Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 - News Quiz Best of 2020 - 1st Jan 2021

Episode Date: January 1, 2021

Andy Zaltzman gives 2020 the treatment it deserves in this compilation episode of News Quiz highlights from planet earth's latest annus horribilis.Producer: Richard Morris A BBC Studios Production...

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Starting point is 00:00:00 This is the BBC. This podcast is supported by advertising outside the UK. All day long. Taxes extra at participating Wendy's until May 5th. Terms and conditions apply. BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. Hello, I am Andy Zaltzman and I'm here to bid an extremely unfond farewell to the year 2020 in this, the Best of the News Quiz annual compilation. At one second past midnight on the 1st of January 2020, as always, I sealed my predictions for the year in this locked envelope. Let's see how close I was. Right, OK. Nope, that didn't happen, nor did that. that no i did not qualify for the olympics not
Starting point is 00:01:07 my fault really no the queen did not whip out a lightsaber at the state opening of parliament abraham lincoln did not win the u.s election via ouija board oh there were more than zero catastrophic global pandemics oh but i did get one right prime minister cummings did not quite last the year instead what we have seen has been a year of heartbreak, confusion, floundering, community spirit, community division, incompetence, brilliance, blame, counter-blame, statistical embafflement, a disappointing quantity of masks,
Starting point is 00:01:33 you can interpret that however you want, a realisation that Premier League footballers are not 200 times more useful than nurses and care workers, despite what their pay packet suggests, and obviously Elon Musk implanted wireless technology in the brains of pigs. That one I should have predicted. For the News Quiz, this has been the year of three hosts,
Starting point is 00:01:50 beginning in January with Nish Kumar back in the before times, when we still had things like a live audience in a recording studio, and when the biggest thing we had to worry about was the triflingly irrelevant prospect of a world war breaking out. Helen, how did President Trump start the new year with a bang? Basically what happened is that the US carried out a drone strike on an Iranian general called Qasem Soleimani, who was from the Quds Force, which is the part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that makes the rest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard go, those are some bad lads. And then Iran got very annoyed and threatened all kinds of retribution.
Starting point is 00:02:24 And what that amounted to in the end was it fired some missiles at a US base in Iraq, which hit a helicopter, an empty hangar. And there was a great sentence in the NYT report which said, the attack also destroyed several tents. And I thought, I've been on holidays in Norfolk where the rain has done that. Come on. So it was kind of on a geopolitical level, about a midway between basically slamming your bedroom door
Starting point is 00:02:48 and the tense, silent car ride home from your in-laws after Christmas. I mean, it feels like you're speaking from very recent experience. No, no, no, no. My in-laws who listen to this show are nothing but a delight. Thank you very much, Nish. Now, amidst the swirling tides of history, some things remain reassuringly immovable pillars of our national life, and January showed once again that one of these things,
Starting point is 00:03:16 always there, whatever shifts and changes may occur, is squabbling in the royal family. And we'll never be royals. Alan, whose departure has caused a right royal rumpus? I think it might be Meghan and Harry's departure from the royal family. They've decided it feels like one of those jobs that you can't quit, doesn't it, being in the royal family? And I think they might be about to learn that. Mark, you're one of the nation's great royalists.
Starting point is 00:03:47 Yes. How has this news impacted on your life? Yeah, on this occasion, I sort of thought... I don't know, I never thought I'd have sympathy with one of them, but I think I can understand. The newspapers seem to be... Lots of newspapers are very angry. You can understand why. Because some newspapers have spent the last two years going,
Starting point is 00:04:06 Megan, you can sod off. You're an outsider, you modern upstart feminist coming in here spoiling our royal family. Get out. How dare you be who you are. Off, off, off. And now they're going, how dare she sod off. How dare she.
