I'm not generally a fan of Mr. Merton, but I have no hesitation in stating that the way he continually helped Jamie MacDonald during this entirely visual-orientated episode was brilliant. Well done, Paul! Perhaps the BBC aren't aware that blind people can't actually see? Many thanks, as always, to ViVaHD for posting these complete versions!!!
Strange that there were no concessions to him whatsoever, whereas there were for Chris McCausland. (Even though MacDonald being blind was the only fact mentioned about him in the introduction.)
I wonder if Jamie was a last minute guest and preparing to prepare him wasn’t budgeted for in pre-production. It would take assigning an assistant who is actually capable of doing the prep, not just anyone can do it. You will also notice that the rounds themselves tend to be more tailored to Chris, which showes a level of awareness of the need for accomodation throughout the entire pre-production period.
I can't imagine anyone not liking Paul Merton's humour. Doesn't mean you're wrong. Just, wow! Oddly when I was younger I didn't find Ian Hislop funny. Or Clive Anderson presenting WLIIA. Now I'm older I realise younger me was wrong.
@@ladyflimflam Jamie wanted to play the game the same as any other guest did. McCausland turns up quite often on Radio 4 The News Quiz - where unless he has to read out ( well suppose could) the questions he is good, I can see (sic) him taking on a R4 presenter role if/when Peter White leaves "in touch"
Yeah, it's odd to say the least. Just have some braille descriptions or pre-made verbal explanations he can listen to via an earpiece. Edit: another comment mentioned the possibility of Jamie being a somewhat last minute replacement, which would excuse them (to some degree at least).
Yeah, I hope he was offered an ear piece for audio description and said no rather than just making him wing it like this. At least he got himself some laughs out of the situation and of course did great overall but it's not something the producers would have to invent out of thin air to help a guest out.
@@FloraWest For some rounds it would definitely not be hard to adapt; just play an audio clip in stead of video about the "bigger stories of the week". Same with the caption competition, just play an audio clip of someone in the news and ask what they're talking about. It's a shame they didn't think af anything...
@@MartijnPennings For sure. There are people who do audio description as an actual job and especially in a studio where equipment is easier to come by than say, a presentation in an office, it should be a simple task. Maybe he was a late replacement, as some mentioned, or maybe he didn't want it for whatever reason.
@@litsci1877 The producers described the pictures ahead of time for Chris McCausland when he was on. Maybe Jamie preferred to have Paul describe them in real time for more spontaneity?
Excellent panel! Steph is a fantastic host and Hannah Fry has to be the world's funniest mathematician but Jamie's 'it's a piece of potato' was my top moment in this episode. For someone who was actually unaware of many of the cues he was brilliantly quick at catching up. Really a difficult panel to top.
The original business model of TH-cam stank, but at least the ads were reasonable. New flood of invasive, repetitive, and offensive ads are EVIL. Google is now fully dedicated to doing any evil that seems profitable. And censoring complaints, too.
This series so far has been gold - to be fair it's been open season for satire. This was one of the best episodes; Steph McGovern is one of the best hosts and Hannah Fry is hilarious.
Jamie is so funny. I couldn't imagine how difficult it is for him to do this show. He took it like a champion. Does he get an earpiece that can guve him the audio decsruptions of images? If not I can tell he would be so much funnier.
I wonder if the visually impared gentleman can be allowed an ear piece and during the visual rounds and someone can describe the pictures/scenario to him.
Ian, always perfectly timed & succinct. "without a mandate". And love the 'Gleeful' political neutrality of the BBC. As for finishing up with the 'Hoff'... Not sure which would be more disturbing for David. The idea of his Bum melting, or - see this weeks news - having a Deep Sea Crab with a luxuriantly hairy chest being named after him. { Clearly, someone at the Institute of Oceanography back in the day was watching too much Baywatch instead of swotting! }😆
“See you, Jimmy,” was a catchphrase used by well-known comedian Russ Abbott’s Scottish character back in the 70s or 80s. So while it might not technically work as a stand-alone joke, it works as an in-joke if you’re familiar with Russ Abbott, based on the fact that the man on the panel is (1) Scottish, (2) named Jimmy, and (3) happens to have sight issues.
@alleeum Citing another British blind comedian, Chris McCausland "Contrary to popular belief, deaf people do make noise." Similarly, being blind doesn't make you invisible. I can extrapolate this from personal experience: I'm quite shortsighted, but that doesn't make me blurry in other people's eyes.
