Does Ben Miller have four friends with rhyming names? | Would I Lie to You? - BBC One

[@dunder567]

This would've been the perfect card for Bob Mortimer

[@jackcarter5101]

Richard Osman could have done better than this

[@athull08]

Jack Carter yes, he'd have come up with more credible names, like Gary Barry, Jane Payne, Jason Mason.

[@floris.927]

You mean Troubadour Mortimer?

[@Deathlygunn]

athull08 Phill Hill

[@bhew7409]

any card is perfect for Bob Mortimer!

[@josephdouglas5242]

I love how Lee is always trying to stall for his teammates.

[@alisonn7200]

"I bet you're wishing you'd thought of those names earlier". Love it.

[@joehending4741]

Dave Clave... Or to give him his full name, David Clavid.

[@Hankblue]

I googled Dave Clave and it turns out he actually exists 🤔

[@jonny4866]

Hahahhaahhahaah

[@EdwardIvings]

Angela Rangela

[@johnjohntv1195]

Richard Prichard Or as he’s otherwise known: Dick Prick

[@tomtt7514]

@@johnjohntv1195 underrated comment

[@ckyisyourfuture]

"dave clave...i was in a band with him. he played drums." seriously laughed my head off at that one. for those who don't know, "clave" is a percussion instrument widely used in spanish music (pronounce clah-vay in that situation)

[@jamessimonson9905]

Nerd

[@ckyisyourfuture]

@@jamessimonson9905 don't make me come over there and fight you in a rhythmic manner

[@Leto_0]

@@jamessimonson9905 You're boring

[@odd_shoes]

@@jamessimonson9905 Not a nerd, it's called knowledge. Not enough people have it in this world.

[@jamessimonson9905]

@@odd_shoes Let it go Kate it was a year ago

[@jonmorris9967]

The first time he said "Dave Clave" it radiated out joy to every single person within a three mile radius of the building. Then on top of that there has never been a greater level of anticipation in the history of the planet then people waiting for him to come up with the third name Anji Ranjee

[@theeternalnow6506]

This might be the funniest clip I've seen. The whole set up is so hilarious and full of anticipation. Absolutele comedy gold.

[@kwakekamdivasi591]

Haha, these producers are cruel. How was he supposed to sell that?

[@Green-cd1np]

Kwakeka Mdivasi lee probably would’ve

[@DreTheChronic]

Because it's funny

[@NDBit]

Not hard to do - or the producers job either, I don't think

[@iamphoenix6310]

He almost did until he cocked up at the end

[@zachjudge5885]

Bob Mortimer

[@deangoldstein4990]

I feel their pain...

[@hurera2000]

I know what you mean...

[@thomasfenton7620]

@@hurera2000 please don't mock his spleen

[@cammarc]

@@thomasfenton7620 I know, that's just so mean...

[@Will-ht2ny]

@@cammarc Don't be so easily offended, you silly old bean.

[@bananawithaknife]

this is probably the comment thread today with the least letters in it I've seen.

[@WxB2001]

He did pretty well with the lie. The names weren't too silly considering him making them up on the spot.

[@theeternalnow6506]

I think he did extremely well even. Once he read it out and everybody realized what was about to happen I bursted out laughing because you could see by his first responses that he realizes he has to make up 3 rhyming names on the spot. But then he sells it so well that at the end I thought it might be true.

[@aviationlba747]

*Angie Rangie*

[@Keeby101]

agreed. Amazing on the spot thinking. Ingenious!@@theeternalnow6506

[@Drtruman]

I keep coming back to this. This is probably in the top 5 clips. Henning's laugh finishes me. 😅😅😅🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@eyeshandy]

Yeah mine too

[@ethandraper4645]

OMG these people posting names that rhyme. Yes it's very easy when you have ages to come up with one.

[@jackxy2371]

Ethan Draper lulz

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

That's what your parents thought, but look how that turned out! I'm really sorry 😂

[@StephenIC]

"Why do you think you and Mark have never really..." Is one of my favourite lines from the show for some reason

[@goigus]

I don't understand that part

[@Pivot-Shorts]

2:10 David was so happy when he thought of that remark

[@Enbix]

Had it been a truth this would've been genius.

[@eveshute5107]

No, it would've been easy, you're not a genius for having certain friends

[@georgewillis592]

@@eveshute5107 He means the way he was saying the names would've been genius if it were true. Keep up.

[@dom85ross]

Could be said for a lot of things

[@bonitchka]

American actress Joan Van Ark has a brother named Mark Clark Van Ark.

[@egilsandnes9637]

bonitchka The perfect name for an awkward ardwark.