Starting point is 00:04:24 And fulfil your duty of being here so we can tell you to sod off! As January turned to late January, however, the story that would define the year, and in many ways the current state of our famous world-beating species, was hoving gradually, increasingly unignorably, towards centre stage, as pointed out concisely by Andrew Maxwell.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Why are we not talking about the coronavirus? It's the elephant in the room, isn't it? Do you know, apart from the people who obviously died and have suffered from the actual coronavirus, the people who I really feel sorry for in all this is the marketing department of Corona. It's a nightmare. Just see Mexico City going,
Starting point is 00:05:10 oh, please stop calling it the coronavirus. Oh, you laugh. You laugh, but where's leprosy lemonade now? Susie, who's been flying to flee the flu? This is about the coronavirus, which is causing an ongoing health emergency in China and now potentially the rest of the world. In fact, there's been a couple of confirmed cases in the UK today. The good thing is that the professor in charge
Starting point is 00:05:40 is a bloke called Larry Brilliant. Genuinely. I think that's a lot of pressure in meetings, isn't it? And there's also a lot of scope for people to sound sarcastic. But they say, so, Professor Brilliant, what's your plan? These are the flights evacuating foreign citizens out of Wuhan in China, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreaks. Starbucks has closed 2,000 of its Chinese branches after reports
Starting point is 00:06:06 of a flat white turned out to be an extremely ill tourist. That clip was from the show on the 31st of January, which was also Brexit Day. Insert your own cheer, boo or other reaction here. The UK officially handed in its badge and its gun at the EU
Starting point is 00:06:27 and set up on its own, causing great rejoicing amongst the entire 17.4 million strong population of Brexbritannia. At present, EU regulations ban the use of cleaning disinfectants on food, but after Brexit, anything is possible. Salmon dipped in window lean, bacon drenched in psyllid bang, lamb chops covered in jif. Yeah, that's right, I said jif, not sif. We're taking back control and the opal fruits are on me.
Starting point is 00:06:51 Brexit, then, all over bar the shouting, and the shouting back, and the negotiating, or the post-Brexit trade deals, and the future relationship with the EU, and the actually putting anything into practice bit, and the decades-long social and economic repercussions, and the potential break-up of the UK, and, of course, the rebooting, most importantly, of Empire Mark II,
Starting point is 00:07:07 and the cold-eyed verdict of history. That can all wait. Rather charmingly, in hindsight, given that this proved to be a year in which we ended up spending almost all of our time not travelling anywhere, transport was all over the news early in the year. Kerry, who's looking to build bridges with their transport plans? Oh, there's loads of transport going on. So much transport. Loads of it.
Starting point is 00:07:26 So, HS2 is on. It's on. Boris is up for it. He's like, let's do it. The suspense is over. He's gung-ho. He wants it, despite all the facts, like spiralling budgets and engineering concerns and environmental distresses. He's like, no, let's do it.
Starting point is 00:07:41 Because he just likes building stuff except consensus and relationships. You know, I can sympathise. Everybody knows that the North urgently does need a vastly upgraded travel connectivity, but east to west. So people need to get across the Pennines from Leeds to Manchester, Huddersfield to Liverpool.
Starting point is 00:08:01 So obviously a high-speed train from London to Birmingham is the perfect solution. Yeah, yeah. Also, he's on a roll with structural erections because he's actually still mulling the Ireland-Scotland bridge. Yes, that's right. Which is exciting. I mean, many people dismiss that as a bonkers pipe dream, a vanity project, but he is not listening. He reminds me of my ex-boyfriend when we went travelling. He tried to cut Ben Nevis in flip-flops. He was on mushrooms. He was like, your negativity is holding me back.
Starting point is 00:08:32 Fern, on a scale of one to ten, how excited are you about the bridge between Scotland and Ireland? Oh, I'm very excited. I think Scotland and Northern Ireland should be one country. We both love sectarianism. We care more about that than hating people based on race and class. We love drinking. We have the same strange faces. Basically have the same accent.
Starting point is 00:09:00 But I don't know what Boris's motivation for it is. Why does he care so much about it? Because doesn't it just mean that we can get together more easily to plot, to, like, leave the precious unit? Late in 2019, of course, there had been a general election which brought the alleged leadership of Jeremy Corbyn to an end for the Labour Party. But who would replace him?
Starting point is 00:09:24 Lucy, who is being asked leading questions? It is the Labour leadership contest. I was reading about this and an insider at the Labour Party said, we're just looking for someone who's more popular with the electorate than Jeremy Corbyn. Which, that is the definition of setting the bar low, isn't it? You know, we want somebody who's more popular than Jeremy Corbyn. Which, that is the definition of setting the bar low, isn't it? You know, we want somebody who's more popular than Jeremy. It's the kind of New Year's resolution I make, you know, just like, I'm not going to eat chocolate while I'm asleep.
