The excuse they gave Richard Herring for why he couldn't have the penis as his specialist subject was because he'd written a book on it iirc, so maybe they wouldn't have let James do 2016 music??
The man really went on Mastermind with a random specialist subject that he knows absolutely nothing about, just as a joke, guessed all the answers, and still didn't come last in that round. Genius.
@@itsaninsidething Your clumsy use of polysyllabic words which you don't quite understand is abysmal and doesn't make you look as smart as was intended. Also, your sense of humour could probably do with a service, as it's looking a bit ropey. I suggest you crack open one of those scary wordy books of words about words, commonly known as dictionaries, to avoid all this embarrassment in future.
He TRULY loves desserts though, soooo much.. So doesn't suprise me, but still, who on earth would know or need that kind of trivial knowledge haha 😂.. He's brilliant mun
@@pixelfrenzy a guy from the traitors got zero, but he pickled cephalopods for some reason. In the same episode, a girl picked Disney princesses (an easier category in my opinion) and still only got one
It must hurt knowing you were beaten by someone who did no prep work and probably chose their specialist subject based on what they were eating when asked what thier specialist subject would be.
The questions he was expecting- Do you like ice cream? What's your favourite flavour of ice cream? What 2 numbers are the name of an ice cream topping? True or false- ice cream is hot? What popular addition to ice cream is also a way of describing someone who cancels plans? Would you like some ice cream?
According to the rumor I just started spreading, if they didn't ask him a Spice Girls question, he was going to try and drown himself in a pool after the show.
@@mrfocigaz4942 it hadn't occurred to me that it was a possible question where the answer was five as IQ scores don't really go lower than 70 and that is considered considerably impaired. an IQ of five would basically be dribbling and barely able to move. i just thought it was a weird question ;p
"Paul Hollywood's going around ookimg at you with his sexy eyes, it's very distracting" Fucking love James so much... It is very distracting he's right
Funny, I am from Philadelphia and have NEVER heard of the ice cream mentioned at 2:13. Interesting how terms and phrases grow and get a life of their own outside their original realm of influence. For example, there's an expression we use here all the time for yogurt, breakfast sausage, and nacho chips; we call it "The Posh Londoner."
Wait… is that, like… all mushed together? Or is it like, you eat a tub of yogurt, and then you eat some sausage on nachos? Coz if it’s all together that sounds insane
At least we can assume Vermont was at least a slightly educated guess, since that's where Ben & Jerry's is from? Some people in the US forget VT's a state, too :/ Doesn't excuse the state of Chicago, though.
Ok, I got like 3 questions (of the 'harder' ones) right: Häagen-Dazs, Mortal Combat and Parakeet (pure guesswork tho). So all in all he did incredible.
Never seen mastermind before this clip and those drum sounds are creepy af, anyone else notice they're the same as the Inglorious Basterds soundtrack whenever something bad was going to happen?
Having not watched this show before, why are the questions 30 minutes long? "You get one and a half minutes" and a full minute of that is going to be asking the actual questions so you only get 2 questions.
Always four contestants, with two rounds. As you can see from the scores it is possible to have up to 10 questions per round ( if you are quick to answer!). First round is your specialised subject, 2nd round General Knowledge.
This is a man who has never studied the history of ice cream
"James, what will be your specialist subject?"
James, eating a slightly out of date ice cream: "Idk, the history of ice cream?"
shut up creamy boy
And yet still got 4 right. The man’s a genius
It is the key to his heart
He knew about Mr Icecream
With confidence: "CREAMY BOYS!"
Clive: No.
That was hilarious
The answer being "hokie pokie" is equally outlandish, I could picture him flippantly saying that instead in the same way.
@@Jmcinally94 Well that IS what its all about so he (James aka the mash king) should've known
@ 1:40
If he had picked 2016 music he could have actually smashed it hahaha
Exactly what I thought!
My God you're right.
That would have been so good!
The excuse they gave Richard Herring for why he couldn't have the penis as his specialist subject was because he'd written a book on it iirc, so maybe they wouldn't have let James do 2016 music??
I'm fully expecting someone to bring this up in an interview and James to freak out because he can't believe he didn't choose it
The man really went on Mastermind with a random specialist subject that he knows absolutely nothing about, just as a joke, guessed all the answers, and still didn't come last in that round. Genius.
That doesn't fit the definition of a genius, but I will accept your answer.
@@NikBlackwell Your apprehension of genius is abysmal.
@@itsaninsidething Your clumsy use of polysyllabic words which you don't quite understand is abysmal and doesn't make you look as smart as was intended. Also, your sense of humour could probably do with a service, as it's looking a bit ropey. I suggest you crack open one of those scary wordy books of words about words, commonly known as dictionaries, to avoid all this embarrassment in future.
Started answering. Had a breakdown. Bon appetite
This guy is a proper comedian, goes on mastermind and picks a subject he clearly hasnt studied for, just for the shits
Lmao I know right what a rebellious guy!
Also possibly thinks it best to deliberately handicap himself after the whole House of Games debacle.
Didn't someone get ZERO in their specialist subject recently, or was that even on regular MM?
