CheapShow - Ep 88: The History of the Noel Part Two: Enough is Enough
Episode Date: August 10, 2018Enough is enough! We have to end this relationship with Noel Edmonds, one way or the other... and it's not going to be pretty! Paul and Eli finally lift the flaps of Britain's most infamous and cuddly... light entertainer's private life and get stuck into some of the more untoward parts of his career. Hopefully we may never need travel back to Crinkly Bottom again. However, it's not all Noel talk this week, in fact you get a healthy dose of regular CheapShow content for your troubles. We are promised some "pet corpse" stories and BOY do we get some. Paul gives himself over to Jimmy Biscuits and pays the price. Eli reveals something shocking that could ruin the cheap eats section of the show forever and a slanderous theory is put forward as Eli gets off on Noel's balls. It's the usual podcast oddness! 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 If you like what you hear, please spread the word! Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US!
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Summertime.
No, don't.
And the living is easy.
It's still hot.
Where's my counter?
I don't know.
Where is your counter?
It's in the kitchen, isn't it?
In this little box.
It is.
I saw it last night.
No, no, no.
It is.
I saw it there last night.
Did you take it with you?
Did you take it to gambling with you last night?
Yes.
Oh, his little orange clicker, ladies and gentlemen, that I got for him as a lovely present.
So, Paul.
Yeah.
Here, you can see the...
Tell me what the face of the clicker reads.
It reads 0000.
Okay, I'm going to make one click.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I'm counting?
What?
You singing.
All right.
Yeah.
Okay, everybody.
Hello.
It's cheap show time again.
Here we are.
Oh, what an atmosphere.
I love a pot.
For fuck's sake, man.
Really.
What have you unleashed?
I have not unleashed anything.
I'm trying to fucking reign something in.
Boom, boom.
Agalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagalagal Three. The counter reads three. Okay, I'm not going to say what the forfeit you'll have.
There won't be a forfeit because you only just thought of it now.
You like that? You like when I put it on the thing?
I did, yeah.
You like that?
Yeah.
It's all rattling around. Don't fucking wind me up!
It's Cheap Show, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Eli Silverman.
Here he is. It's Paul Gannon. He's the other guy.
Here we are in the House of Pickles. It's another lovely episode.
What have we got coming up on this
episode today introduce the show say here's cheap show then i can have a lovely segue into the
actual titles as opposed to just going off on one do it again but better shorter keep it concise
just be professional here we are in the house of pickles i'm eli silverman hello welcome into my
abode paul gannon's joining me here and you know what that means.
It's time again for
Cheap Show!
I hate you and your
fucking noodle posse.
People love noodles,
right? It's a fact of
Cheap Show, you're're gonna have to fucking reset.
Noodle time.
Tales from the dance floor.
Alright, how's the big guy?
A price of the site?
It's a tour guarantee.
Hello.
Eli Silver.
Welcome to the show.
I'm not going on a nuzzle.
Excellent, excellent work.
That's what I want week in, week out from you now.
I want that level of...
I can produce that level of expertise anytime you like.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Tell me to introduce something else.
Your nutsack.
Oh, it's sweaty down here in the depths of hell.
What's here?
It's Paul's nutsack.
It's wet.
Go on.
Get it all out of your system now.
Get what out of my system?
All this fucking attitude.
Attitude.
I'm hot.
Hot.
Yeah, and it looks like sweat, but it's water, isn't it?
What?
Or is it sweat?
Is that sweat on your jacket, on your shirt?
On my chest.
Ooh.
No, no, no.
Yes, that's sweat, yeah.
Oh, gross.
That's what's known as sweat tits in the trade.
It's almost like a Rorschach test, that. Sweat tits. It looks like two... Real men get sweat tits, yeah. Oh, gross. That's what's known as sweat tits in the trade. It's almost like a Rorschach test, that.
Sweat tits.
It looks like two...
Real men get sweat tits, Paul.
It looks like Winnie the Pooh.
Their tits sweat, Paul.
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger docking.
That's what it looks like.
Sweat tits.
Sweat tits.
So, see, I'm not too sweaty.
What number episode is this, Paul?
I don't fucking know.
It doesn't matter.
Why?
Because it matters because we've got the 100th episode coming up.
Yeah.
And that matters.
Does it?
I like to think.
Does it?
Does it?
Does it matter, though, to you?
Does it matter?
I'm clicking.
That wasn't a song.
Yeah, it doesn't matter.
I hate you.
Whenever I feel like I hate Paul, I click.
Click, click, click, click, click, click.
No, you're such a prick.
Right, this isn't going well.
I don't care.
No, 100th show, yeah, we talked about it in the last episode.
Ticket sales were really unexpectedly wonderful.
So we sold out that first show.
And hopefully as of when this goes out, there may be tickets on sale still.
We just don't know.
That's great news.
And Paul,
if someone wanted to come to the second show as well,
Yes. 5 o'clock till 7pm.
There'd be different content, wouldn't there,
in the second show? We're doing two different shows.
We're still going to have Biffo and Ash and Ashen's. They're still
going to be the same guests, but
we're going to do different things. And I want to
keep a lid on what we're doing.
Keep a lid on it. No spoilers.
Okay.
You know, I don't want to tell them about the thing you're doing.
That thing I do with my...
Yeah, when you put it in.
When I put it right in.
And then you jack.
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
My flatmate's back.
Brilliant.
Oh, so that's exciting.
So I'll let her tell you what's coming up on the show today.
Wow.
Well, Eli just goes and talks to his flatmate.
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Hello, I'm back.
Yeah, good?
Yes.
So, this is basically going to be on Noel Edmonds Part 2,
but I'm not going to put any effort in.
Noel don't deserve it.
Why doesn't he deserve it?
Because we put a lot of effort into the last one, didn't we?
He doesn't notice us.
And the links, and he doesn't care.
He looks down on us.
Do you think we've even passed through his screen of consciousness?
No, I don't think we have.
He's too busy fighting Lloyd's bank.
Yeah.
You know?
He's too busy on his Noel crusade.
One thing I do support Noel on is his crusade against Lloyd's bank.
Really?
Yeah.
Of course.
Are you pro-Noel?
I'm pro-anti-Lloyd's.
Oh, a bit political on Cheap Show.
Well, Lloyd's have been my bank, Paul.
Have they?
Yeah.
That's good.
And they've probably charged me about seven grand in various unfair charges over the years.
So fuck them.
Fuck them.
So go Noel.
Well, if he brings down Lloyds, I mean, that would be something, wouldn't it?
Would you be part of the crowd that held him aloft and said, no?
Yeah.
And I'll be sniffing his underside as I lifted him.
I'll hoist you.
I'll hoist you.
I'll hoist you.
No.
Don't just repeat.
This isn't what?
What?
A comedy improvisation is.
It is.
Don't look at me like that.
I'm not saying anything until you fucking stop doing that.
I don't know what I was doing, though.
You were copying what I said.
I wasn't copying what you were saying.
I had a whole thing,
bit going,
about sniffing Lloyd,
sorry,
not Lloyd,
Lloyd Grossman.
All right.
Anyway,
we're going to do...
Lloyd's aloft.
Yeah.
Anyway,
the point is,
is that you'd get your fingers in.
Yeah.
Yeah,
of course you would.
Of course you would.
We're no like a puppet.
Anyway,
we've got that.
We're going to do a little
mini League of Snacks.
Is it going to be, do you
think, or just the cheap
eats?
Probably it's the cheap
eats.
It's a bonus cheap eats.
It's a cheap eats.
So we're doing that and
then we're going to end
with just getting Noel out
of our system.
So we're going to cover
the stories that we didn't
get to last time and that's
it.
And put it in a bin.
It sounds like a neat
little package. Thank you. I have a neat little package thank you for admiring although the
temperature down there quite mediterranean is it the kind of temperature that bees would use to
exterminate an invasive uh giant hornet in their nest it's the kind of atmosphere down there that
i'd half expect a big fat man wearing a white towel to be basking in my taint in the warm, warm, wet room.
You think there's a what?
Wet room.
Hold up.
What?
You reckon there's a big fat man in a towel who lives in your taint area?
Yeah, treating it like a sauna.
How can he be fat?
He must be microscopic.
For his size, he's fat.
You know, you can get mini fat things like you.
You're a mini fat thing, aren't you?
Oh.
Oh.
I don't have the fucking energy to fight today.
It's hot.
Oh, no.
I know.
It's going to be.
This is a heat affected episode of Cheap Show.
But let's crack on.
Shall we crack on?
Let's crack on.
Come on.
Okay.
Go team Cheap Show.
Let's crack on.
Come on, mate.
Go team Cheap Show.
Go team Cheap Show. And touch me. I'm not. No. Touch me. Just touch the very tip. okay go go team cheap show let's crack on come on mate come on take your cheap show i'll go team
cheap show and touch me i'm not no touch me just touch the very tip yeah go on oh electric
so it's that time of the show where we like to read readers' letters on Cheap Show
and have you all reach out to us with your various tales and stories
and we have some crackers today.
And where should they send the stories?
The Cheap Show at gmail.co.uk or.com, I think it don't matter.
It's probably gmail.com actually on reflection.
So it does matter.
You just said it wrong.
So it matters.
It matters a lot, Paul.
Accuracy.
Let me tell you something, Paul.
Yeah?
Little life lesson.
Yeah?
Little life lesson for you.
Yeah?
Yeah?
Yeah?
A little life lesson, yeah?
Stop it.
Stop it.
A little lesson for you, okay?
Yeah?
Yeah.
All right?
Yeah.
Accuracy, yeah? Yeah. you, okay? Yeah? Yeah. All right? Yeah.
Accuracy, yeah?
Yeah.
Paul, yeah?
Accuracy.
It's really addictive saying yeah like that after a thing.
Yeah.
Accuracy, yeah?
Yeah.
Accuracy.
It's important.
Got it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cool. In life.
Yeah.
A little life lesson.
Yeah.
Just a little life lesson for you there.
Before we go into these letters, one of the reasons we are doing a Noel Edmonds part two is because obviously in the
first episode we didn't get around to all of it.
We couldn't cover the whole of Noel's story or even
really as much as we wanted to. But the second
was I was held hostage
by a
listener to the podcast. I was
assailed daily.
A chap called Stew
aka Milky. I'm wondering
if it's that guy from Reddit Squeezy McTrampcum.
What's his name?
Squeegee McTrampcum.
Milkycum?
No, it's a different person.
Totally, yeah.
