1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,000 ♪ What goes on 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,960 ♪ Thank you for letting us be ourselves 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,240 ♪ So don't mind me if I repeat myself 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,560 ♪ These simple lines be good for your health 5 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,720 ♪ To keep them crime rhymes on the shelf 6 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,280 ♪ Live, love life like you just don't care 7 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,360 ♪ 5,000 leaders never scared 8 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,160 ♪ Bring the noise, it's the moment they fear 9 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,360 ♪ Get up, still a beautiful idea 10 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,640 ♪ Get up, throw your hands in the air 11 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:27,680 ♪ Get up and show no fear... ♪ 12 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,320 APPLAUSE. 13 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,320 Roast a turkey, bake a pecan pie, 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:43,680 then remember we don't actually celebrate Thanksgiving. 15 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,240 It's Friday, we're live. And it's time for The Last Leg. 16 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,840 APPLAUSE. 17 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,040 Tonight on the show, we run an eye over the Autumn Statement, 18 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,160 check out some hair-raising world leaders, 19 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,800 and show off Alex's new legs. 20 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,520 Plus we'll be joined by comedians Katherine Ryan and Nabil Abdulrashid 21 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,080 and money saving expert, Martin Lewis 22 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,840 on the show that sometimes wigs out about the news. 23 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:12,400 APPLAUSE. 24 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,480 Gooday. Hello. 25 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,400 I'm Adam Hills. Welcome to The Last Leg, 26 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:30,680 the show that thinks every week is Black Friday cos 27 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,520 we're always 20% off. 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,240 LAUGHTER. 29 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,560 With me as always, the pride of Dartmoor Josh Widdicombe. 30 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,560 And the man who got new blades this week 31 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,480 and now not only runs but also chops and dices, Alex Brooker. 32 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,880 APPLAUSE. 33 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:48,760 Now... 34 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,416 ..if you were wondering why, when we walked out at the beginning 35 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:56,320 of the show, Alex was towering over my left shoulder, 36 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,240 it's cos he's got a new pair of blades for both feet. Yeah. 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,160 Before we even talk about them, can you explain why you got them? 38 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:05,776 Yeah, well, the thing about the blades is... 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,640 Cos we've run out of things to talk about. 40 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,240 LAUGHTER. 41 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:12,280 Well, the thing with them is obviously, they're so rapid. Yeah. 42 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,200 And a little while ago, I just decided just like for once, 43 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,360 for the first time in my life, I just didn't want to get caught 44 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:19,640 playing knock and run. 45 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:20,960 LAUGHTER. 46 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,480 No, basically, these is basically down to that. 47 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:26,280 I've never been able to run because obviously with the prosthetic, 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,080 my left foot's not great. Yeah. 49 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:29,400 I've never been able to run. 50 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,000 I just wanted to, kind of, yeah, get these bad boys on 51 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:33,800 and see how we get on. 52 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,776 So the left couldn't keep up with the right basically? 53 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,240 Yeah, yeah. Which is kind of world politics at the moment. 54 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:39,960 LAUGHTER. 55 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:44,520 APPLAUSE. 56 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,120 But... But the weird thing is well, how tall are you now? 57 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,720 I'm 6'1. LAUGHTER. 58 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:53,480 Are you? I just got... I just got up on Monday and I was 6'1. 59 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,320 Very strange to have a growth spurt at 39. 60 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:00,160 But I tell you what, there's a cookie jar at my mum's 61 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:02,520 that she's had on that top shelf for so long. 62 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,320 I am going to nail it. 63 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,640 The best thing is now... I've got to say hearing that, 64 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,840 would it be weird if I got a pair? 65 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,640 LAUGHTER. 66 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,960 Would that be misjudged? Cos I could with the extra few inches. 67 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,240 Also how disappointed was your wife when she realised that 68 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,360 when you said I'm getting an extension... 69 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,280 LAUGHTER. 70 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,640 The best thing is now, though, I don't have to queue up 71 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,000 at Chessington and I'm tall enough to go on all the rides. 72 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,440 LAUGHTER. 73 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,480 So.. Also, great week cos we've got a cattle grid installed 74 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:33,480 at the green room, haven't we? You can't come in. 75 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:36,560 For perspective, can you and Josh stand next to each other, 76 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,720 just so people can see how much taller you now are? 77 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,760 LAUGHTER, APPLAUSE. 78 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:48,840 You all right, little brother? 79 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,480 How are you, mate? 80 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,800 Honestly... The new Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger. 81 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,040 Honestly, everything he's been through, bless him, 82 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,280 he's such a trooper. 83 00:03:58,320 --> 00:03:59,880 LAUGHTER. 84 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,440 And do you know what? I kind of feel for you this week 85 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,216 and particularly today because, like, I'd always wanted to... 86 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,840 Sorry I have to try. I'm not used to sitting down from top... 87 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,360 Not so clever now, are you? 88 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,400 Oh, my God. 89 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:11,600 Sorry I've got my little... 90 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,776 Fucking hell. It was like a helicopter coming in to land. 91 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,520 LAUGHTER. 92 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,600 No-one knew if it was going to hit the helipad on the way. 93 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,760 Yeah, this gold cushion. 94 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:24,880 You've even got a cushion? 95 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:28,120 Yeah, I've got a cushion because my knee... Legs, like... 96 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,520 My knees are so like high up now. Yeah. 97 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:32,616 Honestly, these... Honestly, they're so high up my knees. 98 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,176 These are great for going to the toilet. 99 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:35,480 LAUGHTER. 100 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,080 And also, I feel for you cos I, for years I'd always wanted 101 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:39,280 a blade, right? Yeah. 102 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,440 And then, a few years back, finally they made one that 103 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:42,840 could fit my foot. Right. 104 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,240 And then Oscar Pistorius went and ruined it for all of us. 105 00:04:45,280 --> 00:04:46,280 Yeah. 106 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,280 And now today, the day you get your doubles blades... Yeah. 107 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,920 ..is the day he is granted parole. 108 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,800 Yeah, well, I just want to reassure people out there, there's not... 109 00:04:54,840 --> 00:04:56,040 We haven't planned that. 110 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,560 LAUGHTER Like... 111 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,920 I'm not starting a running club with him next. 112 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,000 So, Alex... Alex took them for a... Like literally had to for a test... 113 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,680 A test run during the week, which looked like this. 114 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:09,400 Listen for the commentary. 115 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,400 What the fuck was that? 116 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,560 Yeah, that is my mate there saying "What the fuck is that?" 117 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,680 LAUGHTER. 118 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,520 But it's... My favourite is you... Tell us where that was. 119 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:23,920 That was at the Emirates Stadium. 120 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,760 You went outside the Arsenal ground? 121 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:26,816 You could have gone anywhere. 122 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:29,560 Yeah, but... As if they were going to look out of the window, Arteta, 123 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,680 and go, fucking hell, he's good, isn't he? 124 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,520 LAUGHTER. 125 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,160 APPLAUSE. 