First broadcast 29th June 2007.
Jimmy Carr
Sean Lock
Jason Manford
John Pohlhammer
Frankie Boyle
Joan Rivers
Gok Wan
Alexa Chung
Jimmy Carr
Sean Lock
Jason Manford
John Pohlhammer
Frankie Boyle
Joan Rivers
Gok Wan
Alexa Chung
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00:00Tonight on 8 out of 10 Cats, Queen of Comedy, Joan Rivers!
00:26Pop Princess, Alexa Chung!
00:29And their team captain, Jason Manford!
00:33And facing them tonight, frankly my dear, it's Frankie Boyle!
00:39Looking good, Scott Kwan!
00:42And their team captain, Sean Locke!
00:46Now, welcome your host, Jimmy Carr!
00:55Hello, and welcome to 8 out of 10 Cats, a show about opinion polls, surveys and statistics.
01:00Did you know, for example, only four stuntmen have ever died during the making of a film?
01:05It was love, actually, and they took their own lives.
01:0931% of Britons have bathroom scales but never use them, which is a shame,
01:13because bathroom scales can be a very good way to test if you're obese,
01:16especially if you're using them to weigh butter.
01:20And British men spend on average 22 minutes on foreplay.
01:24Of course, that is spread out between all of us over the course of a year.
01:29Right, let's get started.
01:39What are you talking about? That's the name of our first round.
01:42We've teamed up with a leading polling organisation,
01:44and they've asked the British nation what stories they've been discussing
01:46this week. It's our panellists' job to guess the British public's top five most popular talking points.
01:50Sean, Gok, Frankie, what have the nation been talking about?
01:53Well, I think it has to be the transition of power,
01:56where Tony Blair stepped down as Prime Minister,
01:58and Gordon Brown has quickly gone into his shoes.
02:02I personally have done very well, incredibly well, out of Tony Blair's time,
02:06because I had the wisdom, about ten years ago, to place a bet at Ladbrokes
02:10that his last meeting would be with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
02:13He would also be the Governor of California.
02:17And I put another bet on Brown's last meeting is with Dale Winton,
02:20who's been the leader of Hamas.
02:24And then Schwarzenegger, sitting there, and he said,
02:27we had a wonderful fried English breakfast. Did you see that nonsense?
02:30I did see that.
02:31Well, you cannot fry steroids, so you know the man who did it.
02:35I watched the press conference with Brown on Wednesday,
02:37and he says, I'm going to make some changes at number ten.
02:39And I presume he means policy-wise,
02:41but I thought he should just make some changes to number ten.
02:44Like getting rid of that door. It's been there years.
02:46Maybe change it into saloon style.
02:49Or some of those beads that they have to separate a news agent from his house.
02:55He should stone-clad it.
02:58I'd like to see him slayed down on a pool.
03:02Obviously, Brown looks like he's just taken the head off a bear cub.
03:06Obviously, Brown looks like he's just taken the head off a bear costume, like that.
03:15He's only got one eye. Well, only one of them works.
03:17If you're going to start making people in charge who've only got one eye,
03:20why not go with the legend that is Columbo?
03:24How good would he be in prime minister's question time?
03:26Just one more thing.
03:28Mr. Cameron, my wife's a great fan of yours.
03:32I thought it was so wrong of Tony Blair to go out and say,
03:36all his problems are based on his big mouth.
03:38I mean, you don't call your wife that in public.
03:42He's been called Bush's poodle.
03:43I know, well, they do play Frisbee together.
03:48Bush said, I've heard he's been called my poodle, but he's bigger than that.
03:53What, he's like a labradoodle?
03:57You've got Gordon Brown, you've got Tony Blair. Who looks better naked?
03:59Both mingers.
04:02I would do Tony Blair.
04:05Tony, I know you've got your afternoons off now.
04:08I met him on a job once.
04:10You met him on a job?
04:12What did you say, Gordon? Are you Tony Blair?
04:16I literally spun around and he was standing there,
04:18and it was like everything went really slow and there was this big light behind him.
04:22He is sexy. He is so...
04:25Everyone's like, what?
04:27He's going to be a peace envoy to the Middle East.
04:30Making that Blair, peace envoy for the Middle East
04:32is like making Mel Gibson in charge of a Holocaust museum.
04:36He'd certainly take an interest in the Nazi memorabilia, wouldn't he?
04:40He might bring peace to the Middle East because he brought peace to Northern Ireland,
04:42but then he didn't bomb Belfast with uranium shells and hang Jerry Adams in a shed.
04:49Get a bit of a dent in the Good Friday Agreement.
04:52Well, let's have a look and see if Brown and Blair are the most talked about thing this week.
