We had filmed this the day before the passing of the great comedian Sean Lock which is why we didn't mention anything in said video. I do have a video just of his coming soon just waiting on the block to be lifted. RIP Sean Lock.
Susy Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist and media personality. born in Woking, Surrey, England. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown every year since 1992
@Burn it All down You are sad, picking on other's interests. I bet you are an extremely dull person. And I use the word "person" to describe you in the loosest possible sense.
@Burn it All down Your spelling, grammar and general punctuation is absolutely terrible. Oh and by the way, I just like winding up the likes of you. And wow oh wow do you make it so very, very easy!
"Countdown" is the serious long running game, they did a comedy version one year called "8 out of 10 cats do countdown" and it worked so well they just kept making them. This is a late night show which is why swearing is allowed, the real "Countdown" is on in the afternoon and is very straight-laced...
Susie Dent has a typical "Home Counties" late 20th century, RP (Received Pronunciation) accent - she is from Surrey afterall. She is an actual lexicographer and etymologist, and and has written some excellent books on the subject.
The 'Berk' line was because a lot of people use berk as an insult but a lot of people don't know that it is cockney rhyming slang, short for Berkeley Hunt which rhymes with a very rude 'C' word.
but Berk was the name of the main character in the kids show The Trapdoor? You know, the overworked servant of the Thing Upstairs? ruclips.net/video/-9dbAQJIu1o/видео.html
Also Charlie is c**t... rhyming slang sometimes goes through a double treatment: Berk = Berkley Hunt = c**t Charlie = Charlie Smerk = Berk I believe Cockney rhyming slang went through two formative periods... firstly in the 1850s and then in the 1950s... hence the double treatments 😏 🇬🇧
Susie Dent's "Berk" (usually considered a mild insult synonymous with idiot) insult was that Berk is short for Berkeley Hunt which is rhyming slang for c**t.
Susie works for the Oxford English Dictionary and is a real etymologist. Because one of the games involves finding words, she was hired for "Countdown" to have an expert who could confirm / deny the validity of words. A "referee" for the word game. And Rachel Riley is absolutely amazing at mental arithmetic for the numbers game. She usually nails the answer every time. They're not just decorative "pretty faces" but actually experts on words / numbers to act as the "referee" for their respective games.
Susie dent (the dictionary lady) and rachel riley (the numbers lady) do the regular countdown - an anagram and maths contest popular with the elderly and student and is very serious Susie was actually a contestant on the serious version of the shoe and a repeated winner who got the job when the previous dictionary expert left as she was so good
I think you’re right. I heard the same. Apparently, Jimmy left her alone ‘cos she’s quite posh, and Susie prefers it now even though he over-corrected a bit.
Fun fact: The guy you mentioned had a deep voice (he said 'it's none of your business, Jimmy) is Peter Serafinowicz , he's an actor/comedian and did the voice for Darth Maul in Star Wars episode 1. :) Those weren't really the best clips from 'Cats', check out carrot in a box 1 and 2 and episodes with Joe Wilkinson....
The tax thing Jimmy Carr dodged paying £12 million in tax but got caught and ended up paying it all, it wasn’t illegal but it would have killed his show if he didn’t
The UK is riddled with high earning tax dodgers in all segments; politicians, business people, sports pros, entertainment performers, musicians etc. Even the British Queen was also revealed to have funds placed in offshore tax shelters.
@@thoso1973 Apart from maybe those in jobs where the employer uses the PAYE system where the tax is taken at source rather than filing a tax return at the end of the year and paying then; everyone takes part In tax avoidance as that's what you are supposed to do. Your duty isn't to overpay your tax, its to pay least possible tax based on the laws. If anything its often those who wouldn't be deemed rich who are worst with it as they take an income that they don't even declare, what the rich people do is they investment into something which means tax isn't due on that money so you pay less. You only pay tax if when that investment is cashed in you have made more than 12k in profit from it. What was happening with the rich is top accountancy firms and banks had schemes where people would invest in a company and they would make less than 12k a year profit from that investment so they would pay no tax, so they may invest a 100k into say a film and make back 110k off that investment and that whole £110k would be tax free. It wasn't illegal, the rich people putting money in them were often not aware there was anything shady to it and it took HMRC to refine the rules and then basically guilt people into paying the tax on it voluntarily to prevent going through a court case that would be bad PR. It's nowhere near as big a thing these days though, infact the country losses more from the non-rich people, the likes of delivery drivers, waiters waitresses who don't declare their tips, workman who take cash in hand and don't declare it etc etc. So many of the people who sit there complaining about the rich
Countdown normally has 2 contestants who play each other. The game consists of picking 9 letters and finding the longest word you can out of those 9 letters. After 3 rounds of letters, they have the numbers game where they pick 6 numbers and they can ask for big numbers 25, 50, 75, 100 and small numbers from 1 - 10. They have to use the numbers they choose to get to the same randomly selected number the computer throws up. These rounds repeat and a final 9 letter scrambled word( Conundrum round) has to solved within 30 seconds. All rounds have a clock counting down hence the title of the show. Suzi Dent is a lexacographer. She checks that all words that are given are spelt correctly and that they are contained in the Oxford English dictionary. For example we may use words everyday but they are not necessarilly in the Oxford English Dictionary. You need her because often people will come up with words that nobody has heard of because they may be scientific etc. 8 out of 10 cats does countdown has basically exactly the same format except they have panel teams who are comedians. I hope this helps .
