Would I lie to you? series 8

Hosted as usual by Rob Brydon, with team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack. Good. 

Things that we saw this series: when Micky Flanagan danced for some ladies in a restaurant doing a bit of a strip, with Fiona Bruce saying “there was a moment…”, when the mystery guest Laura was the first woman David ever bought flower for as an apology (and Micky’s lie was that she had asked him to meet Steve Jones, and he walked up to her and said “this woman does not care for me” and yet later he thought that Micky was telling the truth..), Bruno Tonioli causing a fire while making pasta for Bananarama (and David said “after a day trying to choreograph Bananarama you knew they couldn’t follow any instructions!” :lol: because instead of watching the onions she had washed her hair..), when David said that as a child he was scared of the sun because people had told him “if you look at the sun you’ll go blind” :-p, when Mel Giedroyc licked David Bowie’s cake when she worked in the kitchen of a cappuccino bar because she wasn’t pretty enough to be a waitress, when Bob Mortimer was ordered to leave town because he and his friends were frightening the locals (while on a trip to Scotland to see the gulf stream, wearing grotesque masks against the cold), Lee’s system to remember which teletubbies was which (Poe is red, Dipsy is green, Lala is yellow, Tinky Winky is purple… but I already forgot his system, that wouldn’t work for me: I’ll remember them now, maybe, thinking: Leya’s tiny wee puppy dog doesn’t purr. Who knows if I’ll remember that, I’d rather like if anyone would ask me their colours some day :-p) and David guessing wrongly that it was a lie and laughing, rather hysterically, saying “I am so merry” :lol: 

When Ed Byrne found a pie down his trousers, when Miles Jupp said into the camera to his wife “ignore the Irish man”, when 38-year-old Rhod Gilbert spent a holiday in a French man’s garage with his wife for two weeks, when Carol Vorderman had a safari park gift shop and shared a bed with a lion cub, and the mystery guest Gareth who would distract Gareth Malone by singing the same tune but in a different language (meaning in English, because it was in German), and Greg Davies secret language to talk to his sister, and when Jo Brand was picked up by four different drivers when she got home for Christmas day hitchhiking.

Adil Ray’s story about going to Bradford to prove that he was in Bradford was a lot of fun :lol: too bad I didn’t see the whole “unseen bits” episode, only this bit. 

Other things to remember:

Adam Buxton’s lie about arguing with his wife over skype, when David said “I think it wouldn’t work for us because I think we find computers more annoying than each other” :lol:

When Tonioli shouted at David “get to the point” at which he replied “this is a pointless excercise!” :lol: still, it’s more funny when they try for real.

Lee’s lie about his set of keys made everyone laugh because it was so ridiculous he didn’t even try for real (it went on forever..)

The pretty girl in the audience waving a banana; Lee throwing teacups into a cup, Paul Foot being frightened by beards (and he was sitting next to David), the mystery guest John who was in the Beatles before they became famous but left to join Ricky Tomlinson’s band (this Ricky has a funny, loud laugh), the mystery guest Marie who hired a stripper for Aisling Bea’s birthday party, and the time David left a goldfish at a petrol station.

Also, Amanda Abbington stepping on her pet rabbit…

Claudia Winkleman,  Kian Egan, Adil Ray, Heston Blumenthal, Emilia Fox, Hal Cruttenden, Kelly Hoppen, Phill Jupitus, Richard Osman, Ray Mears, Roisin Conaty, Rachel Riley, Ray Winstone, Adrian Chiles, June Brown, Seann Walsh were also guests this series.