@@DavidJashi To be fair, you are blurry in other peoples eyes if the other people are also short sighted and standing more than a few feet away without their corrective lenses. I'll show myself out now...
830 on a Sundae Morning. does Life Get Any Better? not for me. but I do have a commitment that comes first, so this will be my reward for completing my commitment. Thanks ViVaHD Every Time, just right.
Toyota scarapped the Corolla name only to bring it back a couple of years later after they remembered (financially) that Corolla was a popular brand. So my money is on Ford doing the same.
Thanks for these. This one made me brood a bit though, thinking of all the chaos if Biden passes, or if Putin and his ministers follow through with their nuclear threats. Ugh. The world.
10:10 Seriously? To adjust to normal life? Truss was only PM for what, 45 days, and besides, they were/are politicians not billionaires. Just tell them the same they told so many others: get a job and if that’s not enough then get two. When you almost bring the economy to its knees you shouldn’t just have money thrown at you like some reward for the worst job ever. 39:16 Cute. Wonder if that’s Charles or Camilla modeling that one shoe?
@Real Aiglon Compare it to a show like Pointless. If a visually impaired or blind contestant is on, they scrap the visual rounds for an audio round. They could have done soundbites (radio or telly) or at least had a proper audio description, rather than leaving Paul to awkwardly explain visual clips with no audio. Especially as this isn't some low budget backwater show, its a mainstay of BBC.
There is NO WAY Ian lost this one (and by 2 points!). They got the odd one out and some missing words and the spinning pictures. This thing has been rigged for quite some time now.
This episode could so easily have been so much cooler with audio rounds and jokes. Why have a blind guest on a visual gag based quiz? How time consuming would it have been to put in at least one, just one, audio round?
(everywhere I go on TH-cam I get that ad for Tel Aviv- No, not going no matter how annoying the music and persistent the advertisement stalks me everywhere - ….. )
im irrational and petty but im happy in some way that rishi sunak is pm. for now i really unlike my ancestors hope britan is stabilized and continues to exist.
39:47 - Introducing the end of your freedom in a nice, friendly, frivolous manner like only the BBC know how to do and then skipping over it with no explanation. (Rev 13:16-17)
Apparently Matt Hancock told Rishi beforehand not to shake hands with him because he had just sanitized his hands and didn't want to catch some exotic disease.
WHY have a go at Charles, when he is copping cr ap from the Tory gov't for being so green? Not allowed to ATTEND the climate summit, as he wanted. That's like deliberately insulting the one VIP who agrees with you. And no, I am not a mad royalist. I am not even a Brit.
Quite right. Charles has been publicly promoting environmental awareness for decades. I taught environmental science (by choice) for several years, bringing attn to climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions and having students presnt on feasibility and economics of alternative energy. These clowns with their pies and mashed potatoes arent doing any good in my view. Making activists look like children,
Cringefest with the lack of accommodations here, one thing to joke eternally about Nazis and people being fat or short or whatever, but do something so your invited guest can play the game
She got the intonation in the 'see u Jimmy' totally wrong. Wish english wldnt try to ne smart with Scottish dialect. Mind u why shld I bother, they just make fools of themselves.
birtain is bit misleading themselves to be virtuous and not concentrating on the point that even rulers are humans, they make mistakes, its not a problem, you need to look at his intentions
I'm not generally a fan of Mr. Merton, but I have no hesitation in stating that the way he continually helped Jamie MacDonald during this entirely visual-orientated episode was brilliant. Well done, Paul! Perhaps the BBC aren't aware that blind people can't actually see? Many thanks, as always, to ViVaHD for posting these complete versions!!!
Strange that there were no concessions to him whatsoever, whereas there were for Chris McCausland. (Even though MacDonald being blind was the only fact mentioned about him in the introduction.)
I wonder if Jamie was a last minute guest and preparing to prepare him wasn’t budgeted for in pre-production. It would take assigning an assistant who is actually capable of doing the prep, not just anyone can do it. You will also notice that the rounds themselves tend to be more tailored to Chris, which showes a level of awareness of the need for accomodation throughout the entire pre-production period.
I'm sure Jamie knew what he was walking into [all puns intended] [it is a comedy show after all] [parenthetically]
I can't imagine anyone not liking Paul Merton's humour. Doesn't mean you're wrong. Just, wow!
Oddly when I was younger I didn't find Ian Hislop funny. Or Clive Anderson presenting WLIIA. Now I'm older I realise younger me was wrong.
