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[[File:wilty5img_1046.png|frame|David Mitchell, Rob Brydon and Lee Mack]]
{{quote|''A recent survey revealed that one of the most common lies is "How nice to see you", as in the sentence "How nice to see you, [[Butt Monkey|
''Would I Lie to You?'' (2007-) is a British [[Panel Game|Panel Show]]
The host for the first two series was Angus Deayton, in perhaps his biggest hosting job since being sacked from ''[[Have I Got News for You]]''; from Series 3 he was replaced by Rob Brydon of ''[[Gavin and
== Rounds ==
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'''The former rounds are/were:'''
* '''Ring of Truth''': The host reads out celebrity facts (such as "Mick Jagger has been asked by a company if they can sell his ashes in collectible egg timers when he dies"). The teams can then question the host before again deciding on "Truth" or "Lie". Each question is typically introduced by a piece of amusing archive footage with a tenuous -- sometimes ''very'' tenuous -- connection (the example above was introduced by a news report of a grandmother whose ashes were blasted into the air by a firework). This round was generally dropped from the final edit in series 4; as of series 5, it is [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome|no longer being played.]]
* '''Telly Tales''': Clips from a show such as ''Tomorrow's World'', ''[[
There is now a [[Would I Lie to You?/Recap|Recap]] page covering the truths and lies told throughout the series.
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== A-M ==
* [[Accidental
{{quote|'''Rob:''' Well, that is the age at which you'd start tossing, and... No, no!}}
* [[Actor
* [[
* [[The Alleged
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing
* [[Amusing
* [[Angrish]]: Rile a panelist beyond natural caution and you'll hear some of this.
* [[The
* [[Annoying Laugh]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCH6ZqBxbj8 David], whenever Lee says something ''truly'' ridiculous.
* [[Appeal to
{{quote|'''David Mitchell''': What I'm worried we're in danger of doing here is, having heard something that is absurd and obviously not true, and saying that therefore it must be true...}}
* [[Aside
* [[Ask a Stupid
{{quote|[''Lee has claimed he and the Mystery Guest had been camping and had discovered their tent was stolen in the night'']
'''Rhod Gilbert''': Did this tent not have a built-in ground sheet?
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{{quote|'''Miranda Hart''': [''having been asked if her childhood friend made of toast had been buttered''] No, David, that would be stupid.}}
* [[Bad
{{quote|'''Russell Howard''': Well it's clearly a fucking lie, isn't it?
'''David Mitchell''': Do I get extra points for capitulation? }}
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'''Lee''': Steve was... [''He looks at Steve, who is clearly much younger than him''] he was... he was... [''long hesitation''] He wasn't born... }}
** David O'Doherty, claiming that he was seeing a hypnotist to cure his addiction to hypnosis, clearly knew the story sounded as ridiculous to Lee's team as it did to him, and decided to have fun with it by telling the most outrageously obvious lies he could imagine when pressed for details, to the point that even he could no longer keep a straight face when he claimed his hypnotist was named "Dr. Spanks".
* [[Bait and Switch
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon''' (''after the panelists have debated Jimmy Carr's story about meeting Prince Phillip at Wimbledon''): What a moment. Perhaps the funniest man in Britain, known for his off-color material, finally getting to meet Jimmy Carr.}}
* [[Be as Unhelpful as
{{quote|[''Lee is claiming in the This Is My round that the guest is his children's nanny and the first time they met he ran over her foot'']
'''Dave Gorman''': That was the first time you met her.
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'''David''': Where were you?
'''Lee''': Under a coconut tree, where d'you think? }}
* [[Berserk
{{quote|[''Lee is claiming that he commemorates the death of his goldfish by annually pouring a shot of brandy into his pond'']
'''Bernard Cribbins''': Was the goldfish in the pond when it died?
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'''Lee''': CORRECT!
'''David''': --'''''Why do you commemorate its death by pouring brandy into an alternative goldfish habitat?''''' }}
* [[Beyond the
{{quote|[''In the This Is My round later on, Bridges is trying to persuade David's team that another unlikely-sounding story is true'']
'''Stephen Mangan''': Kevin's story sounds implausible, but we've been down this road before. Frankly, nothing would surprise me. If he said he'd unscrewed his leg and it then walked to China on its own, I'd believe him. }}
* [[Biggus
* [[Big Red
* [[Bilingual
* [[Black
* [[Blatant
** As mentioned under Butt Monkey and Running Gag below, a lot of the more preposterous lies tend to be given to Lee. The date of the week one was probably the worst, to the point that almost straight after he said it, Jack Whitehall exclaimed "bollocks!"
* [[The Board
* [[Boring but Practical]]: David Mitchell claimed that the screensaver on his phone was a picture of his "bright beige" living room carpet. He justified it on the grounds that he had a common make and model of phone and he wanted to be able to recognize his own.
* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Ronnie Corbett claimed that he had discovered the 'This Is My' guest in this situation on the golf course next to his home.
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'''Lee Mack''': This is Chris and Gill; they once helped me dispose of a dead body after I killed a man in a car park. ''(audience laughter)'' Not really, just trying to add a bit of spice to proceedings. }}
** "Here I am in my castle with ten different sorts of vaguely posh animal, all fighting each other, then I kill a servant and have sex with a wall!"
* [[Brief Accent
** Lee Mack has (poor) imitations of Rob and David which he will use to wind them up.
** Scottish Kevin Bridges broke out an eerily convincing generic English accent when Terry Wogan complained that he couldn't understand him.
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: When Bernard Cribbins claimed to have sold his wife's car to pay his gambling debts, Lee's team got quite distressed and insisted it just couldn't be true.
{{quote|'''Lee''': We need this to be a lie, Bernard. {{spoiler|''(It was.)''}}}}
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: The inevitable result of panelists trying to remember (or make up) technical details on the spot, as when Michael McIntyre claimed his car could only turn left because something had happened to "the metal of the car." Naturally Lee Mack pounced on this and proceeded to [[Lampshade Hanging|
{{quote|'''Lee''': Hang on, Michael, Michael. Don't get so technical with me. 'The metal of the car,' yeah? Could you be more specific: what bit of the metal of the car?