126 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:36,960 What you doing on Saturday, mate? 127 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,136 Well, one thing... Firstly, the one thing you said is 128 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:43,496 you were quite nervous running on them. 129 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,616 Yeah, I am. I'm quite nervous cos I've... I've never, like... 130 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,840 When you gather pace... Yeah. ..It's like, it is quite, 131 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,400 it's the quickest, like, I've not properly ran on them yet. Yeah. 132 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:53,000 Also, like, falling over. 133 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:55,800 Like, I'm higher up to fall over now. Yeah. 134 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:57,976 And apparently, they were telling me there's basically a special way 135 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,480 to fall over. It's you shouldn't put your arms out. 136 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:03,200 And it's like, to be honest, it's neither here nor there for me. 137 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,200 LAUGHTER. 138 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 Yeah. Well, cos it's hard to stop. Like, it's... 139 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,560 Yes, it's really hard to stop. You can't, like, you can't 140 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,360 just stop dead. So what do you do instead of putting your arms out? 141 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:15,560 What's the next option? 142 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,120 Just... You kind of like drop and roll as if you're on fire. 143 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,600 Erm, but yeah, that is the hardest thing. 144 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,600 And also, you can't go up stairs in these. 145 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,040 You have to go up sideways. 146 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:26,320 You're not a Dalek! 147 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,080 LAUGHTER Well, like, you... 148 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:29,760 Like you're on roller blades. 149 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,480 But I went into a cafe this morning, and it was up a step, 150 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,200 and I walked in it sideways. 151 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,160 And there's people stood there thinking, look, 152 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,160 I know he ain't small but surely he can find through that front ways. 153 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,920 LAUGHTER. 154 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,840 So we're going to test Alex's ability to stop on his blades 155 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,640 by making him sprint and stop really quickly. 156 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,000 Not now cos we still need to do some of the show. 157 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,040 HE LAUGHS. 158 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,000 But before the next... At the end of this part, 159 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:54,560 we're going to set you a task. Yeah. 160 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,920 But you've also said that you now want to do a triathlon. 161 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,680 Well, saying I want to, that's a strong turn of phrase. 162 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,440 What I said was it that obviously I've got the swim leg, 163 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,760 which I used... I used for the Channel swim. I've got these now, 164 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,840 and my bike's all right. Again, that's a problem with stopping with the brakes, but we'll get there. 165 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,640 Yeah. But, um, yeah, so kind of just one day, maybe I'll be able... 166 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,960 Well, I'm challenging you for the Superhero Triathlon, 167 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,520 which is in August next year. You and I both do a para-triathlon. 168 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,040 OK. CHEERING. 169 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,200 I mean, I, look... 170 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:32,360 You know... you know I love to spend time with you and things like that, 171 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,480 but obviously the problem is you'll be in the seniors category... 172 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,840 LAUGHTER. 173 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,280 Also, you've got to wear them for Soccer Aid next year, 174 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,960 just out of control, running around the pitch. 175 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,680 Now, cos we're live, were going to do our best to answer your big questions, 176 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:51,280 tweet them to us at @TheLastLeg, use the hashtag, ♪IsltOK. 177 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,720 For example, ♪IsltOK that we've put our Christmas tree up 178 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,560 even though it is still November? Yes. Yes, I think it is. 179 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,000 ♪IsltOK, we like you to decide 180 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:00,280 who's going to be our Christmas Angel this year? 181 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,440 So last year, you chose the former rugby league player Kevin Sinfield 182 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,200 for his support of MND charities and his mate, Rob Burrow. 183 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,320 Who do you want? It could be anyone. Anyone at all. 184 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:09,656 Tweet us at @TheLastLeg right now, 185 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:11,880 use the hashtag ♪LastLegAngel, I think we're going with. 186 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:13,360 I'm going to say Mary Earps... OK. 187 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,880 ..but in full... like, that moment were she just shouted "fuck off". 188 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,480 I just want that on top of the tree. 189 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:21,600 Yeah. I'm going with the football theme, 190 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:23,440 I'm going to go with David Beckham... Mm-hm. 191 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,120 Cos I don't know if you've seen his documentary, 192 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,920 but I've never seen anybody look that fit, 193 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,200 let alone that fit cooking a mushroom on a barbecue. 194 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,440 That barbecue wasn't even turned on, it just sizzled when he went past. 195 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,320 Josh, who would you like the angel to be? 196 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,040 Archangel Gabriel, please. 197 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:43,960 LAUGHTER. 198 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,960 I'm a traditionalist and I don't know why there's anything wrong.. 199 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,080 Or Angela Rippon, I thought she's growing on trees. 200 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:51,640 LAUGHTER 201 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:53,896 I'd go Rippon cos I've heard there's some historic tweets 202 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,320 from the Archangel Gabriel that are a little bit dodgy. 203 00:08:57,360 --> 00:08:59,880 He referred to the Virgin Mary but he put the word virgin 204 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:02,000 in inverted commas. 205 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,640 Um, that's our POV for the night, 206 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:06,080 who should be the angel on our Christmas tree this year? 207 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,360 Not just from our suggestions, any suggestions at all. 208 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,080 Tweet us at @TheLastLeg, use the hashtag... 209 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,376 Not from our suggestions cos I don't want a one in three chance it's going to be my option. 210 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,360 Use the hashtag ♪LastLegAngel. All right. 211 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:18,280 There is a big story this week and we're going to get into it. 212 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:20,320 The Chancellor unveiled his Autumn Statement 213 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,416 and we had a lot of tweets asking how it was going to affect people with disabilities. 214 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,200 Now, we'll get to those, but before we do, 215 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,120 let's unpick the statement generally. So, Jeremy Hunt began with... 216 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,136 He began with a joke and it was a half decent joke. 217 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,800 He said to Keir Starmer that they have something in common 218 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,680 because at one point they both wanted a Jeremy to be Prime Minister. 219 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:40,760 Not a bad joke, he then said that both parties were probably relieved that it didn't happen. 220 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,200 Not a bad joke. 221 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,640 He then said, "But whereas we are saving the economy, 222 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:47,000 "your Jeremy would have crashed it." 223 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:50,040 That's kind of rich considering the only reason Hunt's in a job 224 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,240 is that his predecessor ACTUALLY crashed the economy. 225 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,920 That's the craziest figures... 226 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,280 They're kind of praising themselves for this Autumn Statement, 227 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,600 but given what happened last year, 228 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:04,920 all they had to do was beat losing the country 60 billion. 229 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,880 That's like praising yourself for getting through the day 230 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:09,840 and only shitting yourself once. 231 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,440 LAUGHTER. 232 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,600 I think you're too hard on yourself, I think that was an achievement. 233 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,160 You are right, you should have been proud. 234 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:26,240 Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave her response. 235 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,840 As usual, the whole thing became a he-said, she-said affair. 236 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,880 He said national debt is going to be lower, 237 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,256 she said the forecast economic growth is also being lowered. 238 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,960 He said the economy is growing faster than many European countries since 2010, 239 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,080 she said we are forecast to have the slowest growing economy of all G7 countries. 