Anyway, he goes, hi, Paul.
This was 15 days ago.
All right.
Hi, Paul.
Just thought I'd send the photo of Edmonds every day until the Noel Edmonds special part two comes out.
Bloody hell, he did.
And he did, so...
It's terrorism.
Let's see, son.
Any nudies?
No, there's no nudies.
Ooh.
Oh, that's scary.
A little picture.
That's the face of omen.
Yeah.
That is the face of evil.
Look at his haircut.
It's doing about 12 wrong things at once, man.
He looks like...
The helmet haircut looks like... The helmet haircut
looks like...
I can't explain it.
There's something
insidious to that look.
The pork chops.
Oh, the pork chops.
Lamb chops, sorry,
not pork chops.
Do you know what
he looks like?
Wolf man.
Yeah.
Just before he turns.
He looks so young.
He's a wolf man.
He must be in his 20s there.
Yeah.
So he sent that.
That's a really
disturbing photo.
What happened on day two?
Let's have a look at this as it downloads.
So this, what do you see?
There's Noel on a horse.
And the horse looks like it's full of terror.
Doesn't a horse?
That horse is like, get this cunt off me.
Get him off me back.
Get him off me back.
Fucking hell. Because he knows Noel's getting hard. Yeah. is like get this cunt off me get him off me back get him off me back fucking hell
because he knows
Noel's getting
hard
yeah
he knows he's
rubbing his
mount on the
back of his
neck
he's got a
very sensitive
taint
right in the
horse's shoulders
and he's like
oh I have to
get off by
someone rubbing
the neverland
between my
arse and my
bollock
the gunge tank's
coming
gunge tank's
coming
so he sent me
gotcha he sent me... Gotcha!
He sent me a picture every day.
Oh, no.
Yeah, so let's just go right up to a really recent one he sent.
Oh, it looks like this one.
It's Action Noel.
Oh, Noel's about to do some racing there.
Yeah, he wants to get behind the wheel of a sports car.
And yet he only presented one segment on a Top Gear once.
And what was it?
Just him going, here's a car.
Here's a car.
I was reviewing it.
He just reviewed a car?
Yeah.
How do you know that?
It's on YouTube.
Him reviewing a car on Top Gear and he just did one little segment?
Before it was like a rebooted show that it is now.
It was back in the olden days.
It doesn't exist now?
No.
Does it exist?
What?
Top Gear.
It's on YouTube, all that stuff, I'm sure.
What do you mean?
I didn't mean like that.
I mean, is it running?
Top Gear's still on, yeah.
With Chris Evans?
No, he left after the first series.
It was Matt LeBlanc from Friends.
Yeah, he's left now.
Anyway, one more picture he sent yesterday.
That is Noel on the set of Cheep Cheep Cheep.
Cheep Cheep Cheep with Barry from Watford.
He's got that prosthetic bottom face thing.
Bastard, yeah.
That character, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ooh-wee.
Simone.
Oh, it's like that.
It's like a little face.
Simone.
Yeah.
You're bastard, yeah.
Simone.
Simone.
so hopefully the unrelenting barrage of Noel photos will dry up suddenly after this show
the problem is
we're recording it now
but until it goes out
he's going to still carry sending me pictures
so it's going to be at least a week before this goes out
that's eight more fucking pictures at least
just enjoy it
no I don't want it
I don't like it
you can send them to me
when I see it pop up in the inbox it it's like, oh, he's gone.
Now go away.
Yeah.
Well, you forward them to me, Paul.
Yeah.
And I'll have a little comment like, Noel looks like a cunt.
Something like that.
Noel, what a prick.
Look at his hairy face.
All right.
What's he doing?
He's probably a pedo.
Yeah, et cetera.
He let a man die.
Yeah, et cetera.
All of this. On and on and on. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, that. And he's probably a pedo. Yeah, et cetera. He let a man die. Yeah, et cetera. All of this.
On and on and on.
Yeah.
Yeah, all right.
Well, that...
And he's obviously a cult leader.
Because I'm just getting a bit Pavlovian when they turn up.
It's like...
What, you salivate when they turn up?
No, I mean the opposite.
What, someone's inserted diodes into your brainstem?
No, I just mean that.
And you're a fucking gibbering wreck of a creature
who fucking...
Who sweat glands fucking
electrocute his own brain
when a bell rings.
You're going to clout me? Why?
Click that every time I fucking hit you in this episode.
No, I'm not. Sing.
Sing again, you prick.
Think of a song.
Nothing's fine, I'm torn.
I'm all out of place. This is how
I feel. Here's what you didn't think about if I just sing one song for all out of place. This is how I feel.
And here's what you didn't think about if I just sing one song for the rest of the show.
So you never have to click it again.
But I will carry on singing, singing.
You're not going to keep this up.
Oh, I'll keep this, keep it up, you know.
Let's get on with the whole episode then.
Fair enough.
I'll keep singing and you'll keep talking.
But you can't click your clicky thing. You just had a look. That's just tough. You can't push it Fair enough. I'll keep singing and you'll keep talking. But you can't click your clicky thing. You just had a
look. That's just tough. You can't
push it quick enough. But what's
going on? Nothing's fine.
I'm singing. I'm singing.
Frick.
Right, okay. So, we've had some letters in
because you said, oh, we need more Pet Corp stories.
Right, I'm happy that they've responded.
We've got some.
I'll read it out, Paul.
Here we go.
First on a special edition Pet Corp special edition
of Tales from the Shop Floor.
Let's go right ahead and do that.
As requested.
This is from Travis T.
As requested, two tales from the shop floor.
Excellent.
A few years ago, I worked in a second-hand clothing store,
which is part of a larger national chain of charity shops.
Okay, fair enough.
He doesn't want to name them.
Fine.
Fine.
We don't want to get involved.
It's Oxfam.
Right.
I've worked for Oxfam.
He's not saying that.
He's not saying that.
Right.
Not Oxfam, everyone.
All right.
A few years ago, I worked in a second-hand clothing store,
which is part of a larger national chain of charity shops.
Most of our stock came from large
sorting stations.
But we would usually
occasionally, sorry, receive
donations directly from customers
as you do. Of course, of course.
Usually just a small amount of clothes in a grocery
bag or the like.
Yeah.
But one time a customer left a huge
black garbage bag at the store. Yeah. But one time, a customer left a huge black garbage bag at the store.
Warning sign.
We first, the first we noticed, come on, come on, Travis.
Sentence construction.
Oh, dear, Travis.
Well, it says the first we noticed was that, comma.
The first we noticed was that.
Bullshit.
All right, calm down.
I'm going to have to rewrite this.
No, just carry on as you go.
As you go.
In situ, please.
The first thing we noticed was that for a sack of cloves, it was extremely heavy.
Okay.
We look inside to get an idea of what we've received.
You have to.
Have a little check.
You've got to have a little peeky-boo.
Have a little rummage.
You've got to poke your nose in.
Then we see a massive white maggot crawling on top of the clothes.
Oh!
Here we go.
Don't you look so delighted?
Tales from the shop floor, son.
I'm not an expert, but my experience is, one, when there's one maggot, there's usually more.
That's probably very true.
That's a little rule he lives by.
Little life tip, yeah?
Yeah.
Little life tip, yeah?
And more troubling, B.
Come on, Travis.
You can't start with one.
He's being funny, isn't he?
He's not being funny.
He's being witty.
And more troubling, 2.
Not B.
You've upset him.
Maggots need food to survive.
They do.
But what could possibly be in the bag?
And they sure as fuck don't eat clothes.
Uh oh.
It's a fucking
three point takedown
from Travis.
We know where we're going.
Good one.
Okay.
So now
we're staring at this sack
which is way too heavy
just to be clothes
wondering what the fuck
is in this.
In the end
we decide to not examine
the contents closer
and just throw it in the garbage as fast as possible. Fine. Fucking the end, we decide to not examine the contents closer. Yeah.
And just throw it in the garbage as fast as possible.
Fine.
Fucking good.
Good call.
Good call, mate.
Yeah.
After that three-point maggot analysis.
Yeah.
One.
There's been an ocular takedown.
They've done the research.
They've made an executive.
An ocular takedown?
Yeah, they did an ocular takedown.
Yeah.
You were going to risk it.
No.
He said one maggot.
Never one maggot. Never one maggot.
Never one maggot.
That's the first rule.
Two.
They don't eat cloves.
No, they don't.
Three.
Oh, yeah.
It's too heavy.
What was the third thing?
No, it wasn't a third thing.
It's too heavy.
Yeah.
Right.
So they just decided to throw it out, Paul.
Yeah.
They just decided to throw it out.
Good.
We're going to look at it.
For all I know, some deranged person stuck their dead dog inside the bag and left it with us.
But I'll never know for certain.
Well, it's a mystery.
Well, good.
Because maybe sometimes you don't need answers to stories like that.
At the end of that, one maggot.
Heavy with one maggot.
But there's never one maggot.
And they don't eat clothes.
Nah.
That's not like a movie poster.
It does.
Maggots. There's never one. And they don't eat clothes. That's not like a movie poster. It does. Maggots, there's never one, and they don't eat clothes.
And you think, oh, they're going to eat me.
There's going to be a scene where I'm in bed asleep,
and then a maggot crawls across my cheek,
and there's a close-up, and you see it burrowing into my jaw.
Do you find maggots scary?
And then a couple of other swarmers are burrowing into my cheek,
and then my eye, and I wake up,
but as I try to scream
all these maggots
pour out of my mouth.
Rawr!
Rawr!
Rawr!
Rawr!
What, like a chicken?
Yeah.
Just like a chicken?
Rawr!
Do you make a noise
like a chicken?
Yeah, they do.
It's one of Paul's mouth noises.
Paul trying to do
horrific
maggot
nightmare vomit
sounds like.
Paul, do it again.
Do it again. Come on, I'll do what it was like. Raw, do it again. Do it again.
Come on, I'll do
what it was like.
Like a chicken.
Another time,
we received a box
full of used piercings
in different styles.
I don't want to do
cheap show with you anymore.
You're mean.
As if that wasn't bad enough.
One of them.
No.
No, listen.
Say sorry.
Sorry that I said
you can't do cheap show anymore.
