Angus might not have been very funny on his own, but pairing him up with those two makes him pretty good. Especially considering he seems to enjoy paul attacking him.
I know it's the 90's fashion and all, but between the big bulging suit jackets that look ill fitting, and how everyone is so young it seems like a bunch of kids are playing pretend. Or maybe it is "CBeeBies: Hignfy " ? Thanks for the upload!
Thank you for posting this. Loved it. Does anyone know where I can find more early British panel shows to watch or download. I already have all of QI and I check reddit/panel show often. Stephen Fry was excellent as always. I had to look twice to recognize Frank Skinner and it's the earliest Sandi Toksvig I've seen.
No, I uploaded a bunch of these awhile back, including series 4. The others were all blocked ‘cause of copyright restrictions. Series 4 was the only one that survived until I reuploaded the others a few years later :)
Every time I watch this it shocks me how Steven Fry could be so foolish with his final line. They don’t know how many programs in the series will be drawn. You want the total number minus any draws to be odd, but you have no idea how many draws there will be. If you had 11 programs and 1 or 3 were drawn (just as likely as none or 2 surely) then you are back where you started. Maybe you could do some research on the likely percentage chance of most likely number of draws across a series but with so many (10 +) it isn’t going to be very unlikely to have any, which would be the only configuration where an even number is very slanted towards statistically. Maybe an odd number favours but it’s by no means guarantees against an overall draw.
I have always found Paul's hating on Angus tedious. An occasional jab would have been fine but the years and years of them just got tedious. You know, you have a job that you get paid nicely for and I'm sorry you don't like one of your co-workers but suck it up. (grumble)
Paul and Ian worked very hard to get Angus fired. Which in a way backfired for them because the BBC had to hold them to the same standards they insisted for Angus. Did what Angus did affect his on-camera work? Not that I could tell, but my opinion didn't count.
I think if you read press/see interviews of the time you might have a different impression. I think it might be in some sort of anniversary documentary as well? I seem to remember Paul being pretty blunt about it. My memory is a bit foggy now (you'll notice the original comment is from over a decade ago). Anyway, if you're interested, it might be a google rabbit hole to go down.@@danyoutube7491
They disliked him in a good humoured way. None of their attacks were malicious or ill tempered. Although he did genuinely annoy both captains with his show business shtick to hear them interviewed now
This is what I can't quite grasp about 'Christians'; here we have Hislop a devout Catholic who goes to church on a Sunday and kneels down before God yet rejoices about the death of Maxwell. Very strange religion.
How many people have died in the name of god and how many wars have started because my god has a bigger dick than your god bollox, no place for a fairytale in modern life