[@hurera2000]

It'd be great if he married Tony Stark in the dark

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

@@hurera2000 in a car park

[@DASyam-tb7qt]

@@thedunyadoneya2628 while eating an aardvark

[@bradley5210]

2:11 Henning Wehn's laugh lol

[@ST1212100]

2:23 as well.. love him

[@dr.staddle9802]

love him so much

[@Waltzhybrid92]

I never wanted it to be more true.

[@Keeby101]

I was rooting for it to be a lie. Sheer brilliance

[@jack7195]

Hennings laugh is so maniacal😂

[@matthewpeers4229]

A good thing to say here would have been something like "obviously Mark Park is really called Marcus Park, and Dave Clave is really David Clave" as it would have made it sound less ridiculous and SLIGHTLY more plausible

[@matthewpeers4229]

and Angie Rangie would of course be Angela Rangie

[@hc1897]

I have lots of those - Van Pan, Ken Chen, Lynn Jin. I'm Chinese (really).

[@hurera2000]

That lady got the surveyors wrong they were both quantity surveyors.

[@rayaqin]

gotta love David's logic on this one

[@30goals]

This is exactly what I would be like if I went on the show, although probably 10 times worse. How even the guests lie so smoothly and conjure up scenarios is crazy to me

[@YamanoteMr]

Because it’s scripted, and they are pretending

[@jeremello]

Sean Bean should rhyme, but it doesn't

[@LaggardlySort]

Shawn: **yawns** Sean: **yeans**

[@oz_jones]

@@LaggardlySort *dies

[@cutemissbubbly]

No because Sean is originally an Irish name so the phonetics are different

[@Paddy_17301]

Seán báin in the Irish language (Gaeilge) rhymes

[@mytube001]

It rhymes in Irish. As spelled, it means "old woman" (not grammatically correct together, but the words individually).

[@mrdeadsea7777]

The card actually read "My good friend Mark Park...", and then he goes on to say that Mark wasn't at his party because they were never really that close.

[@KarstenOkk]

Weird that there'd be inconsistencies with a story that has been entirely fabricated.

[@mrdeadsea7777]

KarstenOkk Well aren't you clever, congratulations, you're the winner !

[@potatopassingby]

It doesnt read "my good friend" it simply reads "aside from my friend Mark Park..."

[@turosfagyi]

"...I have three other good friends whose names rhyme". there you have it, good friend

[@benjaminmorris7159]

do you think he slipped in that stealth rhyme of doing twelfth night on the isle of wight purposely?

[@theeternalnow6506]

This made me cry laugh almost immediately. Absolutely hilarious lie to give the contestant. You could see the wheels spinning in his head once he realized he had to make up 3 names on the spot.

[@gibsonduvall]

I've got three friends who are all called William Hill - What's the odds on that!

[@joansmith69]

Originally Angie Rangie was the Quantity Surveyor. Three of four friends were at some point a surveyor..

[@parkviewmo]

I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard! Really a nasty lie cue! :-)

[@Pumbear]

"I have 4 good friends with rhyming names" 2 mins later "Yeah I hardly know 2 of them" Aight :p

[@oz_jones]

Amazing how the story that is entirely fabricated changes, isn't it?

[@laurawyliebloechl8204]

I work as a school bus driver and one year I had a Jayden, a Aiden, a Kayden, and a Hayden on my bus route. None of them were related. And they were all little firecrackers. It was so hard to keep their names straight when telling them to sit down and behave.

[@wishingwell12345]

Add in a girl, call her "The Maiden" and they've got a band started.

[@AppByDesign]

Lol I would have failed almost immediately

[@mick2d2]

Whenever I feel a bit a down in the dumps, this program is guaranteed to get me laughing my b*ll*cks off in no time! 8)

[@lynettebrown2871]

Love Ben Miller. Tough to make up those names, 😂

[@SuperMisterKory]

Was anybody else really hoping it wasn't a lie? Hahahah

[@nyasha2669]

so, did he ever send that mammoth that saved his life back in time

[@bobbobson4277]

Astronomer_X loved Primeval as a kid, surprised no-one else mentioned it

[@macman975]

What the hell are you talking about?!?!.

[@diggler2002]

The funniest part is when he laughs at being caught out. e.g. I bet you wish you had thought of them earlier, why do you think you and Mark never got on?, I thought Richard was the quantity surveyor. I love this clip.

[@lisaanne821]

Bet you wish you'd thought of them earlier! 😂

[@sirpizo555]

3:13 It was at this moment Ben knew..He fucked up

[@barlin4972]

should have been at 0:44 though, because he is clearly thinking which he wouldnt, if they were his real friends.

[@MandleRoss]

Imagine going into a police interrogation room totally guilty AF and David Mitchell is the one sitting across the table from you.