240 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,880 He said we are investing in the NHS, 241 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,960 she said some NHS trusts are still using fax machines. 242 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,680 That back-and-forth sounds like a really bleak version of. 243 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:51,920 Baby It's Cold Outside. LAUGHTER 244 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,520 ♪ The economy's grown, baby it's cold... ♪ 245 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:56,240 It's cold inside actually. 246 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,320 Awful way to receive your results from the NHS, isn't it? 247 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:01,840 Via fax. 248 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,680 Just start... just watching it slowly come out. 249 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:09,880 Well, my feet are all right. 250 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,640 Well, that was an inappropriate way to start, wasn't it? 251 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:15,040 LAUGHTER. 252 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,760 Sorry. 253 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,320 11 years in. 254 00:11:18,360 --> 00:11:19,680 I know. 255 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,000 Look, despite some pretty hefty tax cuts, 256 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,456 Britain is now heading for the biggest fall in living standards 257 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:29,280 since the 1950s and a lot of that is to do with something called fiscal drag. 258 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:30,840 Now, what's fiscal drag? 259 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,360 I hear Alex ask. 260 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,720 It's what happens when inflation causes prices to rise, 261 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,680 which leads employers to raise wages, 262 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,800 but the threshold at which you pay tax doesn't rise with it. 263 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,400 Lib Dems leader Ed Davey described it 264 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,840 as a £200 billion stealth tax raid. 265 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,120 And I'm going to try and explain it tonight with a segment we'd like to call. 266 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,640 RuPaul's Fiscal Drag Race. 267 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:57,240 ♪ It's not about the money, money, money 268 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,520 ♪ We don't need your money, money, money... ♪ 269 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,880 Hi. Hello. 270 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,760 Oh, you need this? You need a hand putting this on? 271 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,000 Alex can't actually stand still on the blades, 272 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:13,800 so he needs me to dress him. 273 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,960 Thank you. You all right? It was always going to happen one day. 274 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,960 There you go. All right, so, 275 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,880 imagine you're being paid £10,000 276 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,520 and you need to buy £10,000 worth of mascara. 277 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,560 Now, because the tax threshold is £12,500, 278 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,720 you don't have to pay any tax at all, 279 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,040 you can spend all the money you've got on the mascara. 280 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:35,120 Slay. 281 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:36,720 Thank you very much. Thank you. 282 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,960 Now, imagine that because of inflation, 283 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,240 that mascara has now gone up to £20,000, 284 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,160 but you got a lovely boss who has also raised your wage to £20,000. 285 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,920 Oh, big fat slay. 286 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:50,480 LAUGHTER. 287 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:53,360 However, the tax threshold hasn't moved, 288 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,360 so you now have to pay tax on everything over £12,500. 289 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Which comes to £1,500 of tax, which means you know can't afford your mascara. 290 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:05,440 That is what fiscal drag is, and according to Ed Davey, 291 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:08,800 it's going to rake in around £200 billion for the government, 292 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,680 while affecting the poorest in society. 293 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,760 Now, the only way you can get your mascara 294 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,160 is to hope that Santa has someone his.. 295 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:16,760 Big fat SLEIGH. 296 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,600 And that was RuPaul's Fiscal Drag Race. 297 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,000 CHEERING. 298 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:24,520 Would you please thank Kitty Scott-Claus? 299 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,120 Thank you. Thank you. 300 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:28,560 ♪ We don't think about the money, money, money 301 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,520 ♪ We don't need your money, money, money. ♪ 302 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,920 No.. Here he goes. 303 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,480 There we go. 304 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,200 By the way... AUDIENCE: Wahey! 305 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,120 Really nice, it's come to people praising me just for sitting down. 306 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,880 To be fair, some of those were for not shitting yourself as well. 307 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:52,160 By the way, when you were talking this week about fiscal drag, 308 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,480 I thought you kept talking about fiscal brag, 309 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:55,960 like it was a humble brag. 310 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,160 I just found a fiver in my coat - fiscal brag. 311 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,280 OK, so onto the issue we received loads of tweets about. 312 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:04,320 And Debbie said... 313 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,160 Now, it was reported earlier in the week that the government 314 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,880 was going to force people with disabilities to work from home, or lose their benefits. 315 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,920 It was partly spurred on by this controversial clip 316 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:22,280 featuring Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott. 317 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,360 I think that if you can work, as a principal, you should work 318 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,120 and that is what the government believes, 319 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,080 that's been the thrust of all of our policies. 320 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,680 Of course, there should be support for people to help them into work 321 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,920 or to help them with issues that they're facing, 322 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,400 but ultimately, there is a duty on citizens 323 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,880 that if they are able to go to work, that's what they should do. 324 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:44,360 Now, we've done a bit of a deep dive on your behalf, 325 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,880 and this is genuine, we did this during the week, 326 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,000 We contacted Laura Trott's office to find out what she meant by all that. 327 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:53,320 Her spokesperson said her comments weren't aimed at disabled people, 328 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,360 they were for people who genuinely have no reason not to work. 329 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,360 Now, there seems to be two things going on in this statement. 330 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:02,560 One is for long-term unemployed people who have no sickness or disability. 331 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,216 If those people don't take up a mandatory placement after 18 months 332 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,240 of looking for work, they can have their benefits halted. 333 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:09,960 According to Laura Trott's office, 334 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,080 this doesn't apply to anyone currently on disability benefits. 335 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,040 Now, coincidentally, I was at Speakers House in Parliament 336 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,840 this week for a reception for Disability History Month. 337 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,600 I met the Speaker of the House, 338 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,920 I got a photo with him in front of a picture of him 339 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:26,840 that was painted on the wall. 340 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,840 Do you reckon he... do you reckon he was just like, 341 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,760 he spends his time just standing under there until someone recognises him? 342 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,200 Doe she remind you of anyone? 343 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,560 In the same pose, stepping out, like, you know? 344 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,280 We talked for about 20 minutes about rugby league.. Of course you did. 345 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,880 Was that why you're on your own? LAUGHTER. 346 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,360 What was interesting for me was this was the same day 347 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,960 that the Autumn Statement came out. 348 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,520 But there was so much support for people with disabilities 349 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,200 from all sides of Parliament. 350 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,120 There was a Tory MP who got up and spoke, who had Cerebral Palsy, 351 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,600 there was a Labour MP who got up and spoke, who was blind, 352 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,640 there was a guy with Down syndrome, who works in Parliament. 353 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,400 It was kind of amazing to see how many people were supportive 354 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,000 of people with disabilities, 355 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:16,440 including the minister Penny Mordaunt, 356 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,920 who was there supporting a learning disability choir. 357 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,760 So I, on the way out, grabbed Penny Mordaunt and said, 358 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,560 "Right, what's going on with this Autumn Statement? 