@@ladyflimflam Jamie wanted to play the game the same as any other guest did. McCausland turns up quite often on Radio 4 The News Quiz - where unless he has to read out ( well suppose could) the questions he is good, I can see (sic) him taking on a R4 presenter role if/when Peter White leaves "in touch"
Jamie MacDonald was great, and Paul helping him was nice to see.
Kudos to Paul for actually helping Jamie participate there.
You’d think they’d have figured this out with Chris McCausland!
Yeah, it's odd to say the least. Just have some braille descriptions or pre-made verbal explanations he can listen to via an earpiece.
Edit: another comment mentioned the possibility of Jamie being a somewhat last minute replacement, which would excuse them (to some degree at least).
Yeah, I hope he was offered an ear piece for audio description and said no rather than just making him wing it like this. At least he got himself some laughs out of the situation and of course did great overall but it's not something the producers would have to invent out of thin air to help a guest out.
@@FloraWest For some rounds it would definitely not be hard to adapt; just play an audio clip in stead of video about the "bigger stories of the week". Same with the caption competition, just play an audio clip of someone in the news and ask what they're talking about. It's a shame they didn't think af anything...
@@MartijnPennings For sure. There are people who do audio description as an actual job and especially in a studio where equipment is easier to come by than say, a presentation in an office, it should be a simple task. Maybe he was a late replacement, as some mentioned, or maybe he didn't want it for whatever reason.
Could be done deliberately for the comedic effect (presumably with agreement of everyone involved).
For those in doubt: MacDonald explicitly requested that no changes be made to the show for him.
you don't have to make changes, just make the same accommodation that anyone who's blind or low-vision would have at home
@@litsci1877 The producers described the pictures ahead of time for Chris McCausland when he was on. Maybe Jamie preferred to have Paul describe them in real time for more spontaneity?
Thank you for your public service for all of us who are deprived of the experience of watching this on the telly
Agreed!
TV is for the sheep. Just don't be a sheep.
@@robertkeable1627 😴😴
Such a great episode, especially from the blind comedian! 'F*ckin 'ell...' 'Think the mic picked that one up!' XD
I'm sure they explain it but edit it out, but left in when Paul helped him because it's genuinely a nice thing to see
Excellent panel! Steph is a fantastic host and Hannah Fry has to be the world's funniest mathematician but Jamie's 'it's a piece of potato' was my top moment in this episode. For someone who was actually unaware of many of the cues he was brilliantly quick at catching up.
Really a difficult panel to top.
The original business model of TH-cam stank, but at least the ads were reasonable.
New flood of invasive, repetitive, and offensive ads are EVIL.
Google is now fully dedicated to doing any evil that seems profitable.
And censoring complaints, too.
Just noticed the closed caption got turned on at some point and at 11:02 it reads "INCOMPREHENSIBLE GIBBERISH" 🤣🤣🤣
This series so far has been gold - to be fair it's been open season for satire. This was one of the best episodes; Steph McGovern is one of the best hosts and Hannah Fry is hilarious.
“That guy must’ve had a lot of expensive pillows chucked at him!” Dead!!!😂
Jamie's voice, wonderful. Should do more voice overs.
Agreed! Great sounding and he has such sensitive control of it too.
Always wait a little bit longer for a little bit more. Much more enjoyable…
You're right but I still end up watching the 30 minute one first all the same !
@@cannotfindmyshoes3 A show so nice I'm happy to watch it twice. Some of the classic ones even a third or fourth time. Freaking Brian Blessed!
'Finally an audio round' I died.
Jamie is so funny. I couldn't imagine how difficult it is for him to do this show. He took it like a champion. Does he get an earpiece that can guve him the audio decsruptions of images? If not I can tell he would be so much funnier.
No, but it was also part of some jokes. Producers and Jamie talked about it beforehand.
Paul Merton was in fine form. 😀 Upload much appreciated 👏
He ramped it up toward the end!
Ohhhhhh, be still beating heart! I can't wait to hear Jamie's gorgeous voice 😍😍😍
Smooooth. . .😌🌊
I wonder if the visually impared gentleman can be allowed an ear piece and during the visual rounds and someone can describe the pictures/scenario to him.
Absolutely awesome Thank you for sharing this Always a real treat for me as im stuck down in South America at the moment 👍
Thanks so much for this, a real treat for me in the States!!!
