YMMV / The News Quiz

• Accidental Innuendo: A common reason for the choice of newspaper clippings.
• Funny Moments:
  • A panellist jokes about that Susan and Jeremy moving in together would be an interesting sitcom. "She, a crazy Scottish woman! He, her disgruntled political butler!" Sandi ad-libs "It's the Dyke Van Dick show!" and gives two points to herself for that. (Because Susan is a lesbian and Jeremy has a penis.)
  • When the panellists are reading out the clippings they've brought with them at the end of a 2004 episode, first-time guest Jack Dee announces he's chosen a cutting from "obviously a first-time listener". It's a funny picture.
  • From the first show of 2018, Miles Jupp adding to the discussion on rail-fares by noting trains in Europe remain unafflicted, but...
  Jupp: All trains there only go to other places in Europe, and are therefore worthless.
  • Neil Delamere's response to being asked by Kiri Pritchard-McClaine going onto a tangent about how his older relatives saw holy water as the panacea for everything, including falling down a well.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In an episode broadcast in early 2020, the panellists talk about this new virus coming out of China which has everyone concerned, joking that they're not. It became a hell of a lot less funny damn quick.
• Moment of Awesome:
  Jeremy Hardy: I think we mistake sadness for depression, because life is basically sad, and its the failure to recognize that that leads to this sort of resentment and bewilderment [...] It is, it is, and [..] you know, people just suddenly think that the world owes it to them to be happy, and they're not happy and then they think well, why aren't I happy, and makes 'em angry and then they're depressed about the fact that they're angry and they're bitter about the fact that they're depressed, and this downward cycle; why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up, it's not forever.
  • Sandi confronting a group of misbehaving youths on a bus with "That will do!". They sat down and behaved for the rest of the journey.

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