Quotes
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[Each panelist was given a board of magnets to try and spell out words or sentences]
Jimmy Carr : [reading his board] "Put Smarties tubes on cats' legs, make them walk like a robot."
Stephen Fry : [amidst applause] Brilliant. That is absolutely wonderful. You used all your letters!
Alan Davies : THAT is unbe-fucking-lievable! It makes sense!
Jimmy Carr : It doesn't make a whole lot of sense!
Alan Davies : They would walk like a robot! It's an idea, it's giving people an idea!
Jimmy Carr : I don't know if you saw, but I was on Countdown last week.
Bill Bailey : It puts this completely to shame.
[holds up his board where he's spelled "Gay Elf Romp"]
Alan Davies : [about Jimmy] I can't even imagine how you managed to do that!
Stephen Fry : No, I'm sure you can't.
Bill Bailey : I've got to try that.
Jimmy Carr : It's a lovely day to spend an afternoon!
Stephen Fry : Yes!
Jimmy Carr : If you let them go down the stairs, its especially good.
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Stephen Fry : [after stating the Thomas Eddison invented the word Hello] The word that existed before as "hullo" h-u-l-l-o, which never meant a greeting, it just meant an expression of surprise - "Hullo, what have we got here?" "Hullo, what's this?" We still use it in that sense.
Bill Bailey : Do we?
Stephen Fry : "Hullo, what's that?"... Don't we, Bill?
Bill Bailey : Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?"
Stephen Fry : You beast, you beast, you utter, utter beast.
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Alan Davies : Bill used to have this big cactus. Huge!
Bill Bailey : Yep.
Alan Davies : And it bloomed, what once every twenty five years?
Bill Bailey : Yeah, once every twenty-five years.
Alan Davies : And he had it only two weeks and it bloomed.
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Stephen Fry : What has huge teeth and only one facial expression?
Bill Bailey : Janet Street Porter!
[the alarms go off for Bill giving such an obvious answer]
Bill Bailey : Ah, I took the fall, but it was worth it!