Bush at the zoo, outstanding, the rest Weirdly Comical. Sincerely Scott Loch. Na, Professor Bandit B.T.E. Torque Enjoyment only, nothing technical. Out.
At 7:30, Travelled the A42 many times when heading North from Birmingham and when coming back home as well and I can definitely confirm that it’s nowhere near Hemel Hempstead! 😂🇬🇧🇺🇸
From around this time of the year I already start to look forward to the Big Fat Quiz of the Year. It's a end-of-the-year recap quiz hosted by Jimmy, played by comedians.
Noel Fielding is the name of the 'Bake-off' presenter you're referring to. He's a presenter, comedian and artist and has collaborated with the fashion house Fendi for their Autumn/Winter 2021 Menswear collection. He's a very talented man.
8 out of 10 Cats is a show on its own as is Countdown however in 2012 Channel 4 decided to do a Mash Up night for charity and they mixed these two shows together along with loads of others. None of the others stuck however this went down an absolute storm and became a huge success. The 3 main comedians on the show (Jimmy Carr, Jon Richardson and the late Sean Lock) are all brilliant and the way they managed to blend seamlessly in with the Mathematician Rachel Riley & Lexicographer Susie Dent just worked perfectly from the start. Susie Dent used to proof read and check the origins of words that make it into the official English Oxford Dictionary and is a self proclaimed nerd when it comes to words.
Noel Fielding is the guy from the IT Crowd and British Bake Off. He was a team captain on a music quiz/panel show called Nevermind The Buzzcocks from series 23 on, which is absolutely hilarious, I highly recommend it! He also starred in a well known classic British comedy show "The Mighty Boosh"
The car/road joke is to do with dogging. Implying that's the only type of woman Jimmy could get lol. Then Jon corrects him for using the wrong road in his joke
The one about Berk, it's an insult usually used to call someone stupid, not very common but generally considered quite harmless. But Susy explains that it's actually cockney rhyming slang, which works by using a phrase that rhymes with the word, but just using the first word. More easily explained, a common one is using the world "apples" to mean "stairs". This comes from the phrase "apples and pears", as pears rhymes with stairs. It turns out Berk is actually short for Berkeley hunt, which is rhyming slang for the c word, so it turns out it's actually much more rude than most people think!
8 out of 10 cat...etc is an absolute gold mine for comedy. It's made me cry with laughter any number of times and you will reap rich rewards for watching it properly (whether you react or not)
Dr. Susie Dent lives in Oxford. She has association with the compliers of the Oxford English Dictionary. The joke you had difficulty understanding is to do with Rhyming slang. Cocknies started this but now most of Britain is aware. Some of the classics are "trouble and strife" for wife. "Ruby Murray" for curry, "dog and bone" for phone. So a sentence might go as follows, " I got my trouble on the dog and said don't cook tonight babe, we will go out for a ruby". So, back to what Dr.Dent said. British people use the term "Berke" as an term of abuse for others they don't like without realising that "Berke" is a foreshortening of the phrase "Berkeley Hunt",which rhymes with a certain "C" word.
Most of the panel are usually comedians or special guests. Susie Dent and Rachel Riley are the exceptions, and regulars on the show. Susie is the word expert and Rachel is the math wizard.
Hello Ethan and Mrs. American. Countdown was the first programme on Channel 4 when it started, before which UK had just BBC 1 & 2 and ITV and they shut down part of the day, so it is well remembered, as was the first host, the late Richard Whiteley, who was always known for an unfortunate clip from my local TV with a ferret that you should check out. Countdown had been trialed previously on Yorkshire TV which was the local ITV station. The show was one if those taken over by comedians for the day, which in this form was so popular they made it a regular. The numbers and letter experts were kept, acting like straight guys mostly, but other comments have given details already.
@@alansmithee8831 And - in case anyone needs to know - Countdown itself was based on Des chiffres et des lettres, a French programme with the same format that I watched when on school exchanges there in 1975/76.
For clarification, Jimmy was in a tax ‘avoidance’ scheme. Avoidance schemes are not illegal, but very much frowned upon. Tax ‘evasion’ is a crime, if he had done that, he would have been prosecuted.
8:30 Rhyming slang means they take the rude word they mean, rhyme it to a phrase, and then shorten the phrase to a single word - and that word substitutes for the rude one. Susie was explaining the British word "berk" is rhyming slang, short for "Berkeley hunt", and 'hunt' rhymes with a particularly rude word used more over there than here. The joke being that, since she knows the origin of "berk", Susie calling Jimmy that means she's actually been calling him a c**t this whole time. If you ever hear a British person use "bottle" in a colloquial way ("he bottled that"), that's another example: bottle is short for 'bottles and glass' which rhymes with "ass" (or "arse" in their case).