Fuck off. Brilliant. No, do me a fucking brilliant. no listen this is say sorry sorry that I said you can't do cheap show anymore fuck off brilliant
no do you mean
fucking brilliant
well it means
I could just
you know
do nothing
devote myself
full time to the
noodle spin off
which everyone
doesn't think
is going to happen
yeah that's probably true
one of these
used piercings
Paul
yeah
was a barbell
where instead of a ball it had a teeny sculpted
cock on it yeah was there a niff oh a bit of a niff was a smeg a bit of a cheesy smeggy myth
was there a ghost smeg and as if that wasn't bad enough the box started rattling at random
and we discovered that what we first thought was just a slightly oversized stud, in fact,
had a small battery compartment activating a vibrating feature.
Oh, so it probably goes up your nugget.
Yeah, it goes right down your meters and gives your helmet a tingly-ling-ling.
Oh, really? I thought it was something you put up as a bumhole.
Maybe.
There's a very limited number of uses for something like that.
Well, we've thought of three.
Yeah.
Because, hey, nine out of ten of us hesitate to buy used underwear,
but a piece of metal that may well have been attached to someone's genitals
and might still have rancid bits of flesh on it.
Who wouldn't want to buy that?
Oh, secondhand cock shop.
I'm not sure if they did sell, but I really hope they didn't.
And I won't name the store.
They're a charity and I hate for their sales to suffer.
So, those are my tales from the shop floor.
Disturbing, revolting, but hopefully entertaining.
Enjoy or vomit, both are valid and responsive.
We'll do the funny bits, Travis.
We just want the fucking story.
You don't like that, do you?
It's trying to be too clever.
Basically, I could have summed that up.
Go on.
There was a box with a dead dog.
We were too much pussies to even look at it.
And a vibrating Prince Albert.
Yes.
That was it.
Yes.
Great.
Thanks for taking away the magic of language.
The magic of language, Paul, is something you've never, ever experienced.
Or enjoyed.
Right, so I'm just going to finish looking for this next email. you've never ever experienced or enjoyed.
Right, so I'm just going to finish looking for this next email,
and then once I've found it,
I'm going to get up and punch you in the fucking face.
Was that the dead pet one?
All right.
That was the dead pet one?
Part two.
But we don't know if that was a dead pet.
This is part two.
I'm underwhelmed by Travis, both in his prose style and content.
Sorry, Travis.
Are you ready?
Yes.
This is another Pet Corps letter sent in by Chloe.
Hello, Chloe.
Hello.
There's no hello on this.
You just get right into it.
Well, good.
I like Chloe already.
Much better than all this.
I've got a story and I'm about to tell the story.
And this is the story I'm about to tell.
And I hope you like it.
And I'm in there.
And there.
I don't need your fucking whole paragraph telling us about what story you're going to.
And then at the end say,
I hope you like that.
Blah, blah, blah.
Cut it down.
We want the meat and potatoes of these fucking stories.
Right, so Chloe.
Does it start?
Dead dog slipped in its brain.
No.
Right.
That would have been good.
Chloe.
Does it start?
My bottom end's got muscles on it.
I've got an undercarriage like the Mary Celeste.
Do you want me to hit you?
No, I don't want you.
Of course I don't want you.
Shut up and let me start this.
So read it already.
No more Mr Nice Guy.
Right.
Chloe writes,
I heard recently that you wanted to hear about a pet corpse.
We did.
Yes.
It was mentioned by you.
Well, when I was younger, I had a pet dragonfly We did. Yes. It was mentioned by you.
Well, when I was younger,
I had a pet dragonfly,
which was dead.
Hey!
Right, okay.
Just carry on laughing straight away.
I mean, she's gotten straight to the meat of it.
So, fair play.
What happened was that it had flew into our bug zapper and died.
I don't know what crossed my sick child mind,
but I was just like,
oh goody,
a pet.
So I kept it in my dad's glasses case
and every morning I would spray him with disinfectant
and stroke him.
Oh.
I only got rid of him because my mum complained
when his eyes and wings fell off.
Okay.
What was his name?
So Chloe's a serial killer.
What was his name?
Flappy.
Old blind McFlapper.
Mr. Fuzz.
Oh, Mr. Fuzz.
You're so lovely.
No, Paul.
I'm Mr. Fuzz.
And I like it when you're struck by a corpse.
Well, it's a good thing it wasn't dragonfly larvae.
I'm finished.
That wasn't the first time I came across a pet corpse.
She came across a pet corpse.
Just a couple of years ago, I had two pet mice. One of them
died of unexplained causes.
Like, one day they were just stiff,
and the other had to be put to sleep because... I hate to tell you this,
Chloe, right,
but they live for about two and a half years.
That's their natural lifespan, isn't it?
So they do just die. I had one in here.
A mouse. Yeah.
What? Is he...
You live in filth. It's's a mouse there's nothing we can do
we live near the train tracks you don't no we don't you're a filthy animal it's not me you
should not have dead mice in this room the mouse i took him out when he died basically right they
do this because this is my experience. One night, scratch, scratch, scratchy, scratchy, scratchy, scratchy, scratch.
Yes, I know.
Scratch, scratch, scratch.
You were like, don't touch me.
No.
Don't touch me.
And I'm like, oh, what's that fucking thing in my room?
Oh, turn the light on.
And he runs out into the middle of the room.
Then he goes, ah!
Literally, ah!
He died.
And died there, ah!
Because you turned the light on.
He went, I'm in this room.
He looked around and saw it in its realness.
I was like, fatness.
It fucking killed itself.
How would it kill itself?
It literally stopped its own heart.
How can they do that?
They're samurai mice, are they?
A horror and shock.
They're Buddhist mice.
They're high-level Buddhist mice.
Was it a Shaolin mouse?
It was the shock of seeing Mount Groppans
steaming in the corner.
They like Mount Groppans.
Mount Groppans has got lots of little nooks and crannies with little cheesy, cheesy surprise nuggets.
I should not have mice living in there.
God.
Oh, Mount Glott pants.
This segment is now over.
Oh, my good.
What's that?
It's like a drill or something.
We're still recording with the door open in the House of Pickles.
It's a hot day in the House of Pickles.
Oh, Lord.
We said last time we recorded here it was pretty hot, wasn't it? But it is considerably hotter now.
Yeah, it is.
It's like we're both...
It's like...
You know what?
This is like me and you.
Romancing the Stone.
I'm Michael Douglas.
Right.
And you're Danny DeVito.
Shall I light a candle and you can chuck some marijuana on it?
And we can go...
Yeah.
Let's do that.
Yeah, I'm not doing that.
And you'll be Danny DeVito.
You'll be Danny DeVito, right?
What did I say?
He's the bad guy.
He tricks people.
I know who he is in the film, Paul.
What does he say?
I'm Danny DeVito.
He sounds just like...
He like...
No, he sounds like that character you do, Jimmy Biscuit.
All my characters.
Yeah.
He sounds like all my characters.
He sounds like a whole battery of American characters.
Danny DeVito.
Yeah, good.
Is that better?
Is that better?
So, Paul. Yeah. Now, moving on with the show of Cheap Show,
because it is a show we do called Cheap Show.
It's a show about cheap things.
Generally about cheap things.
We try and celebrate the lovely things we find
in the cheapest parts of the world.
Now, we're going to just do a very truncated little version of a section
we like to call...
Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
Oooooot.
Nice.
Nice.
What we got today.
That was a lovely one.
What we got today.
What have we got today?
Now, we've tried some Bobby's limited edition crisps in the past.
We have.
Those were the curry snacks.
They do it. I had another pack of the other days. Yeah. curry snacks. They do it.
I had another pack
of the other days.
They did not let me down.
They did not let me down.
They were scrum
diddlyumptious.
Scrum diddlyumptious,
ladies and gentlemen.
You can put that on the pack.
Eli,
four stars.
I saw this
and I thought
it would be remiss of us
not to taste another
of Bobby's
limited edition
crisp products.
And that's what we've got today on Cheap Eats. That's what I've got today for you, Paul, on Cheap Eats. I'm very excited for it. It's good. to taste another of Bobby's limited edition crisp products.
I agree. And that's what we've got today on Cheap Eats.
That's what I've got today for you, Paul, on Cheap Eats.
I'm very excited for it.
It's good.
Yeah, okay.
Let's do it.
So here, without further ado, these are Bobby's limited edition sticky barbecue ribs.
Get stuck in.
Oh, we should.
And it says sticky barbecue rib flavour snacks.
Now, I'll be interested
if they will have any stickiness to them.
Is it the flavour that they're suggesting is sticky?
As in it conjures up imagery
of such sticky barbecue snacks.
They might have a bit of sweetness.
Now, I'm prepared for Bobby to fail, Paul.
We can't just love everything Bobby does.
These might be not to our taste.
That's true.
And it's interesting as well
because one of the listeners of Cheap Show
copied Bobby's into a tweet
to our Twitter account and said,
Oh, you're right, the curries were amazing, and blah, blah, blah.
And then Bobby's replied back saying, Well, we're getting rid of them soon, but try these barbecue rib ones.
We think they're just as good.
They were trying to go, All right, so we're doing it.
Have a little one.
So we're doing it, and I'm going to huff the pack gas.
It's definitely important.
Now, you've got to shake it, remember?
We've realised.
So I do that first, and then I'm going to huff the pack. You're going to huff the pack gas. It's definitely important. Now, you've got to shake it, remember? We've realised. So I do that first, and then I'm going to huff the pack.
You're going to huff it.
I'm going to huff the packet gas like a...
Like a wine person would sniff the bouquet of the wine.
Like a miner who's been rescued and comes out into the open.
Oh, the meadows of home.
Yeah.
It's like this.
I'm going to fucking huff this hard.
Let's do this.
I'm going to huff hard
on Bobby's
sticky barbecue
rib pat gas
ooh
ooh
I don't know
I don't know what to think
they're a bit farty
extremely farty
ooh
they're a bit
oh grandad's
got off
they're extremely
fecal
not in a bad way
just in a beefy
fart way.
They have an almost
Chinese five spice
I'm getting as well.
There's a kind of
grandad fart after a
big Christmas dinner.
There's a sort of
sweetness five spiciness
though.
Cool.
Just tuck in.
Now what's the
appearance?
These are very much
like a long watsit.
An elongated watsit.
An elongated watsit.
Same texture by
lots of things.
Same consistency.
Shall I pop it in and have a nibble?
Nibble the head off that.
And I'm going to go in as well.
I like these a lot.
Really?
They have that sticky barbecue rib thing.
Like you would get in a Chinese restaurant.
It's that kind of sticky, isn't it?
It's a Chinese sort of taste, isn't it?
Because I was expecting like the kind of barbecue American ribs or something.
No, they've gone for like a...
Which is a better decision, I think.
