CheapShow - Ep 82: The History of the Noel: Part One
Episode Date: June 29, 2018Noel Edmonds. The man, the myth, the beard. Is he a talented, misunderstood, everyman of the entertainment world? Or just a mad, desperate lunatic who feels he should be considerably more famous? Yo...u decide... As we finally tackle the topic that's been hanging over us for so long. In this episode, Paul & Eli look at Noel's beginnings, read a rather crap interview with Noel from a 1975 Top of the Pops annual and then throw themselves into Crinkly Bottom... Kinda... they play the Noel's House Party board game... and end up with tired out wrists! But then... why is this Part One? Is there more to come in the future? Sadly, there may have to be... And if you like us, why not support us: www.patreon.com/cheapshow Share & Enjoy. Subscribe or Die! www.thecheapshow.co.uk If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com And if you have to, follow us on Twitter @thecheapshowpod or @paulgannonshow & @elisnoid
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Hey!
Yeah, that's right.
It's cheap show time, ladies and gentlemen. Again, here it right. It's Cheap Show time, ladies and gentlemen.
Again, here it is.
It's Eli Silverman here.
And in the studio, we've got a very special guest today.
Very special guest.
It's Paul Gannon, everybody.
Hello.
Hello.
It's the Wacky Breakfast Show
Cheap Show Noel Edmonds Special.
Let's rock!
Okay!
Hey, you and your fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles, alright?
It's a fact of cheap show, you're gonna have to fucking reset.
Noodle time.
Tales from the dance floor.
How's the big guy?
The price of the shite Shine This is called
Gallantain
Hello
Eli Silver
Welcome to
Geek Show
I go and I nuzzle
Shouldn't say let's rock
Why?
Because that's what
Smashing Nicey say
I know that's why
I said it though
Yeah but Well then what? What should I have said? Something you came up with why because that's what smashing nice you say I know that's why I said it though yeah but
well then what
what should I have said
something
you came up with
which
communicates that
but
let's go crazy
with my musical jet gravy
I like that
yeah
yes
let's go crazy
with my musical gravy
well okay then
yes
we decided
it was about time
to draw a line
under the
curse
that has been hanging over us.
The bearded sword of Damocles.
Noel Edmonds, it's time to purge.
Do you want to take your coat off?
No, do you want to make a decision on that?
I'm ready here.
Oh yeah.
I'm not enjoying what you're doing and I want you to improve it.
Go on, how?
and I want you to improve it.
Go on, how?
Well, yes, ladies and gentlemen,
it's time that we draw a line underneath the terrible bearded sword of Damocles
that's been hanging over cheap shows
since, I don't know, yesteryear.
Yes, everybody, it's the Noel Edmonds special.
I mean, I am reasonably impressed
with the enthusiasm you put into that.
Ha ha!
Okay, Paul.
What's coming up on this Noel Edmonds special we've got then, mate?
Well, we're going to basically exercise Noel Edmonds from this fucking show.
What, like an exorcist?
You can stop that now.
You can stop that now.
What, like?
Well, how?
How are we going to excise him, the hairy, bollock-headed fool?
By just stripping it down.
The thing is, ever since he did Cheep Cheep Cheep on Channel 4, right? How are we going to excise him, the hairy, bollock-headed fool? By just stripping it down.
The thing is, ever since he did Cheep Cheep Cheep on Channel 4, right,
he kind of became a nemesis for this podcast.
And he started to possess your mortal soul.
He did. When you grew a beard and he crept in.
He did.
I started hanging out with celebrities and pranking them and giving them gotchas.
You know, I did a lot
of crazy things
during that period
of my life
I'm not happy
well let's draw a line
under your
where Edmunds-ism
and also about
this whole show's
obsession with Edmunds
in general
so because we
basically
this is a line
this pod
is a line
it's a line in the sand
not a line in the sand
no
a line under
oh it's a line under
our obsession with Edmonds.
Okay.
It's not obsession.
It's just lingering cloud.
It is kind of an obsession.
But, Paul.
He keeps popping up, though.
He does.
He keeps popping up.
He pops up everywhere.
He's like laryngeal cancer.
Nice.
Fucking hell.
Really, though?
Are you going to go with that?
I mean, if you want to change it, you've got the chance now.
Okay.
Yeah, he keeps popping up.
He's like herpes. Fine. Yeah, he keeps popping up. He's like,
herpes.
Fine.
Herpes we can work with.
But Paul,
fair enough.
And I'm getting sick
of discussing the whole...
He is the syphilis
of light entertainment.
Do you know what I wanted
to ask you, maybe,
just as an aside to start with?
You know that, like,
David E. Travers
is known as the hairy cornflake.
Yeah.
Did Edmunds ever have,
like, a nickname?
Well, in this, which we'll get to in a minute,
the annual, Top of the Pops annual from last episode,
they called him the man who can't stand still.
Okay, he's full of energy.
Suggesting he's got fingers in many pies.
He's spitting lots of plates.
And he does.
He comes across like a bit of a devil boy of radio,
of light entertainment.
He's always got something going on.
He does.
He did seem to have a lot of energy as well, you know.
And I think in his early career,
a lot of what he had going on was interesting,
fascinating,
and obviously he was building his brand.
Now, he is cock-a-bonkers.
He's cock-a-bonkers.
He's cock-a-bonkers, ladies and gentlemen.
He's utterly cock-a-bonkers.
And I think it's about time we purged Noel from the Chief Show.
From our pod anus.
Yes.
We will strangle Wang Kim to death.
This is a metaphorical arse wash.
Cleaning the clingy bits of Noel Edmonds that are stuck in our lower colon
out of the pod's arse straight into the listener's ear.
Yeah?
Shooting Noel-flavoured diarr straight into the listener's ear. Yeah? Shooting
no-flavoured diarrhea bits
into your ear.
Yeah.
Like hot,
spunky gravy
on a summer's day
out in the sun
spinning a plate.
There's an elephant.
I'm starting to
I'm starting to dream
whilst I'm awake.
Bless you.
That sneeze was more enjoyable than what you just said just now.
Okay, so what have we got on this special, Paul?
Cheap Show is a toilet.
Noel Edmonds is a big poo.
Your ears are the gutter.
We're going to flush Noel Edmonds from this podcast into your ear sewer.
And that's right.
And that's right.
So where do we start?
I don't know.
Who is Noel Edmonds?
Obviously, we have a largely British audience that listen to this podcast,
but people listen to us from way far afield.
Don't fucking look at me because I know what you're thinking,
and I'm thinking it too.
Listen for us from way far afield.
Yes, Paul.
People listen to us far and wide.
In America, Australia, Germany, Croatia, Russia, Africa.
Okay.
Thailand.
Are there people in Africa and Thailand?
Wow.
It's bizarre.
Maybe they're just British people out there going,
I need to hear some fucking British nonsense.
Yes, perhaps they are.
But anyway, we love all of our listeners.
We love them.
Thank you so much for supporting us on Patreon.
Thank you very much.
And as a result, they might not know who Noel Edmonds is.
And frankly, God bless him.
Give us a breakdown then.
Well, Noel Edmonds is fundamentally a light entertainment presenter.
Although he got his start on radio.
Radio was where he grew his brand, his name, became the Noel Edmonds we all know and fear.
So, and he was on Radio 1.
Was that his first gig?
I bet he started on a hospital
or he started...
Shall we dig in?
Shall we dig in
to Noel Edmonds'
life?
Radio 1
Breakfast Show
275
285
Radio 1
Here we go.
The life of Edmonds.
Born
22nd December 1948.
That means he's what?
60?
No.
50, 60, 70, 80, 90.
Oh, so he's 70 this year?
Yeah, I believe so.
He's looking good for 70.
I'll say that for him.
It's all those crystals he fucking sticks in his eyes and his ass.
He is immortal.
Yeah.
