Room 101, S7, E4. Vicky McClure, Sandi Toksvig, Josh Widdicombe. 9 Feb 2018

[Music] and welcome to room 101 exploring a world of woe tonight our This Is England Vicky McClure this is Denmark Sandi Toksvig and this is Devin Josh Whittaker okay what's winding up Josh so this is people being rude about Paul McCartney top of the list your production team seemed all they were that it looks like this should be a dog's tile above that mess [Music] anybody else feel sick now yeah I feel quite strongly about this it seems to have been a thing that's kind of happened in the last decade that being half of the greatest songwriting partnership of all time changed in the face of popular music changing the face of society doesn't deem respect if you're a bit of a square seventy four year olds like he's 74 but Lucky's not doing an advert for walk in Bath's - he's more recent solo albums no of course not person being rude about her Paul burka right I knew I thought this might happen I've made a list of the pros and cons of pulmicort case oh this is basically how the argument goes so the pros he responsible for change in popular music forever he wrote Hey Jude he invented the concept album he produced the greatest class through headlines that ever while in his 60s he wrote Blackbird the Frog course was quite good public abuse he headlined Live Aid he made it okay to be a vegetarian right how disco to fall on hill paid back by a Michele Eleanor Rigby for no one and let it be cons he dyes his hair Paul McCartney has achieved so much at such a young age that he should have a free pass to do whatever he wants Isambard Kingdom Brunel when he was old no one's going yeah but what bridges has he built recently you know Alexander Fleming no one said but what did he follow penicillin with Abraham Lincoln no one said what did he do good after whatever it was he was meant to have done I'd say Paul McCartney is up there with the greatest people that has ever lived and people are rude about him and they shouldn't be but nobody criticizes him for Eleanor Rigby girl for all the only stuff they criticize him for giving the evil eye to burgers I mean it's fine if he wants to be a vegetarian just the rest of us are doing a public service by eating cows and keeping them off the road so [Laughter] [Applause] thankfully accidents there could be if I wasn't doing my bit keeping the livestock back so you don't observe meat-free Mondays I'm from Denmark Danny what on earth is there this was his little blurb for it please just login pledge dot meat-free Mondays or one word.com pledge dot meat-free Mondays comm pledge dot meat-free Mondays comm pledge duck meat-free Mondays god oh you can do it right now please it's definitely not as good as his only work see you say that's bad yeah the first time I heard that that was in my head for a week have you met him no I'd love to meet him I saw him at this thing and I went over and he went off with old Frank and I thought I knows my name and then he said to his fiancee wow this is a very famous British comedian and I can't tell you how good I felt I was so pleased and then someone went past with a tray of little bits of food and I took a small burger office anyway I tried to put it back under God I handed it up I yelled you know when you behind the bike said having to smoke and the teacher held the burger behind my back about it do you like this don't you like yeah I mean I loved the Beatles and we was at the NME Awards and he was there and my partner is a massive Beatles fan so I was like you've gotta tap him when he comes past and he did stop and say hello but that was about it a bit disappointed that this has become me coming on to talk about how much I love Paul McCartney and then just hearing stories about how everyone else has met all the time there are some amazing Paul McCartney look-alikes around look at this woman say God bless her I do not mark this this lovely old lady in a little Welsh home but it has to be said that she does have more than a passing we share a hairdresser I think he's allowed to relax he wants it what do you Google if you want to find people who look astonishingly like Paul McCartney exactly that so sandy yeah pointless things you learn so let's start with the mathematics okay so I spent many many hours of my youth learning about something called logarithms now who didn't understand what they were for they seemed to me entirely pointless and the very day that I finally understood what they were about we moved on and did something else and they've never come up again so not just the intellectual stuff that I think is a waste of space in my brain I know for example how an oxbow lake is formed who cares and it was physical education they used to strip us down to our underwear and make us try and do a forward roll I'm never gonna throw myself off a train at high speed the Homewood roll I have to say still a great way to arrive in a tent it's my personal favorite but I was asked to do one on a TV show about two years ago I hadn't done one for 40 years but they said can you do a forward roll and I said yes because I could remember doing one so I did it with tremendous confidence and gusto and I honestly felt like I'd fallen out of a helicopter if the lift doors are beginning to close I had to say my father was brend about all these things because he was a very patient man and I was struggling with some French one day and he said yes yes funny thing friend she said in French shovel means horse and it's like that all the way through they have a different word for each one of ours it's very annoying [Laughter] in art class so I can't really draw the only tip I remember was they tweet teach us to draw faces and they said um start with the eyes and always remember the eyes are halfway down the head it's not true oh yeah of course now that's why I have my glasses on under my ears 50% for heads you speak for yourself I started saying it last 30 seconds I've been thinking I can't even look up Frank there is a professor from Newcastle University who says that it's no longer any point in teaching out a spell because in the age of spellcheck and predictive text it's a completely pointless that's not true though Danny because