Starting point is 00:09:55 You know, that kind of thing. I would tell you some of the runners and riders. So Keir Starmer is the favourite, Sir Keir Starmer, but he doesn't like you to call him Sir, although I would. LAUGHTER In the end, the contest was won by hot-shot lawyer and donkey aficionado Keir Starmer, who told the party to, quotes,
Starting point is 00:10:17 "...get serious about winning." But is Labour really ready for such a controversial, radical departure from recent tradition? It's like Europe for the Conservatives. Some say it's time to move on, but for such a controversial, radical departure from recent tradition? It's like Europe for the Conservatives. Some say it's time to move on, but for others in Labour, losing elections is a fundamental issue of identity. I guess time will tell. As had been so widely predicted, 2020 did prove to be an election year in the USA,
Starting point is 00:10:38 a nation riven by division and derision. The Democrats had to choose a candidate to take on the dubious honour of running against the high priest of horrendous politics himself, Donald Trump. Ellis, who's showing their primary colours? Nish. I've got big news from
Starting point is 00:10:58 America. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary this week. Sure. So, New Hampshire primary this week. Sure. So, New Hampshire primary, which sounds like somewhere I'd send my daughter. Eventually in the primaries, the Democrats plumped for Joe Biden,
Starting point is 00:11:15 deciding to fight rambling septuagenarian with rambling septuagenarian, cleverly undermining Trump's key point of difference against younger, less rambling opponents. Coherence, of course, the kryptonite of modern politics. As both the renowned month of February and the first News Quiz series of the year drew to a close, it was already becoming apparent that the US election would not be the big story of the year, and that there were difficult times ahead. Angela, whose dire warning has gone viral? Who? W.H. the W.H.O.? This is the World so the world health organization
Starting point is 00:11:46 saying that the uh coronavirus could reach pandemic levels it hasn't yet but then this is the day before this goes out so who knows the news quiz annual schedule is of course carefully calibrated to coincide with the 23 or 24 weeks of the year when all the big stuff happens and in between we just kick back for the fallow months and watch the cricket I assume that's how it goes anyway I did check that with Miles Jump This year however was not a normal year
Starting point is 00:12:14 by the time series 2 began in April everything had changed everywhere, including at Newsquiz Towers, a lack of audience Angela Barnes hosted panellists sitting in their own living rooms, stroke bedrooms, stroke toilets, stroke cupboards, stroke fridges, stroke secret dungeons in at least one case.
Starting point is 00:12:31 Hello and welcome to the News Quiz. Well, I won't lie, I didn't expect to be chairing Radio 4's flagship topical comedy panel show via a video call from a duvet fort in my living room, but then I also imagined I'd have trousers on. It is indeed a brave new world now there are of course plus points to recording the news quiz in this way for instance I'm able to drink this gin straight from the bottle rather than have it disguised as a water jug on the table so it really is swings and roundup Tom Allen I have to say has rocked
Starting point is 00:12:59 up we're all looking at each other on zoom obviously the people at home can't see us but Tom Allen's rocked up in a full three-piece suit and pocket square. I'm pretty impressed. We did a sound check earlier. I don't mind telling the listeners. And I'd just been for a run. And then I came back and I thought, no, I can't go on the BBC. Even in this unprecedented time.
Starting point is 00:13:17 I cannot go on the BBC not wearing a suit. Desiree Birch, where are you joining us from? I am joining you from my bedroom. The most sound-dampened room in my place, mostly because it's covered in piles of laundry, the clean right next to the dirty, because I like to live on the edge, so we'll see how it goes. Well, now we've had a glimpse into your horrifying lives, let's crack on with the show. Meanwhile, in the outside world, COVID rapidly upheaved all of our ways of life,
Starting point is 00:13:41 and we tried to adjust to what some people wrongly called the new normal. It was, in fact, the temporarily tolerable abnormal, a world of painful separation, facial covering, homeschooling, condescending slogans, and one-way systems in shops, what times we have lived in. And shops are going to have to implement one-way systems, which I don't shop like that. I don't shop in any sort of ordered way.
