Scrolling through the comments, I'm surprised that Mel is so polarizing. I find her warm and fuzzy persona, sometimes playing dumb and sometimes genuinely at a loss, creates delightful chemistry in counterpoint to Paul's quick wit and Ian's propensity for acerbic philipics. For what it's worth, I also really like it when Richard Ayoade hosts because he provides a counterpoint to Ian and Paul in completely the opposite direction.
I still remember Mel accidentally letting out a Cameron Diaz level burb on 8 Out of 10 Cats. And here she goes full Freud when talking about Manuel Macron's hairy chest, "We'll come onto that later. Okay, that sounds awful!" And was it also on Cats, where she blurted out about choosing between Jason Statham and Prof. Brian Cox, she said "give me Cox, definitely", before realising what in the heck she was saying?
Phillipics?!! Wow, other than Tulius Cicero, I think you are the only person I have "heard" using that word. Also, i agree too, about Mel and Ricardo. Top sausage.
@@CX103 . Yes, I think she should do it every week with an item of clothing less every episode until she had just one item left to guard her modesty BUT NOT ALL OF IT.
less than an hour up on Youtey, I've only been up for 15 minutes, my coffee isn't even ready. I'm so deep in appreciation for this. I nice way to end my special weekend.
@@badbadrobotrobot959 I think he was saying that the video had only up on RU-vid for an hour, and he'd only been awake for 15 minutes when he began watching it. It's fresh, I think is the point.
They werent on fire... unless perhaps they all have leprosy which would explain them not complaining about the burning pain and the show would have ended much sooner. Also, as the old saying goes, "there's no fire without a certain amount of visible smoke", yet I saw none at all.
He mentioned last week that he was touring. Maybe performing his craft on-stage with actual people in the audience helped cheer him up? He even wore a suit last week (without comment even on the extended version) when he'd been looking kind of ratty lately.
It was as though Mel's energy was rubbing off on the others. They were all just sending quips left, right, and centre. Haven't seen Paul quite so involved in a while.
28:28 Ian: (about Manuel Macron) *"It's the chest that was the talking point, is it not?"* Mel: *"Mm. We'll come unto that, yes."* Paul: *"Will we?"* Mel: *"Okay, that sounds awful!"* Always the quiet ones...
Lots of comedians have their stage persona, which i think usually is an exaggerated version of their own true self. Mel’s persona is the slightly clue- but shameless mom figure, which is quite nice as it can generate some surprised/startled responses from other cast members.
I think she always comes across like that. She doesn’t write great comedy lines, but but she is naturally really funny and so universally likeable that she’s one of my favs. She was great on taskmaster.
I think it's quite intentional. I mean, moment by moment are, I think, quite spontaneous, and I think she's being herself (or perhaps exaggerating aspects of herself).
In the U.S. a flapjack is another name for a pancake.....which isn't a cake in the sense it's nothing like a chocolate cake or pound cake or a sheet cake, etc.
As it relates to work from home and basically being lazy bums...productivity doubled for WFH employees and corporate profits have tripled. Demand and income are up but supplies are scarce. Put them together and you get inflation. People are able to do their work efficiently without mgmt breathing down their necks all day. They're just building resentment w/their staff.
It also makes it a heck of a lot more possible for people with chronic illness or who have disabilities if they can work from home, and also for carers, like people who are carer for disabled relative. For the most part as long as the work gets done, and in time, it's good. So people who'd be otherwise restricted or excluded from the workplace are able to seek employment, if they are well enough. I don't understand why so many corporations and businesses etc are keen to exclude the potential of a whole group of people that just have different physical needs.
Yeah it's infuriating, especially coming from Rees-Mogg who hasn't worked a day in his life, and had an enormous advantage in his youth... Those employees did their best work during Covid and were flexible, and now they get summoned in to the office. Ill doers are ill deemers: What did he do in his past to distrust those people? Oh yeah, there is photographic evidence... Sorry for this rant, but overhere I see the same thing happening and it doesn't help.. Not to mention the point of the (invisible) neon rainbow zebra..