'''Michael''': The metal bit.
'''Lee''': (''flat stare'')
'''Michael''': Um.. the metal bit over the wheel was bent into the wheel so you could no longer turn the wheel to the right. }}
* [[Butt
{{quote|(''after David's "possession" turn -- a rejection letter from McDonald's -- has been shown to be a lie'')
'''Rob''': It's a lie. Because David has never even ''been'' to McDonald's, although he was--
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'''John Bishop''': You are ''never'' going to get away from that now! Everyone who sees this show will look at you and see that!
'''David''': Basically, my entire image has been destroyed by this show. I was like a cool guy who was into music and modern art before this show, before all the stuff about dressing as an 18th-century nobleman and having a little bell came out. The travel dressing gown's just the tip of the iceberg! }}
* [[Camp
** And Louie Spence in series 5.
* [[Captain
{{quote|'''Trisha Goddard''' (''reading card''): "I'm currently beating Jeremy Kyle 5-3 at Internet [[
'''Lee''': How did this come about?
'''Trisha''': ...On the Internet. }}
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Rob will take any opportunity he can to start doing one of his impressions.
* [[Catch
** Harry Enfield had to claim that he once threw a man in a lake for following him shouting "Only me!"
** Panellists, mostly Lee Mack, will often declare "I really want this to be true!" when faced with a story [[Department of Redundancy Department|they want to be
* [[Character
* [[Chuck Cunningham
* [[Clip Show]]: Entitled ''The Best of "Would I Lie to You?"'', showing some highlights and unseen material, once a series since Series 2. The series 4 one dispensed with the former entirely, and all of the footage was new.
* [[
** Tara Palmer-Tomkinson also came across like this.
** David Mitchell when it's revealed that he didn't have a doorknob on his bedroom door for ''two years''.
** Vic Reeves seems to be one in real life. Several of his stories thought to be blatant lies have turned out to be true.
* [[Color-Coded for Your
* [[Constantly
* [[Comedic
* [[The Comically
** [[The Apprentice (TV series)|Nick
* [[Companion
** When making his decision as to whether it was true or a lie, Lee started asking his water bottle, which he named "Boris".
*** "Boris '''[[Insistent Terminology|
** Also, Miranda Hart's childhood friend made of toast.
** Barry Cryer considers the H14 bus his friend, and says "Hello, darling!" whenever he sees it.
* [[Consummate
* [[Conveyor Belt O'
* [[Conviction by
{{quote|''(Rhys Thomas' claim is that his bed used to belong to John Nettles)''
'''Rhys:''' I think this one dated from about 1987, when Bergerac was in Germany...
'''David Mitchell:''' So this was a prop bed? It wasn't John Nettles' bed, it's Bergerac's bed? There is a distinction... }}
* [[Conviction by Counterfactual
* [[Couch
* [[Creator
* [[The Cuckoolander Was
** Subverted minutes later in the same episode, when David's team started to consider that another story (see Defictionalization, below) is "so weird it might be true", but he chose to overrule them and say it's a lie, which it is.
** Lee's claim that he can tell the circumference of somebody's head was clearly utterly implausible throughout, but at the end they get a tape measure and discover that completely by chance, he ''had'' correctly guessed the circumference of Katherine Parkinson's head.
* [[A Date with Rosie
{{quote|'''Clive Anderson''' [''realising that Lee is clutching the desk as he waits to see if he has guessed correctly on a fact''] You're clutching the desk, man! It's only a panel game!
'''Lee''': That's not the desk! }}
* [[Daydream
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon''': I would remind you that Bernard has travelled in the TARDIS, so if anyone has knowledge of odd things going on... I mean, he's literally travelled in time and relative dimensions in space.
'''David Mitchell''': And by "literally", you mean "fictionally".
'''Rob''': You have to spoil it, don't you? You'll be telling me next the Wombles weren't real! }}
** Hilarious in Hindsight when Katherine Parkinson's true fact in series 5 was that she had once put down a womble as an example of a mammal on a GCSE biology paper.
* [[Deadpan
{{quote|'''Angus''' ''(closing the show after David's team have won)'': Night-long celebrations for David's team, the joy of having taken part for Lee's team...}}
* [[Decided by One
{{quote|'''Graeme Garden:''' I think it's a lie.
'''Lee:''' Based on what?
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{{quote|'''Lee Mack:''' I think it might be true.
'''Charlie Brooker:''' What! You can say that, ''if you want to lose the game''. }}
* [[
* [[Deleted
* [[Department of Redundancy
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: A somewhat unusual example. One of Claudia Winkleman's true stories in Series 1 was that she wrote to ''Jim'll Fix It'' asking to meet ABBA, and was offered a chance to see how the blue bits were put in cheese instead. The producer of ''Jim'll Fix It'' subsequently wrote into the Radio Times claiming that no applicant was ever offered an unrelated alternative. As the producers of ''WILTY?'' never responded, it remains unclear who exactly failed to do the research here.
** Subverted when one of the most infamous facts from Series 1, namely that Dom Joly was at school with [[Osama Bin
* [[Didn't Think This Through]]: Panellists can make up a detail of a false story on the spot that seems clever at the time, but falls apart under further investigation.
{{quote|[''Lee is claiming that when he was 18, he bet £500 that he would live to the age of 100'']
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'''Lee:''' I inherited it from my grandad, who reached the age of 100. I thought it would be an appropriate thing to do.
'''David Mitchell:''' Your grandad was 100 before you were 18? }}
* [[Digging Yourself
{{quote|'''Jamelia''': It could be true because of... his face, but-- (''Jimmy Carr looks wounded'') ...no, no I don't think you're ugly, I just think... (''Jimmy looks even more hurt'') No! I don't. No...sorry...I just think you have a very...unique face, no one will ever forget your...