359 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:28,160 "How is it going to affect people with disabilities?" 360 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:32,200 And I said, "Can you DM me, please?" 361 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,280 Of course you did. 362 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,160 So Penny Mordaunt sent me a DM to explain 363 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,960 what's going on with the Autumn Statement. 364 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,040 That's right, I asked her for her opinion in a segment 365 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,640 I'd like to call. 366 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:45,160 A Mordaunt For Your Thoughts. 367 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:47,920 So... 368 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,680 I like it. Yeah, thanks. 369 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,496 So Penny Mordaunt sent me a link to what she said in the Commons on Thursday, 370 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:59,080 which was this - "The closing claims measure does not apply to anyone with disabilities or a child." 371 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:00,760 She ended the message by saying, 372 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,880 "No child or person with a disability would lose out because of these measures." 373 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:07,640 Which is, obviously, great news, but let's be honest, 374 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,720 she really ended it with, "Now stop DM-ing me." 375 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,000 What's that emoji? I think there's an emoji for that. 376 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:15,840 She also added if anyone is worried about 377 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,496 how these measures are going to affect them, 378 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:19,120 you should contact your local MP. 379 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:22,560 Right? So the measures won't affect anyone, right, with a disability. 380 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:24,560 But reading more into the proposals, 381 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,000 anyone applying for disability benefits AFTER 2025, 382 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,680 will come under new rules as to what constitutes being fit to work. 383 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:35,040 Now, this is because we now live in a world where people CAN work from home. 384 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,560 So there's a whole bunch of questions to go along with that. 385 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,040 How are they going to decide who is fit to work from home? 386 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,880 Also, what jobs are they expecting these people to do from home? 387 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,400 Like, that's the thing that's been baffling me, it's like, so 388 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,920 right, you can work from home, 389 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,240 but how many jobs do you know straight away you can just do from home? 390 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,120 Like, OnlyFans? 391 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:57,800 LAUGHTER Look... APPLAUSE. 392 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,600 Do you know what? Yes? 393 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:02,840 Push comes to shove, I'll start and OnlyHands. 394 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,200 And the great thing is, you can now build yourself as a six foot one. 395 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,640 LAUGHTER. 396 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,680 Leggy brunette? 397 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,000 LAUGHTER. 398 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:19,360 So basically, the upshot is this - 399 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,520 if you're disabled now, nothing will change, 400 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:25,320 but if you're planning on becoming disabled, do it before 2025. 401 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,400 So the question is though, why was there this feeling this week 402 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,640 that disabled people were being targeted? 403 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,800 It's because there was one running at 200 was an hour around the Emirates. 404 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,080 LAUGHTER 405 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:39,080 I think it is, genuinely, I mean, look, 406 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,640 it's because we are targeted quite a lot of the time 407 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,320 and over the course of time, certainly under this government, 408 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:48,800 under most of them, disability benefits are always the target. 409 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,120 We've seen the changes to PIP and stuff like that, 410 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,320 and it feels like it comes around, like, 411 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,000 comes around quicker every year, the blaming of disabled people. 412 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,520 It does, doesn't it, yeah? 413 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:00,720 You don't get a card, you just get a letter saying you've lost your benefits. 414 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,080 But it feels like that happens every single year, 415 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:06,760 it's kind of the cycle that goes around and they try and change stuff. 416 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,920 And I think that this idea that people fraudulently claiming benefits 417 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,640 is why the country is in the shit. 418 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:13,840 It's kind of... that's slightly pushed out there, 419 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,400 but it's not true. It's like... 420 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:20,080 Of PIP spending, only 0.2% was on fraudulent claims and error. 421 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:24,720 And it's like the DWP spent 40 million in the last financial year 422 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,760 on fraudulent claims, but underpaid 60 million. 423 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,120 So when you think about... 424 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,520 Like I said before, that last... that last budget last year... Yeah. 425 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,560 ..that cost us nearly 60 billion and we're talking about 426 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,960 kind of these 0.2%, and I think that we are demonised, 427 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,600 I think it's... it's an easy target and, you know, as I said, 428 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,880 this idea that disabled people don't want to work or get thrown in, 429 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,600 but they do, but we just need... 430 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:53,400 also you need a society and measures that allow us to flourish as well. 431 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,920 APPLAUSE, WHOOPING. 432 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,440 There was a... 433 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,720 You're not just a pair of great pins, are you? 434 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:13,720 There was a Scope study last week that said 435 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,480 if people with disabilities were helped into the workforce the right way, 436 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,360 it could bring in £15 billion for the economy. 437 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,680 But, you need people with disabilities actually making that happen. 438 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,376 The Labour MP Marsha de Cordova was at Speakers House during the week 439 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,680 and she used a great phrase, "Nothing about us without us." 440 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,640 More disabled people need to be involved in the decision-making. 441 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:34,920 And, look, what we need at a time like this... 442 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,800 APPLAUSE Well, yeah. 443 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,920 What we need at a time like this is an expert on saving money. 444 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,480 So, please welcome money saving expert Martin Lewis. 445 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,200 ♪ Money, money, money 446 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,400 ♪ Must be funny in a rich man's world. ♪ 447 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,200 Welcome, welcome, welcome. 448 00:20:58,240 --> 00:20:59,720 Can I... 449 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,560 Just listening to that, forgive me, 450 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,880 but you're talking physical disability. 451 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,360 And the other big issue on this is mental health and I am chair of. 452 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,600 The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute charity, 453 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:13,520 and they're redefining, under the Work Capability Assessment, 454 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:15,280 how it works for mental health, 455 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,200 so the thing is you have to have a substantial risk, 456 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,240 but the definition of substantial risk of not being able to work 457 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,440 is going to be. 458 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,280 "In crisis are undergoing an active psychotic episode". 459 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:27,320 Now, that is a high bar. 460 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:29,720 That's higher than you could jump in those blades. 461 00:21:29,760 --> 00:21:32,400 That's how high that bar is. 462 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:33,680 And so, we're concerned, 463 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,880 would someone who is, say, self-harming on a daily basis 464 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,000 really constantly anxious, 465 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,400 but not directly in crisis and not directly psychotic, 466 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,200 still, therefore, not be a substantial risk in this? 467 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,120 So actually, while you're talking physical disabilities, 468 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,640 the impact on the mental health and mental illness, 469 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,160 there are also some real questions to be had 470 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,560 in the way it's been defined. 471 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,400 When you look at the underlying numbers, 472 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,160 it does look like some of this has been done just to save money, 473 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:04,520 as opposed to actually push people back into work. 474 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,040 Interesting. 