What Are Those Old People On About?
In What Are Those Old People On About?, people at an older people’s drop-in centre were shown photographs of contemporary celebrities. They described what they saw without saying the person’s name, while Scott and Chappers tried to identify them from clues about their face, clothes, career and public image.
The first man was said to have a lined, “rather fat” face, several chins, a tendency to swear and a reputation as a “marvellous chef”. After guesses including James Corden and David Hasselhoff, the answer was Gordon Ramsay.
A woman with unusually long arms, a swimmer’s build and a figure admired by the older women was Rebecca Adlington.
Another man was immediately greeted with delighted noises. He was described as brown, handsome, late twenties or possibly sixty, and somebody whom women had made their names around. The answer was David Hasselhoff.
The final celebrity was said to be off the television, at least forty, wearing glasses and making funny faces. The answer was Harry Hill.
Oh, What’s Occurring?
In Oh, What’s Occurring?, Scott presented counting games and public challenges, while Chappers predicted the result.
Scott went onto Stupid Street pretending to conduct an ordinary survey before revealing that he was an MI5 agent called Long Stocking. He asked five people to phone “Vladimir” and deliver coded messages such as “the crow flies west over Moscow” and “the squirrel burrows only in a flower bed”.
Several callers cooperated, even when the pre-recorded Vladimir message began speaking before the phone had properly connected. Three of the five were counted as having believed or at least accepted the spy story.
Another round counted how often Mr T referred to himself in the third person during his Radio 1 interview. The final total was 21, including his explanation that his first name was “Mr”, his middle name was “the period” and his surname was “T”.
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