So he just doesn't matter.
He just is trying to...
What he does is he he tries to appear mortal by you know aging because he controls his whole appearance he does
but he just he still is quite vain although he's an immortal being yeah and he sort of you know
he tries to make himself look good for 70 i think in fact if you saw the true countenance of Noel in the harsh light of the magic circle where he lives down on a pentagram with his cot in it.
In a room with no mirrors.
Yes.
Then you'd see the true face of evil.
And a box full of foetuses that he's supped upon.
His face is actually composed of writhing maggots.
Oh, the dark Edmonds.
The maggot-faced Edmonds.
Anyway, he's a TV presenter and executive, it says on Wikipedia.
Now, Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey on BBC Radio 1.
He presented light entertainment TV shows for over 40 years.
Well, there you go, so he started on Radio 1.
I wonder where they found him.
Well, he must have had a pre-Radio 1 career.
So many of them did, didn't they?
He went on to do multicoloured swap shop for kids.
That was the kids' breakfast Saturday morning show.
Top of the Pops, the late, late breakfast show,
which was his slightly more adult, you know,
but still family-friendly TV show.
And then on to Teleaddicts.
And then Noel's House Party and then Deal or No Deal.
That's his TV career in a nutshell.
Okay.
He's done pretty well, hasn't he?
He's done all right.
There's a few tangents along
the way.
Cheap,
cheap,
cheap.
Noel HQ,
which was
fascist Noel
TV hour,
was it?
Because he
got wicked
to discuss
how I hate
immigrants.
No,
yeah,
but in a
kind of
what's wrong
with Britain
today?
You agree,
don't you?
He's brainwashed
hundreds.
He will cheer
when I say
cheer now.
Cheer now!
You know?
It was him
doing his
Hitler bit.
It was like PC
gone crazy.
Bagpiper told to
not play bagpipes
after 9 o'clock.
I bet he's a
Brexiteer, isn't it?
Let's just get that
out on the table
right now.
He's got to be,
though.
He has to be.
The only way he
wouldn't be is he
goes, oh, what about
my business interest
in Europe?
I'll just go fly over
in my chopper.
I am no Edmonds.
This is going nowhere.
Stare upon the countenance of Edmonds and weep.
Noel Edmonds is the son of a headmaster
who worked in Hainault, London.
Explains quite a lot, doesn't it?
Does it?
Yeah, he's got a very headmasterly...
You're right.
He's like a cool headmaster.
He's like a headmaster.
At his worst, when he's presenting,
he comes across like a square old guy
trying to be sort of funny and hip.
And dad-jokey.
He's so dad-jokey.
That's a good point.
I hadn't thought about that.
That explains a lot.
He attended primary school in Clayhill
and Brentwood School in Brentwood.
He was offered a place at the University of Surrey
but turned it down in favour of a job
as a news raider on Radio Luxembourg.
A news raider?
Oh, for fuck's sake. Did I say that? But he turned it down in favour of a job as a news raider on Radio Luxembourg. A news raider? Oh, for fuck's sake, did I say that?
But he turned it down in favour of a job as a news raider.
One more time.
But he turned it down in favour...
Fuck, he turned it down in favour of a job as a newspaper.
No.
He turned it down.
He had a job as a newspaper.
He turned it down, yeah.
Look, Paul, just lay out the lay of the land down.
The Daily Knowle.
The Daily Knowle.
Let's just say that all again, because he really did scramble it like eggs.
He was offered a place in the University of Surrey,
but turned it down in favour of a job as a newsreader for Radio Luxembourg.
Okay, so yeah.
And it was offered to him in 1968 after he sent tapes to offshore radio stations.
He made his own tapes.
He must have.
He's ambitious.
Well, if there's nothing else you can say about him, he is ambitious.
He's always me me me
see me look at me
look at me I'm here
look at me
look how important I can be to you
look how impressive I can be
look at my connections
look at my dealings
look at my this
look at my track record
he's built himself up
he's built his career
he's a bit of a del boy
I see what you mean
you know what I mean
he's definitely an opportunist
a middle class del boy
yes
yeah
with delusions of grandeur
a bit nouveau riche
probably as well
no in 1969 he moved to BBC Radio 1 Yes. Yeah. With Delusions of Grandeur. A bit nouveau riche probably as well. No.
In 1969, he moved to BBC Radio 1.
So, okay, there you go.
He started on the Pirates like everyone else.
He started on the Pirates, moved to Radio 1 where he was recording trailers for broadcasts
and filling in for absent DJs such as Kenny Everett.
So when Kenny Everett was like, I can't get out of bed today because coke.
Yeah.
Did he? Was he? Yeahett was like, I can't get out of bed today because Coke. Yeah. Did he?
Was he?
Yeah.
I mean, I believe so.
The Freddie Mercury documentary
that talks about him
and Kenny Everett
working together
had a lot of crazy parties.
Let's just be fair to Everett
and say,
let's just say he's ill
or he's not available.
Yeah.
So you'd get Edmunds to debt for it.
Because Everett would record
seven shows at once
and mix, dip and cut it all himself
and then send them out
to different radio stations.
Yes.
Like an absolute bad boy
in radio
he was
difficult to work with
at times
but a genius
yeah
but imagine
the work
doing your own
like seven versions
of different shows
in your home studio
and then mailing them
to people
and that's
wow
yeah
and it was off
at the very last minute
so maybe a tape reel
didn't get there
on time one day
and so Noel Edmonds
was dragged in what a poor day for pop history Ever get there on time one day and so Noel Edmonds was dragged in.
What a poor day for pop history.
Everett.
You're expecting Everett
but you get Edmonds.
Yeah.
And that's,
isn't it just what life is like in general?
Yeah.
You want a bit of Everett
but you get a bit of Edmonds.
Yeah, exactly.
It's not fair.
In 1970,
Edmonds began his own
two-hour Saturday afternoon show
before replacing Everett
on Saturday mornings
from 10 to...
I wonder why.
Again, Everett was like,
fuck this, I'm not getting up on a Saturday morning.
I've got a hangover.
I think Edmonds was fired from the...
No, I think Everett was fired from the BBC
or certainly maybe he moved to a commercial station
and got a big money
and then came back to the BBC for bigger money
and that kind of thing.
Yeah, doing that whole thing.
Yeah, because I know I'm talking about Everett more,
but didn't Everett...
Wasn't the video show...
What was that show called?
Oh, yeah.
Everett's Video Vaults or...
No, a video show, I think it was just called...
Kelly Everett Video Show.
I couldn't look it up.
That was ITV, I think.
No, it was BBC.
Oh, was it?
Yeah, it was BBC.
It was very BBC.
With like...
With the one that Barry Cry wrote for us.
Sid Snotten.
Yeah.
And Cupid Stunt.
And Cupid Stunt.
That was all BBC as far as I remember.
I'm pretty sure it's BBC.
That's actually right. And then when he did the whole you do you think i'm sexy and his bum got yeah it's weird
how that's really memorable that once because he used to do that kept coming up on the clip shows
yeah but i remember seeing it at the time and thinking oh weird and like oh yeah i'm thinking
oh really yeah oh your bum's getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Can we move on
because this is really awkward now.
I'm going to jack it.
No, don't jack it
to fucking Kenny Everett's
inflating arse.
Okay.
Right?
Draw a line.
This whole pod is a line
and I'm straddling it.
In 1971,
he was moved to Sunday morning slot
10 till 12
before being promoted
to host the Radio 1 Breakfast Show
from June 73 to April 78.
And as we all know, Paul, the Radio 1 Breakfast Show from June 73 to April 78. And as we all know, Paul,
the Radio 1 Breakfast Show is the most famous job
in all of radio-dom.
Yeah.
It's recently moved again, hasn't it?
Because they said that Grimshaw is being replaced by that.
God, he's a fucking talent vacuum.
