For those confused about the name of the show. Its a mashup of 2 shows. Countdown is a maths and words quiz usually played by middle ages ladies or university maths students. And 8 out of 10 cats is a comedy celebrity quiz show. The host and team captains from 8 out of 10 cats are on the "Spin off" version of countdown, which they named 8 out of 10 cats does countdown
I can honestly say British humour has never ever let me down. We've been spoilt for choice for great shows for decades and each generation seems to produce great comedians.
Basically, 8/10 cats is a comedy panel show and it's own thing. Countdown was it's own separate thing as well. 8 out of 10 cats does countdown is when they take over the countdown studio and take the piss on what would normally be a serious game show mostly aimed at pensioners.
Peter Serafinowicz is part of the team behind one of the most underrated British Comedy series of all time "Look Around You" which is very odd but very funny. The first series is a parody of thoae creaky old videos that were shown to British kids in High School when the teacher couldn't be bothered teaching (I'm not sure if the US had the same thing). 1970s production values and strange electronic music. It nails the feel of those shows perfectly and is brilliant fun to watch. The second series moves on to parody 1970s Science and Consumer shows more generally and is equally funny. Really really weird though.
To explain the strangeways joke. Strangeways is a prison in manchester on the border with Salford (Salford is a city within the borders of Manchester) and is used to house serious criminals from greater Manchester and the surrounding area. There was famously a riot there in 1990 where prisoners scaled the roof for 25 days. This led to widespread prison reform in the Uk
famous in the M Harding song that starts : Last Saturday night I got into a fight And I woke up on Wednesday in an 'eck of a fright 'Cause the judge said "young fella, you're going for a spell Six months' hard labour in the Strangeways Hotel"
@justonehornetto I believe us "pedantics" should stick and live together but, and I don't wish to be too pedantic here, I really can not live with someone who gets their "your" and "you're" mixed up as in your "you're name is "Isle Of Skye" " comment, even here on the South East London/North Kent Borders 😀
Yes Peter had a great comedy series, played the lead role in The Tick tv series and was in Shaun of the Dead! He’s very intelligent and is amazing in his voice imitations!
Yes, this is basically how Jimmy goes about introductions, typically making jabs at them individually, with some exceptions to add extra onto Jon Richardson... unless Josh Widdicome is on, in which case he is being slatted in all of them. He also does the same for Rachel and Suzie, as well as Dictionary Corner's guest (Suzie over the years has been the source of some of his most show-stopping lines - just look up the "Glory Hole" edition)
Peter Serafinowicz was also in a comedy sitcom called Spaced with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost directed by Edgar Wright. If you havent already, I really recommend giving it a watch.
It began as a special combination of 8 out of 10 cats and Countdown, mixing silly with nerdy, and it just worked well enough to warrant becoming its own show.
Funny to hear the prospect of Peter Serafinowicz being a natural for voice acting as he delivered the voice for Big Daddy, the father of the gorilla Johnny who preferred singing over criminal heists, in Illuminations's Sing, Sing 2, and (pssst! you didn't hear it from me!) the upcoming Sing 3.
Sean Lock RIP had me in tears with his jokes great man. good video king boomer. loved the chants usa vs english but you need to look into that more there is some beauties
Here's another one of Jimmy hosting a game show. It's called I Literally Just Told You and it's where Jimmy and the question writers give answers to questions throughout the show and make up questions about stuff that happens as the show goes on. There's this compilation from the second episode where Jimmy is crying with laughter because the contestants are so bad at the game. One of the funniest things I've ever seen. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qMIggDSnPGk.html
I often wonder if anyone actually explains the "Eight out of ten cats" thing! About 20 years ago-ish, there was an advert (a commercial as they like to call it State-side) for cat food. The tag line was that 'Eight out of ten cats preferred Whiskas' (Whiskas being the name of the catfood).
@@ketmaniac you might be right! I am fuzzy on the historic details, but to "outsiders" the term "Eight of of ten cats..." is going to be very weird! So any context is helpful?
@@thebobsful Matter of fact, I think it was originally "cats" rather than "owners", but IIRC there were complaints to trading standards about "false advertising" or some such thing. So they changed the wording.
@@ketmaniac now you mention it, didn't they have to change it? Something about "who expressed a preference"? too. The joke being that it was the owners, rather than the cats, that expressed that preference?
Jimmy introduces each guest with a 'mini roast' in every episode. Considering there have been 4 regulars (Sean Lock, Jon Richardson, Susie Dent and Rachel Riley) they still manage to come up with new ones each week.
Peter Serafinowicz should be way more famous than he is. There's also a great clip of him talking about the Phantom Menace premiere on Richard Herrings podcast.
I think Kevin Bridges' "did ye? aye." bit is one of the funniest bits of stand up I've seen. Massively recommend that one. Also, Peter Serafinowicz is a legend :D
When he made the American Maths/Math joke there was an American comedian on the panel. A Geordie is a person from Newcastle or the North East of England (just below Scotland) which is where the comedian Sarah Milican is from. Strangeways is a prison in Manchester. He made a joke about that to a comedian from Manchester which I think you missed. Whenever Jimmy Carr makes jokes about a place or country there is someone on the panel from there. He mentions Rolf Harris when the Aussie comedian Adam Hill was on (who only has one leg, which Carr joked about), he was imprisoned for being a paedophile (Google him, it's a disgusting story).