@@allenwilliams1306 not exactly, the city of london (not london or greater london) that is their SOLE business is helping americans and other rich people hide their mone y from their own countries taxman. ANY rich person. and using the city of london protects them from being arrested for tax evasion too
@@allenwilliams1306 its what keeps london the financial capitol of the world because new york wont allows tax evasion, but the city of london rewards and encourages it. every year the city of londo na tiny place with tghe population of 9,401 makes 76 BILLION DOLLARS in pure profit.
Well you could tell that it was a common practice, because his accountant sudgested it as something that everyone does. And to be honest, in my country, when a top tenis player was found to pay her taxes in Monaco, which is one of those tax havens, almost noone cared.
Cockney rhyming slang rhymes. Apples and pears = stairs. Dog and bone = phone. Barnet fair = hair. So what insult can you think of that rhymes with "Berkley Hunt"?
Suzie Dent works for the Oxford English Dictionary. On the shows she's the judge of which words are allowable. Rachel Riley (blonde) is the numbers expert, and does phenomenal mental arithmetic. ' "8 Out Of 10 Cats" Meets "Countdown" ' is a crossover of those two other separate shows.
So Cockney rhyming slang are sometimes 2 or 3 words where the last word rhymes with the word you are replacing, however you usually drop the rhyming word and shorten the phrase to the first word or part of the word. So Calling someone a berk is short for Berkley Hunt and hunt rhymes with cunt, so calling someone a berk is slang for calling them a cunt. The dog and bone is slang for the phone but when using cockney rhyming slang you'd only ask for someone to pass you the dog meaning you want them to pass you the phone, you wouldn't ask them to pass you the dog and bone.
RIP Sean Lock team captain on 8 out of 10 cats, undisputed 🥕in a 🎁 champion,.... RACHEL DRESSES AS A VIKING SEAN:"That's a challenging wank".. Sean will be greatly missed by millions around the world, along with his friends in the comedy and entertainment field, thoughts to his family and friends 😢
@@midwestamericans3806 thanks m🎱 crude and crass but funny as hell, a very dry humour observational sarcasm is his trademark a VERY British humour, I've live offshore for 25 years now but that humour, Sean, like Billy Connolly and Al Murray, Russell Howard are the antithesis of the irreverent British humour, not as subtle at the two Ronnies, but we can all get away with alot more these days
Just found this channel. If you guys are doing these I'm subbed. XD Some do get blocked sometimes in the UK but not in the US. Others do. It's weird according to other RUclipsrs.
Susie Dent was saying that 'Berk' is a shortened form of the cockney rhyming slang term 'Berkshire hunt'. RUclips policies prevent me writing exactly what the cockney rhyming slang means so if you google 'cockney rhyming slang Berkshire hunt' you will get the answer.
@@bigthecat100 whilst Berkeley did come first, Berkshire has also been in common use since the 60s. Either is appropriate and will provide them with the meaning they were searching for.
@@mercurialgecko3409 Oh, of course, you can absolutely call someone a 'berkshire hunt' or even a 'berkshire' to mean the same thing, but the word 'berk' isn't pronounced the same way, it's short for 'berkeley'. But yeah, regardless, the 'hunt' part is the crux of the insult here! You can usually figure out most rhyming slang if you know the context. (In this case, what's an offensive word that rhymes with hunt?)
There is the straight version of the quiz “countdown “then there the comedians version which is this program.Hunt rhymes with…..(really bad word). R.I.P. SEAN LOCK.
Berkley Hunt is cockney rhyming slang for a swear word that Americans avoid like the plague, so hunt sounds like.... I had to explain this to my, very, posh mother-in-law who called people a berk all the time, to say she was shocked is an understatement!
Jimmy Carr was "caught" _avoiding_ tax, which is perfectly legal. Tax _evasion_ is a crime. Also, I think Susie Dent's accent is what's known as RP (Received Pronunciation), which is the neutral english accent that doesn't actually belong to a specific geographical area.
yes your right that was and still going today the orginal countdown with carol vorderman and richard whitley and suzie dent was on the orginal countdown years ago
Jimmy Carr used to live on Tracy Island with his "Thunderbirds" brothers, Alan Hansen and Andy Burnham. Ha ha.ha 😂😂😂. Look up Thunderbirds (a kids show) & Hansen & Burnham and you will see what I mean. Also, check out "Captain Scarlet" (another kids show).
Suzi dent has been part of the original series countdown since it started ,she is a successful author and exceptionally smart lady ,she also is one of the leading script writers for the 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, check out when nick helm is on,brilliant,
The Berkeley Hunt thing is Cockney rhyming slang. Berk is used as a mild insult to describe someone as a fool or an idiot, but it’s origins as I said is in rhyming slang derived from Berkeley Hunt - Berk, Berkeley Hunt rhyming with a slang name for a vagina, c**t.
