Scrolling through the comments, I'm surprised that Mel is so polarizing. I find her warm and fuzzy persona, sometimes playing dumb and sometimes genuinely at a loss, creates delightful chemistry in counterpoint to Paul's quick wit and Ian's propensity for acerbic philipics. For what it's worth, I also really like it when Richard Ayoade hosts because he provides a counterpoint to Ian and Paul in completely the opposite direction.
I still remember Mel accidentally letting out a Cameron Diaz level burb on 8 Out of 10 Cats. And here she goes full Freud when talking about Manuel Macron's hairy chest, "We'll come onto that later. Okay, that sounds awful!" And was it also on Cats, where she blurted out about choosing between Jason Statham and Prof. Brian Cox, she said "give me Cox, definitely", before realising what in the heck she was saying?
Phillipics?!! Wow, other than Tulius Cicero, I think you are the only person I have "heard" using that word. Also, i agree too, about Mel and Ricardo. Top sausage.
@@CX103 . Yes, I think she should do it every week with an item of clothing less every episode until she had just one item left to guard her modesty BUT NOT ALL OF IT.
less than an hour up on Youtey, I've only been up for 15 minutes, my coffee isn't even ready. I'm so deep in appreciation for this. I nice way to end my special weekend.
@@badbadrobotrobot959 I think he was saying that the video had only up on UA-cam for an hour, and he'd only been awake for 15 minutes when he began watching it. It's fresh, I think is the point.
They werent on fire... unless perhaps they all have leprosy which would explain them not complaining about the burning pain and the show would have ended much sooner. Also, as the old saying goes, "there's no fire without a certain amount of visible smoke", yet I saw none at all.
He mentioned last week that he was touring. Maybe performing his craft on-stage with actual people in the audience helped cheer him up? He even wore a suit last week (without comment even on the extended version) when he'd been looking kind of ratty lately.
It was as though Mel's energy was rubbing off on the others. They were all just sending quips left, right, and centre. Haven't seen Paul quite so involved in a while.
28:28 Ian: (about Manuel Macron) *"It's the chest that was the talking point, is it not?"* Mel: *"Mm. We'll come unto that, yes."* Paul: *"Will we?"* Mel: *"Okay, that sounds awful!"* Always the quiet ones...
Lots of comedians have their stage persona, which i think usually is an exaggerated version of their own true self. Mel’s persona is the slightly clue- but shameless mom figure, which is quite nice as it can generate some surprised/startled responses from other cast members.
I think she always comes across like that. She doesn’t write great comedy lines, but but she is naturally really funny and so universally likeable that she’s one of my favs. She was great on taskmaster.
I think it's quite intentional. I mean, moment by moment are, I think, quite spontaneous, and I think she's being herself (or perhaps exaggerating aspects of herself).
As it relates to work from home and basically being lazy bums...productivity doubled for WFH employees and corporate profits have tripled. Demand and income are up but supplies are scarce. Put them together and you get inflation. People are able to do their work efficiently without mgmt breathing down their necks all day. They're just building resentment w/their staff.
It also makes it a heck of a lot more possible for people with chronic illness or who have disabilities if they can work from home, and also for carers, like people who are carer for disabled relative. For the most part as long as the work gets done, and in time, it's good. So people who'd be otherwise restricted or excluded from the workplace are able to seek employment, if they are well enough. I don't understand why so many corporations and businesses etc are keen to exclude the potential of a whole group of people that just have different physical needs.
Yeah it's infuriating, especially coming from Rees-Mogg who hasn't worked a day in his life, and had an enormous advantage in his youth... Those employees did their best work during Covid and were flexible, and now they get summoned in to the office. Ill doers are ill deemers: What did he do in his past to distrust those people? Oh yeah, there is photographic evidence... Sorry for this rant, but overhere I see the same thing happening and it doesn't help.. Not to mention the point of the (invisible) neon rainbow zebra..