Is he really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are they all a bit like that, the young presenters, these days?
I don't know.
I don't listen.
We don't listen to it. I don young presenters these days? I don't know. I don't listen. We don't listen to it, do we?
I don't listen to it.
I don't know.
I put BBC Radio 4 on and listen to the...
I don't know.
No, do I.
I just listen to the radio.
I go home and I'm sick getting to bed and then I'll read the KY.
I'll smooth the KY on my belly cracks.
You fart as well.
I did not fart.
Did you fart?
Take that back.
No.
Did you fart?
I would never do something like that in your presence.
You would.
You've done it four times today.
I'm a respectable member of this community and any community,
and I deny categorically farting whilst broadcasting this pod.
So get on with it.
Yeah, but you did though,
didn't you?
You let out a little
Tommy Squeaker.
I can't help it.
I can't.
Anyway,
yeah.
You ruined that
with a fart.
That bit's done.
That bit's done.
Took over from
Tony Blackburn
who went on to the show
after him.
So that was the hand
over there.
And his stylist.
It's like that documentary we both watched.
Again, all the videos that we mentioned
I'll link to on our webpage.
You're going to link it to.
That was very, very interesting.
And it showed him in the very early days
when he was doing the Radio 1...
Breakfast show.
And he was very professional.
Weekday.
Well, that's the thing.
What he lacks in...
I don't know.
Because let's be honest.
What he lacks in... Genuine warmth't know because let's let's be honest what he lacks in genuine warmth or humor
that's it's two two things he's lacking in genuine warmth body warmth and humor yeah his humor's weak
it's that jokey and it's also slightly sneery there's a slight bully yes nature to it's a
bullying sort of you know sound to it
he's very
I mean
I don't know
I don't know
that's
it is fair
he is
it's interesting
he is often the butt
of his own joke
but sometimes you think
it's against his will
like he knows
he's gone
oh I've got to do this joke
where someone takes the piss
out of me
yeah you can almost
see him cringing
where he takes the piss
out of himself
he doesn't embrace
taking the piss
out of himself
but he knows
at the back of his head
he goes
I'm no language
yeah yeah I do not deserve this yes so that means you can't be a true clown paul
no unless you can accept the flop or accept yourself and that's it i don't think he can i
think he does it with with a lot of artifice you can see he's not truly he pushes back yeah a little
bit yeah he's like this is wacky but uh a bit uncomfortable yes you saw that a lot in cheap
cheap cheap yeah when he was trying to be funny and that's why it didn't work one of the main a little bit. He's like, this is wacky, but a bit uncomfortable. You saw that a lot in Cheap Cheap Cheap
when he was doing this.
He was trying to be funny
and that's why it didn't work.
One of the main reasons
it didn't work
is he is not funny.
It's like,
why is he crawling on the floor
pretending to be a dog right now?
I don't understand.
Are you doing any funny?
It's like,
if that was a Christmas party,
you'd be like,
can you get Uncle Noel out?
Because I think he's about
to touch the cat.
Touch the cat?
Touch the cat.
There are people
who are funny. Yeah. And then there are people who are funny
yeah
and then there are people
who are presenters
and not
and then you know
they always try
and be funny
they affect it
and it becomes painful
it's like entertainment
isn't it
traditionally
you used to have people
who were brilliant comics
in like entertainment
Les Dawson for example
yeah
but then you have people
who aren't such great comics
as well
but Noel Edmonds
I just think
I think he's got the same problem
DLT has
is that they want to be
an all-rounder
which means they think
they're good at comedy
they think they're good at singing
they think they're good at this
that and the other
but actually
they affect it
or they convince themselves
they are
because it's a string to their bow
to say that they do that
and then they also ride a horse
but what did impress me
with that documentary
when you saw him doing the radio
which is called
like Now and Then
or something
but it's basically
comparing radio of 1978
when the documentary
went out with radio
from 1923 or something
the DJ who was
talking on there
the presenter
the early days of the BBC
and it's a juxtaposition
of the two different
jobs and roles
great documentary
really good
really eye opening
and no one knows
what he's talking about
and what he's doing
well that's what I was
going to say
but he's a robot
he comes in and you just think wow that's very what he's doing. Well, that's what I was going to say. But he's a robot. He comes in
and you just think, wow, that's very professional.
He's doing all the timings for his little bits
and he's doing it all. He's operating two
record players. He's timing out.
He's back-timing everything. Back-timing stuff.
Yeah. And then he goes,
Vader up. I am no comedy
bot. Here is gag I thought
about during ABBA song. Money,
money, money. Ha ha ha ha money money yeah but he must have been
loved to a certain extent to be popular and that's the thing isn't it it's like we don't like him i
find him disingenuous and creepy but don't forget those house parties swap shop were huge hits but
i think it's that headmasterly thing i think it's because he's the guy in charge of the wacky people or in
charge of this crazy world he's gonna be a bit daddy but oh dear it's the sort of sobriety
soberness behind the wacky you know it's just not it's just not very good comic oh dad's disco
he's not funny he can't at the core of it is he can't self-deprecate it's not real when he says
when he's self-deprecating but when he not real when he self-deprecates. But when he does
confess to his depression
and things like that,
even that comes across as,
I'm just saying this
so I sound human.
I'm not saying
he didn't have depression.
I'm not saying
he's having to cope with demons
because he has earned
his demons, right?
I'm sure he's doing it.
But at the same time,
I kind of feel like
he's doing it because he goes,
if I say this out loud,
people will like me again.
Yeah.
And it's a way for me to get back into the news.
And then he goes, and I can cure cancer with a light box.
And all of this sort of pseudo-scientific stuff that he spouts now, it's art as shit.
You know what?
And it's always really successful people, like entrepreneurs, who say, oh, all you have to do is think positively.
It's like, well, yeah.
It's easy for you to say, because you're rich.
If that was actually the case Yeah Then the whole world
Would be millionaires
Yeah
Do you know what I mean
If all you had to do
Is sit down and fucking
Think about a pile of money
To have it
You know what I mean
Well when you've got it
And you've earned it
And you have worked for it
Yeah I'm not saying
They haven't worked for their money
No no
But there was obviously
A great deal of luck
And circumstance
In anyone's life
There is
Time, place
Who you know
Yeah
And obviously he's pushed himself To get where he wanted to be And you can imagine He's quite aggressive In terms of his image circumstance in anyone's life there is. Time, place, who you know.
And obviously he's pushed himself to get
where he wanted to be
and you can imagine
he's quite aggressive
in terms of his image
and his saleability.
Yes.
But at the same time.
Do you think he had
an agent at the time?
Is that the way radio
DJ personalities have?
So he must have had a
great agent in the late
70s.
But during that
documentary though, he
talks about how he's
got other interests.
Or maybe, actually, you
know what?
We're going to come
back to this.
Coming up is the news and travel,
and then we'll be back to the Noel Edmonds Cheap Show Special.
Thanks.
Welcome back to the show.
It's 7.29 on...
And it's that... Oh, no, it wasn't witty. I'm sorry. I was tryinguh-nuh-nuh of blah-blah-blah-blah and it's that.
Oh, I know.
It wasn't witty.
I'm sorry.
I was trying to do
a radio link
and keep the feed button.
We don't even want witty.
We just want something,
you know?
Something.
Let's take the piss
out of Noel Edmonds more.
All right, that's it.
Do you want to do
something then?
Yeah.
Come on.
Hello.
Welcome back.
Yeah.
Great.
So, we will take this
moment to now break and swerve over to what we talked about last week on the great so we will take this moment
to now break
and swerve over to
what we talked about
last week
on the Top of the Pops annual
and here's the article
that Noel Edmonds
again like the Jimmy Savile one
he just talks
and someone's transcribed it
and put it in the annual
so
is it less
utterly creepy
and horrible
than the Savile one
I hope so
it's
the middle ground
between the Savile one and the DLT one.