One of the guy with the glasses on from that show has died because of the cancer this month his name is SEAN LOCK. You should watch him his a comedian his was very nice kindest and funniest guy ever. I really miss him RIP 😢🙏❤
Yeh Berkley hunt is rhyming slang for That "C" word.....the one everyone thinks Sean uses to describe himself, but it ends up being "cute"...shares 3 of those letters tho......👀😱🤷♂️😂😂😂😂
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of channel 4 someone had the deranged idea of mashing up the two shows. It was only for one episode but was so funny that channel 4 made it into a regular show.
This is 8nout of 10 cats does countdown p.s could you please reactvto sean locks best bits he was a panelist on 8 out of 10 cats he passed away this last week from cancer at the young age of 58 great reaction both of you 😁👍
I'm not sure how much you know about this show..... Countdown and 8 out of 10 Cats are very different shows. Countdown has been going since 1982, Cats first aired in 2005. In 2012 Cats did a Countdown special (6 ep I think) and it was a huge success so they continued doing it. Sticking with this topic, I highly recommend 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Joe Wilkinson best bits
Jimmy is one of the few hosts who seem to encourage guests to roast him back. His accountant suggested the tax avoidance scheme, when the Revenue said it was illegal he repaid the money and apologised. The audience for the show doubled the day after the apology
We had filmed this the day before the passing of the great comedian Sean Lock which is why we didn't mention anything in said video. I do have a video just of his coming soon just waiting on the block to be lifted. RIP Sean Lock.
Rest In Peace Sean you legend ♥️
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Rip Sean total gem of comedy
Ovation for Sean 👏👏👏👏. Laugh it up at the gates matey 🤣
Susy Dent is an English lexicographer, etymologist and media personality. born in Woking, Surrey, England. She has appeared in "Dictionary Corner" on the Channel 4 game show Countdown every year since 1992
@Burn it All down Same, except you took more effort
@Burn it All down bro you're on reaction video ....wind your neck in.
@Burn it All down You are sad, picking on other's interests. I bet you are an extremely dull person. And I use the word "person" to describe you in the loosest possible sense.
@Burn it All down Your spelling, grammar and general punctuation is absolutely terrible. Oh and by the way, I just like winding up the likes of you. And wow oh wow do you make it so very, very easy!
@Burn it All down And the reason why it's too funny is because of you. You really can't see it at all, can you?
"Countdown" is the serious long running game, they did a comedy version one year called "8 out of 10 cats do countdown" and it worked so well they just kept making them. This is a late night show which is why swearing is allowed, the real "Countdown" is on in the afternoon and is very straight-laced...
Straight laced? Not always. ruclips.net/video/b6a7qNl1Fug/видео.html
@@qwertyTRiG Childish humour, hardly worthy of comment... I must admit after Whiteley's 23 year stint I've not seen it....
@@daveofyorkshire301 I disagree. I've got a recording of one from last year were both contestants came up with 'w*nker'! 🤣
@@Dogslife_ it depends if you think that's bad?
It would be fun if carol came on cats do countdown as a contestant. But I doubt she would do it.
Susie Dent has a typical "Home Counties" late 20th century, RP (Received Pronunciation) accent - she is from Surrey afterall.
She is an actual lexicographer and etymologist, and and has written some excellent books on the subject.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches just ask for the sleepy go byebye section.
8 out of 10 cats and 8 put of 10 cats does countdown is so so funny, although RIP to the legend Sean Lock, who died just last week
Carrot in the box 😉
@@Sol3UK Exactly, I bet Ethan would find that funny aswell
He will be missed.
The guy who said "I don't think that's any of your business" was the voice of Darth Maul.
The 'Berk' line was because a lot of people use berk as an insult but a lot of people don't know that it is cockney rhyming slang, short for Berkeley Hunt which rhymes with a very rude 'C' word.
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With a C ...and a U and a T ....... CUTE !!
but Berk was the name of the main character in the kids show The Trapdoor? You know, the overworked servant of the Thing Upstairs? ruclips.net/video/-9dbAQJIu1o/видео.html
Wasn't there also a person called " Michael Hunt" and everyone would make a joke about his name?
Also Charlie is c**t... rhyming slang sometimes goes through a double treatment:
Berk = Berkley Hunt = c**t
Charlie = Charlie Smerk = Berk
I believe Cockney rhyming slang went through two formative periods... firstly in the 1850s and then in the 1950s... hence the double treatments 😏 🇬🇧
Susie Dent's "Berk" (usually considered a mild insult synonymous with idiot) insult was that Berk is short for Berkeley Hunt which is rhyming slang for c**t.
The thing some might not know about Jimmy Carr is that he isn't offended. He's one of those comedians that loves a roast battle.
Suzy Dent works for the Oxford English Dictionary.
Susie works for the Oxford English Dictionary and is a real etymologist.
Because one of the games involves finding words, she was hired for "Countdown" to have an expert who could confirm / deny the validity of words. A "referee" for the word game.