'''Jimmy''': How am I getting bullied by Jamelia? How did that happen?! }}
** If you look at Terry Christian in the wide shot, you can see him mime digging.
* [[Disproportionate
* [[Do Not Try This At
* [[Don't Explain the
{{quote|[''Patrick Kielty's story about punching Muhammad Ali by accident has been proven true'']
'''Rob''': Explain the bit where Muhammad Ali flies in and he asks -- I mean, with the greatest respect in the world --
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'''Rob''': If he said (''Muhammad Ali impression'') I'd love to see that Bono guy, get Bono down, get him down now -- (''to the audience'') [[Captain Obvious|I'm doing Muhammad Ali--]] }}
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: After Charlie Brooker claims he couldn't go to collect his girlfriend from the station because he was too scared of a spider in the hallway provokes Nigel Havers to state that he doesn't want it to be true because it would reflect so poorly on Charlie, Charlie's response is this. {{spoiler|Understandable, since it's true.}}
* [[Double
** The episode with Julian Clary naturally had several of these.
* [[Double Standard]]: When Miranda Hart caught a cricket ball (accidentally) thrown at her face, to audience applause, Rufus Hound mocked them for applauding a girl catching a ball.
* [[Dramatic Curtain
* [[Dramatic
** Inevitably lampshaded:
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon''': Barry Cryer - truth or lie?
'''Barry''': Dramatic pause! Music is heard in the background - it was - [''hits button''] - a lie! }}
* [[Dude, Not
{{quote|'''Lee Mack''': What's in your list? ''[Scottish
'''Frankie Boyle''': Yeah, six cans of Bitter for a ''teetotal alcoholic''!
'''Lee Mack''': ''[bursting into
* [[Early Installment
** What's much weirder, though, is seeing the Angus Deayton era episode where Rob Brydon was a guest on David's team.
* [[
** David Mitchell introduced one 'This Is My' guest as the man who sold him ten packs of rechargeable batteries via eBay, and accidentally sent him a hundred packs.
* [[Embarrassing Middle
** Could still be true, as he refused to say what his real middle name was when asked by Rob Brydon. {{spoiler|It's Darnell.}}
* [[Embarrassing
* [[Embarrassing
** Ben Fogle claimed that the 'This Is My' guest had given him a tattoo when they were both completely drunk. {{spoiler|It was true.}}
* [[Epic Fail]]: Frankie Boyle was already failing to convince David's team that he had written and published a book of love poetry, but when he claimed he had written it all in "aggressive haiku"...
{{quote|'''David Mitchell''': Either it's the most ''exceptional'' double bluff, or it's a lie he literally didn't have the energy to go through with.}}
** Lee introduced the 'This Is My' guest in one episode as the woman who gave his dog mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after she ran it over with her car. The story was unlikely enough already, but he first claimed that the dog was a greyhound, then a dalmatian, and then when David's team pointed this out he claimed it was ''[[You Fail Biology Forever|half-greyhound, half-
{{quote|''(towards the end of the round...)''
'''Olivia Colman:''' What's her surname?
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** David O'Doherty's claim in series 5 that he was seeing a hypnotist to cure him of his addiction to hypnotists.
** Lee's claim in the first episode of series 6 that his ex-girlfriends' initials in order spell out the word [[Fun with Acronyms|"Bermuda"]]. He is visibly smiling with disbelief the moment he finishes reading it out.
* [[Escalating
{{quote|'''Lee:''' To be fair, he does have the haircut of someone who's just ridden a bike.
'''Danny:''' Yes. Backwards. Through a hedge. [[Call Back|On the Moon.]]<ref>Earlier, Sir Chris Hoy claimed he'd been approached by NASA to be the first man to ride a bike on the Moon</ref> }}
* [[Everything's Better with
* [[Everything Sounds Sexier in French]]: Olivia Colman's {{spoiler|true}} fact was that she pulled a boy by pretending to be French and putting on a fake accent.
* [[Everything's Worse with
* [[
* [[Face
* [[Face
* [[Faux Horrific]]: Everybody's reaction to the "Hoot Owl of Death".
* [[Fetish]]: Apparently Lee has a thing for Morris dancers.
* [[Finger
* [[Foil]]: Lee and David for each other, with an upper-lower-class contrast.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: When Michael Buerk claimed to have stolen an ashtray from 10 Downing Street, Danny Baker joked that Tony Blair's inability to have a smoke was the cause of Britain's involvement in the US-Iraq conflict.
{{quote|'''Danny:''' "Shall we go to war, Cherie, or not? I'll have a cigar and think about it -- No ashtray! We'll go to war!" And that's what you did! That's the consequences! Are - are you proud of what you did?}}
** David Mitchell, in one of his [[Hair-Trigger
* [[Fridge Logic]]: [[In-
* [[Geeky Turn
{{quote|[''Professor Brian Cox has claimed that he got the Large Hadron Collider shut down after he spilt yoghurt on it'']
'''Brian''': During construction, I had to go in, and I was responsible for a bit that's about 420 metres from the point at which we create the big bangs, and I was in there, and you test bits, and I was in there in the morning, having my yoghurt...
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'''Brian''': As David well knows, because they're superconducting...
'''Lee''': (''as David looks completely lost'') I might well know as well! With you two flirting with each other -- I'm here as well! Tell ''me'', you bitch! }}
* [[Genre
{{quote|'''Lee''' (''re-reading his card''): ..."I received a strip-search at Miami Airport after making a joke about Ronald Reagan..." I'm supposed to write that on the spot, am I?}}
* [[Gentleman
{{quote|'''David''': Well, I have to say, Lee's story is incredibly plausible.
'''[[Terry
* [[GIRL]]: Chris Packham claimed that he and the (male) This Is My guest were married in an online world, where his avatar was based on Audrey Hepburn.
* [[Giving Up on Logic]]: Has happened at least once when David's team have to guess who the This Is My guest is.
* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]]: Stephen Mangan claimed his big toes were named "Leslie" and "Scruple" after his potential future child and the child's accompanying "shoulder angel." His justification was that it was an injoke with a very religious former girlfriend.