Starting point is 00:14:04 I'm scattergun, you know. So IKEA are obviously rubbing their hands together going, we've been doing this for a long time. Anyone who thinks a one-way system is effective has never been to Swindon. No. I know the first thing I'm going to buy, I'm going to go into M&S and buy
Starting point is 00:14:19 one of those big hooped dresses that Queen Victoria used to wear. Like it's your own two-metre exclusion zone. When was the last time you were in Marxist spots? Politically, Covid turned out to be that most difficult of modern issues. One that could not simply be dealt with just by shouting, spouting and pouting, calling people names and general broad-stroke hogwashery. It was rather a fiendishly difficult question with absolutely
Starting point is 00:14:45 no right answers. There were different levels of wrong answer, of course, which were fully explored, I think it's fair to say, as the government sprang into action like a heavily sedated boa constrictor trying to solve a Rubik's Cube. There was simply no way this could end well. Boris Johnson himself fell seriously ill, but recovered to take charge of our national effort not really to beat the virus, but at least to reduce the margin of defeat. So this is the news that Boris Johnson is back at work just 18 days after nearly dying of Covid-19 and 36 hours after his fiancée gave birth to his sixth child. Is it just me or is his term of office starting to feel like he's being produced by the Hollyoaks team? Two points to Kiri.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Even loyal pro-Johnson newspapers were at times fiercely critical of the Prime Minister, as the old saying goes, a government advisor is like a puppy. You need to house train it, or it ends up basically running the entire house and making a real mess of the carpets, or at least driving the length of the country to go to Barnard Castle to do its business whilst infected with Covid and being a behind-the-scenes Machiavellian power wielder in a government that was telling everyone else to stay at home. Naughty Dominic. Naughty, naughty Dominic. No treats for you. And whose instincts have caused the stink? Well, this is about the Prime Minister's chief advisor and his comings and goings. You see what I did there? That was very clever.
Starting point is 00:16:06 Very good. Now, you better buckle in because this is a long and complicated story, I'm afraid. It starts with his wife having the symptoms of Covid. So he went home to see her, then went to work to make sure that everyone at work courted as well. And then, as if that weren't enough, they decided to drive a long, long way from London to County Durham. And then when rumbled about this claimed that everything he did was within the letter and the spirits of the rules and that is just the normal part of this story because it gets a lot weirder. This is of course the news that Dominic Cummings took a trip to Durham during lockdown
Starting point is 00:16:37 which for the sake of BBC impartiality is neither good nor bad it's just a thing that happened, you know, like when the Titanic sunk. Two points to Alan. Well, let he or she who has never driven 60 miles with their child in the back of the car to test their eyesight cast the first stone. As we waited for the magic of modern science to laboratorise our way out of this crisis, our main weapon against it was irritating slogans, which were splurted out with alarming regularity.
Starting point is 00:17:00 Things like, stay alert, shut up, stop asking questions, look over there, oops upside your head, and I plotted all my life to become Prime Minister and all I got was this lousy pandemic. Can you tell us what stay alert means? I've never not been alert, right? I want to dial 999 when my neighbour's cat doesn't get home by four o'clock in the afternoon. Like, how are we supposed to be doing this?
Starting point is 00:17:22 Well, that sounds perfect. Surely you're incredibly alert. You're poised at any moment to throw yourself on anyone who looks like they might be able to sneeze. Series 2 came to an end just after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a landmark tragedy in America's and the world's stumbling journey towards a more equal planet, and a proper reckoning of how the societies we live in today were shaped by history.
Starting point is 00:17:43 As the old saying goes, the past is a foreign country and like many other foreign countries we tend to only like to visit the nicest bits that have been smartened up and commercialised for tourists. Sophie, which protests matter? Angela, so many protests matter. The protests of my neighbours when I practice TikTok dances in the garden, the protests of Dominic Cummings tiktok dances in the garden the protest of dominic cummings optician as he clings for dear life in the passenger seat but the protests which matter this week are all to do with the big scary r and i'm not talking r numbers i'm talking racism
Starting point is 00:18:16 i talk racism a lot and there's a sound that i often hear when i start to talk about racism a little and that is the sound of the entire audience of sphincters clapping shut at once. So dear white people, please unclench. It's my job to be funny for money. I know stand-ups don't get on live at the Apollo with gags about systemic racism, at least not yet, but don't worry, I'll keep it light. Obviously not, literally. Over the next couple of months, Donald Trump soothed the open wounds of American society with a trademark presidential massage
Starting point is 00:18:53 using his well-used rusty cheese graters of divisiveness as gloves, dipped in his own brand chilli vinegar balm of public provocation. Here in Bristol, a statue of Edward Colston, a late 19th century monument to a late 17th century slave trader, philanthropist and platinum-grade exemplifier of the unavoidable awkwardness of history, became a living work of art, entitled Uncomfortably Contradictory Figure from Our Past Goes for Non-Voluntary Swim. It was a curious time. British history was discussed and examined more publicly than at any time that I can remember, whilst many
Starting point is 00:19:25 people said, oh no, no, no, you cannot rewrite history, particularly not after we took so much time and effort rewriting it to only include the bits we liked in the first place. The news crews returned in September. We averaged out series one and two in that we had an audience, but we were still recording in our bedrooms, sheds and dungeons.
