Mika

This song is incredible.

And I've just been obsessed with Mika ever since.

I love it.

Love.

Awesome.

Isaac? Mika and Morpheador.

That was nuts.

Fantastic.

Nothing wrong with that, but that's just like the level he goes to.

And my mom liked Robbie Williams and Mika when I was young.

And that was my entry, I think.

Bit of Grace Kelly.

Oh, yeah.

But I love Queen and that's why I like Mika.

Okay.

And then my uncle is the one who kind of likes Oasis and Nirvana.

I don't think it's pop-- I don't think they're pop stars anymore, are they? Uh, it's, I'm going to a purveyor of the sounds of the discotheque.

Uh, I'm going to, I'm going to see a fella called Mika.

Um, not, not Mr. Mika from [laughs] Red to Ghost, otherwise I, I would go and see Edward Brayshaw, AKA The Warchief and Leon Colbert in, uh, in, in action, but he sadly no longer is.

But I'm going to see Mika, not Beaker from The Muppets.

I'd go and see him too.

But I've been invited by a friend to, uh, sit in her, uh, her box, uh, with a, with a few VIPs, uh, and I'm not gonna-- It's, it's a whole new world to me 'cause I've not re-- I've never, I've never been a VIP, and I don't really...

Claudia Winkleman is the host and then somewhere hidden in the train station will be two judges.

One is Mika.

In

the case of the sketch.

And he was also in the sketch played by Jack.

And I loved how the voiceover went.

And Mika, for some reason.

Oh,

That was released a few years earlier.

And then Grace Kelly from Mika as well charting well in Australia.

Do you know I really liked that album from Mika? I think it was underrated.

Life in Cartoon Motion? Yeah.

I think it's a fantastic album.

So, Porik, Grace Kelly, Hollywood actress of the 40s and 50s, better known in later years as Princess Grace of Monaco, she died on this day in 1982, and her name inspired the title of this wonderfully theatrical pop song.

This is Mika with Grace Kelly.

Oh, that was a lively number.

Okay, John, it's time for Reality TV

And one of the things that makes it joyful, quite so pleasurable to be waiting for a train that's been cancelled in, is they have a piano where people can come up and play and sometimes you get wonderful artists and sometimes you get a four-year-old who's bored.

So we come into a TV show where we've got Naomi Keys and Mika for some reason, as they put it, trying to encourage Geoff, who's playing this new, he's playing this character who's lost his family to a tragic piano incident and is finally getting back into his soul, playing again, and it's going to be such a moving moment as he plays in London Euston.

And of course, the hell that is London Euston happens to him.

uh throughout it including all of the trains being cancelled and ending with what i think is an exceptionally british reference which is um uh if you see something that doesn't look right call the british transport police on 61016 see it say it sorted so what did you think jay of the i felt exceptionally british london euston sketch

corrected on in the comments.

I never would have imagined this hell was a TV show.

Yeah, it's called The Piano and Mika is actually a judge on it.

And so that's why they're like, why is Mika a judge on it? I thought it was good.

That was released a few years earlier.

And then Grace Kelly from Mika as well charting well in Australia.

Do you

know I really liked that album from Mika? I think it was underrated.

Life in Cartoon Motion? Yeah.

I think it's a fantastic album.