It's like the litmus test of both ends, right?
So it's the neutral in the middle of naffness.
Okay.
Yeah?
Okay.
So the section's called Top DJs, right?
And we've got Noel Edmonds, Tony Blackburn, DLT.
And Noel Edmonds is the big name on this.
Yes.
Let's crack on with it.
Okay.
And it starts with an interesting gambit, I think.
So, Eli, take it away with Noel Edmonds.
Now, this is a little article called Top DJs.
Yeah.
And Noel is there.
And this is supposed to be in Noel's voice, is it?
Yeah, but don't do the impression.
I don't.
I couldn't.
We can't.
I can't.
We won't.
I won't.
I will not.
Naughty boy.
A few years ago now, a new unknown singer made his debut on the RCA record label.
The song on the record was called Alcatraz, and the singer was a fellow called Kirk Houston.
Hmm.
That wasn't his real name, however.
No? The real identity of the singer of that one and only record can now be revealed.
It was none other than Noel Edmonds, now established as one of the presenters of Top of the singer of that one and only record can now be revealed. It was none other than Noel Edmonds,
now established as one of the presenters of Top of the Pops.
What the fricking tits.
Noel laughs now at the memory of it.
I bet he laughs.
I can see him doing it as well.
The record wasn't so much released.
It escaped.
Oh, wacky.
He quips.
Yeah.
I really had a fancy at the time to be a singer. That's a strange old-fashionedips yeah I really had a fancy
at the time
to be a singer
that's a strange
old fashioned way
of saying
I had a fancy
yes
I had a fancy
to spunk in a horse's
tail mane
I had a fancy
to
no I'm not going to do that
it's
unnecessarily dark
and cruel
was it about kids
yeah
oh god
I know you so well.
Yeah.
Okay.
I really had a fancy at the time to be a singer,
but not anymore.
I promise.
I've dropped that particular ambition.
Oh.
I know now.
I now know my limitations.
Oh, does he?
Does he, Noel?
Do you?
But do you?
But do you?
Shall we listen to Alcatraz by Noel Edmonds?
Shall we stop there and listen to Alcatraz, Paul?
Here's what it sounds like, all right?
Here is that song by Kirk Houston.
Houston.
Houston.
Thank you.
Brother and sister, open your eyes.
Must your mind try to visualize a hell on earth
where men ascend in effort to make the wicked repent?
These poor men have left our world.
Went on to this isle of their bodies.
A world escaped from this prison nobody has.
Everyone dies on Alcatraz.
Once in a cell a man can't stand.
An identity number's burned on his hand.
The food will be a cr crown but don't ask for more
The bones of the grave are beneath your floor
Defy the god and receive the lash
Strike from the whiplash and ugly gash
Never breathe loud
Gash
The lord is forbidden on Alcatraz
You know, that's enough of that.
What do you think he's doing?
That. What's he affecting he's doing? That.
What's he affecting?
What's that sound?
Is it like that 60s, hippie, proggish almost sound?
No.
It's a novelty record, plain and simple.
But it doesn't sound like a novelty record.
The novelty being Alcatraz.
It's all about Alcatraz.
But it's not spelt that way.
It's spelt A-L-C-A-Z.
Yeah, but it's all about being in jail. It's sort of like, way it's spelt A-L-K-A but it's all about being in jail
it's sort of like
you know there was a lot of comedy songs
around that time
like trucker songs
weren't there
from the viewpoint of a trucker
or from the viewpoint of
well famously a convoy
yes
but also
I think he thought
oh let's just do one from the viewpoint
of an inmate at Alcatraz
terrible
what a weird thing terrible
I wonder what the thought process is behind he wanted to make a buck I mean what he's not a
singer is he I mean you know okay shall I shall I continue yes that was the song okay not so very
long ago I recall Noel saying quite emphatically so it's not from his viewpoint
it's someone
he's interviewing him
okay my mistake
not so very long ago
I recall Noel saying
quite emphatically
I cannot imagine myself
as a disc joggy
a disc joggy
oh Paul
you're so shit
why don't you just stop
I would like
I cannot imagine
and maybe read away
I cannot imagine...
I cannot imagine myself
as a disc jockey at
25. Well, he's now
25. In fact, coming up
26. Oh, God, was he 26
then? Very young. He looks like...
Fucking cunt.
He laughed when I... Precocious. You know what I mean? He was very young he looks like what a fucking cunt he laughed
precocious
you know what I mean
he was precocious
he laughed when I reminded him
of what he'd said
I know
says Noel
but really
I still feel
I'm not cut out
to be a disc jockey
for a very long time
oh we agree
I'm much more mature now
oh dear
over the last year
I've really had to
make up my mind
about what I want to do
career wise
oh dear and I've discovered that I was really had to make up my mind about what I want to do career-wise.
Oh, dear.
And I've discovered that I was really enjoying myself much more than I realised.
I've now started appreciating how well off I am compared with lots of people and the jobs they do.
I'm really a lot more fortunate than I thought.
Yes, you... Yes.
Yeah.
Noel is a very philosophical kind of guy.
Yeah, isn't he?
That is true, because he starts believing all sorts of crazy philosophy
later in his life.
Like, imagine a bunch of money,
entire string around your wrist
and you'll be cured of cancer.
Yeah.
Fucking quack.
Didn't he just...
Didn't he try and sell some box
that cured cancer as well?
I think he was trying to do
all kinds of get-rich-quick schemes.
Sort of like there's a crystal in a box
and it transmits to your chamber.
Like, there was a court of deal or No Deal, wasn't there,
where, like, people who came onto the show for that week
to be part of the Deal or No Deal cast were, like,
getting behind the mantra of positive energy and blah, blah, blah,
and chakras and colours, and Noel would say,
oh, I can sense your aura, you're not going to win this.
Oh, what a prick.
Yeah.
What a prick.
Yeah.
Noel is a very philosophical kind of guy.
For philosophical, read prick.
Prick.
I suddenly sat down.
Boring prick.
I suddenly sat down and started to think things out, he said.
I think maybe I was trying to rush things too much.
I was not sitting back and enjoying myself quite as much as I should do.
I was thinking too much of the next stepping stone in the river
and not standing back to look at the pleasant view.
I really had some very hairy fairy ideas not so long ago hairy fairy oh what i didn't want to be was just another disc jockey what i didn't then realize but i do now is that the best way not to
be classed like somebody else is to simply do what they've done but do it differently. Yeah. Yeah. Rip people off and put a new name on
them.
Is that what you're
saying?
Yeah.
Already I think I've
proved that I'm not
just another Tony
Blackburn.
Oh there now I'm
getting a bit of
ooh.
Little fucking dig
there.
You could see it as
well when they did
the crossover on
that.
Yeah.
It's a bit like
Tony Alan Partridge
and fucking the
other guy the
breakfast show.
Yeah.
That whole crossover
thing.
It really is and I
think this is
another little bit of evidence
that him and Tony Blackburn
must have butted heads
shall we say
I reckon
Tony Blackburn's sitting
on a wealth of fucking
dirt on Noel
oh dirt on Noel
he's like
just try it Noel
because on that show
just try it
and I'll fucking tell you
about 1978
in fucking
Bognoridgious
Pontins
yeah
exactly
and on that show
on the documentary
that we mentioned before
when you fuck that dog's eye.
I don't know.
That's what Noel's done.
Yeah.
Likes to have sex with animals, but only in their eyes.
When they're dead.
Yeah.
Well, not at the end, they are, yeah.
Ooh, he kills them with their penis in the eyeball.
Yeah, that's a fact.
Okay.
No, but on that show, they do do a crossover to Tony Blackburn.
And Noel has a little thing
where he goes,
yeah, I always wait
until he says my name
and then I go out
and then I leave.
So he's waiting to be...
In case he gets a little...
Tony gets a dig in.