predictive text can be unpredictable and therefore you need to make sure it's right No well I had I was I was trying to write and for some reason I won't go into a next message which included the name Nostradamus and ice I spelt it wrongly and he offered me nostril and you think predictive text would have some respect for not the Godfather of all productivity so I've went to get you get have to get birth certificate damn we just had a baby and them her middle name is Virginia and you think the one thing that you could do if you're registrar is spell so she turns birth certificate round and this is for chewiness I was so embarrassed [Laughter] the worst thing is that first names Frannie she got that some things you learn from quite useful to learn to read um seemed like every science lesson I was learning to use a Bunsen burner not to scale this come up once in my life comes around on a cup of tea I'll just pop on the Bunsen burner flame I'm not idiots Oh orange flame all you do the orange flame one is will you do a tiny piece of copper belongs goggles on science was we've been scratched into the car park with a wheel on a stick we just walk around clicking for hours I'm learning here would you like to relive that is gonna come up in the exam how BIG's the car bark isn't it do you know what back its 1993 again oh wait for it oh I got a bad knee oh okay that is weirdly satisfying yeah it's great if you don't want the responsibility of a real pet do you know what you should have you should have that with a hamster in it just get a hamster for a walk it is the precise method that the the American pioneers used on the wagon wheels as they went across to try and work out how many miles they've traveled it's that right did they click I go on but I wouldn't say that [Laughter] oh okay and so - Vicki leaflets in hotel rooms mm-hmm I live in hotels quite a lot cuz you know I live in Nottingham which is miles away from London hmm and you go into the room you go to put your bag down and you can't see the table for you know the trips to here and there you just need it bad and you tell a done sparse there we go keep it keep it simple then there's even phones now this is weird things where you go in and they're like mobile phones just in a port oh yes does that operate the television no I do I hear and I think in Nottingham are they still going let's have a look at some leaflets from hotel rooms some of them are a little disturbing at first I thought why has she got a vest on in the shower yeah what is the point is that leaflet thing well it says showering just got a whole lot more phone that looks like one of those things you bang on the door yeah the third option [Laughter] I have one which I find even more unnerving there is a man getting his money's worth from the free Wi-Fi over time he's jailed for the for the event for Dino molester I'm hoping that's the translation of do not disturb special favors for molesters I tell you I hate when you have to phone down for the Wi-Fi code way they kind of smugly reply to you like there's an element they're going we know what you're up to and I'm not ten percent at the time I'm not what about this is sir she's a sign on a hotel lift [Laughter] I don't even understand what that what what else could it possibly mean what is after-hours ass it's only one way to find out if you're not pressing that out of curiosity yeah you need to have a long hard look you don't have people hooking up at 3 o'clock by someone leading a donkey into your room or maybe you do yeah it is a nightmare the the leaflets thing I must admit I agree we are taught pointless things but one of my favorite things is pointless knowledge of overtime Sandy's talking about pointless things being taught and she is the presenter of Qi yeah those things are not I think it's about time this wrong was righted I am gonna put people who are rude about Paul McCartney into room 101 [Applause] [Music] what's making Josh angry right bring it on this I truly believe I spent my teenage years teaching myself to like the taste of lager so that I could be considered one of the boys I managed it I've been fine with that even though we all know none of us actually liked the taste now they brought along this worse drink called real ale if you see oh but these people who drink really oh they act like they act like they're better than you Frank act like their best then they'll go oh it tastes so much so good no one is drinking alcohol for the taste no you know otherwise you wouldn't keep drinking it like I like the taste of milk I'd stop after one glass if I'm at 2:00 a.m. eight points of milk down there's gotta be another dairy somewhere as of that you know you go and buy it and you have to queue behind them cuz they're sampling it and then they have to kind of have you seen them trying to push it out of the pub that it's like that kind of solution a chemical toilet and you have to stand there and it looks like a canal it might as well have a shopping trolley in there and acting like the caller than you you wouldn't you're not cooler than makes you drink really old James Bond wouldn't be as cool if when he was in the casino the woman came over superball go get another drink double-oh-seven yeah just a point of otters please it's one of my one of my problems is it all slightly ironic isn't it it's all got comedy names and people going up a pint of needless cruelty it's in a pub called like the uncertain zebra it's not going to ask for a pint of mead I do go to the pub to drink like Henry the eighth's no that's a good motto yeah I remember in the in the eighties the first time the first wave of real ale and then it was all about you know men in jumpers and big beards and stuff like that drinking it yeah now I think it's become quite cool or something yeah it has I live in East London and it's full of people you know you go to the house and they'll go did you want I've made some home bro do you want to you know I like the one that passed EU safety standard just about like yes no it's it's this kind of celebration of the of the drink that does taste worse it's you know eat less let's be honest he doesn't taste as good as a nice cool crisp lager you go you go to someone's house for