05:00Not the most talked about, but it came in second.
05:02Tony Blair handed over power to Gordon Brown.
05:04He said, give this to David Cameron, would you?
05:08On Wednesday, Tony Blair finally went.
05:10At 12.30, he appeared at Prime Minister's Questions.
05:13At 1.30, he drove to his new home in Connaught Square.
05:16Then at 2.30, diagnosis murder, and 4.15, deal or no deal.
05:21Jason, Joan, Alexa, what else have the nation been talking about this week?
05:24Oh, Spice Girls. I'm thrilled because it's the first time they've been together in years,
05:28kind of like Paris Hilton's knees, and I got very upset about that.
05:33Victoria, apparently, as she's called now.
05:35I love it when a whore gets money.
05:40Posh came over to our country, and she thought she was going to be so terrific,
05:43and then she found out in Beverly Hills she's fat, so she came home.
05:48Alexa, you know your pop. How old were you the first time the Spice Girls came on?
05:5111 or 12, that first year of school.
05:55Secondary school. I didn't first go to school at 11.
05:59Girl power was a brilliant concept, wasn't it?
06:01It was like, you know, you're equal to boys, and if you're not, and if you're not treated equally,
06:04wear a boob tube and you'll be fine.
06:07I love the Spice Girls, and I love what they did with the styling,
06:09but I'm a bit concerned now that what's going to happen is,
06:11is they're going to come back, try and recreate all of that again,
06:15but having to wear very big supportive pants now.
06:17You put their knees up above their boobs and squeeze it all in.
06:20Is that what your show's about?
06:22Yes.
06:23Putting fat women in clothes that they shouldn't wear.
06:26It's not what it's called.
06:27Tune in next week on putting fat women in clothes they shouldn't wear.
06:33What's her name, the one that just had the Eddie Murphy baby?
06:35Scary.
06:36Scary, yes.
06:37And now that she's nursing, I said they should call her Dairy Spice.
06:41It turns out it was Eddie Murphy's kid.
06:43Well, it came out in a fat suit.
06:48Did you hear this?
06:49They've got this machine that digitally enhances their voices,
06:52and I'd really like to be in charge of that machine.
06:54Especially when Posh Pie steps up to the mic, just press off.
06:58And he's going, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
07:02Am I the only person who's, like, really horrified by this?
07:05I mean, the only way I want to see Geri Halliwell draped in a Union Jack again
07:10would be if she dies in battle.
07:13LAUGHTER
07:19Let's have a look and see if the Spice Girls is there.
07:25Yes, the Spice Girls are getting back together.
07:27Sporty, baby, dozy, beaky, mick and titch.
07:31The Spice Girls were formed after Simon Fuller put an advert in the stage
07:34asking, are you between 18 and 23 with the ability to sing and dance?
07:38No one answered, but on the way home, he did meet some girls at a bus stop.
07:42Sean, Gok, Frankie, what else have the world been talking about this week?
07:45The big storms and flooding.
07:47Because I know they had them in Yorkshire, but in Scotland,
07:49we had, like, thunder and lightning storms, which I really enjoy,
07:53because during a storm, I always shag my girlfriend
07:56and pretend that it's the conception of the Antichrist.
07:58LAUGHTER
08:01LAUGHTER
08:13I really hope she doesn't watch this, especially because she's pregnant.
08:18The thing I like about the reporting of the floods
08:20is there's always someone in the high street with a canoe.
08:22My question is, where's he getting the canoe?
08:25He's nipping the boots.
08:28Oh, you haven't got a canoe? Fuck you.
08:31There's a lot of people in Yorkshire who want speedboats on bullseye in the 80s.
08:36For years, you know, everyone's thought...
08:38They thought, OK, he's a right prick, he's got a speedboat,
08:41but now who's the winner?
08:45Astonbury was wet as well, wasn't it?
08:47It was very muddy there.
08:49And there was trench foot, dysentery, peaches, all the Goldhoff girls.
08:53LAUGHTER
08:55APPLAUSE
09:01Shirley Bassey, she had wellies on.
09:03I love Shirley Bassey.
09:05What do you mean you like Shirley Bassey?
09:07I love Shirley Bassey.
09:09I thought she'd be a bit camp for you.
09:11You remind me of her, actually.
09:14Shirley Bassey?
09:16If you had some diamonds that had wellies on, I would not know the difference.
09:19It's true.
09:21You fucking would later on.
09:23Let's see if it's one of the top five stories.
09:27Yes, it is.
09:29Yes, Britain was battered by torrential storms this week.
09:32A state of emergency has been declared in Hull.