* [[Good with
* [[Go Through
** Completely averted (in one of the funniest moments of the show) when Lee threatened to hit David with a coconut and both Rich Hall and Trisha Goddard immediately retreated to a safe distance.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|Gratuitous Welsh]]: When Rob Brydon named Joanna Page "liar of the week", he insisted it wasn't favouritism because she was Welsh, and then had a short conversation in Welsh with her. Part of Rob's speech translated to "well done Jo" before descending into gibberish (as Rob doesn't actually speak Welsh), and Page responded with "Last night I went to the youth club with friends".
* [[Gretzky Has the Ball]]: David talking about football:
{{quote|'''David''': The goalkeeper's the one that owns the club, right?}}
* [[Hair-Trigger
{{quote|'''David''' (''reacting to Lee's claim that he threw a sausage roll off the top of Blackpool Tower''): Why did you throw it off the top, you're there, there's security there, it's a horrible thing to do! How fast is a hot, or even quite hot, sausage roll going to be moving by the time it hits some morbidly-obese child down on the promenade having a miserable time on holiday in ''Blackpool'' of all places, who's just heard about the divorce of his parents, consoling himself with another load of high-sugar snacks and the next thing he knows, a warm-ish sausage roll hits him ''slap'' in the face?}}
* [[Ham-to-Ham
{{quote|'''Charlie Brooker''' (''after having revealed that he told a girlfriend he was hard of hearing in one ear to cover for not paying attention to her and had to maintain the ruse for six years''): Can't you see? Don't you find that moving? You cold-hearted... ''monsters!''
'''David Mitchell''': ''I'm not having THIS!'' You can't call ''us'' cold-hearted! You- you lived for six years-
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* [[Head Desk]]: This is sometimes Lee's reaction when he guesses one of David's more ridiculous facts (and there are quite a few of them) as a lie, only for it to be true.
* [[Heavy Mithril]]: Stephen Mangan claimed to have been in a band called Aragon with the This Is My guest, and that they had released an album called "The Wizard's Dream". {{spoiler|It was true.}}
* [[Hesitation Equals
{{quote|'''Stephen Mangan''' (''reading from card''): "I once correctly guessed the exact number of sweets in a Mini Cooper, and was awarded a prize by Britain's tallest man."
'''Ken Livingstone''': How many sweets were in that van?
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'''Terry''' (''pointing at David's team''): Give them your brutal quipping, not me! I'm on your team!
'''Lee''': Right, Jamelia, you're going to have a bit of brutal quipping! }}
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: David's teammates in a series 5 episode were [[The Inbetweeners|Greg
* [[Hurricane of
{{quote|''[Rob has just read out a Ring of Truth that [[Deal or No Deal|Noel
'''David''': What are the courses?
'''Lee''': Veal or no veal? ''[Audience
'''Julian Clary''': If it gets run over it's "Wheel or no wheel"
'''Rob''': If the cat was a fishing enthusiast--
'''David''': Shut up! }}
* [[Hypocritical
* [[Hypocritical
{{quote|'''Jason''': You're ''from'' the North!
'''Lee''': I ''thought'' I was from the North [[Up to Eleven|until I met you.]] }}
** In Series 4, Martin Clunes appended an odd "Well done" to one of his answers, prompting David Mitchell to mock him for congratulating himself for remembering something. But at the end of the episode, David revealed that he had recalled the name of a women's magazine (''Top Sante'') out of thin air in an instant of panic, "and ''frankly'', I want a ''medal''!"
** Rob Brydon introduced Peter Serafinowicz as "a man who's half-English and half-Polish, so is always trying to book himself to tile his own bathroom." Brydon then had to claim in the Quick-Fire Lies round that he once stole Catherine Zeta-Jones' dinner money, and David Mitchell said "You're both Welsh, so presumably you went to the same school." This earned a round of applause from the audience, and Brydon then complained that they were laughing at "thinly-veiled racism".
** David Mitchell mocked Rob Brydon for suggesting that ''[[Doctor
** Lee keeps expressing annoyance at the stereotyping he receives as a working-class Northerner, but he himself was guilty of it when he tried to explain his claim that he threw a sausage roll off the top of Blackpool Tower with "well, I'm Northern..."
** Invoked by Lee in an outtake where Rob stumbles over several autocue jokes relating to him:
{{quote|'''Lee''': This joke about me being really thick isn't working out with you not being able to read, is it?}}
* [[I Always Wanted to Say
** In Series 4, Lee gets to deliver the ancient joke about what happens when you fail to pay the person you hire to exorcise your home (it gets repossessed) and looks ''extremely'' pleased with himself.
* [[I Am One of Those,
* [[I Am
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: The general attitude seems to be that stories should be judged on their merits, which implies that the person whose turn it is really will be trying to convince the other team that their "fact" is true; however, half the time the story really is true, and since the objective is to fool the other team, presumably the person will be trying to tell it in a way that [[Reality Is Unrealistic|makes it sound unlikely and badly thought
* [[I Lied]]: Although there's lots of lying going on in the show, a better example would be {{spoiler|Lee breaking one of David's pens after explicitly and repeatedly promising not to.}}
* [[Imaginary Friend]]: David Mitchell had to claim in one series 4 episode that he used to play board games against a bucket with a face painted on it, named "Stephen Tatlock".
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** Robert Webb claimed in series 5 that he had so many imaginary friends he formed an imaginary gang. {{spoiler|It was true.}}
** Andy Hamilton's story in series 6 was that he used to write and hand in homework for an imaginary classmate.
* [[Implausible
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon:''' It was a lie, and he lied even as he was telling us whether or not it was a lie.}}
* [[Incredibly Lame
{{quote|(''during a This Is My round, Jo Brand's {{spoiler|true}} story is that she dropped Liz in a pond when she was a baby'')
'''Lee''': Who went into the water, to get Liz out?
'''Jo''': My brother Bill.