And Rachel Riley is absolutely amazing at mental arithmetic for the numbers game. She usually nails the answer every time.
They're not just decorative "pretty faces" but actually experts on words / numbers to act as the "referee" for their respective games.
Susie dent (the dictionary lady) and rachel riley (the numbers lady) do the regular countdown - an anagram and maths contest popular with the elderly and student and is very serious
Susie was actually a contestant on the serious version of the shoe and a repeated winner who got the job when the previous dictionary expert left as she was so good
if l remember correctly. early in 8 out of 10 cats do countdown, jimmy didn't banter with susy, until he found out she was feeling left out.
I think you’re right. I heard the same. Apparently, Jimmy left her alone ‘cos she’s quite posh, and Susie prefers it now even though he over-corrected a bit.
Fun fact: The guy you mentioned had a deep voice (he said 'it's none of your business, Jimmy) is Peter Serafinowicz , he's an actor/comedian and did the voice for Darth Maul in Star Wars episode 1. :) Those weren't really the best clips from 'Cats', check out carrot in a box 1 and 2 and episodes with Joe Wilkinson....
He also stars in "The Tick" on Amazon.
Peter Serafinowicz is one of those people who is super-successful and prolific (and rightly so) yet weirdly few people seem to know who he is.
He also played Lord Edgar Covington on Parks and Rec
The tax thing Jimmy Carr dodged paying £12 million in tax but got caught and ended up paying it all, it wasn’t illegal but it would have killed his show if he didn’t
The UK is riddled with high earning tax dodgers in all segments; politicians, business people, sports pros, entertainment performers, musicians etc. Even the British Queen was also revealed to have funds placed in offshore tax shelters.
@@thoso1973 But the Queen doesn't have to pay taxes so that case is different
@@thoso1973 The Queen doesn’t have to pay tax but she does do it voluntarily, strop being a prick
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches is that relevant to this clip? Bugger off you fud
@@thoso1973 Apart from maybe those in jobs where the employer uses the PAYE system where the tax is taken at source rather than filing a tax return at the end of the year and paying then; everyone takes part In tax avoidance as that's what you are supposed to do. Your duty isn't to overpay your tax, its to pay least possible tax based on the laws. If anything its often those who wouldn't be deemed rich who are worst with it as they take an income that they don't even declare, what the rich people do is they investment into something which means tax isn't due on that money so you pay less. You only pay tax if when that investment is cashed in you have made more than 12k in profit from it. What was happening with the rich is top accountancy firms and banks had schemes where people would invest in a company and they would make less than 12k a year profit from that investment so they would pay no tax, so they may invest a 100k into say a film and make back 110k off that investment and that whole £110k would be tax free. It wasn't illegal, the rich people putting money in them were often not aware there was anything shady to it and it took HMRC to refine the rules and then basically guilt people into paying the tax on it voluntarily to prevent going through a court case that would be bad PR.
It's nowhere near as big a thing these days though, infact the country losses more from the non-rich people, the likes of delivery drivers, waiters waitresses who don't declare their tips, workman who take cash in hand and don't declare it etc etc. So many of the people who sit there complaining about the rich
Countdown normally has 2 contestants who play each other. The game consists of picking 9 letters and finding the longest word you can out of those 9 letters. After 3 rounds of letters, they have the numbers game where they pick 6 numbers and they can ask for big numbers 25, 50, 75, 100 and small numbers from 1 - 10. They have to use the numbers they choose to get to the same randomly selected number the computer throws up. These rounds repeat and a final 9 letter scrambled word( Conundrum round) has to solved within 30 seconds. All rounds have a clock counting down hence the title of the show. Suzi Dent is a lexacographer. She checks that all words that are given are spelt correctly and that they are contained in the Oxford English dictionary. For example we may use words everyday but they are not necessarilly in the Oxford English Dictionary. You need her because often people will come up with words that nobody has heard of because they may be scientific etc. 8 out of 10 cats does countdown has basically exactly the same format except they have panel teams who are comedians. I hope this helps .
FYI , the one saying.... their not expensive at the 5:02 mark , that is Alan carr, Jimmie's sister.
Also the lady is called Susie Dent and is the dictionary lady for the actual show called Countdown
Susie Dent is a British icon. A talented lexicographer and a lovely person.
Noel Fielding, IT crowd, was in The Mighty Bush, strange, daft, Magical.
Bush at the zoo, outstanding, the rest Weirdly Comical. Sincerely Scott Loch. Na, Professor Bandit B.T.E. Torque Enjoyment only, nothing technical. Out.
Susie and Rachel are not comedians, but they often are pretty funny. They've been working on this show for a good while, so they've become used to it.
Awsome - I lovednthe confused faces to Berk 😜
At 7:30, Travelled the A42 many times when heading North from Birmingham and when coming back home as well and I can definitely confirm that it’s nowhere near Hemel Hempstead! 😂🇬🇧🇺🇸
From around this time of the year I already start to look forward to the Big Fat Quiz of the Year. It's a end-of-the-year recap quiz hosted by Jimmy, played by comedians.