I think.
They've definitely got a sweetness, don't they?
But not sickly.
And you know what they've gone for?
You know the way that anything like this, anything like a what's-it-form crisp,
sort of disintegrates into a sort of stickiness, isn't it?
It sort of sticks to your teeth, the sort of residue.
And I think that's what they're trying to work with, that sort of texture,
textural profile that these what's-it-types have. So the flavour sticks to your mouth. the sort of residue. And I think that's what they're trying to work with, that sort of texture, textural profile.
Yeah.
That these Watsit types have.
So the flavour sticks to your mouth.
It's an ambitious snack.
Mmm.
Isn't it?
Just like the 39p.
It's like when Walkers used to do those,
oh,
these,
you know,
their,
you know when Walkers used to do their bloody,
exotic flavours.
Yeah.
And I was like,
well,
they do it every fucking year,
don't they?
Vote for this! Pork pie and egg flavour. Is it. Yeah. I was like, well, they do it every fucking year, don't they? Vote for this!
Pork pie and egg flavour!
Is it going to,
what was the thing
they did lately?
We're going to get rid
of all the flavours.
If you like this flavour
better than,
really?
Yeah.
That was the gimmick.
That's terrorism.
If you like this new flavour
better than salt and vinegar,
we're going to get rid
of salt and vinegar.
Nah,
they fucking won't.
They're fucking lying.
That's like when they say
we're going to kill off Superman.
It's like,
oh,
he'll be back.
He'll fucking be back straight away.
You can't hold our crisps hostage, Walkers.
You listen to me and you listen good.
I'm doing a speech.
Okay, continue.
Walkers, you have crossed a line.
You can't take our flavours away from...
Yeah, you listen to him.
He knows what he's saying. You can't hold our flavours hostage.... Yeah, please. Yeah, you listen to him. He knows what he's saying.
You can't hold our flavours hostage.
No, not hold hostage, no.
We didn't vote to leave the EU just so you...
We didn't vote to leave the EU.
Just so you could take away our salt and vinegar.
How dare you?
How dare you?
Salt and vinegar is the blood that runs through these British fucking veins.
Shame on you, Walkers.
You are taking away a bit of Britain
and what are you replacing it with?
Bum flakes.
Spicy pork.
Spicy bum crisps.
We don't like them.
We don't want them.
We want some vinegar.
Crisps that are waggon nuts.
We want what we recognise
and we want the safety and recognition
Crisps that are literally little pellets
of dried poo attached to their hairs
around their arse. You're not helping.
You're not helping my speech.
You're actively making it. How about that?
I don't want to be your high note. Anyway, I'm finishing it off.
So, Walkers, you may take my
salt and vinegar, Chris. You may.
But you, you won't be aware.
You won't be ready for
the onslaught of fists that come your
way when I rise up with my army
and we burn down the walkers factory
and the only crisp worth
standing is salt and vinegar
and that's my friend
the only crisp worth standing
so listen to the walkers
the army's coming
so don't do it
alright thank you Paul
now I have to say Paul
I don't like them as much as the curry snacks.
No.
I will say if I had to pick one or the other, oh, that curry's coming back.
I'd go for the curry snacks straight away.
Would you have these again?
I mean.
Yeah.
They're too sweet.
I don't like them too sweet.
I think they're just the right amount of sweet.
Okay.
Well, let's have a grade from you.
It's a cheap eat score for Barbee's limited edition sticky barbecue flavour ribs.
Four? Out of five. Yeah. I'd eat score for Bobby's limited edition sticky barbecue flavour ribs. Four?
Out of five. Yeah.
I'd eat a whole pack of those like that.
I'll go for three and a half, 3.75.
Fair enough. They're nice. Nice enough but I don't think I'd go for them again myself. For the price?
For the flavour? They're sweet.
Yeah, 39p. I think you're just holding
back because you think we've been a bit too
good to Bobby's. Honestly
I'm not. It's not a psychological thing. I just wasn't that impressed.
I think, mate, you're in Walker's
pocket.
Are you a Walker's agent?
Are you working for Walkers?
I've got Frito-Lay, yeah.
It's PepsiCo, you know.
You know what this means, don't you, mate?
We're going to have to interrogate you.
You are?
Yeah, I'm going to have to interrogate you.
When you say we, who? You and whose army?
Me. Your anti-Walkers army?
Me and Mr. Biscuits. Alright, bring him in.
Okay, here I am, buddy.
What do I need to do? Okay, just sit
me right down here. Okay, Eli,
tell me all you know. What do Walkers know
about Babies? Why are you so...
Why did you join the Walkers gravy train?
Do you want to stop after one question and then maybe I'll be
able to respond to you, Mr. Biscuits?
Yeah, Mr. Biscuits. Calm down. I'll be good cop. You be bad cop.
Right, let's do that. Okay.
Go on, Eli. You're a good man.
I first started working for Walkers when I was 16.
I was walking in the park.
A man approached me.
He had a very impressive coat.
He opened it.
His knob was there.
Right.
He made me look at it. Right. He said, I'm knob was there. Right. He made me look at it.
Right.
He said, I'm from Walkers.
Okay.
And ever since then, I've been receiving letters only on odd days of the month.
What, like plurbs day?
What do you mean odd days of the month?
Like the 17th.
Why is that odd?
It's a number that's in between the even numbers.
They're called odd numbers, Paul.
It's not even math.
It's sort of even more basic than that, Paul.
It's sort of very basic number theory we're talking about here.
Okay, that's what I meant by odd.
Yeah, but the way you made it sound...
Anyway, it sends me a picture.
It sends me a photograph of his hairies.
That's the end of the story.
Get Jimmy Visticus out.
No, I want to know more.
Okay, Jimmy.
What do you do for walkers now?
What do you do?
I know you're coming here and you're taking Bobby's secrets, but come on.
Well.
Turn a few names my way.
I'll tell you, this will fucking impress you, Mr. Jimmy Biscuits, yeah?
Send them my way.
Yeah, Jimmy Biscuits, yeah?
Yeah, tell them.
Yeah, Jimmy Biscuits, yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah, Jimmy Biscuits, yeah?
Yeah, come on, boy.
Oh, I got parachuted into the factory, Bobby's factory.
That ties in to reports we had on the 17th.
Yeah, you bet it ties in.
And then I fucking tied one off, as in took a shit into the vat.
Right.
The Bobby's special flavor vat.
I've been looking for you for a long time.
There's poo in your bobbies.
Right.
Well, I've been looking
for you all my career.
I might have...
I tied one off.
I might have finally
got my hands on the...
I clipped one off.
I don't...
He's boring.
Can he leave?
Wait, well,
I'll be back
with a warrant
to search these premises.
And you better not
think about leaving
the country, buddy boy.
Okay, I won't.
You better not
because otherwise...
You know what?
I kind of feel like he does take over me
at times
it was really weird I completely just then
got out of my side the reason why I broke the scene
was because it frightened me
I suddenly became really aware
you really were feeling
the motivation of Jimmy Biscuits
and I just had to get out
alright fine let's forget about it
let's forget about it let's forget about it
Paul
I know
I was responding
as if you were
Jimmy Biscuits
as well then
for a second
Paul
wow
right
okay
so
well that was good
3.75 for me
you're giving it
a solid 4
solid 4
not bad at all
just a bit
a bit too sweet
I don't like my
Chris sweep like that
okay
that's it good right bye Not bad at all. Just a bit too sweet. I don't like my crisps sweet like that. Okay.
That's it.
Good.
Bye.
So let's do this.
Let's dig into Noel one last time.
Okay.
Now.
And pull out the giblets.
Now, Cheap Show's resident Noel Aficionado, or Noelinardo, as they're known in the trade.
Noelinardo, I love it.
Sounds like a kind of conquistador.
You're our resident. Nolanardo. Here is our Nolanardo. Oh, ole.
Paul Gannon. Hello.
I am
Nolanardo.
And I know everything about
Nolly Edmonds. Okay, so
where did we get up to last time when we
were discussing the Edmonds?
We kind of breezed through his career,
didn't we?
We started out in the early days
and his start and his weird single
and obviously leapt a bit forward
to house party,
his smash hit Saturday primetime evening
entertainment magazine show.
And that was the height of his...
That was peak Noel.
And it was also the era of peak light entertainment.
Yeah.
What have they got now?
They've got things like
Ant and Dex.
On ITV they do.
They still do
the Saturday night thing.
Or rather
Dex
Saturday night.
Is it just him now?
Because Ant's
glug glug glug
meep meep
crash
got him into a bit of trouble.
Yeah but he's still around.
He got
fined
£100,000 or something.
Don't get me wrong.
It's a problem, obviously.
He's got a serious problem.
Does he go, oh, a couple of Xanax and then a bottle of vodka?
He gets drunk.
He used to get drunk.
Go, let's get ready to rumble.
Let's get calmed down.
Let's get ready to rumble.
Rumble.
Come on.
Come on.
Oh, it looks like my pants have got ready to grumble.
And shat himself again.
You shit it.
I've run over myself.
If you could do that and do what Brian from E17 did,
manage to run over himself whilst high on ecstasy,
that would be something.
There's also tragic stories like that actor, Anton Yelchin.
Terrible story.
What happened?
It was his car.
It was just a fault
with the car across
the line of those cars.
I don't know if it was
a brake thing or not
but either way he got
out of his car to
open a gate and then
the car rolled.
And the car just came
and fucking smacked
him down.
Yeah.
That's so nasty.
Waste of a massive tank.
You've seen Green Room
haven't you with him?
I loved him in Green Room.
Yeah.
And he's really good
in Star Trek really as well.
Yeah but.
It's a small role,
but he's had a bit of fun.
The Star Treks.
We're not getting into
Star Trek Beyond.
Star Trek Beyond.
I don't care.
It was very boring.
I thought it was very boring.
Five bags of popcorn.
So we're doing Noel.
So we're going to dig into
some of the darker elements
of his past,
because I think we talked about
his successes, by and large,
didn't we, and his ego.
And why he was a success.
Yeah, and obviously in older episodes you can hear us talk about Mr Blobby in a little bit more
detail. We don't need to cover those tracks.
But what we didn't get round to talking about was
the infamous story
that involved Noel Edmonds. And we have to obviously
tread lightly with this because real
people were affected and someone
died. Okay. But Noel
Edmonds was involved in killing a man on
TV. So before
Noel's house party, he had
a Saturday night show called The Late Late
Breakfast Show. Okay. Because it
was developed from Swap Shop, which is his first
foray onto TV properly, I think, not
including maybe Top of the Pops and whatever.