09:34It was declared in 1972 and nothing's been bloody done.
09:38Hundreds of people have fled Wolverhampton.
09:40It wasn't raining, but they found an old bus and saw an opportunity for a better life.
09:45Jason, Alexa and Joan, what else have the nation been talking about this week?
09:48Tom Cruise has been banned from Germany.
09:51He's not allowed in Germany to make this new film.
09:53I don't know, something about the Second World War.
09:55The littlest Nazi or something.
09:57You should be careful. He could be here.
09:59Everyone should look under their chairs.
10:01That polite wife that never speaks.
10:03Watch her eyes. She's always blinking SOL.
10:06Help me. Help me.
10:10And he's not allowed in because he's a Scientologist.
10:13In Germany, Scientology is not recognised as a church.
10:15It's seen as akin to Nazism.
10:17I got a little bit angry about it at first.
10:19And then I thought, you know what, it's a made-up religion.
10:21And us Jedis, we do not get annoyed.
10:26Have you considered Scientology?
10:28It's a bollocks religion.
10:29I'm going to educate you.
10:30Scientology asserts that we are descended from 13.5 trillion beings
10:35from an overpopulated corner of the galaxy
10:37who were dumped in Earth's volcanoes
10:39by an evil galactic warlord called Xenu 75 million years ago.
10:44Ziggy playing guitar.
10:47Sounds like a David Bowie lyric, doesn't it?
10:50It's just mental. I mean, there is absolutely no logic to it whatsoever.
10:54Yeah, but if it keeps them happy, who cares?
10:56It's when they come after you.
11:00How do they come after you again?
11:01Happy New Year.
11:04This is a film. It's about a guy who's apparently like a good Nazi.
11:08Yeah, it's Klaus von Stuffenberg.
11:10Here's a piece of meat before I kill you.
11:12What's a good Nazi?
11:14The whole thing is so insane.
11:16It's the Nazis versus the Scientologists.
11:18I never thought I'd be on the side of Hitler.
11:23Is there no one so culturally different
11:25that the Americans won't just have him played by Tom Cruise?
11:29Like, he was the last samurai.
11:31I'm surprised he wasn't in that fucking Muhammad Ali film.
11:36And he goes over as a samurai, right?
11:38Which, by definition, everyone trains when they're about five, right?
11:42He turns up aged 40 and just sort of pecks it up.
11:46You're going to be in real shock when you see Finding Nemo.
11:50They talk in that.
11:52Fish.
11:54What they do in films these days is outrageous.
11:57OK, let's have a look and see if Tom Cruise is up there.
12:02Yes, this is the story that Tom Cruise has been banned from filming in Germany
12:05because of his Scientology beliefs.
12:07So the Germans are calling Scientologists evil.
12:10That's the pot calling the kettle gay.
12:13Fingers on buzzers. What else have they been talking about this week?
12:16I think you might remember the tennis championships
12:18being played at Wimbledon this year. Again.
12:20Every year.
12:23The women's tournament, they're going to get paid the same as the lads
12:25for winning it for the first time.
12:26Venus and penis, whatever the hell their name is.
12:30Pow! Pow!
12:32And they don't use a racket.
12:36They've banned people from wearing fancy dress
12:38because they're worried about fathers for justice.
12:41They've told the security to look out for people dressed as Batman or Superman.
12:44But what if there's a proper emergency?
12:46What if something actually goes wrong,
12:48and Batman turns up and he can't fucking get in?
12:50That's mental.
12:51Batman will be able to get past a £3.20 an hour security guard
12:54and he'll be fuck all use anyway.
12:57Let's have a look and see if Wimbledon is there.
13:03Yes, Wimbledon started this week.
13:05Or Timberland, as it will never be known.
13:08Emin is thinking about getting into coaching,
13:10offering discount fares to all of England's market towns.
13:14Don't come Paris Hilton wasn't in.
13:16She's been all over the place, my God.
13:19What did you think of the Paris Hilton thing?
13:21She's such an asshole. She deserves it.
13:23The family were worried that going to jail would ruin her reputation.
13:25What as a cock-sucking layabout.
13:30They were scared she'd go on a hunger strike,
13:32so they took all her porridge and they flavoured it with sperm.
13:35And she gained four pounds.
13:39She goes, oh, this has got porridge in it.
13:44At the end of that round, I can tell you that Sean, Frankie and Gok have three points.
13:47Jason, Joan and Alexa have two points.
13:51Our next round is called Pick of the Polls.
13:53Our teams take it in turns to choose a picture from the board
13:56and then answer related statistical questions.
13:58Jason, Joan and Alexa, your turn first.