Thank-you again for the upload👍
Would happily see Jamie back on. Very sharp.
Thank you for posting!
Cheers for the upload
Steph was great in this one!
Magic! 560 PMs!
Adds in some great jokes!
For years the intro had a cartoon grinning Russian turning off a pipeline into Europe and all the lights going out. Whatever happened to that, lol
Isn't the Sturgeon cation "Watch what you eat?" The high standard of this show is maintained, and one of the best episodes.
Thanks for posting.
Take A Moment
A great show,
Pure Genius
Stay funny
Stay Free
Dirty show this week, love it!
"Ian, have you ever had ketamine?"
"Yes, someone spiked my fry-up with it, last time I was down the 'Spoons."
Whoopee more to enjoy, depressed after the clock's going back
THANKS VIV ONCE AGAIN 😃
Steph with the Fiesta mag reference!
Ian, always perfectly timed & succinct. "without a mandate". And love the 'Gleeful' political neutrality of the BBC. As for finishing up with the 'Hoff'... Not sure which would be more disturbing for David. The idea of his Bum melting, or - see this weeks news - having a Deep Sea Crab with a luxuriantly hairy chest being named after him. { Clearly, someone at the Institute of Oceanography back in the day was watching too much Baywatch instead of swotting! }😆
May u live for 100 years
I remember someone who named their Fiesta their "resistance"
Excellent! Steph is fabulous fun.
40:44 his presence of mind is amazing
Stephs laugh is so sexy. Watching from Scotland peace and love to all
Well, I could say, "See you Jamie." It is he who couldn't say, " See you ThomThom!", meaningfully.
I regret buying Heston Blumenthal's umami tomato paste as it has incredible amounts of sugar in it!
This weeks prime minister😆
4:29 proves the advantage visually impaired might have. very good observation.
THATs why Hancock flew off to the Jungle.
I reckon they should just alternate hosts between Steph McGovern and Richard Aoyade. Their styles sit nicely at the opposite end of the spectrum.
i wonder if Putin has ever seen Macbeth
They could've put in an audio round or two for fairness. Still a great performance nonetheless.
I don't get "See you, Jimmy" joke - he's blind, not invisible! I can clearly see him.
“See you, Jimmy,” was a catchphrase used by well-known comedian Russ Abbott’s Scottish character back in the 70s or 80s. So while it might not technically work as a stand-alone joke, it works as an in-joke if you’re familiar with Russ Abbott, based on the fact that the man on the panel is (1) Scottish, (2) named Jimmy, and (3) happens to have sight issues.
@alleeum Citing another British blind comedian, Chris McCausland "Contrary to popular belief, deaf people do make noise." Similarly, being blind doesn't make you invisible. I can extrapolate this from personal experience: I'm quite shortsighted, but that doesn't make me blurry in other people's eyes.
@@DavidJashi To be fair, you are blurry in other peoples eyes if the other people are also short sighted and standing more than a few feet away without their corrective lenses.
I'll show myself out now...
Thanks.
Hannah Fry - hot, smart and funny!
Oof, they’re mean to Prince Harry.
I am sure he will cope. His money and privilege will console him.
If you listen carefully, you can hear him crying in one of his fourteen bathrooms
so funny to see the uk have a 3 foot tall leader. lol .. kinda fits
💕💕💕💕💕 Hannah Fry 💕💕💕💕💕
Being awakened at 9am when I have more money than I know what to do with? WHY? I'd choose the 1pm version!
Was there not a host this time?
830 on a Sundae Morning. does Life Get Any Better? not for me.
but
I do have a commitment that comes first, so this will be my reward for completing my commitment. Thanks ViVaHD Every Time, just right.
😆 i actually felt a bit sorry for Mick Hancock !
Why? I personally would rather avoid a Sunak hug. I'd be anxiously checking my pockets afterwards.
@@alipanroosendaal9503 . 😆😆😆
I waited 🤷
❤️👍
Not such a dull car park if ye take a closer gander...
There's no reason why one can't greet Jamie with 'see you, Jimmie'.
'See me, Jimmie' would be rather insensitive. 😉😊
Maybe if they went to Cambridge instead
Toyota scarapped the Corolla name only to bring it back a couple of years later after they remembered (financially) that Corolla was a popular brand. So my money is on Ford doing the same.
What is it about oxford...eugenics.
If anything happens to Ian or Paul, they need to hire Steph here. She is always quick and hilarious as a host or guest.
