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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The 30 December 2011 episode was an all-star Radio 4 {{Panto}}, with Sandi and Andy rescuing the Greenwich Pips from Radio 4 Island and returning them to Broadcasting House, thereby foiling the evil plot of [[spoiler: Nigel Pargetter from ''TheArchers'']].
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The 30 December 2011 episode was an all-star Radio 4 {{Panto}}, with Sandi and Andy rescuing the Greenwich Pips from Radio 4 Island and returning them to Broadcasting House, thereby foiling the evil plot of [[spoiler: Nigel Pargetter from ''TheArchers'']].''Radio/TheArchers'']].
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* {{Crossover}}: A special show in early 2013, "The News Now Quiz Show", pitted Sandi and Jeremy against Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt from ''TheNowShow'' (with Rory Bremner as host).
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* {{Crossover}}: A special show in early 2013, "The News Now Quiz Show", pitted Sandi and Jeremy against Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt from ''TheNowShow'' ''Radio/TheNowShow'' (with Rory Bremner as host).
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-->'''Sandi Toksvig:''' So you've got public sector, private sector...\\
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* BritishAccents: Being a British comedy show, many. Panelists occasionally attempt accents other than their own (most often Scottish, for some reason), which on one occasion led to Jeremy dubbing Andy Hamilton "[[ManOfAThousandVoices The man of ... a voice]]".
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* BerserkButton: Susan Calman reacted with near-fury to Hugo Rifkind's declaration that he found ''Series/TheGreatBritishBakeOff'' boring.
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->''"We present ''The News Quiz'', with your host Sandi Toksvig."''
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->''"We present ''The News Quiz'', with your host Sandi Toksvig.Miles Jupp."''
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* MadLibsCatchphrase: Miles Jupp has developed two:
** Thanking the people who sent in cuttings "for that piece of nonsense/naughtiness/filth".
** Beginning his rundown of the answer "[appropriate but unusual adverb]ly, this is the story..."
** Thanking the people who sent in cuttings "for that piece of nonsense/naughtiness/filth".
** Beginning his rundown of the answer "[appropriate but unusual adverb]ly, this is the story..."
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig became the host in September 2006 but stepped down in June 2015 to found the Womens' Equality Party, with her successor yet to be named. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig became the host in September 2006 but stepped down in June 2015 to found the Womens' Equality Party, with her successor yet to be named.named as Miles Jupp. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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** Sandi Toksvig and Andy Hamilton's short height. Sandi has been known to deduct points if someone makes a joke about her height (not that the points mean anything), but will cheerfully make her own jokes about Andy Hamilton's.
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** Sandi Toksvig and Toksvig, Andy Hamilton's Hamilton, and Susan Calman's short height. Sandi has been known to deduct points if someone makes a joke about her height (not that the points mean anything), but will cheerfully make her own jokes about Andy Hamilton's.
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* ShoutOut: The Chancellor of the Exchequer had described the economy as having four sectors:
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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** The Chancellor of the Exchequer had described the economy as having four sectors:
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** In one episode, while discussing the furniture Lazy Susan, Sandi makes a quip about how the show normally has a lazy Susan[[note]]Calman[[/note]], but she was unavailable for recording that day.
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig became the host in September 2006 but stepped down in June 2015 to found the Womens' Equality Party, with her successor yet to be named. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig, the current host, has occupied the seat since September 2006. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig, Toksvig became the current host, has occupied the seat since host September 2006.2006 but stepped down in June 2015 to found the Womens' Equality Party, with her successor yet to be named. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] {{BBC}} [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4 4]] PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig, the current host, has occupied the seat since September 2006. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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** Sandi Toksvig and Andy Hamilton's short height.
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** Sandi Toksvig and Andy Hamilton's short height. Sandi has been known to deduct points if someone makes a joke about her height (not that the points mean anything), but will cheerfully make her own jokes about Andy Hamilton's.
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* ShoutOut: The Chancellor of the Exchequer had described the economy as having four sectors:
-->'''Sandi Toksvig:''' So you've got public sector, private sector...\\
'''Hugo Rifkind:''' Third sector...\\
'''Sandi:''' And [[Series/TheCrystalMaze the Aztec Zone]]?
-->'''Sandi Toksvig:''' So you've got public sector, private sector...\\
'''Hugo Rifkind:''' Third sector...\\
'''Sandi:''' And [[Series/TheCrystalMaze the Aztec Zone]]?
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* BritishAccents: Being a British comedy show, many.
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* BritishAccents: Being a British comedy show, many. Panelists occasionally attempt accents other than their own (most often Scottish, for some reason), which on one occasion led to Jeremy dubbing Andy Hamilton "[[ManOfAThousandVoices The man of ... a voice]]".
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* HeyItsThatVoice: News clippings are read by BBC radio continuity and news announcers, who are also called in to rescue Sandi when she is required to read a complicated or foreign-language word. Lampshaded when Charlotte Green (a Radio 4 continuity announcer and news reader known for her attractive voice) is asked to read the dirtiest DoubleEntendre cuttings.
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**Which was then featured on the show itself
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* EskimosArentReal: One of Jeremy Hardy's surreal rants:
-->'''Jeremy''': America isn't a real place. Think of all the Americans you've heard of: John Wayne, Demi Moore; they're all actors!
-->'''Jeremy''': America isn't a real place. Think of all the Americans you've heard of: John Wayne, Demi Moore; they're all actors!
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Usually broadcast every Friday in the late afternoon, [[hottip:*:alternating every 6-8 weeks with Radio/TheNowShow]] and has a [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9yq set of pages on the BBC website]].