'''Lee''': Because he had the right beak shape? }}
** "Part of the problem is that the wheels on a post office bike are larger than normal -- that's according to a spokesperson." Rob Brydon earned a [[Collective
* [[The Internet Is for
* [[
** The fact that Angus Deayton was the original host, given that part of the reason he was sacked from ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' because after the first round of tabloid revelations he assured his bosses there was nothing else to come... only for more to follow a few months later.
* [[I Take Offence to That Last
{{quote|[''Bernard Cribbins has claimed that he sold his wife's car to cover his gambling debts, then pretended to her it was stolen'']
'''Mark Watson''': We're trying to decide, basically, if the esteemed actor and voiceover artist Bernard Cribbins is a gambler, a liar and a borderline crook, essentially.
'''David Mitchell''': It is not illegal to lie to your wife! }}
* [[I Want You to Meet An Old Friend of
** David Mitchell has had comedy partner Robert Webb and ''[[Peep Show]]'' costar Olivia Colman on the show, and Lee has had Miranda Hart and Katy Wix from ''Not Going Out''.
* [[Jerkass Has a
{{quote|'''Janet''': [''having stormed across the stage during the This Is My round to confront David's team''] If you met Daniel Craig, could you speak?
'''Davina McCall''': No. She's right. }}
* [[Kansas City
* [[Kubrick
* [[If You Know What I
** At the recording David actually said "Will people please stop insinuating that I fuck hamsters?", but it was cut.
* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the
{{quote|'''Lee:''' I know Ina because she's my local newsagent, and she sold me a scratchcard which I won £2,000 on.
'''Natalie Cassidy:''' Ina's worked on ''[[
'''Dom Joly:''' Ina's actually my aunt, who is Greek, and she is a voiceover artist in Greece, and she has been the voice of Helen Mirren in the last four of her films that have been translated into Greek.
'''Angus Deayton''' ''(as audience laughter dies away)'': So, it's as simple as that. A winning newsagent according to Lee, a veteran ''[[
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Common in [[The Reveal]] of whether a fact is the truth or a lie.
{{quote|'''Jack Dee''': It was a -- true.}}
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{{quote|[''Rob has claimed in the Quick Fire Lies round that he throws the first and last biscuit in every package away, which escalated into a description of a complex and utterly implausible biscuit-unpackaging routine'']
'''Lee''': So just to absolutely establish -- you're taking out the biscuit, you're discarding it because it's crumbled, if it's not crumbled you tend to throw it away but not always; then you'll slide them out like some sort of magician, on your hand like that, you'll get the jar, you'll insert them in unless it's a [[wikipedia:Leibniz-Keks|Leibniz]]... whatever the bloody hell they are... they go in, it comes off, there's one left, it's not damaged; give it to the dog that [[Beyond the Impossible|used to be brown but is now black]] -- is what you're telling us is what's happening in your house. You're mental. 'Course it's true. }}
* [[Let Us Never Speak of This
* [[Line-of-Sight
* [[Loads and Loads of
* [[A Man Is Not a
{{quote|'''Jimmy''' (''reading card''): I lost my virginity at 26.
'''David Mitchell and panel''' (''almost instantly''): Yeah, that's true. {{spoiler|And it was.}} }}
* [[Man of a Thousand
{{quote|'''Gabby Logan''': Did you ever have [[Talking to Himself|banter between
* [[Medium
{{quote|'''Angus:''' Proofreading, of course, is vital to any piece of writing. Even the scripts on this show are subject to rigorous scrutinae.}}
* [[Money, Dear
** Similarly, [[Richard E.
{{quote|'''Lee Mack''': How did Ken convince you it was a good idea?
'''Richard E. Grant''': He asked me.
'''Lee Mack''': Is that all it ''takes'' for you, Richard?
'''Richard E. Grant''': Why do you think I'm here? }}
* [[Murder Is the Best
{{quote|'''David''': [''to Duncan Bannatyne''] So you think it's true... [''to Frankie''] ... you don't care, you just want to murder her.}}
* [[Murderous
== N-Z ==
* [[Names to Run Away From Really
** Inverted when Jack Whitehall was asked to name five wrestlers after he claimed that he was into [[Professional
{{quote|'''Lee''': That's a bloody solicitors'!
'''David''': Please don't tell me you've accidentally been represented in law by a wrestler! }}
* [[Nerds Are
{{quote|[''In the Quick Fire Lies round, David Mitchell has claimed that as a child, he used to pretend his calculator was a [[Star Trek]] communicator'']
'''Rob Brydon''': Did you do this, David? [''makes a whistling noise, attempting to imitate the sound said communicators made'']
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'''David''': Nope.
'''Rob''': It was a great noise, wasn't it? [''makes the whistling noise again''] }}
* [[Nice
* [[The
{{quote|'''David:''' Why would a new Year's Eve show need a unicorn statue?
'''Julian:''' Well, it ''was'' the nineties. }}
* [[Non-Indicative
* [["Not Making This Up"
* [[Now You Tell
** David put Fern Britton's tea cosy on his head at Lee's request, then hurriedly took it off when Ken Livingstone suggested that if, as she claimed to, take it everywhere with her it should be quite dirty.
* [[Obfuscating
* [[Obfuscating
{{quote|'''Jack Dee''' ''(reading card)'': "I developed a word-association system to remember peoples' names, but gave it up when it backfired on me."
'''David Mitchell''': What was the word-association system?
'''Jack''': Erm... that I developed? }}
* [[Odd
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon''': [''introducing the This Is My round'']: Who knows who they might be tonight? The cook from David's country house, or perhaps Lee's parole officer?}}
* [[Odd Name
** The names of Eamonn Holmes' seven cats (see Only Sane Man, below).
* [[Off the
** On some occasions Lee has been given a lie so ridiculous he deliberately derails it rather than try to defend such an embarassing statement as true, such as when he had to claim he had used a set of children's cutlery at every meal for a special diet.