Starting point is 00:19:42 recording in our bedrooms, sheds and dungeons. Well, and as you may have just heard at home, joining us this year is a big welcome back for the first time since the before times to a live audience. Outside in the land of Covid-zania, not a great deal had changed in a year of enveloping, relooping misery. The government, in the absence of anything better to do, was sticking with its plan of absolutely Pompeying people with an unending Vesuvius of confusing and contradictory regulations, which, to be fair, did work for Pompey. Those people did not leave their homes for almost 2,000 years.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Well, I don't know. Nobody knows. I mean, it's six in, six out, three together, three hiding in the cupboard. I don't know. I mean, nobody actually knows anymore what the restrictions are. I think if you live in the north-east, you can meet in a group of six as long as there's at least one womble and a toad somewhere near the vicinity. You can't meet outside in the garden,
Starting point is 00:20:37 because, of course, it's now October and cold up north, so you will die, because none of them have got a coat. If you live down south, you can meet different families, but only if you want to and only if they're from the same class. So it's a very confusing situation. That's been in place for a long time, that one. We had reached a strange point in the legal history of the UK during the autumn as Covid rumbled on and Brexit grumbled on.
Starting point is 00:21:02 Mingling became illegal, whilst breaking international law became legal. Odd times. Perhaps the moment that most encapsulated the madness of 2020, however, came when Health Secretary Matthew Hancock advised people not to kill their grannies. Now, for me, this was the nanny state gone mad. Let people make their own decisions. The state should not interfere in British people's personal choices
Starting point is 00:21:25 over whether or not they freely commit grand matricide. And that was not the only questionable advice being dispensed to an understandably increasingly sceptical public. Elsewhere at the Tory party conference, another question for you. This goes to both teams. What did Chancellor Rishi Sunak vow to use to help people find new jobs oh is this the website where you can answer questions and it will tell you what you're going to retrain as because everyone i know has come back the same that they should be a boxer
Starting point is 00:21:57 yes well apparently huge boxer shortage that's that's the one thing that this country really needs to set us on the path to greatness. More people who can smack other people in the face. Across the Atlantic, President Trump, simultaneously the world's most and least American thing, was struggling in the pre-election polls. This was largely due to having dealt with the Covid pandemic very much as you would expect him to deal with it, with an almost spiritual devotion to toxic incompetence. As the election approached trump was expert said trying to project strength or at least to project the kind of
Starting point is 00:22:30 weakness that idiots think is strength and this question goes to team fingers and we're crossing the atlantic for this one donald trump described his bout of covid as what I think he said that he thinks it was a blessing from God, I think. Yes, correct. And we should not be afraid of it. Yes. And did you find that inspirational, Lloyd? Well, I was worried at first because I saw the headline AIDS test positive for coronavirus and I thought, wow, this is serious.
Starting point is 00:23:07 But it was AIDS with an E. Whilst we're on the subject of the reverberating echoes of 2016, Brexit, despite having been got done, had not yet been got done. But as the great Swedish philosophers Anderson, Falskjog, Lindstad and Ulvaeus famously sang, breaking up is never easy, I know, but I chose four years ago to go, and I'm still working out exactly the implications
Starting point is 00:23:29 and logistics of going. See, the problem is, the reason why it could be a little bit scanty, the possibility of an amazing trade deal, is because of fish. Right. It all comes down to fish. See, my fellow teammates and panellists,
Starting point is 00:23:50 see if you can name the five fish that Brits actually eat. Have a guess. I didn't expect a fish naming competition. Nobody expects a fish naming competition. We're in extraordinary times, Alice. Extraordinary times. I'm brushed up on a fish. Guess your fish.