a homebrew and oh what we mixed it you know I mixed it in my bath but don't worry walk at the bar first that's not I don't care if it's a bath if you said is this plate clean while I washed it but before that I was sat on it naked you can make beer like I can't get the you know the ratios of Ribena right this not going to send me blind people are trying to do the old crafts I think that's a wonderful thing to make your own beer I don't think I've ever tried a real ale but I think you should be applauded for giving it a go No well come back to me when you've tried a real Island but unable to see for 48 hours what about this this is a bit of old footage from BBC nationwide and like just listen out by the way to how much this man can drink this is this takes me back Alan hunter a man who can really hold his beer whichever way you look for nearly a year now he's been defying the laws of specific gravity drinking beer the right way up his form is impressive he's capable of sinking thirty two pints in an evening the only time he's ever tasted defeat was when he was beaten by two seconds over a five pints sprint but to be fair on that occasion his opponent was a horse what I saw him like that it reminded me of your story of doing a fourth row okay Vicky yeah well the one thing that really bugs me is when you go into a shop you've not even attempted to look at something and it's on the floor before you know it you're doing a shift you're there I'm you to finish on the floor oh yeah they don't hang they'll just use that I don't know and then you've got so look at that you've got a like a variety of coat hangers the velvet ones can't get closed off also the one thing that really annoys me is if you've like got a bit of a backlog so you've got your bag of coat hangers and you think oh I'll just go and grab a coat hanger from the bag no it's like the whole thing comes out around it's in your face you know it's I've got a real problem I think those are all very good points I am if you look at a coat hanger um even my shoulders don't agree why on earth did they make that you have to hang something on a slump yeah with a normal one when I aim my pants up to draw you know you're on your pants up - Drock no I don't mean when you've washed them they will not look that everything they will not and I've ended up I've ended up putting pants on hangers like this and there's something very unnerving coming through the flight it's like a very terrible scene from Peter Pan didn't make the book wouldn't it make more sense if coat hangers were shaped like that yeah and then you'd have fit the proper Charlie look these these was if they were born for pants also if it ever rains two-dimensionally someone asks you directions in the streets you know canisters I honestly think that is the more way more practical yeah somebody's gonna steal that off you yeah I don't care god I don't need any more money I find it difficult to get the trouser balance right yeah yeah because the one side of the challenge is heavier than the other side of the trouser it slips off you need stuff I need stop have you seen these ones that stop trousers slipping off so they've got like an extra Oh Plus have you seen this Robin Hood yeah actually I have just for littler sure it will actually it will watch yourself if you get that into the Wardrobe door you can hang a coat okay and so to Sandy yes yes barstools so what happens is on a first date and you've dressed stuff you look rather marvelous and and you walk into the bar thinking you look rather marvelous is showing me to the bar for a drink what am i was idea and and then that still is here now we've already established I'm not a gymnast I can't I can't leap arms a thing so I try it occasionally and then always as I'm waiting some woman who's fresh off a basketball court and seven foot tall comes to the bar stool next to me interest goose I don't even like the name of them Buster's yeah they're high 'test we should have we've got a bass DoDEA Lise I think he's a fairly standard barstool would you be happy with it yes I I mean the thing is once you're on it as well I don't know how you're supposed to me look at it I mean just straight away I'd have no idea no it does I have never really so I'd have to clutch the bar I think to start with imagine I've arrived I haven't had a drink yet oh goodness me I'm anxious it's a bloody swivel was precise it's precise moment my date arrives and then you're on and you have a couple now you got to get off again it's a nightmare do a leap now the forward roll now would be very help you go ahead I'm happy I'll just I'm gonna wipe the bar down [Laughter] I'm 510 as you say I'd read any first date on one of these because the thing is when you slide off which you do your trousers fried up quite a bit which you don't want on the first day especially as I am I favor a garter X and it's something you know you want them to find out maybe week two or three are they real or painted on with Bovril the thing is they do make me nervous because oh yeah I'm not a famine for my I have to agree I find myself plotting the front yeah I've been caught made leapfrog [Laughter] we come to the end of that round I really I don't I mean really I just want to put alcohol in but that would be very unfair yeah I'd fight against that Oh God the Bastile thing is very tempting because it's never occurred to me that if you're I'm not saying you're short but if you're not tall shall we say it's a problem but coat hangers they're badly designed they're upside down they're complicated they're hostile I'm gonna put cocaine [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and that brings us to the end of the show well done Josh you were the most persuasive guest so you are this week's winner Josh Widdicombe Sandi Toksvig and Vicky McClure and thank you goodnight [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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Views: 164,628

Rating: 4.8159204 out of 5

Keywords: Room 101, Vicky McClure, Sandi Toksvig, Josh Widdicombe, Paul McCartney, real ale, hotel leaflets, coat hangers, Frank Skinner

Id: 9so9N9Rm-dA

Length: 29min 5sec (1745 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2018