He TRULY loves desserts though, soooo much.. So doesn't suprise me, but still, who on earth would know or need that kind of trivial knowledge haha 😂.. He's brilliant mun
@@pixelfrenzy a guy from the traitors got zero, but he pickled cephalopods for some reason. In the same episode, a girl picked Disney princesses (an easier category in my opinion) and still only got one
The Creamy Boys absolutely killed me 🤣
And his appreciation of Hokey Pokey as the real answer.
Cracked me up also!!
I'm surprised it's not one of his old band names, like the caprisun quartets haha 😂
1:43
I love that he answered every question even if he had no idea
James didn't care about anything except getting the Mortal Kombat question wrong
a man of the people
C R E A M Y B O I S
Created a new heckle got him.
1:43
They gave him a Spice Girls question. Brilliant.
He told them if he didn’t get a Spice Girls question that he’d drowned himself.
He was one of them
He Really Really Wanted that question.
@@LPKelly380 Stop right now
@@muga9506 Thank you very much
He answered every question with a question mark inflection at the end 😄😄
I don't know, he seemed pretty confident about Scary Spice
Isn't that what the great Ron Swanson suggests ??
@@redopz4462 well we all know he was prepared to drown himself for the Spice Girls
Including his name
It must hurt knowing you were beaten by someone who did no prep work and probably chose their specialist subject based on what they were eating when asked what thier specialist subject would be.
@@pauladamsfinewines8379 No but he still came in third place beating Charlotte Worthington that's who I was refering to.
I think by question two of the History of Ice Creams, James realised he didn't think there would be so many questions beyond flavours 🤣
As a self confessed fan it's good to see he got the Spice Girls question right.
He'd have had to drown himself if he got it wrong
Either I’m going to get this spice girls question right, or I’m going to die
@@lexigold8448 that's the best inside joke I've ever seen
@@meiji_tom Which happened?
I'm surprised he knew because he doesn't have the Spice Girls debut album "Spice".
Answering "conservative" and his following reaction was the funniest part of the video for me.
The dejected clarification at the end, "I don't think...Conservatives are a department, by the way" got me
I didn't know that I was capable of feeling disappointment and amusement at the same time until I watched this clip.
Asked to name a city, he says Vermont. Asked to name a state he says Chicago.
But hey, he correctly guessed a US President based on the decade of his death 200 years ago
@@FredreegzYear, and only three presidents had died at that point (then again, even Americans seem to struggle with placing presidents)
I'm from the us and we don't have Philadelphia ice cream. Never heard that and I'm from the north east
It's so satisfying when American trivia isn't prioritized.
In the context of geography, Chicago's a bad answer, but in the context of a stage play named after some US place it's not too bad
I thought he was going to answer “Monsieur Whippy”
😂😂😂
The questions he was expecting-
Do you like ice cream?
What's your favourite flavour of ice cream?
What 2 numbers are the name of an ice cream topping?
True or false- ice cream is hot?
What popular addition to ice cream is also a way of describing someone who cancels plans?
Would you like some ice cream?
Those are all pre approved questions for any Joe Biden interviews!
He knew he should've gotten the Mortal Kombat question right
Creamy Boys!
Eclaire Bros!
*bois
What a legend, history of ice cream
The slight show of surprise in his eyes when he's right at 2:00 is excellent
The Hokey Pokey answer almost broke him 😂
as a jmaes acaster fan, hearing the spice girls question got me more excited than mastermind should ever get anybody excited
According to the rumor I just started spreading, if they didn't ask him a Spice Girls question, he was going to try and drown himself in a pool after the show.
6:50 perfect comedic timing😆
I think he deliberately waited for the music to start before saying that.
I bet this was a fun watch for the staff of Youth Works Northamptonshire
my specialist subject would be questions where the answer is "five"
What is your IQ?
that's numberwang!
@@mrfocigaz4942 I haven't had an iq test in about 20 years but back then it was 130
@@antygod Oh, it wasn't a serious question, it was my crappy joke. I wanted you to say five!! 😼
@@mrfocigaz4942 it hadn't occurred to me that it was a possible question where the answer was five as IQ scores don't really go lower than 70 and that is considered considerably impaired. an IQ of five would basically be dribbling and barely able to move.
i just thought it was a weird question ;p
He tied for first place on the general knowledge round.
I love that he clearly knows nothing about this, was purely for the comedy.
the music doesn't play in the studio
"Paul Hollywood's going around ookimg at you with his sexy eyes, it's very distracting"
Fucking love James so much... It is very distracting he's right
Monsieur Ice Cream and Creamy Boys 😂
His subject should have been “Things that are circles.”
The way he answers with “Ice Cream” is incredible! God I love this guy!
Funny, I am from Philadelphia and have NEVER heard of the ice cream mentioned at 2:13. Interesting how terms and phrases grow and get a life of their own outside their original realm of influence. For example, there's an expression we use here all the time for yogurt, breakfast sausage, and nacho chips; we call it "The Posh Londoner."
Wait… is that, like… all mushed together? Or is it like, you eat a tub of yogurt, and then you eat some sausage on nachos?