@@theinvisibleneonrainbowzeb2567 that's my situation in a nutshell. The covid years have been my most productive ever. Mornings are particularly hard for me to get around. That makes showering and commuting beyond painful & exhausting. At home I have what I need to be comfortable. There's nothing that I'm missing or that I need from an office. They claim corporate culture. The extroverts may care but I do better without all of the daily drama and personalities. I can just focus on my work
@@emeraldblue5291 I can definitely understand that. It doesn't make it all any easier when the world is built for the early bird too, trying to get ready when you have additional needs or responsibilities is generally utterly exhausting. People really don't understand the levels of exhausted it is possible to feel, or that on a bad day you can't get up at all, and because they only see us on the days we're well enough to get out and see people they only see us those days, the good, or bearable days. A number of years ago I had a temp job for 6 months covering for maternity leave of a permanent employee of the place. The job was effectively just data input and word processing, I mean at the core my responsibilities were to be a secretary/business support type thing. It was supposed to be full time but I found that when they redid the office everyone worked from home for about a month. I got so much more done in that month, and bonus of no commuting so less polluting too! Also I was largely able to do my own hours so I could work on a Sunday or a Thursday night or whatever, as long as I submitted the work correctly completed by the deadline it was all good. They really didn't need me to be in the office other than that management required us to be in the office. So a full day of work, 8 to 4, but then an hour to 90 minutes commute on public transport each end of the day, means that the working day is actually closer to 11 hours. It's infuriating, I really hoped that work from home during lockdowns etc would help open up employment to more people and be more accessible . On top of it all surely it's cheaper for the companies to rent smaller workspaces and offices rather than pay the rent, rates, power etc to have everyone in the office at the same time, daily. So frustrating I hope things get easier for you
I always fancied Mel, especially back in the late 80s or ealy 90s when she was for me the funnier of the double act she did with that other woman who has occassionally appeared on this show. She's not as sexy as she was but I am even more less of a catch than I was back then. Alors, Mel, if you are reading this all these years later and you still havent got a fella, or a fella who is prepared to pretend to be a woman, if you aren't into blokes, look no further. You can be in my gang and could even be CO-assistant Boss and I will supply you with alcohol, biscuits, rumpy-pumpy... whatever you like and I will only charge you 25 euros a week, some of which I would spend on you anyway. Not only could i supply you with a Driverless Car, but also a MOTORless Car. Please get in touch. 😉
In the U.S. a flapjack is another name for a pancake.....which isn't a cake in the sense it's nothing like a chocolate cake or pound cake or a sheet cake, etc.
In the UK 'pancakes' are what you (Americans) would call crepes; though we know exactly what you mean when *you* say pancakes, because we realise that things in different countries are different. It's a talent.
@@wenwilloughby8197 Pancakes and crepes are different things: different ingredients, different methods of preparation and generally served in different ways.
Hearing Mel’s perfect French accent makes me realise that when she said president Macron she pronounced it without the ‘r’ on more than one occasion was intentional ...Maconne - conne is French for stupid!
For weird claims made in an effort to avoid tax, some years ago the makers of Pringles took a case to the Supreme Court claiming the VAT rate on them should be less than the rate for crisps because - wait for it - Pringles don't contain enough potato to fit the legal definition of crisps.
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's like the allies not wanting to assassinate Hitler because they were worried someone far worse would take over. Look at the US. They were so desperate to get rid of Donald Trump they voted in a senile old man who let Putin invade Ukraine and trashed the economy. That said, Kier Starmer is so boring he might actually be competent.
OK... sorry in advance but I'm not particularly fond of Mel Giedroyc... ... but BOY this was an outstanding performance by her tonight ! She was hilarious and still so Mel Giedroyc !
After having read all the raves about Mel, I'm mystified. Normally, I'm ready to watch Mel anywhere, anytime; but this show seemed to be a perfect storm of Mel going off on tangents that weren't funny and were too long, and unfunny writing. Panellists were giving her the benefit of the doubt, seemed to be willing her to be funny as they forced laughter. Really glaring how stilted and jerky this show was.
Hiensight is like a capacity for generalization from a distant or future perspective.... Retrospectively you made yourself appear moronic trying to insult Sonia, GO POLITICAL JOURNOS ✊😇
That was ,,, kinda garbage. I don't know who Mel is, but if she'd been introduced as Karen it would have made so much more sense. Silence your joking Osman, I want Sonia to speak. To be fair, the material was so piss poor this week that Mel and Paul pretty much propped up the show. The writers this season have been dreadful, Paul was phoning it in for the first few shows, and the guests have been mostly awful. Luckily all the hosts have been good, but the show is shuffling along towards the grave. It's a testament to how absolutely dreadful the BBC has become that HIGNFY is still one of it's best shows.