"He mentions Rolf Harris when the Aussie comedian Adam Hill was on (who only has one leg, which Carr joked about), he was imprisoned for being a paedophile". I think we need clarity here... It's Rolf Harris who is the paedophile, not Adam Hills. Dice M's sentence (as originally written) could be read either way. Ironically, Rolf once recorded a song called "Jake The Peg" about a guy who had an extra leg!
You might have recognised Peter Serafinowicz from either "Spaced" or "Black Books" - he has relatively minor roles in both of those, and they are both well worth watching if you haven't seen them already.
The best way I can explain 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown to us Americans is Whose Line is it Anyway Does Jeopardy. So there's a show called 8 out of 10 Cats that has comedians and other celebrities joking around and guessing results of polls and they take the cast and have them play Countdown a show that generally only nerds and old people watch.
One of the comedians on that clip is Kathy Bates check her out on kevin and perry. It's from the 90's I think. Her and Harry Enfield play teenage boys. It's really funny. They made a film called kevin and perry go large, it's hilarious.
"Any words you hope to come up this evening?" - "Abdicates." I have seen that before, but I realised just now that that's probably the first 9-letter word in the dictionary...
Peter Serafinowicz ("This guy") was the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. He was also in Shaun of the Dead, John Wick 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Peter Serafinowicz was in Shaun of the dead as Shaun's flatmate. He played the sommelier in John Wick 2 and also he featured in Guardians of the Galaxy as one of the Nova Corp.
Geordies are people from Newcastle, in the north east of England. We are wrongly perceived, because of our accent, as being a bit rough, but year after year national polls show us to be the friendliest people in the country.
The jokes about Geordies/Newcastle is based on the fact that for a long time the north east of England, and the north is general, is more likely to suffer from unemployment and poverty, hence the bailiffs, and being in jail. And Sarah is from that part of England. Jon Richardson is lovely but seen as nerdy, wearing cardigans , being a vegan and overwhelmed by OCD so naturally a target for a lot of jokes. Kwvin Bridges does a a great standup. Maybe find the one where he's standing at a bus stop. The person you asked about is Peter Szymon Serafinowicz , an English actor, comedian, director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as the title character in the 2016 live-action series of The Tick, Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004) and as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He has also appeared in many British and American comedy series, and received attention for political satire videos in which he dubs over videos of Donald Trump with various comedic voices. He has also directed music videos for acts such as Hot Chip.
That guy you asked about was the grumpy room mate from shaun of the dead. He is also the guy that did the vocals for darth maul I star wars episode 1 because Ray park (the actor who played maul) didn't have the right voice for the character
8 out of 10 Cats is a kind of comedy, team, quiz show that was based around silly statistics kinda... If I remember correctly. Countdown was a competitive game show, where two people at a time will compete at two tasks. The first is making the longest words out of a selection of letters, while the second is using a selection of numbers to try to make a target number. Both of these have a 30 second timer or something, hence the name Countdown... Then, at the end of the show, they normally have a selection of letters that are an anagram of a long word, which the contestants will try to figure out before the other for a bunch of extra points... I think the winner normally gets to stay on for the next show, for a limited amount of times... Later on, the people who did best will play in the finals of the competition 8 out of 10 Cats does countdown, I think, was originally part of some sort of event, possibly for charity or something, where they combined the two as a joke.... Then it did well and they decided to do more... Something like that.
8 out of 10 cats was originally a comedy panel game based around fun statistics. Countdown is a words/maths daily game show that has been running continuously since 1984. A few years ago they merged 8 out of 10 cats with Countdown, which is what you see now - and comedy gold was made.
Not sure how much you've learned about 8 out of 1010 cats does countdown in the past year, but it's a what in England they call a panel show, which is basically it's a game show, but they have only comedians on to add to the fund and they spend more time on. The comedy than they do on the game show. check out qi sometime. and have you seen the 8 out of 10 cats with Joe Wilkerson's poem yet? "EVERINE LITERAALY CRYING OVER JOE WILKINSON'S..."
Rich Hall was in there. He's really worth checking out. My theory is that he's British but was accidentally born in Mississippi. He's made some fantastic dry humoured documentaries about the USA.
If you do watch Kevin bridges doing stand up, watch the “Americans on spring break” bit. Hilarious. Also Peter Serafinowicz was in Sean of the dead, and was the voice of Darth Maul in the Star Wars movies
Peter serafinovich was the lead in ‘The Tick’ tv series in the US, iirc he appears in The Guardians of the Galaxy. He’s mainly an actor but i seem to recal he might have done some comedy sketch stuff in the early to mid noughties
5:47 Yes 11:34 Peter Serafinowicz, you likely saw him in Shaun of the Dead but he also voiced Darth Maul and other Star Wars characters as well as having his own shows, he was most recently known in the US as The Tick. He also dubbed over Trump videos as "Sassy Trump". Yeah King Cragnoor in Miracle Workers.
a bayliff is someone who comes to your house when your behind on debts / bills etc. Think getting your car towed when your behind on payments. They have to sent you a letter advising you they are coming first so hence the jokes
Countdown is a separate show shown in the afternoons. It is a family safe word finding and number solving show. This show was a one off for charity but was so successful it continued as an adult version played for laughs
Peter you'll see in movies such as Sean of the dead and guardians of the galaxy. Kevin bridges has done some outstanding stand-up comedy,well worth checking out especially his collaboration with Chad hogan (American) and his explanation of how it came about... Maybe look for Kevin bridges and Chad hogan house party? Also you still need to check out the balls of steel characters namely neg's urban sports and the annoying devil.