[@leggomyeggo9]

Henning losing his shit is the best thing I’ve ever seen

[@CalLadyQED]

Dwight Wright. Sally O'Malley. Dylan McMillan. Horton Morton. Ronald McDonald (okay, I stole that). Henry Penry. Joan Jones (does that count?). Dwayne Pane. Wayne Twain. Arthur MacArthur. Randall Candle.

[@Andy21FS]

Dean Greene

[@thealienpredatorfly]

Hugh hughs

[@CalLadyQED]

Matt Pratt.

[@CalLadyQED]

Sean Keane. Dawn Sean. Rhett Plett. Marty McCarty. Jenny Benny. Ross Doss. Lorne Bourne. Ethel Bethel. Samuel Emmanuel. Mavis Davis.

[@CalLadyQED]

Lee Bradleigh. Ashley Li. Reed Bede.

[@melaniechapman4089]

I literally have a friend called Linda Pinda

[@user-xd4sk4pk7h]

Cruel parents

[@Moltenbramley]

That's hilarious.

[@niklasl3880]

I hope she's Dutch.

[@willsheridan6981]

He did not say chartered surveyor he said quantity surveyor !!!!

[@_mickmccarthy]

Having Angie Rangie in Twelfth Night on the Isle of Wight was a night touch too

[@mizofan]

My birth mother Anne Cann (her brother in law Jerry Cann). A friend's mother Mavis Davis. Doris Morris, Dara O'Hara, Ian and Rhian Behan, Elaine McLaine, Shane Wayne, Sean Warne, Lorna Warner, Greg Pegg, Dan Mann, Jane Caine, Hayley Bailey, June Boone, May Day, Mary Carey, Minnie Finney, Ivor Driver, Jade Wade, Dinah Reiner, Bertha Werther, Mel Bell, Jean Dean, Gaynor Rayner, Florence Lawrence, Jake Blake, Donna Conner, Bert Hurt, Sadie Grady, Billy Dilley, Sian Khan.. (On Would I Lie to You): Either Faye Bytheway or Jack Mack or Lee's other brother Philip McKillop... I also knew an Eileen Dover.

[@Lily-Bravo]

Did you live in Baden-baden, or maybe Wagga-wagga?

[@lpsp442]

I'd have gone with Norris Maurice and Ken Ben. Richard Pritchard is really good!

[@henrietta9206]

epitome of cutting wit n charm, ooh...I'm in Heaven 🎶

[@eyeshandy]

This is maybe my favourite one

[@sajedetalabeigi]

he's very cute 😙

[@tipsycat27]

when they asked him to name the rhyming friends I was thinking 'Richard Prichard' and he fucking said it. Surreal.

[@tipdub]

If I was on the show, this is probably how slowly I would think as well, lol.

[@SteveMarriott91]

3:34 she's wrong

[@Philip.Magnusson]

Bob Mortimer: "Hold my beer!"

[@teacherkate1]

Hang on…he was in 12th NIGHT on the Isle of WIGHT with Anji Ranji!? 😂

[@Chancer02]

Hahaha I wish he'd said Mark Park was a traffic warden.

[@weswheel4834]

Was I the only one that thought of the NTNON "Ask The Family" sketch when he mentioned Quantity Surveyors?

[@ysgol3]

May I just say that Ben said that Richard Pritchard (like Mark Park) was a quantity surveyor, none of this chartered surveyor nonsense.

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

Trisha Fisher, Bill Hill, Mavis Davis. Took me about a minute to think of these though xD

[@mizofan]

A work colleague's mum was Mavis Davis.

[@fionadavies7732]

Joelle Noel, Jolie Broughlie are the only ones I came up with.

[@Johnnyafc]

it should say I have starred in really crap Tesco adverts

[@tianxiaozhang]

I thought you were being mean and then I saw them...

[@RavenStrider526]

Mark Park, Thomas Promise, Mohammad Ahmed, and Clara O'Hara

[@AidanMcGirr]

Holy... - Richard Pritchard was literally the first name I thought up for a rhyming name 🤯😂 how about that

[@thejintymyster6396]

It said in the card "best friends" so when he knew Angie for only one summer in the 90s then that deviated from the card

[@whisperzone9102]

Trisha Fisher. Paul Hall. Lee Mee. Took me about five minutes to think though.