There are very few people who can pull off an attitude like Mel's without sounding sarcastic. She's one of them, it's lovely.
You need to meet more people.
Can't stand her, awful woman..
@@waynemarvin5661 And you need to meet less.
She IS lovely, isn't she! Didnt really catch much of the subtle sarcasm though, it must have gone right over my head.🤔
Mel Giedroyc is a National treasure ,absolutely love this Lady
Scrolling through the comments, I'm surprised that Mel is so polarizing. I find her warm and fuzzy persona, sometimes playing dumb and sometimes genuinely at a loss, creates delightful chemistry in counterpoint to Paul's quick wit and Ian's propensity for acerbic philipics.
For what it's worth, I also really like it when Richard Ayoade hosts because he provides a counterpoint to Ian and Paul in completely the opposite direction.
I still remember Mel accidentally letting out a Cameron Diaz level burb on 8 Out of 10 Cats. And here she goes full Freud when talking about Manuel Macron's hairy chest, "We'll come onto that later. Okay, that sounds awful!" And was it also on Cats, where she blurted out about choosing between Jason Statham and Prof. Brian Cox, she said "give me Cox, definitely", before realising what in the heck she was saying?
Mel isn't polarising. People who don't like Mel are the kind you don't wanna interact with anyway. They're not part of the equation.
As she has been every time I have seen her here.
OK
Phillipics?!! Wow, other than Tulius Cicero, I think you are the only person I have "heard" using that word.
Also, i agree too, about Mel and Ricardo. Top sausage.
The host was brilliant.
Mel is my favourite person in the world I think. This episode shows exactly why. Thanks for uploading!
Yes, she should do this more often. Great performance!
@@CX103 . Yes, I think she should do it every week with an item of clothing less every episode until she had just one item left to guard her modesty BUT NOT ALL OF IT.
Mel is simply the best 👌
Mel should host everything. Nobody else manages such a constant stream of delightful chaos.
perfect description right here :)
I would really miss her on BFQ. She's everybody's best teammate, and she brings the picnic!
Love when Ian can get Paul to laugh out loud like that.
The most genuine laugh in the world.
Thanks for posting,the BBC wont let me watch it in Australia,cheers
Sadness. UTorrent
So glad these are coming in on Sundays now. They're a wonderful counterpoint to all the mundane news coverage here across the pond.
less than an hour up on Youtey, I've only been up for 15 minutes, my coffee isn't even ready. I'm so deep in appreciation for this. I nice way to end my special weekend.
@Real Aiglon Hope your weekend was good man, if not here's to the next one!
Youtey 😂 high level
How can you be up for only 15 minutes and still be on UA-cam for an hour?
@@badbadrobotrobot959
I think he was saying that the video had only up on UA-cam for an hour, and he'd only been awake for 15 minutes when he began watching it. It's fresh, I think is the point.
@@eastvandb Understood. He needs to improve his English.
I love Mel, what a great host!
Mel is fantastic, the energy tonight was high!!! She's down to earth
Fantastic episode! So many smile-worthy moments. Thank ViVaHD.
It's rare to have so much chemistry between the teams and the host… they're on fire, and having a great time.
They werent on fire... unless perhaps they all have leprosy which would explain them not complaining about the burning pain and the show would have ended much sooner. Also, as the old saying goes, "there's no fire without a certain amount of visible smoke", yet I saw none at all.
Mel is a rare treasure - great episode!
Sonia's laugh is wonderful.
Not only is Mel great but over the past weeks Paul has come back on form.
Excellent show.
Hip Hip
He mentioned last week that he was touring. Maybe performing his craft on-stage with actual people in the audience helped cheer him up? He even wore a suit last week (without comment even on the extended version) when he'd been looking kind of ratty lately.
I agree, he seems a lot happier, which is delightful to see.
I hate Hip Hop and I think Paul does too.