14:00What do you want to go for?
14:02This one in the bottom corner. Jesus saves.
14:04That picture represents Christians.
14:06And this is a poll with a whole question.
14:0821% of born-again Christians have what?
14:11No friends.
14:15I got some building work done at the beginning of the year
14:17and it was a born-again Christian builder's company.
14:19I thought, I can trust them, they'll be all right.
14:21And he was doing some work in the kitchen and he was sweating.
14:24And I went, no rest for the wicked.
14:26And without a gap, he just went, I wouldn't know, I'm one of the righteous.
14:29And just carried on.
14:32Are you going to be finished off with, you wanker?
14:37You know, any extremist are crazy and ugly.
14:41Ugly. Oh, yes.
14:43I went to a born-again convention, you know, Jesus loves me.
14:46He said if he loved you so much, he would have given you a chin.
14:49I don't think Jesus loves you so much.
14:51It's like the thing when some athlete will win a gold medal
14:53and go, oh, thanks for Jesus, Jesus helped me out in this.
14:56And you think, what kind of God lets Iraq happen,
15:00doesn't do anything but keeps a close eye on who wins the triple jump?
15:05Technically, it's kind of cheating, isn't it?
15:07You're using God to help you win a... It's worse than drugs.
15:12You're in the long jump and then you know that God's picked you up and gone,
15:15bleurgh, like that.
15:17It's not fair, is it?
15:19Something to do with a very petty crime.
15:21Have murdered.
15:25It's to do with music, that's my final clue.
15:27Have stolen CDs.
15:28I'll give you that, Joan, it's actually illegally downloaded music.
15:34Yes, 21% of born-again Christians have illegally downloaded music.
15:38I've not found Jesus, but then I think he should try and find me.
15:41He's omnipotent, I'm on telly, come on, Jesus, how tough's that?
15:46OK, Sean Steen, what do you want to go for?
15:48I'd like the one of Madonna, with her head coming out of a dwarf's buttocks.
15:53You've chosen a one-upmanship question.
15:55To find out who the celebrity Brits would most like to swap houses with,
15:58Madonna came second, who came top?
16:00I watch Through the Keyhole and I get the opportunity.
16:04It always seems to be Rusty Lee.
16:09Big laughing cook.
16:11She's got quite a nice house, you know.
16:13Is it Rusty Lee?
16:14You are devilishly close, Sean.
16:16Have they done Madonna?
16:18Have they done Madonna Through the Keyhole?
16:21Who would live in a house with all these stolen children?
16:26She didn't steal them, she adopted them.
16:30What celebrity's house do you want to live in?
16:32I'd swap with Jamie Oliver, cos he's a dick, right?
16:35And it only says I have to swap.
16:37He'd still have to live with my mum and dad.
16:40And they would fucking hate him.
16:42He's always spitting when he's cooking.
16:44I'm not chopping the fucking thing, right?
16:48Spitting, man.
16:49Well, I can tell you, you're absolutely right.
16:52Right?
16:54Yes, the celebrity Bruce would most likely swap houses with is Jamie Oliver.
16:58I'd like to swap houses with Jamie Oliver,
17:00because I live in a soundproof box two miles underground.
17:04So at the end of that round, it's three points for Sean's team
17:06and four points to Jason's team.
17:10Join me after the break when we'll be finding out
17:12what the worst fashion mistake a man can make is.
17:22APPLAUSE
17:25Welcome back to 8 Out Of 10 Cats.
17:27The next round is Believe It Or Not.
17:29In this round, I'll give the panellists a simple statement.
17:31All they have to do is decide whether they think it's true or false.
17:34Let's have a look at a clip to illustrate the statistic.
17:37SCREAMS
17:43MUSIC PLAYS
17:51MUSIC CONTINUES
18:09SCREAMS
18:18MUSIC CONTINUES
18:21APPLAUSE
18:25That was Michael Jackson's Thriller.
18:27It hasn't dated well, has it?
18:30Here's your related statistic.
18:32More Americans own a Thriller CD than own a passport.
18:35Is that true or false?
18:37I would think that more Americans would own a copy of Thriller
18:40than own a passport, because we love souvenirs.
18:43And that's the last time you'll ever see Michael Jackson black.
18:47That's the ironic thing, isn't it?
18:49Because if he used the picture from Thriller on his passport,
18:52nobody would let him in the country.
18:54You're like, well, you don't look like that, do you, honky boy?
18:57I'm pretty sure at passport control they're not allowed to say honky boy.
19:02I sort of believe that,
19:04but then I believe that more Americans own a rifle than own a spoon.
19:10Americans have got this crazy idea that people don't like them.
