Come And Have A Go

I'm down with that, funny anecdotes on game shows are always bollocks anyway, aren't they?

do you have an anecdote in mind for your appearance?

(More seriously, congrats to Noodle and Mrs. Noodle. Hope all the mysterious relatives who hated you and now want money go away quickly.)

We've seen a tape now. I'm amused at how Black Country I still sound, having left there nearly 18 years ago. I'm glad I didn't make too much of an arse of meself, Nom was as lovely as she is in reality, and we had a great time, considering we were absolutely terrified. There'll be a picture up on the BBC in a day or so and I'll stick a link up.

And we saw messrs Hansen, Lawrenson and Lineker. Which was nice.

OK so I'm gonna be competing in the next series of Only Connect apparently. Gulp.

never seen this, but will

I don't suppose I shd be honest and open about it unless I get this thread de-Googlified

get this thread de-Googlified

will say the quiz is proper hard and am anticipating a bit of a doing

I love Only Connect and have wasted many hours on the online version of the connect wall: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect/quiz/

^ love it, but the scoring is fucked, you only get points for guessing connections if you've found all four.

an old friend turned up on the last series and I don't think he said a word thru the whole ep, tho we weren't sure whether he was pished or not tbh

xp yeah I've noticed they've fucked the online walls up, I'm sure you used to be able to guess even if you didn't get all the groups

most painfully middle class show on tv by some distance, btw

also good luck!

it tries to play the up-itselfness as self-parody but really it's just up itself. man I hope this gets de-Googlified

time dates channels details pls

yeah so anyway Victoria Coren (W totally S btw) might play it for "lulz" but the researchers seem to be very "this are serious game show for serious peoples"

recording first round and quarter final if applicable March 20th, semi the next day if applicable again.

You're supposed to find a connecting interest for your team name, hurt ourselves laughing on the way to the interview by proposing that we had all played violins as children and should offer to be "The Kiddy Fiddlers".

Cool. i sort of know vc a little bit if you need an 'in', but you might struggle to work up 'i hang out on an internet forum with a good friend of your bff' into a non-strange conversation.

that was an xp. did not mean 'in' in WS-enabling sense.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4sp7kwTOx1qzqppgo1_500.jpg

also lol kiddy fiddlers

think she's a student there so no but yeah

she kinda seems like an unpleasant person irl tho

thanks for the offer woof! but i agree there is no topic of IRL conversation that shd start with "I was hanging out on ILX when"

wheee good work. i am sad and compete with a friend at this and university challenge. well i compete at university challenge, but she is so good at the missing letters round of only connect that i don't stand a chance. like if she were on the show unless there's a tremendous delay on buzzer time i'm pretty sure she'd answer every one, or thereabouts. it's not fair. :(

the bad thing about SERIOUS GAME SHOWS FOR SERIOUS PEOPLES is that they always have terrible non-prizes (unlike your previous successes, NV!). it's the one thing that stands between me and trying to get to a place where i can make a fool of myself on nationwide tv.

that's why I wouldn't have entered off my own bat, bugger putting yrself thru the interview/anecdote/cheesy grin process for no financial reward. but my friend wanted to do this and hey i think it shd be big laughs

also BBC4 is nationwide TV in the sense that its tiny audience is spread far apart

she kinda seems like an unpleasant person irl tho

She divides opinion.

w not s fwiw.

Some friends were on a cough cough music industry-related team on her show a few months back and looked like winning but crapped out in the last bit.

My VC scuttlebutt is that she's pretty nice but her bro is a tool.

yeah from limited interactions i don't think me & her are natural pals, but she's ok.

in my limited gameshow experience hosts don't really wanna be bezzy mates with any contestants and who can blame them?

not that Julian C. was anything other than charming

Oh wow, you're incredibly brave. The only bit of OC I'm any good at is the missing letters round. Find it much harder than University Challenge, even.

http://www.shoutingatco.ws/blog/2011/01/11/tv-greats-only-connect/

in my limited gameshow experience hosts don't really wanna be bezzy mates with any contestants and who can blame them?

Apparently, if he likes you and your team, Paxo's quite pally

The Fantasy Footballers will be playing their opening game on Sunday afternoon. Off to Cardiff tomorrow. Nervy-ish but looking fwd to fun. Will bring back goss.

How did it go?

I'm not at liberty to discuss the result yet, obv. I had a lot of fun, but I've been trying to think what to say about the experience for a couple of days. I was gonna update this when I knew what to say.

Victoria Coren is a sweetheart and the whole crew were nice tbh. It was harder work than my previous quiz show experiences: felt more like making a TV show than the last time, for some reason. There was a weird bit where they made VC do an intro again because we'd laughed at something she said and they didn't want laughter - that stiltedness comes across and I don't know why they like it?

If you would like to see one of our 1st round competitors, you can do a Youtube search for: "only connect dolphins". I'm saying nowt about that at the mo.

The ukulele guy?

oh yes

akshully he seemed perfectly personable IRL so I'm feeling restrained from what I would say if I just stumbled across that from an internet randomer

I like VC and find her quite funny on Only Connect though she could do with some background laughter because watching on TV, it looks like her jokes are going down like a lead balloon.

nah it was good, the guy in the gallery obviously told her people had laughed and she said "that's because I'm fucking entertaining" then we laughed again

niiiiice. do you know when it'll be broadcast?

Autumn apparently. Don't know more than that yet.