In case he gets a dig in
so I can hear
and dig him back
next time tomorrow morning.
So he's proved
that he's not another
Tony Blackburn.
Tony and I are two
completely different personalities.
Good.
And we both have our quite distinctive characteristics.
He's sort of saying something,
and you can see there's some negativity behind it,
but he's not mentioning that.
He's basically saying there's an age difference
and an audience difference.
And he's basically,
oh, actually, Cudleaf, mum's favourite,
and I'm a little bit more, ooh.
A little bit more edgy, yeah.
Noel Edmonds thinks he's edgy.
He does.
As well as presenting Top of the Pops,
he's now into all kinds of things.
Oh, yeah.
Dogging.
Top of the dogs.
Yeah.
Away from the radio and TV studios.
Which he fucks in the eye.
When he's not in the studios,
he's busy in other fields.
Popping the dogs.
For instance,
he's quite an enterprising young businessman.
Yeah.
With a young business partner, Noel owns a couple of record shops. Now, I didn't know he was a businessman. Yeah. With a young business partner.
Noel owns a couple of record shops.
Now, I didn't know he was a record shop owner.
There you go, then.
One in London, Swinging Kings Road, and another in Orpington.
Not so swinging.
Not so swinging.
Where's Orpington?
It's outside London, I think.
I think it must be.
Pop music is my business, says Noel.
And I think I know by now just what the record's kids like to buy and to hear.
Yeah, I'm sure
he just listens to the top 40.
Yeah, fucking,
it's not hard, is it?
No.
He has strong views, however,
on why a lot of people
often neglect LP records
but put out,
often neglect LP records
put out by artists
and concentrate only
on buying singles.
There's a whole lot
of good material
on many albums
and they are much better
value for money, he says.
Oh, he's anti-singles.
He's anti-singles.
Boring.
He likes the prog rock multi-track albums.
Yeah, he does, doesn't he?
Yeah, he likes the twins.
He's so middle of the road.
As an example, take Gary Glitter.
And Rob and I, a lot of the singles he puts out are fine,
but they are very short-lived.
But I'm sure some of the kids had no comprehension that
Gary Glitter could actually sing a song like
Happy Birthday until I played it
from one of his albums on my radio programme.
It's really an excellent
piece of music.
I'm sure he didn't have
Gary Glitter's children fans didn't have
much of a comprehension of his predilection
for that self-same age audience.
No. He was a dirty boy he
went around the world he liked to pay for sex with little boys and girls he's gary glitter
he's gary glitter oh my god he talks about how he likes to drive his on his private car on his
private land with his escort rs 2000 oh and you're okay you see i'm really a frustrated TV comedian.
I'd like to do more comedy on TV.
Oh, here we go. What a young girl
who was in the audience for Top of the Pops knows
just what Noel means.
Because she saw his dick and laughed.
Noel asked her during the show,
Do you like surprises? She innocently
replied, Yes.
He turned around and then suddenly turned
back and shouted boom oh the audience
roared with laughter including the girl that's what no means by being a zany character oh wow
does it use the word zany zany wow zany so on the back of that he went on to do the late late
breakfast show which is his first saturday evening again a prime time tv yes family magazine comedy
show with wacky characters and celebrity guests
and games and prizes and giveaways and features.
But it was next.
It was what came next.
And what was that, Paul?
The jewel in the BBC crown of the 90s.
That was Noel's house party.
You can boil Noel Edmonds down to that fucking show, I think.
That is it it that's the
big show yeah slickly produced high production value lots of games wacky crazy characters
comedy segments noel was the daddy in charge of all of it spinning the plates and of course
mr blobby he made his debut on noel's house party did he? Yeah. Okay. And when did it start? Early 90s.
Yeah, because Mr. Blobby started off as a spoof character.
The idea was meant to be.
But the Blobby single, which got to number one, was 93, Christmas 93.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, so.
That's a number.
The show started maybe a couple of years earlier.
Oh, it must have been maybe late 80s then.
Okay.
Maybe, maybe, maybe.
Right.
But either way, Noel's House party was just this huge cultural BBC thing
so it sounds very
similar to
Cheep Cheep Cheep
like he tried to
sort of do another
Noel's house party
with Cheep Cheep Cheep
a little bit
because he creates
a swirl doesn't he
in Cheep Cheep Cheep
where it's like
he runs a local shop
and there's a character
that come in
and he probably
wanted to call it
Crinkly Bottom's
Corner Shop
but couldn't use
the rights anymore
because the BBC said no just fucking stop it it Crinkly Bottom's Corner Shop but couldn't use the rights anymore because the BBC said
no just fucking stop it
put Crinkly Bottom down
it was Channel 4
that it came out on
wasn't it
Cheap Cheap Cheap did yeah
but maybe the BBC just called him
and went
if you fucking dare Noel
if you
didn't the BBC own the copyright
for Crinkly Bottom
maybe
no he would have owned it
he wants to forget
Crinkly Bottom ever happened maybe since the theme park died and it. He wants to forget Crinkly Bottom ever happened.
Maybe, since the theme park died
and Noel Edmonds
is kind of that smell
that lingers around him.
I'm sure that's like his emu.
You know, Rod Hall and Emu.
Yeah, yeah.
Blobby is Noel's emu.
It certainly is.
And I think that's what
brought him down eventually,
you know.
The success of Blobby
and the way Noel's house party...
It's where he treated
the Blobby people
who worked on his theme park.
You will fucking
dance for me
you will dance for me
put the suit back on
yeah put it on
you like that
do you need some
encouragement
to put the suit back on
you know I can feel
your aura
I'm gonna fuck
your rubber legs
so
so yeah
so there's loads
we can go into
and we really don't
have the fucking time
we really fucking don't
are we gonna have to do
two Noel Edmonds specials
Paul
I think we should.
Maybe.
Because we need to talk about the Late Late Show breakfast accident.
We need to talk about Deal or No Deal's cultism.
We need to talk about Lloyd's bank fixation, his pet thing.
There is so much darkness to dwell into.
But, I don't know, should we, though?
I think we just don't have the time
paul to cover it all so shall we we're all knoll's house party now shall we finish the show off by
playing one of your lovely board games and it's the knoll's house party board game special let's
do that well it's saturday night it's bbc one and it's time to go to Crinkly Bottom and see what it's like down in Noel's House Party. guitar solo So yeah, I saw online
Noel's House Party board game.
I thought, I'll have that.
Because you're game crazy.
I am board game crazy at the moment.
It's an obsession.
Are you ready to play Noel's House?
Let me set it up.
So I got the board game Noel's House Party and it came and it's all in very you ready to play let me set it up so I got the board game
Noel's House Party
and it came
and it's all in very
very good condition
very good condition indeed
it's over 20 years old
as well
it is over 20 years old
93 it came out
as you said
Blobby came out
the same time
same year
so this must have been
a big time for Noel
selling board games
probably the high point
of his whole career
maybe the 90s
would have been his most vacund.
That's a completely made up word.
Fecund is what you're looking for.
It means ripe or fertile.
Oh, that was close.
No, it wasn't.
What you meant to say is it was his most fruitful.
Okay.
It was his most fruitful of periods in his life.
His most fecund.
So,
we're going to play
the board game
Noel's House Party.
Now, we've had a quick look
through the rules.
We've both got a car.
We know what we're doing.
But basically,
the idea is you move around the board
earning money doing questions
and pranks
and all kinds of things.
And at the end of the time,
you put all your winnings
in the grab-a-grand booth.
Grab-a-grand booth.
Which is this plastic construction put together with a pump next to it.
Which is a very similar idea to the Crystal Maze endgame.
A little bit, yes.
And the idea is all your money you put in, you pump it till it all flies out.
And then at the end of the time, you count how much flew out.
And in the TV show, they did just chase notes around.
Well, they were in the booth at the time and you had to grab it.