475 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,480 APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. 476 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,640 So that was my comedy intro! 477 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,120 Welcome to the show! 478 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,360 Look, we've asked our audience for some questions to throw at you. 479 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,976 Yeah. And we're going to see how many you can get through in a very 480 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,960 short space of time, and Josh and Alex have got some as well. 481 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,720 So let's do this. Can we get a clock going? 482 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,040 TENSE MUSIC. 483 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,080 That'll do. 484 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:34,680 OK. JJ said... 485 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:39,960 Look, you have lots of push economic things. 486 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,960 When you do push economics like the bedroom tax, it can be a good idea. 487 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,616 We want to push people into smaller houses to free up bigger houses. 488 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,696 The problem is when you push them into doing something 489 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,040 and there are no small houses. 490 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,640 So the issue here is pushing people to do something is good, 491 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,720 but only if it's something they're capable of doing, 492 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,800 and that's where the question is. Brilliant. 493 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,640 David said... 494 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,296 Not everything's going up. Mobile phones are getting much cheaper. 495 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:02,880 That's the one deflationary thing. 496 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,880 You can currently get, if you factor it all in, £6.25 for 100GB, 497 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,800 unlimited minutes, unlimited texts. So therefore that's come down, 498 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,776 but the real key is saving money compared to what you 499 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,360 would have spent if you didn't act, which is why you should be 500 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,360 acting all the time to try and minimise your expenditure. 501 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:17,800 Ooh. Diane said... 502 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,520 Two reasons it isn't. One, cash under the mattress, 503 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:25,000 home insurance only covers £1,000 of cash. 504 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:26,960 Put money in a savings account, you get interest 505 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,480 and you're protected to £85,000 per person per financial institution. 506 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,880 Two, it's really uncomfortable to sleep on. 507 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,360 LAUGHTER. 508 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:35,640 Alex? 509 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,160 Have you ever gone into Tesco at lunchtime 510 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,480 and not gone for the meal deal? 511 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,600 LAUGHTER. 512 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,960 No, not quite, but if you do want the meal deal, 513 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,440 you go for the expensive sandwich or pasta, you go for the fruit because 514 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,480 that's the highest value, and then of course you go for the smoothie, 515 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,600 as everybody knows, because that's the most expensive of the drinks. 516 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,920 My guy! Josh. 517 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,480 If you talk for ten minutes at the start of a show about your new legs, 518 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:02,920 does that make them tax-deductible? 519 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,200 LAUGHTER. 520 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,720 BUZZER. 521 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:08,120 Time's up! 522 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,040 I mean, go on if you've got an answer. If you've got an answer. 523 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,120 I was just going to say, I'm not sure I can stand that one up! 524 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,520 Now, look, we've also taken your advice. 525 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,640 You often talk about getting a better deal, 526 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,560 maybe changing energy providers 527 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,240 if there's another provider that can do the same thing for cheaper. 528 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,000 So you should be happy with this, but you won't be. 529 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,560 We've looked around and we've found a cheaper version of you. 530 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,800 We've found someone by the name of Mickey Lewis. 531 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,920 So I'm going to have to ask you, Mickey Lewis, 532 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,680 would you come on out, please? 533 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,520 ♪ Money, money, money ♪ Must be funny 534 00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,720 ♪ In a rich man's world 535 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,160 ♪ Money, money, money... ♪ 536 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:59,760 Can I confirm your name is actually Mickey Lewis? It is. OK, brilliant. 537 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,640 What is your top money saving tip? One word. Crypto. 538 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,360 Can we get Martin Lewis back? Can we get Martin Lewis back? 539 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,120 I'm sorry, no, seriously. Thank you, it was worth a shot, but, you know. 540 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,640 Don't always go with the cheaper option. 541 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,320 APPLAUSE. 542 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,160 I've been deepfaked on social media. 543 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,760 I didn't think I was going to be deepfaked here. 544 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,920 All right, let's welcome tonight's next guests. 545 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:25,720 You'll know him from Britain's Got Talent. 546 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,080 You'll know her from recent immigration figures. 547 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:31,160 Please welcome Nabil Abdul Rashid and Katherine Ryan! 548 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,880 CHEERING. 549 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,520 Welcome. 550 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,280 Er, all right. What did you both make of the Autumn Statement? 551 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,680 Katherine? 552 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,160 I mean, it was 120 pages, so not much. 553 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:01,240 Yeah, no, I'm not a fan of Jeremy Hunt generally. 554 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,080 He called for dismantling the NHS before bringing it 555 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,200 to its knees as Health Secretary. 556 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:09,120 He falsely charged taxpayers for personal expenditure. 557 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,160 He breached anti-money laundering rules. So he's not my fave. 558 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,560 And I always look for guys like that trying to slip it in, 559 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,120 you know what I mean? 560 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,680 LAUGHTER. 561 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,040 And he... 562 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,680 He slipped in a few things that alarmed me in the autumn report. 563 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,040 He said that people who live closest to pylons 564 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,920 and electricity stations get ten grand. 565 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,800 That means those must not be safe. And then he also said... 566 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,600 LAUGHTER 567 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,200 I need to Erin Brockovich the whole thing wide open. 568 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:42,160 But then he also said that they were going to invest 500 million 569 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,920 to make Britain an AI powerhouse, which sounds like a good thing, 570 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,480 but AI is the seventh highest contributor to job displacement, 571 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:55,000 and 85 million jobs will be lost by 2025 to AI, 572 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,080 and the AI on my phone photo apps thinks I'm a man. 573 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:01,600 Right! 574 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,960 That has drawn a round of applause right there. Nabil? 575 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,240 The people agree! 576 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,880 I thought it was cute! 577 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:13,040 Just the idea of these imperialist multimillionaires 578 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,320 pretending like they care about how normal people live. 579 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:19,480 I don't know, I think, to be fair, the Tories, I've given them 580 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:20,880 a chance, I have. 581 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,760 They've rebranded so many times, they've become very progressive. 582 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:25,600 Everyone's gotten a second chance, 583 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,840 no matter how shit they've been at their job. 584 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:33,600 Honestly, it's like a children's party. No child left behind, etc. 585 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,440 Except Kwasi Kwarteng. 586 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,200 LAUGHTER 587 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,280 I think even they have to give up now, 588 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,920 because it has become very clear, you can put lipstick on a pig... 589 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,800 And David... LAUGHTER. 590 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,960 And David Cameron will still slip in. 591 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,880 This is what they do. It's what they do! 592 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,800 They're slipping it in. 593 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,040 Now, we did mention earlier in the show we were going to 594 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,600 test out the running and stopping power of Alex's blades. 