Noel Fielding is the name of the 'Bake-off' presenter you're referring to. He's a presenter, comedian and artist and has collaborated with the fashion house Fendi for their Autumn/Winter 2021 Menswear collection. He's a very talented man.
If you say so. I'm still looking for his talent.
RIP Sean Lock.
8 out of 10 Cats is a show on its own as is Countdown however in 2012 Channel 4 decided to do a Mash Up night for charity and they mixed these two shows together along with loads of others. None of the others stuck however this went down an absolute storm and became a huge success. The 3 main comedians on the show (Jimmy Carr, Jon Richardson and the late Sean Lock) are all brilliant and the way they managed to blend seamlessly in with the Mathematician Rachel Riley & Lexicographer Susie Dent just worked perfectly from the start. Susie Dent used to proof read and check the origins of words that make it into the official English Oxford Dictionary and is a self proclaimed nerd when it comes to words.
The guy with a deep voice at 8:01 is Peter Serafinowicz, he was the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars.
10:47 The Balsa wood joke was also about him looking like a doll.
I will spell the word that rhymes with Berkeley hunt phonetically Charlie Uniform November Tango
I believe the internationally accepted phonetic term is “ C U Next Tuesday”…
@@kevinadams3729 LOL
Noel Fielding is the guy from the IT Crowd and British Bake Off. He was a team captain on a music quiz/panel show called Nevermind The Buzzcocks from series 23 on, which is absolutely hilarious, I highly recommend it! He also starred in a well known classic British comedy show "The Mighty Boosh"
The car/road joke is to do with dogging. Implying that's the only type of woman Jimmy could get lol. Then Jon corrects him for using the wrong road in his joke
dropped in to subscribe 8-10 cats is so funny .
The one about Berk, it's an insult usually used to call someone stupid, not very common but generally considered quite harmless. But Susy explains that it's actually cockney rhyming slang, which works by using a phrase that rhymes with the word, but just using the first word. More easily explained, a common one is using the world "apples" to mean "stairs". This comes from the phrase "apples and pears", as pears rhymes with stairs.
It turns out Berk is actually short for Berkeley hunt, which is rhyming slang for the c word, so it turns out it's actually much more rude than most people think!
Did you know that Peter Serafinowicz (the guy at around 8:01) did the voice of Darth Maul in _The Phantom Menace?_
8:04 Random voice fact: That guy with the deep voice is Peter Serafinowicz, and he was the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace.
8 out of 10 cat...etc is an absolute gold mine for comedy. It's made me cry with laughter any number of times and you will reap rich rewards for watching it properly (whether you react or not)
Dr. Susie Dent lives in Oxford. She has association with the compliers of the Oxford English Dictionary. The joke you had difficulty understanding is to do with Rhyming slang. Cocknies started this but now most of Britain is aware. Some of the classics are "trouble and strife" for wife. "Ruby Murray" for curry, "dog and bone" for phone. So a sentence might go as follows, " I got my trouble on the dog and said don't cook tonight babe, we will go out for a ruby". So, back to what Dr.Dent said. British people use the term "Berke" as an term of abuse for others they don't like without realising that "Berke" is a foreshortening of the phrase "Berkeley Hunt",which rhymes with a certain "C" word.
Most of the panel are usually comedians or special guests. Susie Dent and Rachel Riley are the exceptions, and regulars on the show. Susie is the word expert and Rachel is the math wizard.
*maths
@@gman7346 Hehe.
She’s Susie Dent and she is super intelligent, she’s the star of the original show Countdown, she is absolutely way above me me saying she’s clever
Hello Ethan and Mrs. American. Countdown was the first programme on Channel 4 when it started, before which UK had just BBC 1 & 2 and ITV and they shut down part of the day, so it is well remembered, as was the first host, the late Richard Whiteley, who was always known for an unfortunate clip from my local TV with a ferret that you should check out.
Countdown had been trialed previously on Yorkshire TV which was the local ITV station.
The show was one if those taken over by comedians for the day, which in this form was so popular they made it a regular. The numbers and letter experts were kept, acting like straight guys mostly, but other comments have given details already.
@@alansmithee8831 And - in case anyone needs to know - Countdown itself was based on Des chiffres et des lettres, a French programme with the same format that I watched when on school exchanges there in 1975/76.
For clarification, Jimmy was in a tax ‘avoidance’ scheme. Avoidance schemes are not illegal, but very much frowned upon. Tax ‘evasion’ is a crime, if he had done that, he would have been prosecuted.
8:30 Rhyming slang means they take the rude word they mean, rhyme it to a phrase, and then shorten the phrase to a single word - and that word substitutes for the rude one. Susie was explaining the British word "berk" is rhyming slang, short for "Berkeley hunt", and 'hunt' rhymes with a particularly rude word used more over there than here. The joke being that, since she knows the origin of "berk", Susie calling Jimmy that means she's actually been calling him a c**t this whole time.