I'm not getting into that.
You might do.
You're small enough, aren't you?
You tiny, hairy prick.
Fuck you.
Yeah.
So they've got this talent test,
but I'm presuming that will make sense
once we get to MTV.
But because the pen on it doesn't work,
it's meant to be one of those wipe-off pens
and I don't have one.
We're just going to have to go on faith,
all right, on this.
So no writing it down.
So are you ready to
play I will let you go
first because I am nice
I'm spinning the thing
so we have to spin this
little dial which has
numbers one to eight on
and what what's this
thing about clocks if
you land on two or six
which both have a clock
on you have to put a
clock in there okay and
then once that's full
yeah that means that
game's over yeah and
you have to go to the tank.
This could take forever,
so I'm going to set a timer right now of 20 minutes,
and then we're going to end the game after 20 minutes, yeah?
But then we're going to have to do the tank after 20 minutes.
Yeah, but that's fine,
because then that's plenty of time.
All right.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Here we go.
Start the clock.
Do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do.
Do-do-do-do-do.
Right, I'm spinning the thing.
Imagine a 20-minute countdown.
Spin.
Six.
Oh, six.
So you already add a clock to the clock holes.
Yeah, it doesn't make any difference though, does it?
It doesn't make any difference.
And it goes.
I'm still doing it.
I'm still doing it.
So this basically tells the length of the time of the game then, the clock holes.
I get to go six?
Yeah.
Move me, please, Paul.
I believe it's this way.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Gotcha.
Oh, you hold the gotcha.
What does it say about the gotcha? When you play a game, you earn double money because you've hold the gotcha. What does it say about the gotcha?
When you play a game,
you earn double money
because you've got the gotcha.
Is that what it says?
Give the gotcha token.
I've got the token here
and it's like an Oscar,
but it's like a guy being grabbed
around the waist, weird,
by a huge fist.
Which is, funnily enough,
exactly what Daily Traveller's
got in trouble for.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, all.
Give the gotcha token to the player of your choice.
Now, I give it to the player of my choice.
Oh, okay.
Good.
I got it.
Which is me.
Oh, I've been gotcha'd.
And then what?
Depending on the space instructions.
Yeah.
What does it say on my gotcha?
Take it for yourself.
Right, I'm taking it for myself.
So you have to have it, yeah.
Okay.
Whoever holds the gotcha token doubles the pounds they receive on all of their turns while they have it.
Bullshit.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, that's bullshit.
Who's going to win?
Right, I'm going to spin the thing.
Who's going to win?
Who's going to win?
Who's going to win?
I fucking shank you, car.
Shut up, I'm spinning it.
Spin the fucker.
Four.
One, two, three, four.
Knock, knock.
Go to the doorway and ask the player to your right to take a knock, knock card and ask you the questions.
Give me a knock, knock card.
All right, here we go.
Knock, knock.
So basically, you've got the number of clues and the quicker you get it, the more points you get, yeah?
The more money you get, yeah.
These are the monies in this little bag.
Oh, I love the money.
Love it.
Little bits of paper that look like raffle tickets with five pound printed on.
Is that it?
Yeah.
All fivers.
Shit.
Shit.
Go on.
You ready?
Yeah.
Say knock, knock.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
No, that's me.
Because I'm going to fucking play that.
I'll say knock, knock.
Yeah.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
That's a clue, do I?
Yeah, a clue.
The most expensive clue.
The one that's hardest to get.
So I have to guess who's behind the door
based on these clues
I'm a film actress
oh that narrows it down
let me see
it's 1990s
I'm going to say Julia Roberts
wrong
alright okay
so what's the next one
how much is it worth
25 quid
okay
knock knock
who's there
oh she became
Mrs DiMaggio
every time
you've got to fucking say that
knock knock
no you don't
is that what you're doing
I'm just doing it
oh I like it
I just wondered
if it was part of the game
you changed
you changed your shoe
I'm not an animal
you're gonna get it
you're gonna get it now
alright okay
so second one was what
sorry
she became
Mrs DiMaggio
and
Mrs Miller
oh
Marilyn Monroe
right
ding ding ding
so how much money
was that worth
25
so I have to take 5 £5 notes out that's right 1 2 Marilyn Monroe. Right. Ding, ding, ding. So how much money was that worth? 25.
So I have to take five £5 notes out.
That's right.
One,
two,
three,
And I'm going to spin the thing
whilst you're doing that, Paul.
four,
five.
There you go.
All right, cool.
I'm eight.
Eight places.
One,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven,
eight.
The music game.
What does it say on the square there,
Eli?
On what square? The one there. Does it say on the square there, Eli? On what square?
The one there.
Does it say the same as all the others?
There, read that.
The player to your left takes a music card and reads aloud the question to you.
All right, here we go.
Are you ready?
Yes.
For £20, pick up a newspaper book or magazine, open it randomly,
and sing the first paragraph in the style of Michael Jackson.
He's picking his Moog book up
and he went,
Ooh,
Shmoan,
being unknown as a bass player.
Ooh,
ha,
in America.
Ooh,
come on.
Ooh,
Shmoan.
You know what?
Stop.
Here's 20 quid.
40.
Is it?
No, it didn't.
It said 20. Because I've got the gotcha. You prick quid. 40. Is it? No, it didn't. It said 20.
Because I've got the gotcha.
You prick.
Give me 40.
Woo-hoo.
Yeah.
Woo-hoo.
All right, you can stop that now.
It's not fucking DuckTales.
That is 20.
Woo-hoo.
25.
30.
35.
40.
Happy?
Happy.
You miserable fucking Dave Lee Travis knockoff.
Okay. I spin. Have a little spin Dave Lee Travis knockoff. Okay.
I spin.
Have a little spin there, Paul.
Two.
Two, not very good.
Well, I put a clock in.
Well, who fuck your clock?
Two.
One, two.
Gotcha.
Take it for yourself.
Ging-a-ding-a-ding.
That's what it says.
Give it at me.
Give it at me.
Give it at me.
Now it's your go, fat-faced tit-cunt.
One.
One.
NTV.
Take an NTV card.
So what does the NTV card do again?
Take the top NTV card and act upon its instructions.
Okay.
When finished, replace the card with the back of the pack.
Okay, I need you to hide three coins in your hand.
I don't have three coins.
Well, this is stupid.
Give me another one.
You must eat something without using your hands.
The player on your left chooses
what you must eat.
Close your flies.
I'm my little dick. It should be
a piece of fruit, a sweet or a biscuit.
No tinned food. Nuts.
I want you to pour some nuts on the table and eat
them. Pour a little bit of nuts
just there on the table and I want you to
eat them.
Eat your nuts.
It's like watching a dog eat.
It's very impressive, ladies and gentlemen.
He's throwing them back.
He's munching.
He's munching.
Oh, there's old slobber on the table.
Oh.
Do I get my money?
Yeah, how much was that?
That's disgusting.
That's one of the worst things I've ever seen with my eyes.
God almighty.
There you go.
There's your money.
That was disgusting.
Put the MTV card back on the bottom.
Right, my go.
Spin it, spin it.
I might win it.
What's that?
Eight.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
It's the music game. Oh. Right, so what does that four, five, six, seven, eight. The music game.
Right, so what does that say?
You have to read me a music thing.
Here you go. What are you doing?
I'm just looking at the rules. For £20?
Yes.
Pick up any newspaper, book or magazine,
open it randomly. No, we've done that one.
No, we haven't. And sing
the first paragraph in the style
of Mick Jagger. I'll read the rules then. I'll read the first paragraph in the style of Mick Jagger
I'll read the rules then
I'll read the first paragraph
of the rules
alright
separate
the four
ends of cards
A, B and C
wait till I get you home
place and put it
near the board
shuffle the remain
of the pack
and place it down take my money Paul I love it it's 40 it really amuses me And playing near the board. Shuffle the remind of the peck. And play sit down.
