it? Just the wing ears.
You will get these in baroque paintings, putti, as they're called.
It But how do we know that that is a cherub and not just like a fat-faced bird? That's a knob-gobbler, that's what that is.
Well, it's The Baroque did go rather crazy, and there's no real excuse for it.
It's overdone, to say the least.
But the one thing that we know about Mary Magdalene is that she wasn't a prostitute.
- What happens nine months after a blackout? - Ah.
A lady Many, many babies.
- Ah - No, no - KLAXON - Oh, you've been doing so well.
- Aw.
Is it the power company finally give you the cheque for a refund? - That's probably right.
- Yeah.
- Yes, you finally get your refund.
No, there is no evidence, although it is a commonly held belief, absolutely no evidence whatsoever from demographers and other such people that this is true.
There was a famous 1965 blackout in New York and everybody said, nine months later, including the New York Times, that there was a sharp increase of births.
But they then, after it was proved to be inaccurate, issued an acknowledgment that they had made a mistake.
I mean, lights do go out every night.
I mean, it's not like we're permanently in sort of spotlights.
- Precisely, exactly.
No.
- And so it's such a rare thing we go, - "God, the lights are finally off.
We can have sex!" - Exactly.
"Oh, telly's not working.
Go on, then.
" I always go to the main fuse box.
"Sorry, love.
" "Our lecky's gone.
" - That's your foreplay, is it? - Clever, clever, clever.
- Yeah.
No, there is no evidence that people have more sex during a power cut.
So, not with a boom, but a whimper, we come to the scores.
- Oh, my good night.
- HE CHUCKLES Well, we're going to start in last place, and I'm sorry to say, because of her filthy mouth, in last place with minus 48, - it's Sue Perkins.
- Oh.
APPLAUSE And hardly less Anglo-Saxon, with minus 28 is Kathy Lette.
- APPLAUSE - Thank you.
Thank you.
APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH And not losing again, with minus 8, it's Alan Davis.
APPLAUSE Second place, you must be very proud.
It only means there's one winner, with plus 2, Ross Noble.
APPLAUSE So, all that's left for me to do is to thank Kathy, Sue, Ross and Alan.
And I leave you with the last words of former British Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger.
"I think I could eat one of Bellamy's meat pies.
" What greater last words could you ever have? Good night.