Starting point is 00:24:10 What are the five fish that Brits like to eat? Cod. Cod, correct. Fish fingers. That's cod. Actually, that's pollock. That's actually pollock. It's a language.
Starting point is 00:24:21 So, four more. The answer's tuna, prawns, haddock and salmon. so four more the answer is tuna, prawns, haddock and salmon so they're the five things that Brits actually eat from the waters except for the salmon and that's even a
Starting point is 00:24:37 minority of it, none of it's off the British coast, the number one fish that's on the British coast that the European Union fishermen like fishing and the British fishermen fish and then sell into the EU is mackerel. And nobody eats it. I mean, it'll be, you know, a little bit
Starting point is 00:24:53 maybe on a starter menu in a gastropub, but none of them are open. So, in conclusion, can you not see how the British are completely at a loss in this issue? Britain is free to catch the mackerel, but then doesn't eat the mackerel. OK, so if we eat more mackerel, that will justify Brexit, is that what you're saying? Yes, yes, it would. Andrew, I just want to add, as a foreigner,
Starting point is 00:25:24 I can now understand why the Brussels negotiations are taking five years. Yes, yes, it would. Andrew, I just want to add, as a foreigner, I can now understand why the Brussels negotiations are taking five years. Just time for a final round of questions to see out 2020. These go to all the hosts and panellists we've had on the show this year, and please answer using only words you have said on the News Quiz in 2020. Start the clock. As well as bleach, what combination of food and drink did Donald Trump claim would make you immune to COVID? It's very, very complex.
Starting point is 00:25:48 Put on a metal chainmail glove and try to got Ben Nevis in flip-flops. Whilst dressed as a tree. With Satan. And say a sausage roll, please. Correct. What was the secret way of landing a multi-million pound contract from the British government to supply medical equipment
Starting point is 00:26:00 despite having no relevant experience or expertise? Specifically, a no-machine. Fish fingers. A helicopter. Vodka. The oldest living chicken. Correct. You could also have had big buddies with someone in cabinet. An ancient Greek oracle reportedly told the government it could pay for the cost of Covid and Brexit if it
Starting point is 00:26:16 sold which group of people to a Russian oil tycoon. Everyone in Buckingham Palace. And people are really angry that they didn't tell the Queen. Boris is up for it. He's like, let's do it. No one's surprised. Correct. What slogan should have been the government's main COVID slogan this year? Beset with incompetence.
Starting point is 00:26:33 Despite all the facts. Complacency. One. A proper cull. Correct. And we're out of time. Well done to everyone involved. And one final Newscast question for you, our listeners,
Starting point is 00:26:44 to see out the last abysmal 12 months. Pencils at the ready. Here's your question. How the hell did all that happen? Please send your answers in an envelope marked Verdict of History at any point in the next 100 to 150 years. Just time to write down my predictions for 2021. Let's hope they're more accurate than my 2020 efforts.
Starting point is 00:27:03 I predict that 2021 will be a better year than 2020. Not saying the margin yet, but I'm quite confident that I will be right. Brexit will be sorted out by doling out 68 million virtual reality headsets to everyone in Britain so we can all live out the future that we want. The obvious solution all along. Thank you, technology. I predict that America will finally realise the error of its ways and apply to rejoin the United Kingdom after a well-meaning but ultimately doomed 245-year experiment.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And finally, I predict that several leading brands of smart speaker will mysteriously begin to respond only to the name Vladimir. Right, I'll pop them in the safe until this time next year. We will be back next week with the first News Quiz reaction to 2021. In the meantime, thank you to Nish, Angela, all our guest panellists, writers and production team, and to you, the listeners. And a significantly happier new year to you all.
Starting point is 00:27:55 And we will now, in time-honoured tradition, ceremonially fire the remnants of the year 2020 into space. Ten, nine, eight... The News Quiz Best of 2020 was written and hosted by me, Andy Zaltzman, and the producer was into space. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Clear the area. Blast off. Ah, that's better. Good riddance to you, 2020.
Starting point is 00:28:23 You will not be missed. Ah, that's better. Good riddance to you, 2020. You will not be missed.

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