A: And so to our Odd One Out round where a monkey with a pin has a one in four chance of getting it right so let's see how he does. Paul, your happy dudes are - Robert Robinson; Jeremy Paxman; Michael Winner; and Richard Whiteley.
PICTURED:
Top: (L) Robert Robinson; (R) Jeremy Paxman
Bottom: (L) Michael Winner; (R) Richard Whiteley
P: Things in common that they have - Cambridge.
Richard, you were at Cambridge weren't you?
R: I was sir.
P: They must be very proud of you.
R: They are.
I'm an alumni.
P: You're what?
R: I'm an alumnus.
P: Are you?
D: Didn't he discover America?
P: So I think Michael Winner is as well - I don't know if it's anything to do
with it but let's establish what they have in common.
Michael Winner, er Jeremy Paxman I think.
Robert Robinson, I don't know.
His name is English for Magnus Magnusson, did you know that?
I would say on the face of it, Michael Winner is the only one who hasn't
hosted a popular quiz show, but it can't be that because that's too easy.
A: Yes, and a slightly stupid answer.
P: Why slightly stupid?
I: Have you been taking something Angus?
P: The piss for nine years!
Is Robert Robinson the only one out because behind him is a giant owl,
looking at him?
R: My theory is this - both Paxman, and Winner, and Whiteley were not only at
Cambridge but - I hate to say this, will you say it for me?
PICTURED: Richard whispers to Ian
I: We were all editors of 'Varsity'!
D: Ah!
I: It's an undergraduate publication with a circulation of one.
A: And it's also the correct answer.
Now Richard, you edited it in 1965 didn't you?
R: Yes I did, yeah.
A: Do you remember what your first lead story was?
R: Yes - 'John's Man Sent Down'.
In those days you were sent down for having hanky panky and this John's
man was sent down for being caught having hanky panky by a porter.
D: What is hanky panky anyway?
R: Hanky panky?
P: Chinese domestic.
A: But weren't you slightly appalled by all the sex?
R: I was totally appalled by all the sex.
I mean, there I was on a Sunday morning...
A: Not getting any!
R: Yes!
Absolutely!
P: But surely Richard, in your student days, you would have found some woman
who'd give you two from the top and one from the bottom, surely?
A: But this was before you were known as 'Twice Nightly Whiteley'.
R: Yes.
It's now 'Once Yearly Nearly'.
A: Former 'Varsity' editor Michael Winner was asked recently about the first
thing he does when he wakes up.
He said: "I walk a few steps to the balcony of my bedroom, look down
at the flowers in the garden and think how lucky I am.”
Two more steps and how lucky we'd be.
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