Take my money, Paul.
I love it.
It's 40.
It really amuses me.
Do you know what?
Do you know what really amuses me?
What?
People doing impressions of Mick Jagger.
Really?
Yeah, I love it.
I don't know why.
I fucking love it.
Always have, always will.
So I got 40 for that because I've got the gotcha.
Oh, you little prick.
Oh.
So it's your turn to spin, dear.
Eight. Right, you are red. Move me. Oh, little prick. Oh. So, it's your turn to spin, dear. Eight.
Right, you are red.
Move me.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Wait till I get you home.
Why?
Will you spank me until I come?
Yeah.
You will.
If I can make that happen, that makes me God.
Is that what we do in the show?
Wait till I get you home.
Take the top card, wait till I get you home, and then read aloud the questions
to the person indicated.
So hang on,
wait there.
Give this player
the four answer cards.
They must choose the card
which matches their answer
and place it face down
in front of them.
So basically,
there are four options,
A, B, C, or D.
You pick one,
and then I've got to guess
which one you pick,
all right?
Well, don't I pick one
and you get one?
No, I read it all out to you.
You pick A, B, C, or D.
Because I landed on it. Yeah. All right. And then I have You pick A, B, C or D. Because I landed on it.
Yeah.
All right.
And then I have to guess A, B, C or D.
Which one I picked.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
And you have to just be honest.
Okay.
Okay?
So this is worth 20 quid if I get...
Excuse me.
You get money.
I get money.
No, you get...
Hang on.
Read the fucking thing properly, Paul.
Give me the rules and let me...
Oh.
Wait, who gets the money?
You give the answer. I think they might... If you are right, then... So I who gets the money? You give the answer,
I think they might...
If you are right, then...
So I have to read it,
you have to guess what my suggestion is.
Let me see.
I landed on it.
So I have to pick A, B, C or D if you guess.
Take the top card.
I take the top card.
Yeah.
Now, you've already seen this one,
so give me a new one.
Okay, okay.
Fine, fair enough.
I take the top card
and read aloud the question to the person indicated. Well, who's the person indicated one. Okay, okay. Fine. Fair enough. I take the top card and read aloud the
question to the person indicated. Well, who's the
person indicated? That's what I'm thinking. What does that mean?
What does the person indicated mean? Maybe it's
the person on the card in the question.
Oh, yeah. Yeah?
It's you, isn't it? Yeah.
Give this player
the four answer cards. Where are the four answer cards?
They don't have them. It's meant to be A, B, C, or D.
Oh.
They must choose
a card which matches
the answer they wish to give
and place one card
face down.
So you have to be honest.
Yeah, I'll be honest.
I promise.
Place one down in front of them.
You then give the answer
you think they have given.
If you're right,
you get the money.
If you're wrong,
they get the money.
Place a card to the mark
of the pack when finished.
Alright, so here we go.
Which sport, Paul, if you will,
which sport best shows off your physical prowess?
Would it be tennis, golf, tiddlywinks, this shit?
Can I just say that now?
All right.
What the fuck is this one?
I haven't thought this through.
Read into the microphone.
A, tennis, B, golf, C, tiddlywinks.
D, other.
Other?
States what?
It says in brackets.
Oh, I have to do some work, do I?
No, so I'd have to guess.
If I picked D, I'd have to then say, oh, it's ice hockey.
And if you guessed ice hockey, because you knew me really well, then you'd get the money.
Yes, I have picked one.
I'll give you this as a gimme.
It's not going to be D.
All right?
So I can't be fucked with that.
How can I ever trust you again?
After you maybe...
After the poo time?
Yeah.
After I trust you again.
Well, I'm going to be honest.
I have picked A, B, or C. All right?
I've not picked D. It's A, B, or C. Which one do you think I've picked?
C. Tiddlywinks.
No, the answer's golf.
I will do golf because my dad used to go golf with me and all this.
I mean, I used to go golf with my dad.
Shit game!
And I like a nice walk.
So there you go
right
my turn
you get money do you
do I get money
yeah because I got it wrong
right good
20 quid for me
fuck you
20 quid for me
1
2
3
this game is not official
scoop was official
time to spin
4
1
2
3
4
wait till I get you home
so it's my turn now.
To be honest, do I?
Yeah.
Okay.
Look to the play on the left.
Okay, that's me.
Would you say you are musical?
Oh.
A. Yes, you have Van Gogh's ear for music.
B. Only while singing in the bath.
C. You're the oldest child prodigy in the world.
Or D. Other state.
You know, let's just not do D.
Let's do D, other.
Well, that means you're going to fuck me and get 20 quid.
Because you're an insidious DLT looking twat.
Whatever, mate.
It's not going to stick.
You DLT.
All right, we'll say ABC.
Right.
Which are those?
Give me them again.
A. You have a good ear for music.
B. Only when you sing in the bath.
Or C. You're the oldest child prodigy in the world
I don't even really
know what that
fucking means
I picked one
I'm gonna say C
No A
Why?
Because I'm not
very musical as you said
Yeah but A is
very musical
No he said
Van Gogh's ear for music
Van Gogh cut his ear off
Oh
I didn't even get that
Just get with it
Paul
Yeah
I'll give you 20 quid then
That's
I mean it's not
a very good joke
it is way like
no you're right
that was very poor
it's no humour
1 2 3 4
it's no humour
but it was humour
right
my turn
2 and another
clock in the hole
clocks are meaningless
like most of this game
well because
yeah but
because we're on a time
this is meaningless
I'm counting me tokens
they really haven't
put much effort
into making this money.
Knock, knock.
Go to the doorway and talk to the player on your right.
Here we go.
Give me the knock, knock card.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Hit me with it.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Historic figure.
Henry VIII.
No.
No.
Well, it's a shot in the dark.
It's a really broad fucking first question.
If I got that, I deserve double. In fact, I would do because I still have the gotcha. Knock, knock, it's a shot in the dark. It's a really broad fucking first question. If I got that, I deserve double.
In fact, I would do because I still had the gotcha.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Had a pal called John.
Had a pal called who?
Had a pal called John.
John.
John.
Had a pal called John.
He had a pal called John.
Historical figure with a pal called John.
I don't fucking know.
Jesus.
No. Jesus, he did have a friend called John. I don't fucking know. Jesus. No.
Jesus, he did have a friend called John.
I don't.
It's not him.
All right.
Well, then, next one.
Well, fuck you.
All right.
Next one.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Had a girlfriend named Marion.
Robin Hood.
40 quid.
Yay.
Paul is gonna go doodum deedum doodum do.
I am twisting the
I'm spinning the wheel
5
6
6 for me
8
move my red one round 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
again
what does that say
take another turn
go on
2
1 2
NTV
oh
NTV
what does it say
no no yeah because you're gonna do this and then win points I'm singing the music from any TV adverts and TV. What does it say?
No.
No, yeah,
because you're going to do this and then win points.
Sing the music
from any TV advert.
Go on then.
Curry Motors,
nice people
to do business with.
What?
No, it's a good choice.
Yeah.
It's a deep cut.
I appreciate deep cuts
because I would have gone
with Shaken Back.
Nice people
to do business with.
How much is that worth?
20?
10. Oh, okay. That's bullshit. That's what it is. Put it at the bottom of the pack. 10. All right, next. I would have gone with Shaken Back Nice people To do business with How much is that worth 20 10
Oh okay
That's bullshit
That's what it is
Put it at the bottom of the pack
10
Alright next
Nice people
To do business with
Alright fucking hell
You're not going to get any adverts
Doing that
Spin
5
Salty Paul
Oh no it's your go
So you spin
Sorry
Or was it my go
No it's my go
1, 2, 3, three four five the music game oh
music game for 20 quid
oh pick up any newspaper
book or magazine open it
randomly and sing in the
style of cliff richard oh
i like to hear this the
gender ambiguity but the
david recollection oh of
carlos's no it's not good, Paul.