If you ever hear a British person use "bottle" in a colloquial way ("he bottled that"), that's another example: bottle is short for 'bottles and glass' which rhymes with "ass" (or "arse" in their case).
Johnny Vegas is a must to check out he does quite a lot of appearances on 8 out of 10..R.I.P Sean one of the best
Jimmy carr didn't commit tax evasion he practiced tax avoidance, which is legal but hugely frowned upon
Don't forget that an ISA is tax avoidance. Perfectly legal, and instituted by Gordon Brown in about 1998.
Hugely frowned upon, that is, unless you are Richard Branson, Amazon, Vodafone, Philip Green, Google...
@@allenwilliams1306 not exactly, the city of london (not london or greater london) that is their SOLE business is helping americans and other rich people hide their mone y from their own countries taxman. ANY rich person. and using the city of london protects them from being arrested for tax evasion too
@@allenwilliams1306 its what keeps london the financial capitol of the world because new york wont allows tax evasion, but the city of london rewards and encourages it. every year the city of londo na tiny place with tghe population of 9,401 makes 76 BILLION DOLLARS in pure profit.
Well you could tell that it was a common practice, because his accountant sudgested it as something that everyone does. And to be honest, in my country, when a top tenis player was found to pay her taxes in Monaco, which is one of those tax havens, almost noone cared.
RIP Sean Loch, best part of 8 out of 10 cats
Cockney rhyming slang rhymes.
Apples and pears = stairs.
Dog and bone = phone.
Barnet fair = hair.
So what insult can you think of that rhymes with "Berkley Hunt"?
RIP Sean.
Suzie Dent works for the Oxford English Dictionary. On the shows she's the judge of which words are allowable. Rachel Riley (blonde) is the numbers expert, and does phenomenal mental arithmetic. ' "8 Out Of 10 Cats" Meets "Countdown" ' is a crossover of those two other separate shows.
Sad seeing Sean and knowing he's passed away.
So Cockney rhyming slang are sometimes 2 or 3 words where the last word rhymes with the word you are replacing, however you usually drop the rhyming word and shorten the phrase to the first word or part of the word. So Calling someone a berk is short for Berkley Hunt and hunt rhymes with cunt, so calling someone a berk is slang for calling them a cunt. The dog and bone is slang for the phone but when using cockney rhyming slang you'd only ask for someone to pass you the dog meaning you want them to pass you the phone, you wouldn't ask them to pass you the dog and bone.
Rip Sean Lock whi has sadly died this week
Vantrillicus dummy? Oh my. Love the channel.
Coincidentally Susie Dent and Sean Lock were both born in the small Surrey town of Woking.
As was Andy Bradbury...
It's actually raining cats and dogs down here in Yorkshire
Peter Serafinovicz ("I don't think that's any of your business") is the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace!
RIP Sean Lock team captain on 8 out of 10 cats, undisputed 🥕in a 🎁 champion,....
RACHEL DRESSES AS A VIKING
SEAN:"That's a challenging wank"..
Sean will be greatly missed by millions around the world, along with his friends in the comedy and entertainment field, thoughts to his family and friends 😢
He was great! Planning on watching a lot more of his stuff regardless if I react to or not, I just want to see his stuff.
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thanks m🎱 crude and crass but funny as hell, a very dry humour observational sarcasm is his trademark a VERY British humour, I've live offshore for 25 years now but that humour, Sean, like Billy Connolly and Al Murray, Russell Howard are the antithesis of the irreverent British humour, not as subtle at the two Ronnies, but we can all get away with alot more these days
Just found this channel. If you guys are doing these I'm subbed. XD
Some do get blocked sometimes in the UK but not in the US. Others do. It's weird according to other RUclipsrs.
R.I.P Sean lock, one of the greatest comic minds 😢
The Woman is called Susie Dent she is from woking which is near surrey, she is a lexicographer.
Near, Surrey? I thought Woking was in, Surrey?
These reactors don’t know enough of the source material to appreciate many of the clips from these compilations.
Fun fact: Jimmy Carr is actually Irish his parents are Irish, he was born in Ireland but moved to the UK at a young age.
Bless! I’m not sure if they understood the dogging reference there. “The lay-by…near Hemel Hempstead…”. Blank faces.
Susie Dent was saying that 'Berk' is a shortened form of the cockney rhyming slang term 'Berkshire hunt'. RUclips policies prevent me writing exactly what the cockney rhyming slang means so if you google 'cockney rhyming slang Berkshire hunt' you will get the answer.
Berkeley Hunt, not Berkshire.
The first part of Berkshire is pronounced like 'bark'.
@@bigthecat100 whilst Berkeley did come first, Berkshire has also been in common use since the 60s. Either is appropriate and will provide them with the meaning they were searching for.
It's the "hunt" part that rhymes with something beginning with "c" we'll let you guess the rest !! Haha 😄
So she's calling him the runt of the litter??? Referring to the hunting dogs, of course!