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Usually broadcast every Friday in the late afternoon, [[hottip:*:alternating [[note]]alternating every 6-8 weeks with Radio/TheNowShow]] Radio/TheNowShow[[/note]] and has a [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9yq set of pages on the BBC website]].
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* {{Crossover}}: A special show in early 2013, "The News Now Quiz Show", pitted Sandi and Jeremy against Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt from ''TheNowShow'' (with Rory Bremner as host).
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* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: One classic clipping involved a parrot who captured and related the details of its owner's extramarital affair.
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Usually broadcast every Friday in the late afternoon, and has a [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9yq set of pages on the BBC website]].
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Usually broadcast every Friday in the late afternoon, [[hottip:*:alternating every 6-8 weeks with Radio/TheNowShow]] and has a [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r9yq set of pages on the BBC website]].
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\"Elucidate\" means \"clarify or explain\"; I think the word sought here is \"elicit\", meaning \"evoke by action or question\". Also alphabetising.
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* BritishAccents: Being a British comedy shows, show, many.
* TheEeyore: Jeremy Hardy comes off this way, as he often talks about how the world is naturally depressing and his tone of voice almost never changes from a disappointed drone. When Sandi once asked the panel if they were a "glass half-empty or half-full", Jeremy replied "I'm an empty beaker with a turd in it".
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* RunningGag: Sandi Toksvig and Andy Hamilton's short height.
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* StandardSnippet: Any and all mentions of Sarah Palin elucidate a single ''Hallelujah'' chorus, as she is such a gift to the show.
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* StandardSnippet: Some public figures are seen as such a gift to the show that they are given their own {{leitmotif}}s. Any and all mentions of Sarah Palin elucidate elicit a single ''Hallelujah'' chorus, as she is such a gift to while the show.mention of Michael Gove's name is accompanied by an excerpt from Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Reed Flutes".
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* TheEeyore: Jeremy Hardy comes off this way, as he often talks about how the world is naturally depressing and his tone of voice almost never changes from a dissappointed drone. When Sandi once asked the panel if they were a "glass half-empty or half-full", Jeremy replied "I'm an empty beaker with a turd in it".
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* BlatantLies: A documentary about the show had Linda Smith claiming that she had been a maid cleaning the studio, who was made a panellist as part of a PygmalionPlot by Alan Coren -- and that there had been [[TheOtherDarrin several Alan Corens since the start of the show]].
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* AccidentalInnuendo: A common reason for the choice of newspaper clippings.
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* LohengrinAndMendelssohn: Played when Susan Calman was coaxed into the revelation that she was getting married on the weekend following the show.
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: One was made with Sandi's Pronunciation of [[http://tumblr.gothick.org.uk/post/535197189/a-dance-remix-of-sandi-toksvig-pronouncing-the "Eyjafjallajökull"]]
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* StupidStatementDanceMix: One was made with Sandi's Pronunciation of [[http://tumblr.gothick.org.uk/post/535197189/a-dance-remix-of-sandi-toksvig-pronouncing-the "Eyjafjallajökull"]]"Eyjafjallajökull"]].
* TheEeyore: Jeremy Hardy comes off this way, as he often talks about how the world is naturally depressing and his tone of voice almost never changes from a dissappointed drone. When Sandi once asked the panel if they were a "glass half-empty or half-full", Jeremy replied "I'm an empty beaker with a turd in it".
* TheEeyore: Jeremy Hardy comes off this way, as he often talks about how the world is naturally depressing and his tone of voice almost never changes from a dissappointed drone. When Sandi once asked the panel if they were a "glass half-empty or half-full", Jeremy replied "I'm an empty beaker with a turd in it".
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Susan Calman is not a little outlandish. From one episode, while discussing thoughts...
-->'''Susan:''' I was genuinely thinking of Jeremy--this is absolutely true--and wondered what soup would go well with you.
-->'''Sandi:''' ''Soup?''
-->'''Susan:''' Well, I mean...
-->'''Sandi:''' Did you say ''soup''?
-->'''Susan:''' What I mean is, if Jeremy was in a large bowl...I was thinking this! And I was going to put soup in the bowl, to eat it...
-->'''Sandi:''' Mm-hmm.
-->'''Susan:''' What soup would fit him best?
-->'''Jeremy:''' At my age, I really hope it's not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock-a-leekie_soup cock-a-leekie]].
-->'''Susan:''' I was thinking Heinz Tomato...but the point is, people listen to me on ''The News Quiz'' and they think "oh, her head must be filled with brilliant political analysis", and I'm going "would croutons suit him...?"
-->'''Susan:''' I was genuinely thinking of Jeremy--this is absolutely true--and wondered what soup would go well with you.
-->'''Sandi:''' ''Soup?''
-->'''Susan:''' Well, I mean...
-->'''Sandi:''' Did you say ''soup''?
-->'''Susan:''' What I mean is, if Jeremy was in a large bowl...I was thinking this! And I was going to put soup in the bowl, to eat it...
-->'''Sandi:''' Mm-hmm.
-->'''Susan:''' What soup would fit him best?
-->'''Jeremy:''' At my age, I really hope it's not [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock-a-leekie_soup cock-a-leekie]].
-->'''Susan:''' I was thinking Heinz Tomato...but the point is, people listen to me on ''The News Quiz'' and they think "oh, her head must be filled with brilliant political analysis", and I'm going "would croutons suit him...?"
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[[LongRunner Long-running]] {{BBC}} Radio 4 PanelGame, ''The News Quiz'' is comedy programme in which "contestants" make fun of news stories over the last week. The show began broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as host, it was lated later hosted by Barry Took and Simon Hoggart; Sandi Toksvig, the current host, has occupied the seat since September 2006. It is known for having actual BBC newsreaders who read out funny news stories in the show.
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