[@wolfganghendery8298]

Henn Wehn

[@beercheesefries]

Ben gets more attractive the older he gets. :)

[@EndeavoursRadio]

Marty Carty, Norm Storm, Aaron McSharon

[@Isleofskye]

I wish I had been on the opposing Panel and retained my view until all the comedy had been extracted and THEN said......" Can I firstly, Ben, congratulate you on your amazing appearance, as you said it was your 40th Birthday in 1991 making you 65 years old ( this was recorded in 2016 !) LOL

[@martinsmith8670]

No he didn't say his 40th Birthday was in 1991. That was when he supposedly met Angie whilst in an acting class. Because it was so long ago and they aren't really in touch any more is why she wasn't present for his 40th

[@Isleofskye]

My disappointment in myself is immeasurable and no words can adequately express my remorse regarding my inexcusable faux pas. I am mortified that I got to make such a Schoolboy error and I only try to crave your forgiveness for my brief moment of total complete and utter insanity in making this mistake. I have no excuses and I can only apologize, profusely, for my stupidity, once again. You are a good man for pointing this out to me. I'm inconsolable at the moment.....:(

[@KeepAnEyeOnDan]

I would have loved this one to be true

[@codylander1355]

Had a friend in high school named Bill Will. We had lots of fun figuring out what what will Bill Will do , had to be there.

[@DreamsAreMakeBelieve]

Was his full name William Will??

[@codylander1355]

Jaw drop. Lived in Idyllwild .CA, 2 brothers, Bob and Bill Will. Small world or big Will family.

[@rrahmanov]

I think it is one of the harder cards/lies that were dealt to anyone on this show.

[@slobodanreka1088]

Spooky alien lizard eyes at 3:52

[@raheemabdul1066]

David got this shit on lock down!

[@jamyjet]

has this been aired yet?

[@chrisninety1]

There are quite a few celebs with rhyming names that come to mind; Shaquille O'Neill, Jack Black, Fay Wray, Fay Dunaway and Catherine Tate.

[@lucyhartwell2134]

How does Catherine Tate rhyme?

[@chrisninety1]

Kate for short.

[@jenniferkelly5897]

The only problem with that is that Catherine's real surname is Ford.

[@merch_andise]

gut reaction, i probably would've just made up a group of people all of whos first names rhyme. Such as Aaron, Baron, and Karen. It still fits the card, and is a little bit more believable than pretending to know three people all of whos first AND last names rhymes.

[@edwardv1255]

The card says "aside from my friend, Mark Park, I have three other good friends whose names rhyme" though, so wouldn't really work. If Mark Park wasn't mentioned, it could've worked.

[@alice-rg4uv]

omg i love him

[@jakeriese4862]

Lovely

[@renfcook]

Its short for david clavid

[@vladimirimp]

Obviously easier from my armchair but there was a softening option for him to say 'Well Angie is Angela to most people and Angela Rangie doesn't sound strange at all, similarly David Clave.'

[@jbjaguar2717]

You think the surname 'Rangie' doesn't sound strange? I looked it up and apparently there are 49 people with that surname in the world and they mostly live in Papua New Guinea.

[@vladimirimp]

@@jbjaguar2717 ​ It sounds a bit strange but this game plays tricks with your mind! It's a good job they don't have access to the internet during the game!

[@ralph9182]

Girl at school was called Jenny penny. Not lying ... Her mums maiden name was Costa.

[@MrLeoHaslett]

Richard Prichard would literally translate late to, Richard son of Richard

[@bannistersounds]

I know someone called Pat Fidgeon. Not a rhyme, but it’s fun as a spoonerism...

[@anthonymartinez7844]

Great job. Just waiting for names rhymes.

[@PatrickKelly-lz3pv]

I had a friend sir name Curtain his daughter was called Annette

[@TanCoyer]

i know angie rangie

[@PaddyRoon7]

Ben Penn was the only one I could come up with in time lol

[@RedViper9]

Rodger Todger

[@uns0ciable4ever]

richard pritchard was a good one

[@grizzlygreenwood2989]

Did Dave Clave play the claves at a rave in Staithes with his girlfriend Maeve, or is Ben just being an absolute knave?

[@jackcarter5101]

Former formula one champion Phil Hill

[@Isleofskye]

You mean either Graham or his Son : Damon Hill...lol

[@jackcarter5101]

@@Isleofskye Wrong. I mean the 1961 Formula One world champion Phil Hill. The only American-born winner.

[@Isleofskye]

No words can adequately express my remorse regarding my inexcusable faux pas. I am mortified that I got to make such a Schoolboy error and I only try to crave your forgiveness for my brief moment of total complete and utter insanity in making this mistake. I have no excuses and I can only apologise ,profusely, for my stupidity, once again. You are a good man for pointing this out to me. I'm inconsolable at the moment.....:(

[@jamestaylor9799]

Marky parky, Salford keeper, anyone?

[@jonwakeling3081]

Why not Ben Ten?

[@eveshute5107]

Will someone please correct the hashtag # from wilto to wilty? Has no-one else seen that?

[@tomimpala]

Peep the rhyme "12th night on the isle of wight"

[@jamielawrie8993]

Rich prichard was the quantity surveyor

[@christineanderson8136]

That's one time his card should have had the answer on to tell him...

[@idc5309]

Twelfth Night on the Isle of Wight

[@rozamunduszek4787]

If Bob Mortimer said that they would have believed him.