595 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,720 It's come time for that now. Shit. 596 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:06,320 Oh, yeah, all right. In a segment we'd like to call RuPaul's Leg Race. 597 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,760 All right. OK, are you ready? Are you ready here? 598 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,520 Are you ready, Limbford Christie? 599 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,560 What's the crash helmet...? Oh, shit. 600 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,920 Genuinely for health and safety. 601 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,760 Genuinely? Yeah. There you go. Cool, OK, so... 602 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:31,640 OK, so the idea is... Oh, fuck. 603 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:33,200 LAUGHTER. 604 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,040 Basically, the idea is, can you stop? 605 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,080 You're going to run towards the finish line, 606 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:40,720 but try and stop before you run into all your favourite things. 607 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:44,640 Christmas presents, Bukayo Saka, Duncan from Blue and Craig David. 608 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,400 LAUGHTER. 609 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,480 So your job is to run, get through the tape 610 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,560 and then stop before you hit them. I've got you, I've got you. 611 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,520 MUSIC: The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. 612 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,040 AUDIENCE CLAPPING. 613 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:57,640 Take it away! Go! 614 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,040 CHEERING. 615 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,480 Fuck! 616 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:04,800 CHEERING. 617 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,320 I mean, that was kind of always going to happen. 618 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,680 We'll have more Last Leg for you after the break as we... Are you OK? 619 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,600 I should have checked that first. 620 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,040 We're going to ask why world leaders are taking a jump to the right, 621 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,000 and we want to know who should be on top of our Christmas tree this year. 622 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,840 Tweet us @TheLastLeg, hashtag it ♪LastLegAngel. 623 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,400 Alex will put it on top of the tree at the end of the show. 624 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:32,920 We'll see you in a little bit. 625 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,720 CHEERING. 626 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:45,720 CHEERING. 627 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:56,840 Welcome back to That Last Leg. 628 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,840 We're joined by Martin Lewis, Katherine Ryan 629 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,360 and Nabil Abdul Rashid. 630 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,440 I've got the top four of who people at home are suggesting 631 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,560 to go on top of the tree. They are... 632 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,880 Mary Earps. 633 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,560 Carol Vorderman. 634 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,360 David Tennant. 635 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,640 And Martin Lewis. 636 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:13,760 CHEERING. 637 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,240 So we're going to tweet... 638 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,360 This could be very awkward if it's not him! 639 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,640 It's all right. Can I...? I'm Jewish. Leave me out of it. 640 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:23,320 LAUGHTER. 641 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,920 We're going to tweet that now from the Last Leg account. 642 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,536 We're going to tweet it as a poll, and we'd love you to vote on it. 643 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,520 And we'll reveal it at the end of the show. 644 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,120 Alex will put it on top of the tree. Back to the news. 645 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,840 We got a load of tweets about Rishi Sunak's handyman skills today, 646 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,280 including this one from a South Norfolk 647 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,680 councillor by the name of John Morland. 648 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,200 He said... 649 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,440 Now, this suspicious video surfaced which seemed to show that the. 650 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,240 PM doesn't know how to use a hammer. 651 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,160 LAUGHTER. 652 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,120 Now... 653 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,920 Before you get carried away, Labour re-tweeted that video 654 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,840 and said, "Rishi Sunak, not the son of a toolmaker". 655 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:06,280 They also said, 656 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,280 "the man who hammers working people can't work a hammer." 657 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,320 It turns out, though, the full video 658 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,880 shows he was told to use it that way. Watch this. 659 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:17,200 Um...? Which one of these? 660 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:19,360 Let's go that one, but you're going to use this bit. 661 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,480 Oh! Sideways? 662 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,440 Yeah, and... 663 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,640 No, no, no. More? Oh, more? Like really... 664 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,120 Now, come on, Rishi! 665 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,400 Now, what's interesting is we've checked the Twitter account 666 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:33,960 and the Facebook account of Labour. 667 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,920 They haven't taken their one down yet. 668 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,880 Wow. The thing is, I like the idea of someone being worse with a hammer than me. 669 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,120 LAUGHTER Why have you ruined it? 670 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,840 While we're talking about world leaders, Jeremy said, 671 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,360 "♪IsltOk that you can easily spot a far right politician 672 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,800 "by their massively extravagant and weird hairstyle?" 673 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,680 It's been a week for it. It began with this guy 674 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,360 being elected President of Argentina. 675 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:56,840 His name is Javier Milei, his nickname is El Loco, 676 00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,520 which means "The Madman." 677 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,880 He's anti-abortion, opposes sex education in schools, 678 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,480 wielded a chainsaw at rallies to symbolise how he's going to cut. 679 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,680 Government red tape, and claims to receive advice 680 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,880 from his five dogs, who are all clones of his original dog, 681 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,680 who told him to run for President via a psychic medium. 682 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,240 Is there a chance he's actually a really good guy, 683 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,120 but his dead dog's really right wing? 684 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,520 How do you talk... How is he talking to the dead dogs? 685 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,920 Is he like doing a Ouija board and it's pointing to letters, 686 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,040 W, O, O, F. 687 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,760 What do you think of him, Nabil? 688 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,720 He is like a modern-day Caligula. 689 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,680 He had his horse become an adviser. Yes. 690 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,840 He then sent soldiers to attack the ocean as a way to wage war 691 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,680 against Poseidon, which is similar 692 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:58,000 because this guy's also fighting a war against water. 693 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,280 Not literally, he just looks like he hasn't showered in a while. 694 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,240 He was in a Rolling Stones cover band and claims to have been 695 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,440 a tantric sex instructor. He said he hasn't combed his hair 696 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,800 since he was 13, and he came to fame as a financial pundit on television. 697 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,360 That's some of the best eyebrow work I've ever seen. 698 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,720 Wow, hello! 699 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,800 That's it, you're the next Prime Minister. 700 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:30,760 Tantric sex? Yeah. 701 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,160 So he is like an enlightened Donald Trump? 702 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,600 You can imagine, "Just grab her by the chakras." 703 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,320 It was kind of a week for it, though, 704 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,280 because in Netherlands they elected a new guy. 705 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,440 They elected this guy. 706 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,840 Geert Wilders, who dropped his policy of banning Mosques 707 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,040 and the Koran, and instead focused on curbing immigration. 708 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,360 He looks like a Donald Trump wax museum model. 709 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,280 I don't know about his political views, but he 100% looks like 710 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,800 a scientist who wants to make a human centipede. 711 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:16,120 I think they are both Harry Enfield characters. 712 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,600 He also wants the Netherlands to leave the EU 713 00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,920 in what he's calling "a Nexit." 