@@theinvisibleneonrainbowzeb2567 that's my situation in a nutshell. The covid years have been my most productive ever. Mornings are particularly hard for me to get around. That makes showering and commuting beyond painful & exhausting. At home I have what I need to be comfortable. There's nothing that I'm missing or that I need from an office. They claim corporate culture. The extroverts may care but I do better without all of the daily drama and personalities. I can just focus on my work
@@emeraldblue5291 I can definitely understand that. It doesn't make it all any easier when the world is built for the early bird too, trying to get ready when you have additional needs or responsibilities is generally utterly exhausting. People really don't understand the levels of exhausted it is possible to feel, or that on a bad day you can't get up at all, and because they only see us on the days we're well enough to get out and see people they only see us those days, the good, or bearable days. A number of years ago I had a temp job for 6 months covering for maternity leave of a permanent employee of the place. The job was effectively just data input and word processing, I mean at the core my responsibilities were to be a secretary/business support type thing. It was supposed to be full time but I found that when they redid the office everyone worked from home for about a month. I got so much more done in that month, and bonus of no commuting so less polluting too! Also I was largely able to do my own hours so I could work on a Sunday or a Thursday night or whatever, as long as I submitted the work correctly completed by the deadline it was all good. They really didn't need me to be in the office other than that management required us to be in the office. So a full day of work, 8 to 4, but then an hour to 90 minutes commute on public transport each end of the day, means that the working day is actually closer to 11 hours. It's infuriating, I really hoped that work from home during lockdowns etc would help open up employment to more people and be more accessible . On top of it all surely it's cheaper for the companies to rent smaller workspaces and offices rather than pay the rent, rates, power etc to have everyone in the office at the same time, daily. So frustrating I hope things get easier for you
In the UK 'pancakes' are what you (Americans) would call crepes; though we know exactly what you mean when *you* say pancakes, because we realise that things in different countries are different. It's a talent.
@@wenwilloughby8197 Pancakes and crepes are different things: different ingredients, different methods of preparation and generally served in different ways.
Hearing Mel’s perfect French accent makes me realise that when she said president Macron she pronounced it without the ‘r’ on more than one occasion was intentional ...Maconne - conne is French for stupid!
I always fancied Mel, especially back in the late 80s or ealy 90s when she was for me the funnier of the double act she did with that other woman who has occassionally appeared on this show. She's not as sexy as she was but I am even more less of a catch than I was back then. Alors, Mel, if you are reading this all these years later and you still havent got a fella, or a fella who is prepared to pretend to be a woman, if you aren't into blokes, look no further. You can be in my gang and could even be CO-assistant Boss and I will supply you with alcohol, biscuits, rumpy-pumpy... whatever you like and I will only charge you 25 euros a week, some of which I would spend on you anyway. Not only could i supply you with a Driverless Car, but also a MOTORless Car. Please get in touch. 😉
For weird claims made in an effort to avoid tax, some years ago the makers of Pringles took a case to the Supreme Court claiming the VAT rate on them should be less than the rate for crisps because - wait for it - Pringles don't contain enough potato to fit the legal definition of crisps.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's like the allies not wanting to assassinate Hitler because they were worried someone far worse would take over. Look at the US. They were so desperate to get rid of Donald Trump they voted in a senile old man who let Putin invade Ukraine and trashed the economy. That said, Kier Starmer is so boring he might actually be competent.
OK... sorry in advance but I'm not particularly fond of Mel Giedroyc... ... but BOY this was an outstanding performance by her tonight ! She was hilarious and still so Mel Giedroyc !
After having read all the raves about Mel, I'm mystified. Normally, I'm ready to watch Mel anywhere, anytime; but this show seemed to be a perfect storm of Mel going off on tangents that weren't funny and were too long, and unfunny writing. Panellists were giving her the benefit of the doubt, seemed to be willing her to be funny as they forced laughter. Really glaring how stilted and jerky this show was.
Hiensight is like a capacity for generalization from a distant or future perspective.... Retrospectively you made yourself appear moronic trying to insult Sonia, GO POLITICAL JOURNOS ✊😇
That was ,,, kinda garbage. I don't know who Mel is, but if she'd been introduced as Karen it would have made so much more sense. Silence your joking Osman, I want Sonia to speak. To be fair, the material was so piss poor this week that Mel and Paul pretty much propped up the show. The writers this season have been dreadful, Paul was phoning it in for the first few shows, and the guests have been mostly awful. Luckily all the hosts have been good, but the show is shuffling along towards the grave. It's a testament to how absolutely dreadful the BBC has become that HIGNFY is still one of it's best shows.
