I Suspect There Was A 'Mr Whippy-Lash' Joke, But My Mind Has Blocked It Out.

Mar 15, 2011 10:09

A bit I'd forgotten to write down from the Would I Lie to You? recording on the sixth (the Wallace-Havers-Wadia-Brooker one): Gregg Wallace had a possession claim, a book that he said he read in the sauna to make it look older. As Wallace wears glasses, Lee Mack pointed out that these would steam up in a sauna; Wallace explained that he read in the ( Read more... )

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rionaleonhart March 15 2011, 10:47:01 UTC
Are you trying to make her crack up when she reads these comments? You're a terrible person. I like it.

(Any news regarding your purse?)

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captlebubbles March 15 2011, 14:50:05 UTC
Hurdy-gurdy was always my favorite.

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misskass March 15 2011, 10:29:15 UTC
Why on earth does David Mitchell With Pizza exist. o___o And why am I following it oh dear.

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rionaleonhart March 15 2011, 10:55:54 UTC
I DON'T KNOW. David Mitchell's Twitter picture was a picture of him with a pizza, and apparently this was reason enough to create an entire Tumblr dedicated to the combination of those two concepts.

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urawrd March 15 2011, 10:34:18 UTC
♥Jon Richardson!♥

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rionaleonhart March 15 2011, 10:57:41 UTC
Hee, my first thought when he walked on was 'well, there are some people on my flist who will be very interested in this writeup'.

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apiphile March 15 2011, 10:55:43 UTC
Skinner: What if you committed a crime in mediaeval times? They'd put you in the stocks and throw tomatoes at you.

No, Frank, they wouldn't have, because tomatoes are an American native species and they came back as an exotic and rare fruit during the Renaissance not the medieval.

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rionaleonhart March 15 2011, 10:56:59 UTC
I was wondering whether the mention of tomatoes was accurate. You could be a stand-in for David Mitchell.

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apiphile March 15 2011, 11:31:47 UTC
I don't know anything like as much as David Mitchell (he went to Cambridge; I am at a community college), but I do know a surprising amount about the provenance of various fruit and vegetables.

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wolfy_writing March 15 2011, 19:30:29 UTC
I was going to say that! The tomato thing was driving me up the wall!

I'm not sure about the courgette thing, because I don't know what one is.

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derryderrydown March 15 2011, 11:03:53 UTC
I really should have learned not to read your recording reports while at work.

Oh, David Mitchell, ILU.

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rionaleonhart March 15 2011, 11:17:11 UTC
I'm a little embarrassed by how ridiculous and swoony I became over his grammatical pedantry. Oh, David Mitchell ♥.

(...and by 'grammatical' I mean 'lexical', whoops.)

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derryderrydown March 15 2011, 11:22:46 UTC
A large, accurate vocabulary is sexy, dammit!

I like to imagine him and Victoria Coren doing crosswords together.

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