Mel's so good in here! Loved her voice and humor
It was as though Mel's energy was rubbing off on the others. They were all just sending quips left, right, and centre. Haven't seen Paul quite so involved in a while.
He's been coming back to life for a few weeks, but yes this was excellent.
It's as if somebody finally figured out that the show was better with witty guests than it was with professional presenters following stale scripts.
She's a great gangleader!
28:28
Ian: (about Manuel Macron) *"It's the chest that was the talking point, is it not?"*
Mel: *"Mm. We'll come unto that, yes."*
Paul: *"Will we?"*
Mel: *"Okay, that sounds awful!"*
Always the quiet ones...
Mel was unintentionally (?) hilarious this taping. She had no shame which is very good for a comedian.
Lots of comedians have their stage persona, which i think usually is an exaggerated version of their own true self. Mel’s persona is the slightly clue- but shameless mom figure, which is quite nice as it can generate some surprised/startled responses from other cast members.
She's great.
I think she always comes across like that. She doesn’t write great comedy lines, but but she is naturally really funny and so universally likeable that she’s one of my favs. She was great on taskmaster.
I think it's quite intentional. I mean, moment by moment are, I think, quite spontaneous, and I think she's being herself (or perhaps exaggerating aspects of herself).
@@overtonarts3290 Loved that they set her a series of solo tasks purely to try to make her angry. :D
28:27 actually made me laugh out loud. Good job, Mel 😂
I actually waited the extra days so as to watch the extended version,took great control on my part..lol
Good boy, five points
Many thanks for the timely upload, it's always good to see what the Poms are doing!!!
Thanks a bunch!
Thank you for posting!
What a delight! Thank you.
Mel is soooooo good! Why isn't she hosting more shows?
Because she's also the perfect panelist. 🙂
There's a bit of banter between Mel and Richard that just does it for me :)
thanks for the upload
Boris likes driver less cars, because that's how he's running the country.
Thanks for posting.
This is by far one of the most entertaining episodes of HIGNFY I have ever seen
So brilliant!✌️
Love Richard Osman's first two "Thursday Murder Club" books and can't wait for the third one to come out in September.
Ok, Mel is my favorite host of all time
Moog bullying civil servants, must of had a chat with PolPot Patel
Cheers for the upload
Papal-view - loved it.
I loooved the host here.😊
Richard osman is just everything 😍
As it relates to work from home and basically being lazy bums...productivity doubled for WFH employees and corporate profits have tripled. Demand and income are up but supplies are scarce. Put them together and you get inflation. People are able to do their work efficiently without mgmt breathing down their necks all day. They're just building resentment w/their staff.
It also makes it a heck of a lot more possible for people with chronic illness or who have disabilities if they can work from home, and also for carers, like people who are carer for disabled relative. For the most part as long as the work gets done, and in time, it's good. So people who'd be otherwise restricted or excluded from the workplace are able to seek employment, if they are well enough. I don't understand why so many corporations and businesses etc are keen to exclude the potential of a whole group of people that just have different physical needs.
Yeah it's infuriating, especially coming from Rees-Mogg who hasn't worked a day in his life, and had an enormous advantage in his youth... Those employees did their best work during Covid and were flexible, and now they get summoned in to the office. Ill doers are ill deemers: What did he do in his past to distrust those people? Oh yeah, there is photographic evidence...
Sorry for this rant, but overhere I see the same thing happening and it doesn't help.. Not to mention the point of the (invisible) neon rainbow zebra..
@@theinvisibleneonrainbowzeb2567 that's my situation in a nutshell. The covid years have been my most productive ever. Mornings are particularly hard for me to get around. That makes showering and commuting beyond painful & exhausting. At home I have what I need to be comfortable. There's nothing that I'm missing or that I need from an office. They claim corporate culture. The extroverts may care but I do better without all of the daily drama and personalities. I can just focus on my work
@@emeraldblue5291 I can definitely understand that. It doesn't make it all any easier when the world is built for the early bird too, trying to get ready when you have additional needs or responsibilities is generally utterly exhausting. People really don't understand the levels of exhausted it is possible to feel, or that on a bad day you can't get up at all, and because they only see us on the days we're well enough to get out and see people they only see us those days, the good, or bearable days.