I mean, with the Mick Jagger, I could have guessed it was Mick Jagger.
No one could guess from this shit.
No, what?
That's not what he sounds like.
What do you mean, no?
No, you don't get the money.
You don't get the money.
Four minutes on the clock.
Five.
Five.
One, two, three, four, five.
Knock, knock.
Oh, my turn.
All right.
Here we go.
Knock, knock.
Who be there?
For £30, historical figure.
Henry VIII.
Oh, you're not right.
But here we go for £25.
He died of wallpaper poisoning.
That's right.
Wallpaper poisoning.
Wallpaper poisoning.
That's what it says here.
At least it had lead in the wallpaper.
He died of wallpaper poisoning, so he did.
A diddly diddly.
Oscar Wilde.
No, it's not him.
But I know where you're going with the witty.
He said this is what he did.
Or I go.
It's very witty.
Anyway, for £20. Can you stop with the accent? It's very or I go it's very witty anyway for £20
can you stop with the accent
it's very racist
no I like this one
he had an interest in brandy
so he did
so he did
an interesting
brandy
so he did
so he did
he had a brandy
he had interest in brandy
he has
it was an interest in brandy
he liked his brandy
would I know this
you should know who it is.
A diddly diddly.
You're going to get it on the next one, I think.
Well, give me the fucking next one.
For 15 pounds, he missed his chance at Waterloo.
So he did, so he did.
A diddly diddly.
Admiral Nelson.
No.
For 10 pounds, he disappointed Josephine.
Hardy.
No, no, no.
Number £5.
French Emperor.
Napoleon.
There you go.
Give me a fucking fiver.
I can't believe you didn't get that at Waterloo.
So you did, so you did.
I didn't know he was Waterloo.
My, my.
Right, my go.
Out.
Seven.
Seven.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven Knock, knock
Your turn
Give me the card
Don't try and fucking look
I didn't look
Knock, knock
Who's there?
Do an accent
Sportswoman
What?
Don't do an accent
Sportswoman
Sportswoman
Sportswoman
Sportswoman Sportswoman Sportswoman Sportswoman
Sportswoman
I've got to be honest
with my accent Paul
Do you like my accent?
I don't even know
what you're doing
I don't know
what I'm doing myself
Sportswoman
I just do this
I just do this voice
Stop doing your voices
Hello
It's a sportswoman
Have you guessed it?
No
Next
Fatima Whitbread
No Alright next. Fatima Whitbread.
No.
All right, next.
An Essex girl.
You have to say knock, knock.
Knock, knock.
An Essex girl.
I don't know, next.
Who got faster once they put hurdles in her way?
Tessa... Tessa Sanderson?
No.
Oh.
For £15.
Did a lap of honour in Barcelona.
Did a lap of honour in Barcelona.
You know what?
I'm not going to get this.
Will you fucking do it?
Because I had to fucking go through it as well.
Juliet Stevenson.
Barcelona.
I don't know.
Juliet Stevenson?
Yeah.
That's fucking poor, man. For £10. I don't know. Juliet Stevenson. Yeah. That's fucking poor, man.
For £10.
I don't know.
After winning gold in Barcelona, they've been.
Sharon Davies.
You are so shit, aren't you?
Yeah.
And your last clue, and I want to hear a knock-knock from you.
Knock-knock.
Britain's 1992 Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion.
Don't know.
Don't fucking care.
You don't want to know then?
No.
Who is it?
I'm not telling you.
No, you've got to tell me.
I'm not.
You don't care.
You just told me.
All right, fine then.
I don't care.
You have no empathy.
I'll just check it later.
You don't even like...
You spin.
You won't check it.
You spin.
You won't bother checking it.
You spin.
You'll never know.
Spin.
We've got a minute and a half left.
Sally Gunnell.
Five.
Oh, what a weak, pissed, poor effort.
One, two, three, four, five.
Yours was.
Music game.
For £15, direct someone from your home into the town centre
by singing the directions to the style of a heavy metal band.
Go on.
Oh, bull!
You get the 29 bus from the shop near my house.
There you go.
No, no, no.
No money for that.
I should get money for that.
Nope.
No money for that. And there money for that Nope No money for that
And then you go
First of all
Into town
On the 29 bus
Stop it
That's not impressive
It's not
It's just not impressive
You go on the 29
Tonight you get
Can I take money
Away
The 29
I'm spinning this
Because you're not getting money
Two
Fuck the clock
One two Wait till I get going I'm spinning this because you're not getting money too fuck the clock oh
you will be
I'm going to do
okay
ask me those
and I'll tell you which one
which one I pick
which one you pick
what is the most
I'll do this in the heavy metal song
no
no no no
please don't
please don't
please don't
I love how you really mean that
there's 10 seconds left
I love how you really mean that
I did mean that
what is the most that's the most sort of convincing thing please don't. I love how you really mean that. There's 10 seconds left. I love how you really mean that. I did mean that.
What is the most, that's the most sort of convincing thing.
Oh, there we go.
We fucked it.
You fucked it,
but that's fine.
So let's now count our money.
How much have you got?
I've got 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 95 pounds.
70, 80, 90, 100, 110, 120. Right, so now all you90, £100, £110, £120.
Right, so now all you've got to do, right, it's very simple,
is you've got to put your money in the Grab-A-Gran booth.
I put my money in there.
In there.
You go first.
And you've got to pump it.
You go first, you've got the most money.
Oh, do I?
Have you got your phone nearby?
No, you don't.
Just count to 30, okay?
I'm putting my money in the Grab-A-Gran booth.
Yeah, you're the highest, so you have to go in the Grab-A-Gran.
I've got 30 seconds.
Ready to pump all the money out.
3, 2, 1, go.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
Stop!
Stop now!
Try and cheat.
And then you count what?
It's just picking bits of shit up off the floor.
Is that what this game?
Is that it?
10, 120.
It all came out.
It all came out. Right, you win. I win. Put yours in. No, why should I pump it? 110... 120! It all came out! It all came out!
Right, you win.
I win!
Put yours in.
No, I don't...
Why should I pump it?
I wanna see you pump it.
This is pointless.
Pump it.
How many seconds do I get?
If you can...
If I tell you what, if you can pump all yours out...
Yeah?
You can win.
I'll let you win.
I need, what, 30 seconds?
30 seconds.
Starting from...
Now! One, two... Fucking idiot. Four... I'll let you win. I need what? 30 seconds? 30 seconds. Starting from...
Now!
Fucking idiot. Four. Five.
You hold the pump! Not the booth!
Start again!
No! You can't fucking... You broke it!
No! I start again, what's happened to you?
You were holding it... No! You had your chance and you fucked it.
No, start again.
You broke Noel's grab-a-grand-roof. That's it. It's all over., you've broken... You had your chance. No, start again. You broke Noel's grabber grand roof.
That's it.
It's all over.
I haven't broken...
I am the king...
I am the king...
Shit game.
...of Noel's house party, all right?
That's what needs to be remembered here.
Shit game.
I can't believe we're doing more Noel.
When's part two of this going to come out, Paul?
28-19.
28-19.
28-19, yeah.
That's not even a time.
Let's end this.
All right.
You've been listening to Cheap Show.
What's the Noel Edmonds special?
Well done.
It's going to be a part two, potentially in the future.
That was part one.
We're going to have to cover, Noel, the later years and the incident.
The incident.
And all of that.
Let's do that.
I love this.
Thank you.
That's five.
All right.
Don't touch me.
Yeah, but that's what we're going to do.
I'm very upset that we're releasing this at all.
I've regretted the idea ever since we started talking about it.
Halfway through, really?
Why?
A bit dry.
It was very dry.
But some interesting things have come out of it.
Okay.
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