714 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,960 But the interesting thing about those two is they both had 715 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,160 so few votes that they're going to struggle to form a government, 716 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,000 because no other party actually want to work with them. 717 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,480 But what's interesting is, in particular with Geert Wilders, 718 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,880 he came in on the back of an anti-migrant stance, 719 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,480 which, with migrant figures being released today, 720 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,680 there's a demonisation of migrants again. 721 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:41,960 So do you think it's possible 722 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,720 a similar thing is going to happen here? 723 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,640 It does worry me, for obvious reasons. 724 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,520 I see some of the rhetoric and it is always the same shit. 725 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,640 Oh, the NHS is suffering because of the migrants! 726 00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,120 Bitch, please, the NHS has run because of migrants. 727 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,720 If it wasn't for us... CHEERING. 728 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,440 I'm sorry. If it wasn't for migrants, 729 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,560 the NHS would be closed on a Sunday. I'm sorry. 730 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,200 On migration, it's interesting, because when you poll, 731 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:22,600 generally people want less migrants. 732 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,640 But when you poll by sectors, whether you want care workers, 733 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,960 whether you want NHS staff, there is only one sector where people 734 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,920 don't actually want more migrants, and the only sector they don't want 735 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,640 more migrants is banking. 736 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,280 Really?! Right, but everything else? 737 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,040 Everything else. If you ask about, do we need more care workers? 738 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,080 Yes. Do we need more NHS workers? Yes. 739 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:47,200 So, actually, if you wanted to do this, instead of saying 740 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:49,320 we have got this big migrant number, 741 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,200 what you should actually do is say we have got this many 742 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,760 care worker migrants, we've got this many NHS workers, 743 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,800 and attitudes may be somewhat different. 744 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,080 CHEERING. 745 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:06,120 Now, look, the rise of the far right has been kind of depressing 746 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,400 this week, so we need a little bit of cheering up. 747 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,360 Would you like to see a well-known Last Leg host making a fool 748 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,360 of himself last weekend while dressed as an owl? 749 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:16,880 So last weekend I took part in a Masked Entertainer Gala 750 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:18,840 to raise money for Motor Neurone Disease, 751 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,120 on behalf of the Rob Burrow Foundation at Headingley. 752 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,760 There was a raft of sportspeople, I sang Blister in the Sun 753 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,080 by The Violent Femmes, while dressed as an owl. 754 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,680 It was one of the bleakest things I've ever done. 755 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,840 ♪ Let me go on, like I blister in the sun 756 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,640 ♪ Let me go on 757 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:41,480 ♪ Big hands, I know you're the one. ♪ 758 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,160 CHEERING. 759 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,640 As an owl, it must have been great having the audience behind you so 760 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,000 you could just turn around and look at them, couldn't you? 761 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,480 Do you know what, Rob Burrow was there in the room and I think 762 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,160 it's the cruellest thing I've ever done, to sing and dance 763 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,800 like that in front of a man who can't get up and leave the room. 764 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,376 We'll have more Last Leg for you after the break, as we check out 765 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,400 some tools in space, and a Royal on breakfast TV. 766 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,080 Plus we want to know who should go on top of our Christmas tree. 767 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,800 Respond to our poll @TheLastLeg, we'll see you in a little bit. 768 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,960 Welcome back to The Last Leg. 769 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,480 We're joined by Martin Lewis, 770 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,520 Katherine Ryan and Nabil Abdulrashid. 771 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,640 Shocking news this week for any little boy 772 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,800 wanting to be an astronaut. NASA researchers have found 773 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,560 that male astronauts may return from deep space 774 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,520 prone to erectile dysfunction. 775 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,960 Apparently, there are galactic cosmic rays 776 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,520 that can impair the function of erectile tissues, 777 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,200 effects could last potentially for decades. 778 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:08,720 Which must make re-entry really tricky. 779 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,320 APPLAUSE Thank you. 780 00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,560 From what I've heard, they have to send up a giant thumb 781 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,040 to help him in. 782 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,200 Houston, we have a problem. 783 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,640 You said, to little boys, no-one is going to explain that 784 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,040 to their kid this week! 785 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:30,200 Don't want to go into that, by the way. 786 00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:34,760 It does feel like the one excuse Prince Andrew didn't use... 787 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,680 "Because of my time in space, I just can't get a hard-on." 788 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:44,800 As far as excuses go, it's not me, it's not you, it's gravity. 789 00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,280 It's so much easier to keep stuff up in there. 790 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,480 "Hang on a minute, let me look at Uranus, see if that works." 791 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:01,360 I will blame that on the new legs. 792 00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,120 In other space news, a stray tool bag was dropped by astronauts 793 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:10,680 on an International Space Station space walk. It was visible 794 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:14,080 from the ground as it flew over Britain on Tuesday. 795 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,600 How? 796 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,840 I'm not sure if it was visible with the naked eye, 797 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,520 but certainly with a telescope. 798 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,160 All right, because how fucking low is it flying? 799 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,680 I couldn't see a tool bag if it was at the other end of the room. 800 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,600 Just full of shitloads of Viagra, innit? 801 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,120 Luckily for the flaccid astronauts, or flastronauts, 802 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,600 advice was ready for them when they landed from... 803 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,720 That's right, the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. 804 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,560 This week she took viewers' questions on breakfast television 805 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,120 in this uncomfortable footage. 806 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,400 You pop down and get a lovely saucy underwear department in your chest 807 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,320 of drawers, and you really make the hair, blow dry the hair, 808 00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,280 then have a lovely... And take him out on a treat. 809 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,040 It needs to be more treats. 810 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,200 That was the question, how can I make time for my partner? 811 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:07,880 The advisory segment continued with another caller 812 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,800 and the Duchess's love of underwear. 813 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,840 You could say, darling, I have booked your favourite place 814 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:18,120 to climb. I will just be waiting when you come back. 815 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,000 You go climbing, then we can have a lovely weekend 816 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,720 with the saucy underwear on. 817 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,840 I find it quite odd that people are getting relationship advice 818 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,320 from someone who is married to a sweaty weirdo. 819 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:40,040 By the way, "weirdo" is the word I had to change in that joke. 820 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,040 Very different to the advice you were handing out, isn't it, Martin? 821 00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,680 It depends what you're asking me. 822 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,120 I thought she was talking to a dog when she first said treats. 823 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,240 I was a bit lost for a second. 824 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,920 What people don't realise, historically, what she's doing 825 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:02,320 is actually an age-old tradition for the Royal family. 826 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,840 Apparently that was Queen Victoria's secret. 827 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:08,640 Whoa, lovely! Lovely! 828 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,040 Now, look, we think they have asked the wrong person. 