* [[Oh Crap]]: When a panelist is confronted with a lie that is completely indefensible, or when a panelist on the other team spots the hole in his/her story which reveals it to be false. Wise panelists will try not to let it show. A player trying to run a bluff may fake a facial reaction. This can also be the reaction if the statement on the card is a particularly embarrassing truth.
* [[Old
{{quote|'''Martin Clunes:''' ''(about [[Richard E.
'''Lee Mack:''' There was no conviction in the Spice Girls movie, either, but he did that! }}
** And also:
{{quote|'''Rob Brydon:''' Bernard [
** Nick Hewer described his appearance on the show as "fun at the time", but "probably ill-advised".
* [[One of
* [[One Steve
** In the Series 2 episode when Rob Brydon was a panelist, [[That Mitchell and Webb Look|Robert Webb]] was on the opposing team. Cue the [[Ho
** The series 6 opener had Alexander Armstrong and Alex Jones (of ''The One Show'') on the same team.
* [[Only Barely Renewed]]: The second and third series had very poor ratings; the show likely only got renewed because panel games are generally very cheap to produce. Thankfully, the fourth series did considerably better.
* [[Only Sane
{{quote|'''Lee''' (''after both his teammates have voted "True" on Eamonn Holmes' claim that he has seven cats called Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and [[Odd Name Out|
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's
* [[Oop North]]: Lee, as noted above. His justification for throwing a sausage roll off Blackpool Tower was that he was Northern ("as if a Northerner would throw away anything wrapped in pastry!"), and Rob Brydon reasoned his claim that he moved to Southport (see the example in Pull The Thread, below) had to be untrue because he's "never been out of the North".
* [[Out-of-Character
{{quote|'''Frankie''': I'm honestly struggling with the idea that you went for a day out to Alton Towers. Were you presenting a documentary for [[BBC 4]] about the horrors of modern life?}}
* [[Out of
* [[Out of
** The main reason for this is to spread the results evenly: in series 2, David won every show in the first half of the series and only one in the second half in recording order, so the broadcast order was altered so the victories alternated more.
* [[Out with a
{{quote|[''Jack Whitehall has claimed his dad makes the family stand for the Queen's speech at Christmas because he's "quite an old dad"'']
'''Christine Bleakley''': How old is he, Jack?
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'''Frankie Boyle''': So basically... if you're 20 and your dad's 69, at the point that he conceived you, he must have thought "There is a significant risk that this will kill me." }}
* [[Pantomime Animal]]: Hugh Dennis claimed that he and the "This Is My" guest had been the two halves of one of these.
** Towards the end of Kevin Bridges' story about accidentally buying a horse, he claimed the guy he'd bought the horse from turned out to be a "[[Ambiguous Syntax|counterfeit horse
* [[Persona Non
* [[The Pete
* [[Pinocchio
* [[The Points Mean
** When asked by Greg Davies in a series 5 episode, David stated he did feel a sense of competition about the show.
* [[Potty
* [[Precision F-
{{quote|''[In the Ring of Truth round, David has been told that Bono's trilby which he paid $1,200 to have flown first class was "upgraded" from first class to the cockpit and is insisting that this is not an
'''David''': You see, never buy a first class ticket, you might end up getting "upgraded" and have to fly the fucking plane! }}
* [[Prison
* [[Private
{{quote|'''Chris Addison:''' Would you mind [[Sherlock Holmes|smoking a pipe and solving a
'''David:''' Oh, I'd ''LOVE'' that!
(cue [[Hilarity Ensues|enthusiastic laugh]] from the audience) }}
** He had previously ([[Out of Order|although in terms of recording, it was
* [[Product
{{quote|'''Bill Oddie''': It was a very small island - I'll name-drop it now - in the Seychelles - woo, bit of class...
'''David''': Do we all get free holidays in the Seychelles now?
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'''Rob''': I've always adored the island of Mauritius.
'''Lee''': If there's anyone watching from Alton Towers... }}
* [[Promoted
** Lee was particularly beside himself when Ronnie Corbett's claim in the Quick Fire Lies round was a reference to the famous ''[[The Two Ronnies|Two
** One of Michael Aspel's "true" facts, shown in the series 2 [[Clip Show]], was that he had received fanmail from then-host Angus Deayton.
* [[Promotion to Opening
* [[Pull the Thread]]: The usual tactic employed to destroy a panelist's story.
{{quote|[''during a This Is My round, Lee is attempting to persuade the other team that the Mystery Guest taught him to swim in Southport when he was 30'']
'''Rob Brydon''': What made you think, at the age of 30, "I really ought to learn to swim"?
'''Lee Mack''': I moved to Brighton, and I had a flat that overlooked the sea--
'''Krishnan Guru-Murthy''': [[Spot the Thread|Hold
[''beat, during which the audience laughs and [[Oh Crap|Lee realizes he is completely sunk]]'']
'''Rob''': (''delighted'') Thank you, sir!
'''Lee''': Erm, I moved to Brighton, looked at the sea, and thought "Oh my God, I'm terrified of the water, I'm moving back to Southport"-- }}
** David's team attempted this on Kevin Bridges (see Beyond The Impossible above) when he claimed to have accidentally bought a horse, only for it to cause a descent into complete insanity, as Bridges' story grew progressively more complicated and David's team grew progressively more incredulous, {{spoiler|then it turned out to be true}}.
* [[Pungeon
* [[Quintessential British
* [[Rage Against the
{{quote|'''Jack Whitehall''': Did you have any relationship with him? Did you converse with him, or was it just reading?
'''David Mitchell''': You can't converse with him! He's in the bear's world! He's totally junior to the bear; you can't jump out of the book that is your life and converse with the person reading it, can you?
'''Jack''': You can't say "why is this happening, bear?"?
'''David''': No! Otherwise the bear's just gonna go "and then "why is this happening, bear?" said Frankie Boyle for some reason". The little bears say "I don't like this part of the story". "Yeah, I'll stop reading it shall I? "No no no!" screamed Frankie Boyle, "don't stop reading this story, or it is the end of my life!" "No, this is definitely not suitable for little bears." ''[mimes closing a book]'' }}
* [[Rant-Inducing
** Lee has raged several times against the writers when he got particularly difficult lies to tell.
* [[Reality Is Unrealistic]]: Lampshaded by David Mitchell in a Series 2 outtake where Lee refuses to believe one of the true facts. "You've got to understand, the very truths they pick are the unlikely ones!"
