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* AcceptableTargets: When Creator/RonnieCorbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].

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When Creator/RonnieCorbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].himself]].
** Cockney accents, especially if the speakers draw out their vowels, are ripe for mocking especially by Lee.
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* GrowingTheBeard: The show became much livelier when Rob Brydon took over as host and took a more active role in the game and egging the players on, as opposed to how Angus Deayton focused mainly on keeping things moving. David Mitchell and Lee Mack's rapport also began settling in at this time and the two started pressing each other's buttons more often to comedic effect.
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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; four of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; four of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of well over 90 100 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)
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** Sharron Osbourne, who appeared in the 2019 Christmas episode, quickly became this due to her story [[note]] involving her firing an employee for "showing no sense of humour" about a fire she accidentally started [[/note]] portraying her in a bad light, and her apparent obliviousness to this fact.

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** Sharron Sharon Osbourne, who appeared in the 2019 Christmas episode, quickly became this due to her story [[note]] involving her firing an employee for "showing no sense of humour" about a fire she accidentally started [[/note]] portraying her in a bad light, and her apparent obliviousness to this fact.
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** Sharron Osbourne, who appeared in the 2019 Christmas episode, quickly became this due to her story [[note]] involving her firing an employee for "showing no sense of humour" about a fire she accidentally started [[/note]] portraying her in a bad light, and her apparent obliviousness to this fact.
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** In episode 1 of Season 5, David did a story about having once used his BAFTA to kill a rat (needling Rob about the fact that he had two). As of 2019, Lee can finally do something about the rat infestation in his house as well.
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*** To a lesser extent, Henning Wehn, for his equally bizarre stories and deadpan sense of humour.
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** Rob Brydon, during Lee's claim that Prince Harry invited him, but not David or Rob, to the Royal Wedding after being a fan of WILTY. Rob looked visibly uncomfortable throughout the claim, and utterly *crushed* after Lee revealed it to be true. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Lee then revealed it was a lie all along]]

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** Rob Brydon, during Lee's claim that Prince Harry invited him, but not David or Rob, to the Royal Wedding after being a fan of WILTY. Rob looked visibly uncomfortable throughout the claim, and utterly *crushed* ''crushed'' after Lee revealed it to be true. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Lee then revealed it was a lie all along]]
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** Rob Brydon, during Lee's claim that Prince Harry invited him, but not David or Rob, to the Royal Wedding after being a fan of WILTY. Rob looked visibly uncomfortable throughout the claim, and utterly *crushed* after Lee revealed it to be true. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Lee then revealed it was a lie all along]]
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In fairness, some of them actually are lies.


** Bob Mortimer has been so popular for his utterly ridiculous stories that turn out to be true (including burning his house down and performing his own dentistry) that he's appeared at least once a Season since Season 6 (his debut).

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** Bob Mortimer has been so popular for his utterly ridiculous stories that often turn out to be true (including burning his house down and performing his own dentistry) that he's appeared at least once a Season since Season 6 (his debut).
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* AwardSnub: Although people were pleased that the show was finally recognised at the 2019 [=BAFTAs=] when Lee won the award for Entertainment Performance (especially since the show had lost out on the Comedy Entertainment Programme award ''five'' times, including earlier that same evening), there was some upset that Lee and David were nominated separately (with Rob being overlooked together) when Ant and Dec were nominated together.

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* AwardSnub: Although people were pleased that the show was finally recognised at the 2019 [=BAFTAs=] when Lee won the award for Entertainment Performance (especially since the show had lost out on the Comedy Entertainment Programme award ''five'' times, including earlier that same evening), there was some upset that Lee and David were nominated separately (with Rob being overlooked together) altogether) when Ant and Dec were nominated together.
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* AwardSnub: Although people were pleased that the show was finally recognised at the 2019 [=BAFTAs=] when Lee won the award for Entertainment Performance (especially since the show had lost out on the Comedy Entertainment Programme award ''five'' times, including earlier that same evening), there was some upset that Lee and David were nominated separately (with Rob being overlooked together) when Ant and Dec were nominated together.
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** In his appearance, Rhys Thomas seems to be dressed as [[Series/DoctorWho the Fifth Doctor]] for some reason.

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** In his appearance, Rhys Thomas seems to be dressed as [[Series/DoctorWho the Fifth Doctor]] for some reason.[[note]]It was a costume made for his stag party which he decided to wear to the recording[[/note]]
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-->'''David''': To be honest, Lee, I don't know why you go into so many situations with me expecting arousal.

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-->'''David''': To be honest, Lee, I don't know why you go come into so many situations encounters with me expecting arousal.
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** During Sanjeev Bhaskar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE story]] about crashing into Michael Winner's car and telling him to "Calm down", David immediately questions if this was before Winner's advertisements for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esure esure]], and his catchphrase, "Calm down, dear, it's just a commercial." It was, [[spoiler:and it's true.]]