Coz if it’s all together that sounds insane
1:20 - Can't believe he missed the opportunity to say Monsieur Whippy there
The emphatic way he said *CREAMY BOYS* 😂😂😂😂😂
He got more right than I did. You scream. I scream. We all scream for ice cream. 😀
Nice Benigni reference
I’ve started so I’ll finish........ POPPADOMS OR BREAD James Acaster!
I adore him!
That mortal ko bat question killed him on the inside.
i think he chose history of ice cream for a laugh
No lol he loves ice cream
Surely not
If WILTY have their facts straight, he used to be an ice cream vendor.
I wonder how long it took the producers to find an expert on the history of ice cream to set the questions!
I'm surprised "suck it" didn't make an appearance.
I wanted to take History of Ice Cream at Greendale but the class was fully booked.
They could've asked him the entire set of stage names of all the spicegirls and he wouldn't flinch
All that Crawston Press has gone to his head.
This is such good service, given that I would never want to watch the whole thing.
He is effortlessly capable at being funny
The History of Ice Cream! Only James Acaster!
The city of Vermont and the state of Chicago
At least we can assume Vermont was at least a slightly educated guess, since that's where Ben & Jerry's is from? Some people in the US forget VT's a state, too :/ Doesn't excuse the state of Chicago, though.
You can see how he got there though, it's a musical and he couldn't think of another with the time pressure. Funny though
@@tomtom21194 And in this game, you benefit from hazarding a guess rather than passing.
Monsieur what?
...Ice Cream.
I live in New Zealand, thanks James.
the way he knew bill bryson..he reads ugh i love him
James getting to flex his Spice Girls knowledge lol
Of course he knew the spice girls question, he tried to drown himself when he didn't get their album for christmas
Real fans know there was no way he was ever going to miss the spice girls question
He only chose ice cream as a specialist subject to generate publicity. He was hoping it would be a scoop but he just made a nougat out of himself.
Ok, I got like 3 questions (of the 'harder' ones) right: Häagen-Dazs, Mortal Combat and Parakeet (pure guesswork tho). So all in all he did incredible.
Should be ashamed for getting Mortal Kombat confused with Street Fighter.
You could really see he was annoyed with himself on that one.
all I know about them is one of them has FINISH HIM
lmao im in counselling with youthworks northamptonshire cheers james
Pat Springleaf knows his onions...
Never seen mastermind before this clip and those drum sounds are creepy af, anyone else notice they're the same as the Inglorious Basterds soundtrack whenever something bad was going to happen?
... Had to pause to comment, "Creamy Boys!!" 😂 aw, I love Acaster aye 😅
Yes, I thank you Clem Fandango!
Who else answered the XL means extra large with the confidence and naivity of thinking the rest of the questions would be as easy
How long did James take to decide his specialist subject?
I’d say 15 minutes max tbh
@@Sam-yy6yw by minutes you of course mean "seconds"
@@matthewday5213 and by seconds you of course mean "Milliseconds"
@@MikeMJPMUNCH and by milliseconds you of course mean "nanoseconds"
Creamy Boys! (appearing tonight at the Dublin Castle).
When you actually don’t have a specialist subject but had to come up with something…..🤣🤣🤣
Tough ice cream questions.
I saw James get 4 points and was then surprised that he wasn’t last
Creamy boys
LASER is just in the question!!
Can’t believe he didn’t get Mortal Kombat 🤷🏻♂️😅
Of course he gets the spice girls question right
Thank you Clive 🤣
They asked him a spice girl's question, do they not know about his Christmas meltdown?
“The creamy boys!!”
"Which government department"
"... Conservative?"
"Department of Education."
He's usually great on Richard Osman's house of games.
Having not watched this show before, why are the questions 30 minutes long? "You get one and a half minutes" and a full minute of that is going to be asking the actual questions so you only get 2 questions.
Always four contestants, with two rounds. As you can see from the scores it is possible to have up to 10 questions per round ( if you are quick to answer!). First round is your specialised subject, 2nd round General Knowledge.
Monsieur Ice Cream 😂
Why didn’t he do the music of 2016!?
Because then he would have done well. I don't think that was the point.
James is no creamy boy when it comes to general knowledge, that's for sure
What do ghosts eat for pudding?
BOOberry pie and I SCREAAAAAAM.
Christ, that laser question is probably the easiest quiz question I've ever heard. You just need to be aware what an acronym is.
Easier than what the dish ran away with?
Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango.
This is one hundred percent a community reference.
Thank you Clem Fandango
I live in the US and I've never heard of Philadelphia ice cream
Philadelphia is a different dairy product
@haddy106 yes, cream cheese
I am American and a big fan of ice cream.
Never heard of the Philidelphia style ice cream.
Maybe it is a posh thing
"What city...?" "Vermont."
Monsieur Ice Cream😂😂😂
As I dinosaur, I confess I've never heard of the other three.
To be fair you should of heard of Michelle Gayle then!
Should have asked him some questions about cabbage.
He hates that boy
"CREAMY BOYS!!"
I was confidently shouting "conservatives" at my screen. I'm not very good at listening to questions
I really hoped the answer to question 2 was Mr Whippy !
Heard him say the word pin-drop and got Nam flashbacks