A number of years ago I had a temp job for 6 months covering for maternity leave of a permanent employee of the place. The job was effectively just data input and word processing, I mean at the core my responsibilities were to be a secretary/business support type thing. It was supposed to be full time but I found that when they redid the office everyone worked from home for about a month. I got so much more done in that month, and bonus of no commuting so less polluting too! Also I was largely able to do my own hours so I could work on a Sunday or a Thursday night or whatever, as long as I submitted the work correctly completed by the deadline it was all good. They really didn't need me to be in the office other than that management required us to be in the office. So a full day of work, 8 to 4, but then an hour to 90 minutes commute on public transport each end of the day, means that the working day is actually closer to 11 hours.
It's infuriating, I really hoped that work from home during lockdowns etc would help open up employment to more people and be more accessible .
On top of it all surely it's cheaper for the companies to rent smaller workspaces and offices rather than pay the rent, rates, power etc to have everyone in the office at the same time, daily. So frustrating
I hope things get easier for you
I always fancied Mel, especially back in the late 80s or ealy 90s when she was for me the funnier of the double act she did with that other woman who has occassionally appeared on this show. She's not as sexy as she was but I am even more less of a catch than I was back then. Alors, Mel, if you are reading this all these years later and you still havent got a fella, or a fella who is prepared to pretend to be a woman, if you aren't into blokes, look no further. You can be in my gang and could even be CO-assistant Boss and I will supply you with alcohol, biscuits, rumpy-pumpy... whatever you like and I will only charge you 25 euros a week, some of which I would spend on you anyway. Not only could i supply you with a Driverless Car, but also a MOTORless Car. Please get in touch. 😉
Some people shouldnt be allowed to broadcast their thoughts
In the U.S. a flapjack is another name for a pancake.....which isn't a cake in the sense it's nothing like a chocolate cake or pound cake or a sheet cake, etc.
Thank you. I was wondering why Rice Krispy Treats were considered 'flapjacks'. Granola pancakes?
Cake goes hard when it's stale and biscuits go soft when stale
Brilliant.
In the US, flapjacks are just pancakes. Those square things look like Rice Krispies Treats.
In the UK 'pancakes' are what you (Americans) would call crepes; though we know exactly what you mean when *you* say pancakes, because we realise that things in different countries are different. It's a talent.
@@wenwilloughby8197 Pancakes and crepes are different things: different ingredients, different methods of preparation and generally served in different ways.
Thanks so much for posting
Poor Vlado Mayakovsky, the artist and poet; as if he had not suffered enough in life, after death he is being displaced by Boris Johnson!!
Mel was absolute 🔥🔥 today!
what a hoot
Thanks.
Excellent and the best
I once heard a native of Wight refer to the place as the "Isle of Shite" so I guess that museum is fitting?
Richard Osman is the subject of many strange dreams
Cheers for uploading pet :)
They should have given Mel G (sorry cannot reliably spell her surname) the job
I wonder if Richard’s remark about driving gloves was a Taskmaster ref….
thank you VivaHD. Only one word for Mel, yummy.
Hearing Mel’s perfect French accent makes me realise that when she said president Macron she pronounced it without the ‘r’ on more than one occasion was intentional ...Maconne - conne is French for stupid!
I can't believe that, making a joke, I accidently got the first and third words in the answer about what might revolutionize space travel.
For weird claims made in an effort to avoid tax, some years ago the makers of Pringles took a case to the Supreme Court claiming the VAT rate on them should be less than the rate for crisps because - wait for it - Pringles don't contain enough potato to fit the legal definition of crisps.
Biscuits go soggy if left out in the air, cake goes hard if left out in the air and flapjacks are food for the cockroaches after the apocalypse
If they made the flapjack with cornmeal, it'd be a johnnycake.
So that "either fight or flight" thing sounded really strange - what about an eagle's talons?
Isn’t Mel lovely.
Isn't Mel wonderful.
Isn't Mel precious.
whats the 'resigned from quizzing' remarks all in reference to? anyone know?
Richard Osman is retiring from his show to concentrate on his writing carreer.
@@clay2335 Not entirely, he’s only leaving Pointless as a regular gig. He will still be on Celebrity Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games.