But... It was his first one as the sort
of show, the head of the show
sort of. Yeah, because Swap Shop had almost a small group around him, didn't yeah the head of the show sort of yeah because Swamp Shop
had almost a small group
around him
didn't they
John Craven
and Top of the Pops
had like rotating people
yeah
didn't it
that's why they got dizzy
and now
it's Mother of the Man
coming down as number three
dizzy
you see
that's the joke
yeah
the revolving
yeah
dizzy by
I thought you meant Dizzy by...
Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff.
I know.
It's...
The Wonderstuff.
Was it Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff?
Yeah.
Wow.
Oh, no.
Or was that for the song I'm a Believer?
The Wonderstuff.
Oh, I should know this.
I'm a big Vic and Bob.
It's definitely Wonderstuff, I think, with I'm a Believer.
Yeah.
So I don't know. So they did a version of the monkey song with I'm a Believer. Yeah. So I don't know.
So they did a version of the monkey song, I'm a Believer.
Yeah.
Huh.
Yeah.
Written by?
The monkeys.
Neil Sedaka.
Oh, ooh.
Kyle and the girl.
I love, I love, I love my little Kyle and the girl.
Or is it Neil Diamond?
No, I think you're right.
It's Sedaka, you know.
He, Diamond wrote.
Or did he do Daydream Believer?
I think Diamond did Daydream Believer. No, Or did he do Daydream Believer? I think Diamond did Daydream Believer and Sadaka.
No, Diamond didn't do Daydream Believer.
Diamond didn't do Daydream Believer.
Daydream Believer was Sadaka, then.
I think so.
Oh, we're going to get letters.
You said in episode whatever that this happened.
We won't.
We're not going to.
Don't care.
Most people who listen to this don't actually get any of the references that we do.
No, we do.
Anyway.
Does anyone remember marshmallows?
They were good.
Shut up. This is not do you remember
dot dot dot. Hey Paul, do you remember?
Oh, fuck off. So anyway, what
basically happened, this is a Wikipedia page,
the man who was affected was a chap called
let me get this straight
there's quite a few, Michael
Lush. Was the man who died?
Yeah, but apparently It was like there were
A few fucking problems
With the late late breakfast show
Over the course of its career
So it had sort of
Big sort of stunt things
It was you know
It had big stunts
And games and challenges
And celebrity guests
And things like that
A magazine show
For Saturday night
In an hour
You'd pack it all in
And there'd be live segments
And it'd all get crazy
Okay
You know that kind of shit
So controversy And I thought it was Just going to do The Michael Lush story But apparently There's another one Paul McCartney In an hour, you'd pack it all in, and there'd be live segments, and it'd all get crazy. Okay. You know, that kind of shit.
So, controversy.
And I thought I was just going to do the Michael Lush story, but apparently there's another one.
Paul McCartney.
This is all about the... Of the Beatles.
Yeah.
The video of Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson's single, Say, Say, Say, had its controversial UK TV premiere on the show, The Late Late Breakfast Show.
The half a million dollar video had not been ready when the track debuted in the UK singles chart.
By the time it was finalised, the track had fallen in the charts.
So McCartney flew to London with the intention of premiering the video
on the BBC flagship show Top of the Pops,
but the show had a strict policy that no single that had dropped out of position
could feature and refused to show the video.
Oh, I bet McCartney was seething.
A furious argument ensued, it says here,
and the BBC staff reported McCartney was threatened
to withdraw all his music from the corporation.
Wow.
Wow.
That would...
As a compromise, the BBC offered to air the video
two days later on the Late Late Breakfast show.
We'll give it to Noel.
Yeah.
We'll give it to Noel.
Let Noel do it.
Let Noel do it.
Let Noel do it.
Give it to Noel.
Just give it to Noel.
Noel do it.
We'll do it.
The BBC agreed it on the programme,
only if McCartney appeared live and gave an interview.
He reluctantly agreed.
So, what, they say you have to appear live?
Yeah, as part of the deal to show the video,
because their policy is if it's not in the top ten or whatever.
If I was McCartney, I'd just be like, I'm walking away.
Yeah, that's what I don't understand.
But I guess he wanted to push it because the video would cost so much to make.
Do you remember what that video featured?
No.
Because he did a song with...
I'll probably put a video link on the webpage, by the way.
He did a song with Stevie Wonder, Ebony and Ivory,
when they were on a massive piano.
Do you remember that?
Someone thought that video through, didn't they?
What's the song about?
Well, it's about the metaphor of,
let's make it explicit.
Yeah.
Let's just make it visually explicit.
I mean, that's not the only time that's happened.
No, I know.
There you go.
So anyway, he reluctantly agreed
and appeared on the show with his wife, Linda, on the 29th
of October, 83, which was their first UK TV appearance since 1973.
So they'd been off TV for a decade.
Who?
Linda and Paul weren't seen on TV together.
Oh, she came along, did she?
Yeah.
He used to drag her around everywhere, didn't he?
Yeah, he loved her.
Yeah, but she had no discernible sort of showbiz ability he loved her
all right love's a powerful thing eli yeah miserable fucking rotted fetid cunt of a man
well just don't let your wife sing on your records well so you can say for yoko ono
she was an artist in her own right fuck off dickhead artist yeah i've said it i've been edgy
yoko ono i'm saying saying it. I'm saying it.
I'm saying it.
Don't fart.
I did not.
You fucking fart
and you made eye contact with me.
I did not, man.
Ooh, the House of Pickles.
Shut up.
The House of Liquid Pickle.
Right.
Shut up.
Drippy Pickle.
The interview was stilted
and the McCartneys made little or no effort
to answer any of Edmund's questions.
They just sat there.
Brilliant.
Oh, I really want to see that. Oh, I hope I can find the clip online again if I can
find these video clips I'll put them on our page I'd love to see that website after some reportedly
hostile backstage production negotiations the program's entire show was built around the
medicine men theme of the video and the guests who had been booked to appear that week with
Olivia Newton-John had to agree to appear to promote the video in a skit reportedly against
here will and Olivia expressed anger at having her starring role in the show downgraded into a with Olivia Newton-John had to agree to appear to promote the video in a skit, reportedly against her will,
and Olivia expressed anger at having her starring role in the show downgraded into a lesser spot
to make way for the video and McCartney.
Wow.
Wow.
McCartney is taking no prisoners.
The airing of the video on this highly rated show
was successful as the track climbed back up into the chart
the following week and hit on top of the pops
on the 4th of November 1983.
Okay, so it worked for McCartney there.
But frosty, frosty. Wow. There have been a of the pops on the 4th of November 1983. Okay, so it worked for McCartney there. But frosty frosty.
Wow.
There have been a number
of accidents on the show
apparently.
This is what the next segment is.
On the September 10th 1983
stunt driver Richard Smith
fractured his pelvis
and injured his head,
neck and back
after crashing at 140 miles per hour
during a live car stunt
in an attempt to leap
more than 230 feet
in the air in a car.
Wow.
Also in 83, Barbara Sleeman broke her shoulder
after being fired from a cannon.
She would later say,
the BBC don't give a damn, they just want the viewers.
No.
I'll put a woman in a cannon.
You watch, you watch me.
Mr Edmonds, I've just looked at the safety speculations
for the specs for this
cannon
what did you do that for you silly man
I'd have to tell you that it's not
100% safe
it has a few little niggles
and
it might just pulverise
so we
how much is this got to cost?
How much has this problem got to cost to go away?
Well...
How much?
I'm Noel Edmonds.
I've got it.
You know me.
Have you got one of those...
What?
Biscuit dusters.
Oh, you want a biscuit duster, my friend?
I do want a biscuit duster.
In that case, I want not only this report to go away...
Give us a biscuit duster and then say no more, yeah?
And it'll go away?
With one of those fine-toothed, fine-toothed biscuit dusters.
Why don't you look inside my bag?
Look at that.
Look at that.
Isn't that a biscuit tickler?
It's not a biscuit tickler.
That's what I call them.
Why?
You're going to correct Noel Edmonds?
Or do you want your biscuit duster?
Well, if you're going to refer to it as a biscuit duster.
Here you go.
What are these little granules of your bum fluff on it?
That's a little special Noel Edmonds gift.
Can I powder that and put it into milk?
Yeah, you can make Noel shakes.
Right.
End scene.
Don't fart again!
Stop accusing me of things I don't
I'm not doing. I'll highlight the
audio to capture it when I do
the edit.
I don't want to be thought of as
someone who farts. Then don't fart!
Anyway, I want that Barbara
farted from a fucking cannon.
Okay, so she hurt herself. She doesn't care about the BBC
but she didn't lay the blame at Noel's door.
No, she basically did.
And so we get... Oh, mate, that stinks!
That fart has just hit me.
I got a gob full of that.
That's disgusting. This house of pickles
makes me sad.
Welcome to my guttage.
So let's quickly go through this as best we can.
The death of Michael Lush and the
cancellation of the Late Late Breakfast show.
So on November...
November.
On November 13th, 1986, self-employed hod carrier Michael Lush was killed during a rehearsal for another live stunt.
The stunt was called Hang'em High, involving bungee jumping from an exploding box suspended from a 120 foot high crane.
Fucking hell. The
clip attached to his bungee rope to the cane
sprang loose from its eye bolt during
the jump. He died instantly
from multiple injuries and the
breakfast show was cancelled on the 15th of November.
After Noel Edmonds resigned, saying he didn't have
the heart to carry on,
well you would want to go back on next week and say
uh oh, I did a silly.
Anyway, here's fucking
Caroline from Stoke-on-Trent.
I'm going to fucking kick you off a boat.
This is true, actually.
Rumours denied by the BBC at the time
had been that Edmonds was due
to resign anyway to launch a career in America.
And there are episodes of him doing
an American TV show on YouTube. Oh, yeah.
Oh, stinky poo-poo.
It's not good. The Yanks must have just been like...
They don't get it.
You know he's quite dry. Like we said last time,
he doesn't like to be the object
of humour himself, even though he takes the piss.
He doesn't like himself.
Even though he does it, he doesn't sell it.
There's all these really awkward bits where it's like,
oh, I'm a British man in America. You don't get references. He doesn't sell it. So there's all these really awkward bits where it's like, oh, I'm a British man in America.
You don't get references.
And it's like, oh, stop it, Noel.
Super cringe.
Stop it, Noel.