@@mercurialgecko3409 Oh, of course, you can absolutely call someone a 'berkshire hunt' or even a 'berkshire' to mean the same thing, but the word 'berk' isn't pronounced the same way, it's short for 'berkeley'.
But yeah, regardless, the 'hunt' part is the crux of the insult here!
You can usually figure out most rhyming slang if you know the context. (In this case, what's an offensive word that rhymes with hunt?)
Sean lock a key part of the show passed away recently from cancer
RIP Sean Lock!
What expletive rhymes with Berkeley Hunt?
Jimmy is my favorite too, I love when he deals with hecklers.
There is the straight version of the quiz “countdown “then there the comedians version which is this program.Hunt rhymes with…..(really bad word).
R.I.P. SEAN LOCK.
Berkeley Hunt (posh British Fox hunt event) = Cnut (guess the anagram). 😀
Berkley Hunt is cockney rhyming slang for a swear word that Americans avoid like the plague, so hunt sounds like....
I had to explain this to my, very, posh mother-in-law who called people a berk all the time, to say she was shocked is an understatement!
Rip Sean Lock
Jimmy Carr was "caught" _avoiding_ tax, which is perfectly legal. Tax _evasion_ is a crime.
Also, I think Susie Dent's accent is what's known as RP (Received Pronunciation), which is the neutral english accent that doesn't actually belong to a specific geographical area.
yes your right that was and still going today the orginal countdown with carol vorderman and richard whitley and suzie dent was on the orginal countdown years ago
Jimmy Carr used to live on Tracy Island with his "Thunderbirds" brothers, Alan Hansen and Andy Burnham. Ha ha.ha 😂😂😂. Look up Thunderbirds (a kids show) & Hansen & Burnham and you will see what I mean. Also, check out "Captain Scarlet" (another kids show).
Nice to see you both. I hope you are all well?
Joe Wilkinson's poem is something else.
Strange that
Peter Serafinowicz at 8'05" looks exactly like the guy doing the reaction. Are they related?
RIP sean lock
He is a massive burkley hunt 😂😂
Loved the solo video - however, would have been great just to see how red Ethan might have gone with some of the more lady themed parts of the sketch.
Would love to see ‘Americans react to The Mighty Boosh’!
I have made a note hopefully will get to it soon!
Suzi dent has been part of the original series countdown since it started ,she is a successful author and exceptionally smart lady ,she also is one of the leading script writers for the 8 out of 10 cats does countdown, check out when nick helm is on,brilliant,
I was impressed with Jimmy’s cameo in Toy Story4
The Berkeley Hunt thing is Cockney rhyming slang. Berk is used as a mild insult to describe someone as a fool or an idiot, but it’s origins as I said is in rhyming slang derived from Berkeley Hunt - Berk, Berkeley Hunt rhyming with a slang name for a vagina, c**t.
One of the guy with the glasses on from that show has died because of the cancer this month his name is SEAN LOCK. You should watch him his a comedian his was very nice kindest and funniest guy ever. I really miss him RIP 😢🙏❤
I am really glad that you are both getting to like more British comedy.
You should check out Would I Lie To You, Lee Mack is one of the quickest comedians out there
Rest in peace Sean lock
More Cats Does Countdown please! Also, check out QI, and Would I Lie to You.
Yeh Berkley hunt is rhyming slang for That "C" word.....the one everyone thinks Sean uses to describe himself, but it ends up being "cute"...shares 3 of those letters tho......👀😱🤷♂️😂😂😂😂
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I often have that same reaction when I see Rachel 😂
The guy from great British bake off his name is Noel
Part of why he isn't lied is that he was a tax evader. He just makes a joke out of it now, but he is funny, hence why so many still like him
Tax avoidance - not evasion. The second is a crime, the first is clever accountancy.
Spiderman? Is that YOU!
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of channel 4 someone had the deranged idea of mashing up the two shows. It was only for one episode but was so funny that channel 4 made it into a regular show.
Burkley hunt meant C*nt in rhyming slang like dog and bone is phone raspberry ripple is cripple , brown bread is Dead
This is 8nout of 10 cats does countdown p.s could you please reactvto sean locks best bits he was a panelist on 8 out of 10 cats he passed away this last week from cancer at the young age of 58 great reaction both of you 😁👍
I have just waiting for the block to be lifted, about 3 days.
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I'm not sure how much you know about this show..... Countdown and 8 out of 10 Cats are very different shows. Countdown has been going since 1982, Cats first aired in 2005. In 2012 Cats did a Countdown special (6 ep I think) and it was a huge success so they continued doing it.
Sticking with this topic, I highly recommend 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Joe Wilkinson best bits
Sean Lock RIP Fella........
Can’t believe it
@@TomTheGamer913 Yeah very sad.
@@TomTheGamer913 Same here in Australia. When I first heard it, I thought it was a joke until I was watching OOOTDC later the next day. Still shocked.
Jimmy is one of the few hosts who seem to encourage guests to roast him back. His accountant suggested the tax avoidance scheme, when the Revenue said it was illegal he repaid the money and apologised. The audience for the show doubled the day after the apology