@@ladyflimflam right ta. So long as he’s still doing HoG I’m happy 😄
Miakovsy Street is obviously a shambles, apt.
28:32, no shame in that, my partner has already suggested it
Suggested what? Come on to Macron's pictures?
I think cake needs to contain egg.
I'd love an extra helping of comedy but is it a cake or biscuit?
Done.
24m16s don't tell me some else laughs like Josh Widdicombe.
16m37s I think Mel is getting mixed up with passengerless cars.
13:45 In that case we'd have two queens
😊💕
Who would you have as Prime Minister instead of Boris Johnson?
Literally anyone?
I think you hit the nail on the head. It's like the allies not wanting to assassinate Hitler because they were worried someone far worse would take over.
Look at the US. They were so desperate to get rid of Donald Trump they voted in a senile old man who let Putin invade Ukraine and trashed the economy. That said, Kier Starmer is so boring he might actually be competent.
God damm!! Now that is a potato!
Of course the trouble with saw players is that they're saw (sore) losers...
Has Richard also left House of Games?
No, he's going to keep doing that show and also Celebrity Pointless.
No need for English subtitles- I can make out nearly everything they say already!
Wait, is House of games over?
No, he's only leaving Pointless. House of Games will continue!
r/place is the mona lisa of the digital world
OK... sorry in advance but I'm not particularly fond of Mel Giedroyc...
... but BOY this was an outstanding performance by her tonight ! She was hilarious and still so Mel Giedroyc !
The conceit that this is a game
That’s how UK panel shows have always worked. Just A Minute, My Word, Call My Bluff, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats, etc., all work this way.
By the time Mel was singing about birds wanting to fly, I wanted to know how high was she
Just the right amount!
*39:10** WTF is with that face, like that music is a lullaby compared to that expression*
The thing is, you're American, am l right ? And for some reason, in the US, you can't stand irregular teeth...
@@ripdbtpoo1441 *The problem isn't the teeth, the problem is the expression*
@@mikhail5428 Smiles too much, exposing less-than-perfect teeth.
@@ripdbtpoo1441 *Again, he could've amazing teeth, but the eyes*
Didn't really care for this episode.
Had to Google boater hat
Flapjacks in America are small pancakes.
The writing was abysmal, and both guests really didn't have anything to say, but somehow Mel managed to make it a fun show.
Why does the host periodically read out the news item that they've just discussed. What is the point of that?
Vzvbc
If you condensed all the actual news in this programme, its length would be only five minutes.
First time I’ve watched this in years. God, it used to be really funny.
I didn’t like this episode very much, host is trying too hard and hardly room for the rest
VB
If she's the presenter again, I won't watch. Had to give up early this time.
The last three shows have covered partygate! I won’t watch ever again.
Great, good to know.
The whole "have i got news for you" team will be crestfallen to hear your not watching anymore...
Tell me you're a Tory without telling me you're a Tory.
Poor you - a victim of exaggerations concocted by journalists and religious leaders.
Thanks for sharing.
After having read all the raves about Mel, I'm mystified. Normally, I'm ready to watch Mel anywhere, anytime; but this show seemed to be a perfect storm of Mel going off on tangents that weren't funny and were too long, and unfunny writing. Panellists were giving her the benefit of the doubt, seemed to be willing her to be funny as they forced laughter. Really glaring how stilted and jerky this show was.
I guess we watched two completely different shows, then. Sorry you weren't able to enjoy it.
Maybe we have lower standards with HIGNFY.
Hiensight is like a capacity for generalization from a distant or future perspective.... Retrospectively you made yourself appear moronic trying to insult Sonia, GO POLITICAL JOURNOS ✊😇
That was ,,, kinda garbage. I don't know who Mel is, but if she'd been introduced as Karen it would have made so much more sense. Silence your joking Osman, I want Sonia to speak. To be fair, the material was so piss poor this week that Mel and Paul pretty much propped up the show. The writers this season have been dreadful, Paul was phoning it in for the first few shows, and the guests have been mostly awful. Luckily all the hosts have been good, but the show is shuffling along towards the grave. It's a testament to how absolutely dreadful the BBC has become that HIGNFY is still one of it's best shows.
You are Nadine Dorries and I claim my £5