829 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,520 we've got someone here, Katherine, you have a podcast, 830 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,760 you answer people's questions, you give advice. Yeah. 831 00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,120 We are going to throw exactly the questions 832 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,480 that were thrown at her at you. 833 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,040 Our relationship expert, Katherine Ryan. Great. 834 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:31,960 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 835 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,160 Welcome back to This Evening where Katherine is going to answer 836 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:41,680 relationship questions. 837 00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:44,040 Caller number one, what's your name? 838 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,840 JOSH: My name's Susanne. 839 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,560 OK, I have a new son and work full time, 840 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:54,960 how can I make time for my partner if he feels left out? 841 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:59,200 Oh, Susanne. You have had a baby and your partner, a grown man, 842 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:01,280 feels jealous of the baby. 843 00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,400 Well, it's very important to make that man feel 844 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,160 sexually wanted, you know, important. 845 00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,400 So, you put on your best, slimy underwear... 846 00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,440 Saucy underwear, 847 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,360 and you light some candles, 848 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:19,440 and you set the interior of his car alight... 849 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,200 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 850 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:28,840 Caller number two, what's your name? 851 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:29,880 My name's Claire. 852 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,880 What question would you like to ask Katherine? 853 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,480 We've been together - don't know why I'm doing this voice - 854 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,440 for 12 years and have a seven-year-old son, 855 00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:43,040 how can we keep the spark alive in our relationship? 856 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,440 Oh, well, the spark's gone. 857 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,000 The spark is never, ever coming back. 858 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,520 You traded in dopamine for serotonin. 859 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,040 You will never have exciting moments ever again. 860 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,240 You're just sort of calm and loved and safe. 861 00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,040 You could try having an affair. 862 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,080 That might drive him mad, 863 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,920 make him want to just get with you out of jealousy. 864 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,760 It's a big risk, he could leave, but, you know, 865 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,800 there's a man whose car is on fire, he's single, looking for someone! 866 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,640 APPLAUSE. 867 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,120 Thank you. 868 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,720 There will be more Last Leg for you after the break where. 869 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,680 Josh wraps up the last seven days and Alex uses is a new legs 870 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:27,000 to put an angel on top of our Christmas tree! 871 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:45,880 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 872 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,080 Welcome back to The Last Leg. 873 00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:49,000 We're joined by Martin Lewis, Katherine Ryan 874 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,160 and Nabil Abdulrashid. 875 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:51,600 I just want to remind you there's 876 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:54,040 a para standing tennis come and try day tomorrow 877 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,920 at the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton. 878 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,800 Britain's number one player, Nicky Maxwell, 879 00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,960 is in the audience tonight, you'll see both of us... 880 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,600 CHEERING ..both of us in action tomorrow. 881 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,000 Now, Josh has been hammering away at the last seven days. 882 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,280 What have you got? 883 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,800 Would you like to see nail-biting footage of the almighty power 884 00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,200 of a hot dog cannon at a college basketball game? 885 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:16,360 Yes, please. 886 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,440 I will talk you through this, here we go. 887 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,640 So, there it is. Duck. Get your heads down. 888 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,080 How bad is this going to be? Here it comes! 889 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:25,280 Oh, there it is. 890 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:26,520 Ah. 891 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,440 Would you... To be there to that guy, 892 00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,080 that hot dog had just come back from deep space! 893 00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,640 Would you like to see the surprising clip of a guy getting 894 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,800 more than he bargained for from an arcade machine? 895 00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,000 Yes, please. 896 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,240 LAUGHTER. 897 00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,240 All right, we asked you who should go on the top of our Christmas tree. 898 00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,480 Someone called Steve said, 899 00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:11,520 "James Cleverly should be sat atop the Christmas tree this week. 900 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,400 "Surely he deserves something shoved up his shithole!" 901 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,360 LAUGHTER. 902 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,880 APPLAUSE. 903 00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,440 Um... 904 00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:24,640 It has been decided, the votes are in, though. 905 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,640 It was between Mary Earps, Carol Vorderman, David Tennant 906 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,920 and Martin Lewis. 907 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:30,160 And, Martin... 908 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:32,600 ..David Tennant has won! 909 00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:34,760 CHEERING. 910 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:39,520 For a whole bunch of... 911 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,120 You said Alex was putting the fairy on top of the Christmas tree. 912 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,440 David Tennant's welcome to it! 913 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,120 Well, David was on the show last week. 914 00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,360 Turns out the TARDIS badge he was wearing was in the trans colours 915 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,120 and it raised thousands of pounds for an LGBTQ+ charity. 916 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:56,560 So, I think... CHEERING 917 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,560 ..I think there is no more deserving person than David Tennant. 918 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,040 Where's your badge, Martin?! 919 00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,360 To be fair, he has raised loads of money as well. 920 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,120 All right, Alex is about to use his new legs 921 00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:10,456 to put the angel on top of the tree but before he does that, 922 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,320 would you please thank our guests for tonight, Nabil Abdulrashid! 923 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:15,160 CHEERING. 924 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:16,600 Katherine Ryan! 925 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,160 CHEERING. 926 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:19,480 Martin Lewis! 927 00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,240 CHEERING. 928 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,760 And Mickey Lewis! 929 00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:27,480 And my co-hosts, Josh Widdicombe! And Alex Brooker! 930 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,520 CHEERING. 931 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,680 We'll be back next week with comedians Harry Hill 932 00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,200 and Jordan Gray and environmentalist Chris Packham. 933 00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:37,560 Right now, though, Alex is going to place the David Tennant angel 934 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,960 on top of our Christmas tree. 935 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,520 With his new legs! 936 00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:45,080 You can do this, big guy, you can do this. 937 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,040 CHEERING. 938 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,320 Thank you very much. Thank you. 939 00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,160 Are you... Are you sure you can do this? 940 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,120 CROWD: Alex! Alex! Alex! 941 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,600 ♪ You're simply the best... 942 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,160 Everyone's so small, like Josh! 943 00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,000 ♪ Better than all the rest.♪ 944 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,600 ♪ Like a blister in the sun, let me go on... 945 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,320 Bloody hell, is that owl in pain? 946 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,080 ♪ Big hands, I know you're the one.♪ 947 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,280 LAUGHTER. 948 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,680 Try again in a minute, mate. 949 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:28,760 ET MUSIC. 950 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,800 LAUGHTER. 951 00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,280 CHEERING. 952 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:45,680 Thanks for watching The Last Leg. 953 00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:49,000 My name's Adam Hills, see you next week for the next leg! Goodnight! 954 00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,160 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE. 955 00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:55,280 Subtitles by Red Bee Media