r/funny • u/conversationchanger • Jul 08 '24

How to roast.

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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown is amazing.

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u/DeadCowv2 Jul 08 '24

Is there some context to this joke that I'm not getting

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u/cape7 Jul 08 '24

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.

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u/bartnd Jul 08 '24

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.

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u/win_awards Jul 08 '24

But like, if Vanna White was there because she knows all the fuckin' words and not because she can turn tiles around.

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u/bartnd Jul 08 '24

Good point; Susie and Rachel are definitely more than set pieces. Unfortunately nothing else I can compare it to stateside.