So yeah, there was a whole massive inquest into this
and it was recorded as a verdict of misadventure.
But the whole segment of that show was fucking ridiculous.
I can't remember what it was, what the actual round was called,
but the idea was they'd spin a dial on a wall
and it would land on a stunt.
And then they'd pick some random cunt
out of the audience and say,
you're doing this.
What?
All right.
And you might get a telly.
And so that was the idea
of normal people doing
extraordinary stunts or challenges.
Dangerous.
And so the hod carrier guy
was just a...
Just a regular guy.
He wasn't even like a specialist?
No.
He was given training
but obviously died in rehearsals for the show.
Because they had to pre-record that, obviously.
Because imagine if it happened live.
That's very bad.
Because you'd know Noel would have to...
It reminds me of the John Landis Twilight Zone.
Again, very, very troubling story.
Where there was literally a whole helicopter, a prop helicopter.
Yeah.
But with a properly rotating blade.
Yeah.
Basically came unhinged from whatever was securing it and killed a...
The actor and the two children he was holding in his arms at the time in the scene.
Whoa.
They were allegedly beheaded.
And they still finished that movie?
Yeah.
Because it was a portmanteau film.
It meant maybe his was filmed last.
And so I don't know what production...
I mean, you're right, actually.
I don't know all the details details but I'm surprised it was released
but I do know there was
a massive court case
and lots of people
found liable
and that was the
John Landis section
yeah he filmed that bit
the guy about the guy
who's intolerant
and he goes back in time
to all the worst atrocities
and finds himself
in war zones
yeah
Spielberg did the lovely one
where everyone kicks a can
old people kick a can
and they go young again
and it's like
a bit like Cocoon
isn't it yeah old people finding their youth again And they go young again. And it's like a bit like Cocoon, isn't it?
Yeah.
Old people finding their youth again.
It's Cocoon, the mini-
It was really like, this is boring and I hate it.
Then John Lithgow's Terror at 20,000 Feet or whatever it's called.
Yeah.
That was directed by John-
No, Joe Dante.
That was good.
Who did Gremlins.
Yeah.
And what was the other one?
The one where the little boy who can have-
He's omnipotent. Oh, I'm all wrong. Joe Dante did that one? The one where the little boy who can have his omnipotence.
Oh, I'm all wrong.
Joe Dante did that one, the Power Boy.
And the one that was done on the plane was, I think, George Miller.
Okay.
Mad Max George Miller.
Mad Max George Miller.
Yeah.
Mad Max George Miller.
There we go.
Back to Noel, he was negligent.
Yeah.
Was he negligent?
But he's not in charge of the stunt.
He's no expert in that.
No, but the thing is that he was executive producer on the show.
So at some point...
The bug stopped with him.
Yeah, pretty much.
And so when there's a report that comes up that said lots of things weren't checked
and the safety officer was not on hand on the day
and no supervision or demonstration from a trained stuntman had occurred.
No, that's not good.
All that kind of stuff.
The BBC insisted using some kind of other device
despite the advice of using a proper rope.
I don't know.
So there was a lot of issues.
Yeah.
The BBC made an ex...
It wasn't just a freak, like they checked everything.
No.
It was just freak.
It was actually...
Corners cut.
Wow.
The BBC made an ex gratia payment
of approximately £120,000 to the Lush family.
BBC managing editor Bill Cotton stated that there'd be no future programmes approximately £120,000 to the Lush family.
BBC managing editor Bill Cotton stated that there'd be no future programmes
that exposed members of the public to risk.
Did you really need to make that statement?
You shouldn't do a show where it's like,
yeah, we'll sign off,
dropping a member of the public on their head
from a helicopter that explodes.
Well, I suppose that's it.
That's why you don't get anything like that these days.
Well, we live in a much more litigious culture as well, don't we?
Yeah, speaking to the mic, mate.
We live in a much more litigious culture these days.
I suppose it's because of things like that going on in previous years
that we don't have anything like that on TV now.
I'm probably for the best, though.
Yeah.
I don't want to see fucking Vera from Hemel Hempstead getting fucking, I don't know, kicked off
the Great Wall of China.
Yeah.
I mean, maybe I would.
I would like to see that.
I would like to see that.
Vera, you old bitch.
Here you go.
Hoof.
Eh!
Noel Edmonds.
Noel Edmonds.
Anything else?
Yeah.
So, next story.
Okay.
This is a nice little light one.
A lot less death.
This is the story that came out a few years ago.
I think 2016?
Yeah.
Noel Edmonds mocked for launching pet counselling service.
Noel Edmonds has made this big deal about making internet radio a thing.
And he's gone, I've invented internet radio.
And it's like, no.
You just literally haven't.
He's put some investment in and he's trying to... Building up all these networks.
One of which is the Lloyd's Bank thing.
Which is just a channel devoted to him
saying Lloyd's Bank, you're evil.
Yeah.
It's just him on it.
I don't know.
I fucking haven't listened.
I can't bear it.
If it's someone else, I'm not interested.
But if it's him, I can't bear it.
Good research.
Yeah.
This article from...
Oh, this is Express.
Ah, fuck it.
Has one of Britain's famous TV stars gone bonkers, it says?
Nothing should really surprise us about Noel Edmonds,
considering that 10 million viewers once tuned into the BBC on Saturday nights
to watch him perform with Mr Blobby.
But Noel's uncanny knack of tapping deep into our sense of silliness
has now gone some way of convincing people that he may have lost his sanity.
Try that whole paragraph again.
No.
No.
It's because he's launched a motivational phone service for pets.
If your cat, dog or hamster or mouse or whatever is angry or depressed,
Noel will call it and cheer it up.
In the first four hours, he received 2,000 emails from pet owners,
and demand has soared since,
when Noel cancelled a cat live on air on the Jeremy Fiennes show on Radio 2.
What a wanker!
Yeah, well...
Yeah, what's wrong?
He does what to you?
Meow. Oh, he does what to you? Meow.
Oh, he does what?
Meow, meow.
He says you don't feed him enough.
Meow.
Oh, he's agreeing.
So, Jeremy, if you don't give this cat more food,
it's going to be unhappy.
And when this cat's unhappy, I'm unhappy.
And you don't want me and your cat unhappy
so what are you going to say Jeremy
I don't know
I wish I'd
feed your fucking cat
there you go
Twitter went crazy
as people started posting pictures of pets
with funny captions
one man tweeted
that bloody Noel Edmonds just had a chat with my chicken
and now he thinks it's a cat.
A woman wrote,
Noel Edmonds still hasn't phoned my dog.
If he'd rung,
she'd have mentioned it.
She's very excited.
Another referred to the imaginary village
from which Noel Edmonds
was supposedly broadcast.
Hello, cat.
This is Noel Edmonds.
How can I help?
Well, Noel,
I've got a crinkly bottom.
But a lot of people just think he's lost the plot.
One man tweeted, Noel Edmonds
has just realised a flaw in his new business plan.
Not many pets own phones.
Some do, though.
One posted,
hamsters. Wheel or no wheel?
Another said,
is it okay that Noel has been taken seriously as a cat whisperer?
Noel's hamster up the arse party.
I'd watch that.
Yeah.
Where he just fucking bends over and people force cats up him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Noel's cat arse party.
Noel's pets up the arse party.
And now we've got Des O'Connor with a massive python up his arse hole.
Now I've got Mr. Blobby with a blobby, Durex, special one, put a hamster in there.
Noel has said this.
It's a special Durex, it's very strengthened.
This is what Noel says.
It's got a cat in there.
This is what Noel says.
I'm shoving a cat up your arse in a johnny, Mr Blobby, that was the pun.
I've got a blobby.
Noel says, fuck off, just stop it.
Noel has said, I always have a giggle too many people
take the living experience too seriously what's the point if we can't be positive have fun and
make the world a better place if you can't make money off some fucking horse shit he then revealed
he decided to bring forward plans to launch the world's first radio station exclusively for animals
called positively pets okay all the stations are called Positively something
like Positively London.
Positively Plants.
He has one for plants,
doesn't he?
Yeah.
Positively Bollocks.
I'd like one
where I get
headphones,
powerful headphones
with a good bass response.
Yeah.
Either side of the junk.
Yeah.
No broadcast.
Yeah.
Don't do any of that. Don't do any of that.
Don't do any of that.
Stop it.
It's intense.
It's an intense vibration coming through the headphones.
Thank God you can't see what I've had to close my eyes from.
Stop it.
Vibraphone.
That's really enough of that.
It's enough of that.
Vibrawank.
That's enough of that.
I'm inviting pet owners to send in their audio messages for their loved ones,
and we will broadcast them via plus music requests
and special relaxing tones for pets left at home alone, he says.
Dear Mr. Squiggles, you have diarrhoea.
I will
stop feeding you sheba.
Good night.
It's amazing
how a simple, brief phone call can pick up
the spirits of the most dejected hamster,
the most stressed goldfish, or the most
neurotic cat. Fuck off!
Allow me to call your pet and offer positive
words of appreciation and motivation.
You know, Paul,
do you know what they call
a stressed out goldfish?
What?
A goldfish.
There's no way he can,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Oh, look at my hamster.
What's it doing?
It's running around
and it's gnawing on things.
Oh, depressed.
Must be depressed.
He wrote a book
about reflexology
and a book called
Positively Happy,
Cosmic Ways to Change Your Life.
How do you do that, Noel?
Noel says that. Make several million in your twenties. Is How do you do that, Noel? Noel says that...
Make several million in your 20s.
Is that how you do that?
He says he's constantly accompanied by two melon-shaped
spiritual energy balls that appear over his shoulder.
Yeah.
And which he believes to be the spirits of his dead parents.
That's it.
That's like the stereo ball massage I was talking about earlier.
It's all linked in, Paul.
Melon balls of energy.
Either side of my...
Oscillate your balls.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw that. Here come the melon balls. What do you do my... Oscillate your balls. Yeah. Woof, woof. Yeah, I saw that.
Here come the melon balls.
Woof, woof.
And what do you do?
Does it make you cum?
Eventually, yeah.
How long does it take?
Well, I don't know.
Shall we see?
No.
Let's keep...
We've got to keep...
I don't want to see you cum.
The pace has to increase first, Paul.
Slowly.
I don't want this to happen.
I don't want this to happen.
Noel's melon energy balls are in the room.
Woof, woof.
I don't want any of this to happen
They're wilting from some of the swamp gas near Mount Crotchpants
Don't spit it out Paul
Do you want a touch?