19:15Well, nobody likes the hand that feeds you, you know?
19:18And we take care of the world, to a point.
19:20Yeah, basically we take care of the world, yeah.
19:23That seems to have launched something. I'll take care of that.
19:28We also saved a lot of lives in World War II by pressing that button.
19:31Yeah, three years fucking late.
19:36I don't want to go on about it.
19:39Are you a fan of Michael Jackson?
19:40I'm a very close friend of his still.
19:42Still?
19:43Still.
19:44You've stuck with him?
19:45Well, to a point.
19:47My grandson is growing up, so we won't see him for a couple of years.
19:53We used to exchange gifts. I mean, we're that close.
19:55And every Christmas I would give him hankies.
19:57And then one year I realised this is stupid, he has no nose.
20:02More Americans own a Thriller CD than a passport. True or false?
20:05What are you going to go with, Sean?
20:06I think false.
20:07What are you going to go for?
20:08Absolutely true.
20:09I'm going to go with that.
20:10True.
20:11Well, I can tell you the answer is false.
20:17Yes, 23% of Americans have a passport.
20:20Only 9% own a copy of the Thriller album.
20:23The Thriller video does have amazing special effects.
20:25In one bit, Michael Jackson looks black and kisses a girl.
20:29So at the end of that round, it's four points for Sean's team and four points for Jason's team.
20:36And the winner is, is the name of our final round.
20:38Who's your first one?
20:39Grandparents' most annoying habit.
20:43Turning up in a porno film.
20:46You haven't.
20:49Wetting themselves.
20:52Is it dying just as you become addicted to their heart tablets?
20:58My grandad had narcolepsy.
20:59He'd fall asleep all the time.
21:00And when we were kids, me and my brother would wait for him to fall asleep on the couch,
21:03and then go upstairs, get changed, and then pretend he'd missed the day.
21:06My grandad used to drive a black cab.
21:08And he used to say to me, he said,
21:09yeah, I drove a cab through the Blitz.
21:11And I used to say to him, yeah, that's great, grandad,
21:13but I'd be a lot prouder if it'd been a tank.
21:18And I thought, who's hailing a cab during a bombing run?
21:23Oh, it's when they go to, like, do you have Costco here where you can buy in bulk?
21:26Oh, we have, yeah, we have Cash & Carrot, yeah.
21:28And they're 85 years old, and they're buying 18 jars of mayonnaise.
21:32I'm going to tell you the answer.
21:33Grandparents' most annoying habit is they use emotional blackmail to make you visit them.
21:37I would visit my grandma, but I can't remember where we left her.
21:42OK. Worst fashion mistake for men.
21:44Mobile phones on belts.
21:46Absolutely, 100% the worst is when people walk around with a mobile phone on their belt,
21:51and they're like, oh, I'm going to visit my grandma,
21:53and they're like, oh, I'm going to visit my grandma,
21:55and they're like, oh, I'm going to visit my grandma,
21:57and they're like, oh, I'm going to visit my grandma,
21:59and they're like, oh, I'm going to visit my grandma,
22:00and they walk about with a mobile phone on their belt,
22:01and they're not an electrician.
22:04Short shorts and low testicles.
22:09When a bit of brain comes out the side of a bikini bottom.
22:13That is a low.
22:15Is it like a blue corduroy suit and, like,
22:17a green and blue striped shirt with bits of cream like there,
22:22and, like, your hair combed over, like, to one side like the 40s?
22:26Yeah.
22:27Like that?
22:28Especially when you've got a face like a pumpkin.
22:35What do you think of Frankie and Sean's outfits?
22:41I say outfits, it's just their clothes really.
22:45Go for us, tear us, rip us to shreds.
22:47I think you both look very attractive and I'm very looking forward to going in the green one later.
22:52I think we look like the shop window at Specsavers, don't we?
22:57Classic, but socks and sandals.
22:59Correct.
23:04Yes, I can tell you the worst fashion mistake for men is socks with sandals.
23:08As a fashion statement, socks with sandals says I'm either a teacher, a German or a c***.
23:14Surely the worst fashion mistake was shooting Gianni Versace in the face.
23:20Well, that sound tells me it's the end of the round and the end of the show,
23:22which means the final scores are Jason, Joan and Alexa have four points,
23:25Sean, Frankie and Gok are the winners with five points.
23:31Thanks to all our panellists, our wonderful studio audience and to all of you for watching at home.
23:35That's it from us, goodnight.
23:41The Chiquitas of comedy with a bunch of smack the pony antics on E4 right now.
23:47We're here on Channel 4, the crowd are ready and it's time to say bye-bye to Billy in Big Brother.