* [[Released to
* [[Reptiles Are
* [[Right for the Wrong
* [[Rule of
* [[Rules Spiel]]: A rare [[Panel Show]] example, but the host explains the rules almost verbatim each week.
** Introducing Home Truths: ''"Our panellists each read out a statement from the card in front of them. To make things harder, they've never seen the card before, so they've got no idea what they'll be faced with. It's up to the opposing team to sort the truth from the lies."''
** Introducing the This Is My round: ''"We bring on a mystery guest who has a close connection to one of our panellists. This week, each of David's/Lee's team will claim it's them that has the genuine connection to the guest, and it's up to Lee's/David's team to spot who's telling the truth."''
* [[Running
** Lee's ridiculous stories in the "This Is My" round, a fact which he has begun to [[Lampshade Hanging|
{{quote|'''Lee''' [''after David's team have ruled out his story about the guest being a member of his scout group with whom he went camping and awoke to discover their tent had been stolen, and are deliberating between the two other stories'']: [[Sarcasm Mode|Am I not getting a look in?]]}}
** One could argue that Lee being given ridiculous stories in general has become a running gag.
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'''David''': I would like to know ''precisely'' what is implausible about ''that''? }}
** Rob Brydon referring to Lee as a "rejected Chuckle brother".
* [[Sarcastic
* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: David Mitchell, recounting a story of talking his way out of a fight with a paperboy:
{{quote|'''David:''' He dropped the bag. ''(pause)'' Thud.}}
* [[Schmuck
* [[Schrödinger's
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta
* [[Self-
{{quote|'''Angus Deayton''': And now, for the round you've all been waiting for...the last one.}}
** Robert Webb claimed he had been voted the 88th Sexiest Man in the World by the readers of ''Blind and Wretched'' magazine.
* [[Serious
* [[Sesquipedalian
{{quote|'''Michael Aspel:''' It has the whiff of verisimilitude.
'''Angus Deayton:''' I think he's saying it's true. }}
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'''Brian''': It's a niobium tungsten alloy...
'''David''': I'm not saying it's not a ''brilliant'' wire! }}
* [[Sex
{{quote|'''Ronni''' (''giving sample phrases she was asked to record''): "My task is complete." "What do you want me to do now?"
'''David Mitchell''': "No, Master, sexual acts are forbidden!" }}
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'''Jamelia:''' Well, it was one of those reasons.
'''Lee:''' Oh, all right, then. }}
* [[Shout-
* [[Show, Don't Tell]]: Wherever possible, a panelist will be asked for a demonstration of their claim, including Michael Aspel's shadow-boxing and Lee's juggling skills.
** The panelists have grown quite [[Genre
{{quote|''[Fern Britton has claimed that the special guest is her morris dancing
'''Lee:''' Are you good at morris dancing? [''beat''] You know where this is going, right?
'''Fern''': ...I would feel silly.
'''Lee''': Well, you're on the right show... }}
* [[Shrine to Self]]: David Mitchell claimed in Series 5 that he keeps his BAFTA(s) on a bookcase in his "Me room."
* [[Skewed
{{quote|'''Lee''': I can't believe that a man is sitting here saying that he bunked off school to go to London with his mate called Dick Whittington who owned a chip shop to see the Beatles, and your question is "What was the chip shop called?".}}
** "At the moment of shoulder pain -- the moment when your shoulder has been bruised, possibly shattered, by the coconut -- you think, 'I must keep that for anecdotal reasons'?"
** In another episode, Lee is claiming that the "This Is My" guest is a milkman who once accidentally left 88 pints of milk on his doorstep. To his disbelief, David's team take issue with the fact that it was full-fat milk.
* [[Smarter Than You Look]]: Though Lee is ostensibly David's [[Book Dumb]] counterpart, he has a very sharp and agile mind.
* [[Snowball
** Happened in [[Real
** Also happened to Andy Hamilton, who played a trick on a new French teacher by making up a pupil the teacher had supposedly left off the register. This led to Andy writing and handing in homework for the fictional classmate.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]
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'''Fern Britton''': Where did "Reginald" come from?
'''Reginald''': "Reginald" is a German name; it means "mighty or wise power." (''beat'') And "Delicious" means, uh, "very tasty." }}
* [[Speech
{{quote|'''Russell Howard''': It was terrible, Lee could never convey surprise!}}
* [[Spit
* [[Split
{{quote|'''Keeley Hawes''': Did the agent take a cut?
'''Kevin Bridges''': Did the agent phone you up to let you know you got the job?
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'''David Mitchell''': Are you still in touch?
'''Rob''': ''Right'', it's time to guess. First of all, Lee and those bastards... }}
* [[Squick]]: [[In-
** Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's claim that he smeared Marmite on his face for his dog to lick off, {{spoiler|which was thankfully a lie}}.
{{quote|'''Rhod Gilbert''': It has to be a lie, David, or else there's ''something wrong with him''.}}
** In Series 6, Miles Jupp claimed that, after showering, he brushes water off his arms with his hands before drying off with a towel. Richard Madeley asked if he also brushed water off between his legs with his hands, causing Rob and Lee to make identical disgusted expressions.
* [[Stealth
{{quote|'''Rob''': Do you have ''any'' connection with popular culture?
'''Lee''': None whatsoever. Big fan of yours, though. }}
* [[Stunt
* [[Surrounded by
{{quote|[''The panel's debate about Fern Britton's "Possession" claim of a tea cosy she takes everywhere with her has been [[Off the Rails|derailed]]'']
'''David:''' The rest of humanity uses numbers to denote temperature, you use mime.
