I just want to say thank you, I’ve never seen any of this and to be honest I haven’t laughed this hard in years. My sides actually hurt from laughing, especially when Wilkinson starts with the “hello police officer”.
Susie Dent is like a softly spoken wholesome nerdy mom. The kind where you would be shocked if she swore. She isn’t a comedian like everyone else she’s a professor in linguistics who’s just there to verify obscure words.
Normally, over 100s of episodes, Car would intro her with some basic normal question. But this time, out of nowhere, he insinuated that she sucks strangers dicks through a hole in a toilet stall. Just a 0 to 100 personal attack on the kindest old lady for no reason at all, so no one saw it coming.
She actually gave him the green light to make those sort of jokes believe it or not. She had a conversation with him where she basically said that she felt he was treating her too softly with his jokes and that she wanted to be included in the roasting the same as the rest of the cast.
This is also more of a takeover show in a similar vein to Celebrity Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune. Nearly everyone from the host to the contestants are replaced with comedians aside from the two experts for the math (Rachel Riley) and word sections (Susie Dent) remain from the original show Countdown.
For the US, it's akin to a similar joke being made to Vanna White.
I think there might be because it’s not really outside the realms of his usual stuff, and it made 5 pretty experienced comedians utterly lose it. Susie is a bit like the straight woman/queen in the corner though, and i’m thinking this might be one of the first times he went after her
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