No
It's fine
Last year he claimed the greatest problem facing humanity was electrosmog
Which is a great band
We are electrosmog What do humanity was electrosmog, which is a great band. Yeah.
We are electrosmog.
What do you think electrosmog is?
It is bullshit.
It's obviously bullshit.
What do you think?
He's talking about basically increased electromagnetic communications from our modern world, like Wi-Fi, phones.
And he thinks people are electrosensitive, I think is the way they use it. They're destroying on natural electromagnetic fields, he says.
He also believes death was impossible.
He also said he believed death was impossible
because the body was merely a container
for a universal energy. Yeah, so he believes
that... When he dies,
Noel believes my energy
returned to where it came from.
Part of a massive, incomprehensible,
universal web
of energy. Yeah.
On June, on ITV's Good Morning,
he revealed he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer three years ago but had been cured by electromagnetic box.
I had my tumour destroyed by sound waves, he said.
Ooh, melon ball.
Cancer destroyers.
Positivity from pets stems from belief in the power of the cosmos.
So maybe, he could be suggesting, he put a smiling dog right up his arse.
If he's so fucking...
If death's not...
Tell that to Mr. Lush.
If death's not final.
Tell that to Mr. Lush's family.
Oh, he's part of a web of energy.
I don't even fucking care.
My husband's dead.
He went back to where he came from.
A universal web of energy.
Now, I've got points to make about what you just said, Paul.
I've got two points to make.
Okay, go on.
Now, people say, these kind of spiritualists
who have these kind of views, Paul,
they say, oh, it's not death
because you get absorbed into the one mind
of the conscious energy field.
That's still dying.
If you can't remember who the fuck you were
and you're absorbed into something hugely big,
that's just like dying.
It's like saying another word for dying
your consciousness ends
you have no consciousness
of yourself
as an entity
so what's the point
I'd rather just
fucking die
I don't want to be
do you know what I mean
so there's that
there's that
that's bullshit
it's still dying
also
his fucking
electro fog
fucking theory
right
do you
have you heard of
a little thing Paul called a neutrino?
No.
They are very, very tiny pieces of matter.
They're a type of particle of matter.
The sun produces them, yeah?
And they travel at near to the speed of light.
But they're so tiny and unreactive that they just go through normal matter usually.
They just go through the gaps, okay?
There's about a trillion of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That have gone through your eyeballs as we speak.
Every second, trillions of them come from the sun.
This is not even electromagnetic waves.
These are particles of matter.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's happening all the time.
And so he thinks a fucking,
a thing from your phone is going to,
do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Do you know the point I'm getting at?
It's just complete pseudoscientific...
It's nonsense.
Do you believe...
Do you think, oh, my head when the Wi-Fi goes on?
No.
No.
Does anyone really?
No.
I don't think so.
Maybe old people do.
May not understand it quite the same way.
They might go, oh, the Wi-Fi box may be funny.
Go wibbly, wibbly.
And I touched it.
And then a big melon ball came out.
A big melon ball.
A wobbly melon ball of sex joy.
With Noel Edmonds' face beaming out of it.
Ooh, and a wobbly melon ball face of Noel.
Oh, there it is.
There's the noise.
I'm counting that.
What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that?
When you make a wobbly, wibbly, wobbly face noise.
You invited it, though.
Come on, mate.
Do it again. No, because you'll, wobbly face noise. You invited it, though. Come on, mate. Do it again.
No, because you'll click.
I might not.
You will click.
I might not.
I'm not beholden to your clicker.
Yeah, I fucking did it three times.
Yes, because you disobeyed me.
So anyway, we'll end right with this segment.
Right, yes.
Because Deal or No Deal was a very successful show for Noel Edmonds.
I thought it was reasonably entertaining, Paul. What did you think? I thought it was a show in the past. I fucking found it boring. Right, yes. Because Deal or No Deal was a very successful show for Noel Edmonds. I thought it was reasonably
entertaining, Paul.
What did you think?
We've done it on the show
in the past.
I fucking found it
boring as fuck, mate.
It is one of those game shows
that you could play
the whole thing in two minutes,
but you had to have
other stuff going on
in the show.
And I think that's what
you're going to talk about now, Paul.
Yeah, so John Ronson,
the writer,
he did books like
The Psychopath Test
and Men Who Stare at Goats.
Thank you very much.
Love his books, love his work.
He's kind of a reporter who gets, like, in a kind of Louis Theroux way,
he gets to know the people he's talking about.
Is he better than Louis Theroux, though?
Different kettle of fish.
Do you like Louis Theroux?
Some, not all.
Okay.
I'm the same with John Ronson.
Some, not all.
Okay.
It's fine.
They're all fine.
They're all good.
They're all fine.
He spent some time with Noel Edmonds to write a Guardian article And the same with John Ronson. Some, not all. It's fine. They're all fine. They're all good. They're all fine.
He spent some time with Noel Edmonds to write a Guardian article
about the culture that built up around...
Deal or no deal?
No, the article's quite long.
I'm not going to get into it right now.
I'll put a link on our website to read it.
It's a great article.
But basically, he goes,
it's weird because Noel's brought all his new age thinking
to the logic of this game,
which has no logic. It's a guessing game. I don't think there's many... Well, it's a because no one's brought all this new age thinking to the logic of this game, which has no logic.
It's a guessing game.
I don't think there's many.
Well, it's a gambling game.
It's a gambling game, but there's not much to it
other than eliminate boxes one by one.
Yeah, but there's also, you can decide,
the clever thing about it is you get the deal.
So you can decide to cut your risk.
It's sort of a risk reward.
It's a bit more sophisticated than simply just flipping a coin.
True.
You can say,
oh, I've gone so far
and you can basically stick or...
Yeah, stick or twist.
Or twist, can't you?
Do you see what I mean?
So there is a strategic element
to it like that.
But yes,
it's a simple gambling game, really.
A random game.
But that show could be
half its length.
But it just,
it links into his belief
that there is no randomness in the
universe. No. It has to do with your positivity
and positively envisaging things.
Yeah. You know, I've envisaged a hot
dog. Where is that?
I still have to go fucking buy the thing, don't I?
Yes. Who's going to give me a hot dog
now, in the next minute? No, Noel's not. I'm thinking about
it though. I'm thinking about it really hard, Paul.
Is it echoing in your mouth? Oh, it's turned
into a penis.
Well there you go
we got that out the
way quite quickly.
Oh I found one of
those.
Found one in my
pants.
Oh yeah.
I'm walking down
the road.
I'm feeling up my
arsehole.
With my clicker.
Every time you say
something fucking
stupid.
I'll click for you.
Yeah I've said
quite a lot.
Quite a lot of
fucking stupid shit.
Right, so, a combination of your wibbly voice mouth...
And your stupid...
And me saying something stupid and your songs.
We're at 26.
That's all right.
Yeah.
Well, not our average will be.
I don't know.
Right, so, he ends up spending some time with Noel.
He gets to see how weirdly cult-like it becomes.
It's very cult-like.
The way he gets them all into a room to talk about...
And they're all so enthusiastic and they love each other.
Yeah, they want it.
Like the cult, like, oh, I hope it's a blue for you, Johnny.
Oh, we were talking, weren't we, Johnny, about how you've got cancer
and oh, I hate my mum and I hope it's a blue for you.
Because that's the difference between the American version and this.
The American version doesn't have any of that.
Hey, fuck you, buddy.
I hope it's a hundred grand.
Yeah.
No, just models holding suitcases.
Oh, they're models.
They're not even contestants.
There's no people out there. Because to break it all down, someone has to pick a box and then they're models. They're not even contestants. There's no people out there.
Because to break it all down, someone has to pick a box,
and then they have 20-odd more boxes to pick one.
They eliminate them and end up with one box one way or the other,
and that box is what they win.
They could win up to £250,000.
Is it more in the States?
I think it's more.
Maybe.
I think it's $500,000.
Either way, that's the game.
Yes.
It's basically an elimination game,
but with lots of psychology and gambling elements put in there.
Yeah, but it's, you know,
you could just play it
as we've proven
with the little machine version.
You just play it.
You just go,
that box, that box, that box, that box.
Yeah.
If there's none of this superstition
and, like, mumbo jumbo
attached to it,
you just, like, go,
all right, 20 grand,
I'll take 20 grand, you know.
But everyone's got that.
It has got, again,
it has got a cult like
feel to it
where everyone's
brainwashed to think
the same
because they think
if they reward
that person with good luck
then they'll get it
when it's their turn
and they all kind of laugh
at fucking
Noel's shenanigans
his dad jokes
and calls up the bank
oh
oh
I've got a bit of
a tidy beard
this is stilted
yeah
again I've done this trick before.
I just hope there's a guy on the end of the phone,
a producer saying,
fuck off, no.
Fuck off.
Just tell him it's 3,400 pound
and fucking just hang up.
Hang up.
Hang up.
I'd like it if it was some kind of psychic line
from his mail and energy balls.
Oh, we're going to vibrate your nuts.
Meow. Meow.
Meow.
Anyway, the article talks about that.
I like it, his wife going, right, that's it.
The article goes on like that for a while.
Look at the backstage stuff.
But then they have a one-to-one conversation about Noel's beliefs.
So this is where I'll take the article.
Okay, great.
John writes, it strikes me that Noel Edmonds is probably the only modern-day spiritual guru
who would even consider Argos or MFI as an alternative name for the cosmos.
That's the odd thing about hanging around here.
The mystical people are not all that old new agey.
They're retired bank managers.
They work in betting shops.
They are Noel Edmonds.
And the last time I saw Noel was ten years ago.
He barged past me
in some country house hotel heading for a helicopter the epitome of the no-nonsense
conservative businessman and celebrity off to do some deal he was nothing like the vulnerable
spiritual noel sitting in front of me now if anyone doubts the extent to which the mysticism
has permeated his hitherto secular corners of british society they should spend a couple of
days behind the scenes at deal or no deal.
And I think this is when Noel
says, I wrote to the Cosmos
that I would like to meet a woman who'll make
me laugh and make me happy, Noel tells me.
I wrote that I'd like a relationship
that's not too heavy with an attractive
lady, and I'd like her to
walk into my life by the end of September
2005. And she
did.
Where did you address it? Not to the Cosmos,
but to Russian Brides Are Us.
Top class, no
questions asked. P.O. Box
75. That's the name of a Russian company, Cosmos.
Oh, right, yeah. Cosmos. Only the
most sexy wife, lady.
This one even has teeth.