I'm no fan of Paul, but he was great in this episode for many reasons.
👍❤👍
The 'Disas-truss" title of Liz Truss' book was hilarious!
Thanks for these. This one made me brood a bit though, thinking of all the chaos if Biden passes, or if Putin and his ministers follow through with their nuclear threats. Ugh. The world.
They remembered to do an audio round for Chris McCausland. How did they forget for Jaime?
Because he's Scottish.
Because he specifically asked them not to.
@@somniumisdreaming Really?
I think at least Chris was prompted before the show on the visuals coming up? This guy was just left to dry
This Aussie lass has missed the point of Ian's joke about Yorkie Bars. Can any UK peeps enlighten me?
@W H Fitzgerald hehe
10:10 Seriously? To adjust to normal life? Truss was only PM for what, 45 days, and besides, they were/are politicians not billionaires. Just tell them the same they told so many others: get a job and if that’s not enough then get two. When you almost bring the economy to its knees you shouldn’t just have money thrown at you like some reward for the worst job ever.
39:16 Cute. Wonder if that’s Charles or Camilla modeling that one shoe?
They did a really appalling job of accommodating Jamie MacDonald here.
@Real Aiglon Compare it to a show like Pointless. If a visually impaired or blind contestant is on, they scrap the visual rounds for an audio round.
They could have done soundbites (radio or telly) or at least had a proper audio description, rather than leaving Paul to awkwardly explain visual clips with no audio. Especially as this isn't some low budget backwater show, its a mainstay of BBC.
@Real Aiglon I hope you get the help you need.
There is NO WAY Ian lost this one (and by 2 points!). They got the odd one out and some missing words and the spinning pictures. This thing has been rigged for quite some time now.
I used to love this show ,what happened ?
This episode could so easily have been so much cooler with audio rounds and jokes. Why have a blind guest on a visual gag based quiz? How time consuming would it have been to put in at least one, just one, audio round?
Oxford produces Bozos and Cambridge produces Comedians & Spies
(everywhere I go on TH-cam I get that ad for Tel Aviv- No, not going no matter how annoying the music and persistent the advertisement stalks me everywhere - ….. )
Hannah is funny, intelligent and beautiful. Stephen Fry is a lucky man.
im irrational and petty but im happy in some way that rishi sunak is pm. for now i really unlike my ancestors hope britan is stabilized and continues to exist.
Disastruss
Richie could have easily used grinder to get a man date
ALL food was once called meat. Nothing new Heston.
Could they not have made a show with less visuals this week? Also, what was Steph thinking making that intro joke?
@Real Aiglon what are we meant to say? He can't see! Visual quizzes are probably not his strong point.
39:47 - Introducing the end of your freedom in a nice, friendly, frivolous manner like only the BBC know how to do and then skipping over it with no explanation. (Rev 13:16-17)
Apparently Matt Hancock told Rishi beforehand not to shake hands with him because he had just sanitized his hands and didn't want to catch some exotic disease.
Not funny
WHY have a go at Charles, when he is copping cr ap from the Tory gov't for being so green? Not allowed to ATTEND the climate summit, as he wanted. That's like deliberately insulting the one VIP who agrees with you.
And no, I am not a mad royalist. I am not even a Brit.
Quite right. Charles has been publicly promoting environmental awareness for decades. I taught environmental science (by choice) for several years, bringing attn to climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions and having students presnt on feasibility and economics of alternative energy. These clowns with their pies and mashed potatoes arent doing any good in my view. Making activists look like children,
Those idiots who ruin pieces of art with food should have their eyes gauged out before being starved.
Cringefest with the lack of accommodations here, one thing to joke eternally about Nazis and people being fat or short or whatever, but do something so your invited guest can play the game
I couldn’t enjoy this episode bc it’s lack of accommodation for Jamie .
She got the intonation in the 'see u Jimmy' totally wrong. Wish english wldnt try to ne smart with Scottish dialect. Mind u why shld I bother, they just make fools of themselves.
can blind people be racist? Because anyone that grew up anywhere can have an accent.
Don't worry. Boris will be back. The current PM won't last for long.
Oh behave yourself 🙄🙄
Gawd help us!
birtain is bit misleading themselves to be virtuous and not concentrating on the point that even rulers are humans, they make mistakes, its not a problem, you need to look at his intentions
Steph McGovern rules
"Finally an audio round!" I think they might have tried (at all) to make the format more accessible.