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** During Sanjeev Bhaskar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE story]] about crashing into Michael Winner's Creator/MichaelWinner's car and telling him to "Calm down", David immediately questions if this was before Winner's advertisements for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esure esure]], and his catchphrase, "Calm down, dear, it's just a commercial." It was, [[spoiler:and it's true.]]



--> '''David Mitchell''': If there's a nuclear war, ''I don't want to live''...I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we're basically - we're back to the bronze age...how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It's gonna be at least 2000 years!
--> '''Frankie Boyle''': I'd love to see you in like a ''Film/MadMax'' type of society, as everyone's holding off a biker gang, and you're going "I can think of an amusing reason why one of these four might be the odd one out".

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--> '''David Mitchell''': '''Creator/DavidMitchell''': If there's a nuclear war, ''I don't want to live''...I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we're basically - we're back to the bronze age...how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It's gonna be at least 2000 years!
--> '''Frankie Boyle''': '''Creator/FrankieBoyle''': I'd love to see you in like a ''Film/MadMax'' type of society, as everyone's holding off a biker gang, and you're going "I can think of an amusing reason why one of these four might be the odd one out".



** Rob Brydon introduced Rhod Gilbert as the man who provided voiceovers for Wales tourism adverts, then suggested that they should have got someone "a little more famous, perhaps with his own hit panel show" to do it instead. A few weeks after the episode went out, the BBC announced they'd commissioned a [=BBC1=] panel show with Gilbert as host.
** The show was censured for making a joke that they felt was inappropriate about Creator/JimmySavile who, at the time, was a national treasure. With the Savile paedophilia sex scandal of Sept 2012, it appears that making rude jokes about him is completely fair game.

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** Rob Brydon Creator/RobBrydon introduced Rhod Gilbert as the man who provided voiceovers for Wales tourism adverts, then suggested that they should have got someone "a little more famous, perhaps with his own hit panel show" to do it instead. A few weeks after the episode went out, the BBC announced they'd commissioned a [=BBC1=] panel show with Gilbert as host.
** The show was censured censored for making a joke that they felt was inappropriate about Creator/JimmySavile who, at the time, was a national treasure. With the Savile paedophilia sex scandal of Sept 2012, it appears that making rude jokes about him is completely fair game.
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** Bob Mortimer has been so popular for his utterly ridiculous stories that turn out to be true (including burning his house down and performing his own dentistry) that he's appeared at least once a Season since Season 6 (his debut).
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** Similarly, Rob Brydon imagining David and Creator/KeeleyHawes going on a date after series 4 episode 1 of ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''.

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** Similarly, Rob Brydon Creator/RobBrydon imagining David and Creator/KeeleyHawes going on a date after series 4 episode 1 of ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''.
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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three four of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)
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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)
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* AcceptableTargets: When Ronnie Corbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].

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* AcceptableTargets: When Ronnie Corbett Creator/RonnieCorbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].
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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: When Ronnie Corbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].

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* AcceptableEthnicTargets: AcceptableTargets: When Ronnie Corbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].
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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of over 80 90 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.
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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and six to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and six seven to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE This.]]

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** During Sanjeev Bhaskar's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE This.story]] about crashing into Michael Winner's car and telling him to "Calm down", David immediately questions if this was before Winner's advertisements for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esure esure]], and his catchphrase, "Calm down, dear, it's just a commercial." It was, [[spoiler:and it's true.]]
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Lee Mack has had six "This Is My..." guests in the episodes 1x06, 3x04, 6x03, 6x05, 7x03 and 9x05.


** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and four to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.

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** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and four six to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: This would only be apparent to anyone who had been in the audience, but for many series, two of the stories in the first round would always be true, and the other two would always be lies. One or two later series have changed this. Similarily, if David and Lee both had stories in the Quick-Fire Lies round, one would always be true and one would always be a lie (or, if only one of them had a story, it would be a lie).
** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; three of them have belonged to David and four to Lee, out of over 80 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: The show can, unlike other panel shows, book just about anyone the producers like, and sometimes they manage to get some very unexpected people on. These can range from big names like Keeley Hawes, Ray Winstone and Tom Courtenay, to people you'd never expect to show up because they rarely or never appear "as themselves" (such as actors Craig Parkinson or Mark Bonnar), to names you simply wouldn't associate with light entertainment (such as ''Series/TheApprentice'' aide Nick Hewer, or journalist and member of the House of Lords Joan Bakewell).
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** Terry Christian, who acted unbearably smug throughout his entire appearance despite being completely out of his comedy depth. Didn't help that he purposefully mislead the opposing team during the "This Is My" round.
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-->''[In Season 8, when Lee Mack demonstrates his darts-themed tea preparing]''\\

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