Countdown

Yeah.

And we've been watching Countdown as well while you've been off.

That's very lowbrow.

Bec- no, it's not

It's low, low, lowbrow

... because I work from home now, and now Ben's off.

Um, we have lunch together, and we, um, we watch Countdown like two little old ladies.

I love Countdown.

That look was I can't believe I didn't know this until now because I watch a television show that I think you would love.

Oh, is it Wheel of Fortune? No, it's called Countdown.

And it's in UK.

Honestly, I don't actually watch that version of it.

I watch one called Catch Does Countdown, which is comedians doing math.

But the show is a math problem and a word problem.

And the words basically are anagrams.

And then we were on stage with Richard Whiteley.

Do you remember from Countdown? Yeah, cool.

We were all going...

With the hands.

That's-

And I discovered, thanks to Countdown the other day, that ideate is a word.

Ah.

To have an idea is to ideate.

I've got to stop drinking this.

Um, we p- well, we p- play Countdown.

[laughs] What, on the telly?

The, the board game.

Oh.

Countdown board game.

Crazy Christmas fun.

Play a bit of that 'cause there's three of us, you see.

I've got to stop drinking this.

Well, we play Countdown.

What, on the telly? We've got the board game.

Countdown board game.

Crazy Christmas fun.

Play a bit of that.

Reminds me of being home sick from school.

That's the only time I ever watched Countdown.

Absolutely.

Love it though and Countdown's still going.

So we're staying in Donegal for our next story and I need your help pronunciation with this.

Is it Ardra?

So it's Ardra.

OK, well, there's a man from there called Austin Allen and Donegal Daly have been following his progress all week.

But 8 Out of 10 Cats really m- took up so much more when I remember them saying, "Oh, we're gonna do a Channel 4 mashup thing, and we're gonna mash up a, a couple of our shows.

Um, we're gonna do a mashup of 8 Out of 10 Cats and Countdown.

How would that work?" And we're like, "No.

No, I suppose.

Ri- right.

Being surreal is meaningless unless there's some reality at the heart of this thing.

So 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, you can do anything because you can always go, "Okay, let's take a look at the next numbers.

Okay, let's take..." You're always coming back to reality, and you can just go anywhere from that because you always have, like, the spaceship.

Yeah.

On Countdown, Rachel Riley's away for some reason.

They've got a fucking fella doing the letters and the numbers.

Fucking hell.

Do you know what I mean? The boot room system is what they should have set up on...

On

Countdown.

On Countdown, yeah.