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* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: In the Ring Of Truth round of one Series 2 episode, David Mitchell is uncertain as to what to say in response to the "fact" that Jim Carrey bought his dog a three-bedroom house, and decides to go with his team and say it's true. Trisha Goddard asks him if he'll kill them if it turns out to be a lie, and David replies with "Don't worry, I haven't killed anyone for years."
** Also the round up of lies including every detail as done by Rob. "It's a lie. Kevin Bridges did not once steal a bag with 34 bundles of bananas... from a Cardiff railway station."
* [[Take a Third
** In the This Is My round, it is common for teams to only consider two stories and eventually settle for one of those, only for it to turn out that the correct choice was the one they didn't consider.
** In series 1, Claudia Winkleman wanted to take a ''fourth'' option in the This Is My round:
{{quote|'''Claudia''': I don't think any of them have met him.
'''Lee''': Yeah, it turns out to be Angus' nephew; is that what you're saying? }}
* [[Take
{{quote|'''Angus Deayton''': Yes, every three seconds ''(snaps fingers)''...[[U2|
'''Angus Deayton''': An interesting fact about [[wikipedia:Steve Davis|Steve
'''Rob Brydon''': Our next round is called the ring of truth. I'll be offering the teams some bizarre celebrity facts, but are they true? Or are they from [[
** David has some, too:
{{quote|'''David''': [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|Don't call him Gordon - It's his name.]] He's decided names aren't good enough for the likes of him. He's gonna take a verb! That means everyone thinks he's good, and no one thinks he's a twat.}}
* [[Tears of
{{quote|'''David:''' He ''cried''? That's a very odd response to immediate mortal danger! To just slightly well up! I would have thought that was more 'the end of ''It's a Wonderful Life''{{'}} reaction! "Oh dear, I am to die, it appears!" Rather than "AAAARRRGHHH! GET OUT OF THE CAR!! RUN!!" No, but just a slight welling up... "Ah well, all things come to an end!"}}
** Once he calmed down, he actually considered it might be true, though. {{spoiler|It was.}}
* [[That Came Out
** Series 4 episode 3 had several of these: "Is your husband known for involving other people?" "Why haven't you just whipped out a knob and affixed it to the entrance?"
* [[That Liar
{{quote|'''Lee''': (''reacting to Michael McIntyre's story about driving a car that could only turn left'') We all think, as a team, that that is a lie, no, it's a pretty bad lie, in fact, a lie that you should be ashamed of, and you should leave the show immediately. It's just over there on your right, you might have to go (''points around and behind him'') through there, through there, through there...}}
** Made all the funnier by the fact that Michael's story was actually true.
* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: When David Mitchell started winding up for his [[Let Me Get This Straight...]] summation/rant on Kevin Bridges' utterly implausible horse story (see Beyond The Impossible, above) Lee Mack covered his face with one hand.
** One 'Ring of Truth' fact was that the Archbishop of Canterbury had endorsed a Cockney version of the Bible. When it was shown to be true and Rob Brydon produced a copy to recite the Lord's Prayer from, David Mitchell remarked, "I'm gonna hate this, aren't I?"
* [[This Is
* [[Timed
* [[The Tyson
* [[Totally Radical]]: [[Richard E.
{{quote|'''Sanjeev Bhaskar:''' Was it, like, lutes and harps and ting?}}
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The series 5 trailers showed several guests revealing whether their facts were true or not.
* [[Trivially
* [[Unfortunate
* [[Unreliable
{{quote|'''Ken Livingstone''': What year was this?
'''Stephen Mangan''': This was, ooh, about the late 80's... '83?
'''Ken Livingstone''': Late eighties and '83? }}
* [[Unusual
* [[Upper Class
** Many jokes directed at David run on this trope.
* [[Vanilla
* [[Victoria's Secret
* [[Violent
{{quote|'''Lee:''' What's on your rider list, Frankie? ''(mock Glaswegian accent)'' Six cans of bitter and a knife!
'''Frankie:''' Yeah, six cans of bitter for a teetotal alcoholic!
'''Lee:''' Only Frankie Boyle could complain about the fact that I mentioned alcohol and not mention the knife! ''(puts on the Glaswegian accent again)'' "I'll take the knife, but don't accuse me of drinkin'!" }}
* [[Vitriolic Best
{{quote|'''Lee''': (''evaluating one of David's less-plausible stories'') Why did they think that you were the man to do this job?
'''David''': Well, a friend of mine--
'''Lee''': Lying.
'''David''': All right. }}
* [[
* [[What an Idiot!]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in-universe by Lee Mack in the last episode of Series 3. Following his interrogation of Reece Shearsmith's claim that he once worked at a funeral parlour that offered themed funerals (including "Medieval" and "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" themes), he states that he really wants to say that it's true, but he knows that if he does everyone at home will be going "How could that possibly be true?!"
{{quote|'''Lee''': And yet there's a massive voice in my head saying this is true.
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'''Konnie Huq''': I don't know if this is in the spirit of this game, but it really is true.
'''Lee''': I'd like to say I'm not stupid enough to fall for this again...<ref> And he still ends up guessing that Konnie's story is the true one, and is wrong again.</ref> }}
* [[Wig, Dress,
* [[Women
* [[Working Class People Are
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: During Lee's lie that if you give him any date before the year 2000 he can instantly tell you what day of the week it was, he comes up with an utterly-meaningless calculation for working it out. Justified by the [[Rule of
** There's also a bonus example in the same lie: David Mitchell asked him if 1955 was a leap year, and Lee said "[[Ask a Stupid Question|Of course it isn't, you
** Angus Deayton's autocue joke following Lee's 'Possession' claim about a coconut that nearly killed him:
{{quote|'''Angus:''' Every year, worldwide, some 3,000 people are killed by falling coconuts, now if you times that figure by 10, that's 30,000 people every year, which works out at nearly half a million people, every 12 months. Spread that out over a year, that's 4.2 billion people killed by coconuts every month. A ''frightening'' statistic.}}
* [[You Can Always Tell a
** Some panelists have been [[Genre
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