August or September, according to VC herself on Twitter.

ha! see I always forget to check things like that. I reckon they'll email me and warn me when it's due tho.

Having checked the BBC the new series starts on Monday 15 at 8.30. I think we'll be on the week after.

I was actually wondering about this a few days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013fbdy

yeah, they've got next week's up as well and that's not us so i don't know, maybe they filmed out of order cos i'm sure i was there when the vegetarians were in. we will be "The Fantasy Footballers", which wasn't the best choice tbh

woo. i think this means that all of the ILF crew get to share in your glories, or quietly back away if you go down in flames.

i'd give your backing away shoes a polish ;)

noodle, e'll ave a go, nom loves a go, their joel e'll always give yu a go

Broadcasting 12 September, just got an email

didn't know you were 'aving a go.

hsve you spoken to arsene about this?

i aven't spoken to arsene but i've seen arsenal and i assume e won't be aving a go

Bump nearer the time to remind us please. I would go on all these quizzes, but have no-one to join me. My real dream is to go on Pointless.

a friend wanted us to audition for Pointless back in January but i sort of dicked about and missed the opportunity. might ave a go next year if it's still on

call me a masochist but

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014jbyp

didn't happen to run into 'The Analysts' on OC did you NV? old acquaintance on that team, best quiz-brain of anyone I have met.

i understand if bbc secrets act means you can't answer that.

no only really "met" our opponents iirc, it was quite in and out for various reasons. kinda wish i'd stayed for the after-party now :(

BUMP

http://static.bbc.co.uk/programmeimages/272x153/episode/b014jbyp.jpg?nodefault=true

They compete to draw together the connections between things which, at first glance, seem utterly random, from Bob Hope impersonator, to physician to inject vitamin B12, to 20 white kittens, to M&Ms.

All of the above are subjects of failed ILX threads?

i know the answer to that one but i can't tell y'all yet

channel? On now?

I SEE YOU

fucking fuck fuck i can't see this now. kick fucking ass NV!

BBC HD

YOU TURN IT FFS

is she from a property show

This is the worst "Not available in your area" since Wolves won the PL

adzuki bean

call that avin a go, you're benched son

debbie challis looks embarrassed

t/s indie annoyances: ukeleles vs cupcakes

And then you had to sit through that ukelele... thing...

i thought i was pretty chill about the ukelele.

ok that wasn't as painful as it could've been.

It was a very solid performance - losing out for not knowing a McTwist is a snowboarding move is a reasonable way to go.

Was that dude a b3tan or something?

Anyway, well done, I thought your lot were good but yr opponents were FIERCE.

Be honest, you said the Charley Boorman thing based on the quizzer not anything to do with the tv show, right?

(just halfway through just now)

a McTwist is also a skateboarding move btw, it might only be the Wildcat that's snowboard specific?

xpost lol ailsa it's true but i cdn't bring up a quiz machine on the tv

debbie challops

Ach, you did not too bad. Couldn't believe how long it took the other team to notice 'deaf ear', that was the total gimme on that wall.

Bloody HELL... members of BOTH teams used to be regular readers of my old blog? Talk about conflicted loyalties...

lol i did wonder

the guy seemed familiar.

jonathan pointed out that the match-up was a bit like the scene in Shaun of the Dead where they meet their doppelgangers travelling the other way.

Will had no idea. But I think you were a bit earlier, and he was a bit later.

dag this is a hard f'in quiz

damn, nah und doch so fern

first time i watched this, i guess pretty good as it goes but i scrambled to turn it off before the ukelele

is vicky c actually an alkie?

is it likely to be on youtube any time?

doubt it, it's BBC content. you can watch a Youtube of the hilarious dolphin song tho.

can't believe there's no one l33t enough on ilx to explain how to do location spoofing or whatever it's called

just watched this episode, you went down bravely nv. :'( a fine showing in the last round, which is the best round anyway.

(re vc's alkieism, last season she made nazi jokes every episode, this season it's drink jokes. i think the three this episode is a new high, though i haven't watched tonight's yet.)

OMFG I'VE GOT A IMDB ENTRY BECAUSE OF THIS SHIT

lollll

i played myself, apparently.

cd've told them that already.

just 'noodle' now i guess

technically we can enter you for dead pools now

hmmmm, opportunity for spot fixing?

yr call tbh

noodle if you and me can find another then we can do one of those celebrity deaths in 3s, that would be cool!

i vote for Nicky Campbell

does getting yr letters published in the irish times count

ok if y're in darragh we just need a way to cash in on the fix

cue soderbergh horns

now i'm on imdb maybe Soderbergh will look me up

it would be vmic, ya. he'd cast you in the sequel to quiz show, which he would call quiz show 2, a cunning and typically soderberghian reference to other hollywood sequels

as long as i get to play the Able Seaman who cracks under pressure

in a typically cunning soderberghian touch he will be called abel simon

You have to wait until Ramsey scores iirc
xxxxp

can't believe the entire phenomenon of nv being on only connect completely passed me by. not on iplayer any more of course, fecking bbc, if i was paying license money i would demand it back.

I think this is it: http://youtu.be/_R9zE0A5wH0

AH magnificent, thank you very kindly sir

ohmygod i didn't have a copy of that, fantastic

embarrassing performance but nice to have it

Embarrassing performance anxiety is the reason I've never applied to do these things no matter the likelihood of profit so kudos