She must have teeth. Yes Yes she must be able to
Bite and chew her food
But what would be
A bonus for me
Is she
If the teeth come out
And then she can give me
A good wet
A good wet knob off
Shut up
There was a short silent
Like that Paul
Click that two more times
But can I just finish this bit? Yeah.
Woo woo woo woo. Nets nets.
No no. Yeah.
Click that three times.
Fuck me.
Right so there's a short silence and then he
goes on to say she wasn't the person
who sold her story to the Sunday paper back
Oh he says. John Ronson says
she wasn't the person who sold her story to the Sunday people back in July was she? I ask. There's another silence. Oh, he says, John Ronson says, Yes, says Noel.
Right, he's still happy with it, though.
Whatever.
Yeah.
She sold her story and that's it
and then she's out of his life now, I guess.
But is he not even married?
I thought he was a family man.
I mean, I don't know.
I don't know, to be honest.
How can we do several episodes about the man when I don't know. I don't know, to be honest. How can we do several
episodes about the man we don't know anything about
his marital life? That's one
thing I'll say for him. He doesn't drag his kids into it,
does he? They're probably a bit like
Alan Potcher's kids. Are you Noel's
son? No, mate. Stay away.
I'm out of it. Probably for the best.
Yeah. Unless the apple doesn't fall
too far of the tree. He goes, there's some dickhead
in the pub last night
trying to sell me
a TV concept
perhaps his kids
are like
no dad
could I have
50 quid
because I want to
you know
go out
and he goes
just envisage it
you know
put this red string on
yeah
and listen to this video
of my melon farmers
I tell Noel
there's a whole bit
that I've just missed out,
but he goes,
I tell Noel that I can't understand
why he doesn't give up
the mysticism.
I've spent three days here
watching three shows a day
and I've seen so many disappointments,
so many broken dreams,
so many systems,
telepathic or otherwise,
that didn't pan out.
Yeah, of course they don't.
It's utter shit.
And Noel has presented 300 shows.
By now,
he must know that life
is just random, right?
By loo,
the format of the show is on.
Yeah, yeah.
It just proves it
well first
Noel replies
it was the cosmos
that gave him deal
or no deal
in 1999
the BBC had
unceremoniously dumped him
I want a second series
yeah
after 20 years
it looked like
he'd never work on TV again
and he was a workaholic
without work
so he spent 5 fellow years
throwing himself
into the business
and charities
it is fucking Partridge, isn't it?
He certainly is.
Renewable energy.
And then the Cosmos
gave him Deal or No Deal.
It was a huge success.
Nominated for a BAFTA,
winning a Royal Television Society Award,
a Rose Door.
Have you ever looked up
Deal or No Deal on the internet?
Noel asks.
It can do your head in.
Did you know that someone's
compiling a dictionary of my phrases?
This is true.
A large
Wikipedia entry is dedicated to old and oft-repeated expressions, like some people call it an
entertainment drama, some the Red Box Club. Welcome to Planet Tension. It's not how you start, it's how
you finish, and so on. Someone else says it's tracking the repetition of my shoes, trousers, and shirts.
I'm delighted people are reading so much into it. I want to be popular.
I want people to like me.
Not long ago, I talked to someone in the audience
and she went to pieces just because I was talking to her.
It's really important I keep my feet on the ground here.
Wow, he's just messed up inside.
Yeah.
He's a messed up guy.
But then Noel says something else.
There's another reason why he still believes in mysticism.
He says that after 300 shows shows he now knows practically every time how someone's going to do before
they've opened a single box uh no bullshit how if you did then you could make money from that
and you could say yeah you could say couldn't he he could go i know how you're gonna do write it
down if you're so so fucking confident about this,
she will do this well,
and then open it and go,
look, the cosmos.
But you wouldn't do that, would you? No, because you are talking utter shit.
Take your melon energy balls.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Clasp them round my nuts.
Put the voltage up.
Woof, woof, woof.
Stop it.
Click it. Fucking hell. I like it. Anyway. put the voltage up woo woo woo stop it click it fucking hell
I like it
anyway
I like it when they do it
John asks
I like it Paul
I know
John asks
how do you think you know
and Noel pauses
how deep can I go here
I like that
as deep as you like
then he says
take Edward
Edward
I'm not really sure about Edward
I've got a funny feeling it may go horribly wrong for Edward Noel says he knows just by the way As deep as you like. Then he says, take Edward. Edward. I'm not really sure about Edward.
I've got a funny feeling it may go horribly wrong for Edward.
Noel says he knows just by the way Edward walks, by his aura.
You can tell winners by the way they walk.
And Edward doesn't walk this way.
Yesterday, another contestant, Mark, told me that Edward needed a big win more than anyone else here.
Edward's got nothing, Mark says.
Literally nothing.
He's completely skint. I know something Edward doesn't know. I've seen the call sheet. Edward's game is going to says. Literally nothing. He's completely skint.
I know something Edward doesn't know.
I've seen the call sheet.
Edward's game is going to start in a couple of hours. Just before I leave Knowles Winnebago,
I spotted a type sheet of paper lying on the kitchenette.
I look closer.
It contains notes about what the contestants got up to in the hotel last night.
It started because of ill health, Knowles says.
Edward's getting colds.
I needed to know what was happening.
What?
Isn't that fucking weird?
But once the colds cleared up,
the daily reports to Noel continued.
For example,
Noel said if a pair of amorous contestants
succeed leaving the bar together,
the production system will write down the news
and Noel will read about it at breakfast.
He'll turn on the closed circuit TV that he has.
It's like Slither.
You know what I mean?
He's like, right,
they're fucking...
Wanking.
Oh, thank you very much, John.
Going back to the... Right, switch on this, turn that on. Oh, they're fucking... Wanking. Oh, thank you very much, John. Going back to the...
Switch on this, turn that on.
Oh, they're having sex.
I'm going to wank.
Oh, me gun's tank.
Oh, the cosmos asked me to spunk in its mouth.
I wish you'd come here and grab my grand.
Come on.
Get the melon energy balls out!
Oh, I gotcha.
Gotcha!
It's like the prisoner or something.
He's probably got a fucking pen,
like a psychic pen with the
energy balls in there and he opens it and they go they're like his psychic watchdogs paul they're
like they're like the dogs out of paul they're like getting very excited they're like the dogs
out of ghostbusters yeah but they're melon balls right so. So anyway, Edward goes up.
He's picked.
This is the Edward
who is penniless.
Edward who needs it
more than anyone else.
Edward who,
as Noel has psychically predicted,
will have a terrible game
but doesn't have the aura
of a winner either.
Two hours later
and the contestants are crying.
Nalini blames it
on the fire alarms.
We're all so tired,
she says.
If we haven't got the energy,
how can we give off
positive vibes? That's why
Edward opened all the wrong boxes.
Whatever. Noel was right. Edward
walked away with one pound.
Wow. Perhaps there's
something to this. So maybe we shouldn't be
bothering Edmund. Maybe he has got a power.
Maybe Edmund has a special little
box in his room, and it's got
little maquettes of us in there.
And he looks at it and he goes
Cosmos, rain, blood.
Well, he could do anything at any
time. He could make us bum each other
involuntarily. No, Paul!
No! Get down.
Sit your fat butt down.
No one has control of me.
No one does not have control of you.
No one has control of me.
Stop!
You've got my sweat on your hand now.
Just no bumming gags.
It's fucking old, mate.
At least something else.
Like come in your face or give you a slap.
Put my thumb in your mouth.
Just put my thumb in your mouth and rest it on your tongue.
And then what does Noel make us do?
And then Noel makes us do patty cake faster and faster and faster until we can't do it anymore.
Until the flesh is hanging from our hands.
And there's bones instead.
And then they start to shatter.
And you can hear them laughing.
Clacker, clacker, clacker.
Clacker, clacker, clacker.
Then the melon balls come.
And then we start just ever so slightly headbutting each other.
Just headbutting each other a little bit.
And then it gets a little bit.
And then it gets a little bit.
And then it gets a little bit.
And then you can hear the crack of the bone breaking.
And then we're just like smashing our eyes and nose
and brain matter
into each other's heads
over and over
and we're still doing patacake
with our broken skeleton bones
and Noel's just like
I gotcha!
I gotcha!
I gotcha!
And then when they find us
our corpses are perfectly fine.
Okay.
Good.
So on that note
I never want to mention
Noel Edmonds ever again
well if something happens
we're going to have to
bring him up Paul
like if he
one dies
two gets
done for paedophilia
three
if he makes some kind of
stupid claim
or if he wins against Lloyds
I think in those circumstances
we should be able
we'll be the Noel report
yeah
Noel's round
we'll have the Noel's round
Noel's round
like news round
but Noel's round
yeah right well you'll read on your mantle of Knowles round. We'll have the Knowles round. Knowles round. Like news round, but Knowles round. Yeah.
Right, well, thank you.
You'll read on your mantle of Noel and Nardo,
and we'll do a little Knowles round on us, yeah?
But fundamentally, this is the last time we touch Noel. Okay.
I'm ready to drop Noel.
That's what his wife once said.
That's the last time I want to touch you.
And that's what the guy said to Mr. Lush.
Noel, fuck off. You're ready to drop now to Mr. Lush. No, fuck off.
You're ready to drop now, Mr. Lush.
And they went, no, can we have the go, Ed?
Yes.
And then what made it even worse was that Noel was just rubbing his hands and clasping him like that at the time.
If Noel can see the fucking future, why couldn't he see the class breaking on the fucking bungee cord?
Well, hold there.
Maybe he could.
Yeah.
Maybe he wanted out.
Allegedly.
What,
you think he killed a man
to get out of his BBC contract?
because he was going to be...
He got the cosmos to do it.
Oh,
that's dark.
He got his melon balls,
psychic guard dogs,
his psychic enforcer
melon energy ball dogs,
which isn't a sentence
I've ever said before.
Allegedly. Allegedly.
Allegedly we're accusing him
of killing a man
to get out of his BBC contact.
With his psychic energy melon balls?
To get an American US career instead.
I would like a t-shirt
with some melon balls on.
No, you know what?
This is getting dark.
We've got to move on.
He's a Satanist.
No more no's.
He's a Satanist.
Nonce.
Allegedly.
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Click that fucking thing, because I'm dismayed.
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No!
Stop.
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Ow!
Ow!
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Let me finish.
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Let me finish.
I'm going to stab you
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Don't stab me with the pen.
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I've given up at this point.
What do you mean you've given up?
Asking for classiness from this audience.
Dirty.
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