Sara Pascoe’s Suspiciously Long Flight to Spain 🤔 | Would I Lie To You?

[@MLB9000]

They should put all these clips together into a half hour programme and show them on tv. That would be really entertaining.

[@kiriakoz]

That might be too much of a good thing.

[@patsk8872]

They did but it only airs in Central America and parts of Spain

[@Galatzo]

And in Costa coffees they air it too

[@barneylaurance1865]

@@Galatzo And in the shopping centers.

[@3zObafouzr]

chance would be a fine thing

[@troubadour1029]

It cuts before another good bit by David. He says something like "we lost this round but the good thing is that we discovered that one third of the other team is an idiot"

[@WILTY_TV]

Apologies!

[@marzbar393]

and Lee says "you forgot about me david its two third"

[@investigate3_11]

Hahahah, I remember that! I felt so bad for Sara in that episode lol.

[@eddiek8179]

@@investigate3_11 I don't. She is an idiot.

[@eddiek8179]

@@investigate3_11 It's fine. She's an idiot. After the way she treated Chowdhry on Taskmaster, she definitely deserves the title.

[@chrisburn7178]

Sarah's deadpan "unless you're the pilot" was fab.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

and if you're the pilot, hopefully you _know_ where the plane is going already

[@24magiccarrot]

@@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug Course he does. The pilot knows how to get to Spain.

[@c0ldc0ne]

@@24magiccarrot At that altitude, all Costas look alike.

[@janemorrow6672]

I’ve discovered that i can enjoy endless repeats of would I lie to you.

[@WILTY_TV]

This could be the greatest thing you have ever discovered. But we're pretty biased so...

[@kaentboy5142]

You’re not alone 😅

[@AuDHDarling]

Same! I have ADHD, like Lee Mack (and Stephen Fry and Rhod Gilbert and Russel Howard and Sue Perkins and Johnny Vegas). My brain is chronically understimulated, and I have had insomnia my whole life. As an adult, I have found it helpful to listen to things that I am familiar with and find entertaining on repeat. If it were boring to listen on repeat, my brain would get too bored and become alert again, leading to an endless cycle of insomnia. But if it was too entertaining or stimulating, my brain would hyperfocus and become fully alert, leading to an endless cycle of insomnia. WILTY is the perfect combination of comforting and stimulating for me.

[@carolynworthington8996]

@@AuDHDarling I listen to not-too-interesting podcasts to go to sleep for the same reasons. Although I don’t have ADHD. I don’t think.

[@jakejones8854]

I'm gonna go... True.

[@alexanderbean7737]

The way David folds his arms in disappointment 😆

[@noirjacques3274]

David’s “this is why education is so important” gets me every time. 😂

[@Lamporre]

If I had to make a list of the top 10 2-second moments of this show, I'd definitely reserve a slot for David's expression at 2:48 paired up with Sara's reaction to it.

[@beomgguks970]

Yes!! A favourite of mine you could add to that is when David cackles on a camera close up in Rob’s truth/lie of if him and his wife have a cuddle jumper. It’s hilarious!

[@mauriciobentz]

I've used the line "this is why education is so important" with great success! 😁

[@lazycarper]

your sister doesnt count

[@kaihocompany]

That must've ruined the atmosphere at your kid's birthday party!

[@Blingo88]

I called true while she was reading the card, you can see the embarrassment 😂

[@TheEulerID]

I don't think Steve Davis got enough credit for that one liner response to Lee Mack. He had to think about it, but the perfect response.

[@JasperJanssen]

“ like a silverback gorilla, I grew out of it”, for another option.

[@savj]

The delay only adds to the humour - plus, he didn't have to speak over the ongoing applause

[@richardignatowicz8900]

This is the first time I have ever watched this. How funny is this. The panic of realizing you are on the wrong flight 🤣🤣

[@cheekymunki6]

To be fair she was on the right flight. 😂

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@cheekymunki6 Exactly. It just wasn’t the one she was expecting to be on.

[@butmay1893]

Not the wrong flight. NEXT!

[@rickypoon6406]

Spiders are not insects, reindeer are real, and lambs are baby sheep. This is why education is so important.

[@F3Ibane]

Pickles are cucumbers.

[@decodolly1535]

I was once on a plane when two women started absolutlely losing their minds during take-off. It was as we were hurtling along the runway that they discovered Palma, Spain (where they wanted to go) is not the same place as Parma, Italy - the flight destination.

[@ricahrdb]

Not the worst mistake to make. Parma is very nice.

[@notthere83]

Oh man, how I love David's education rant.

[@WisamSafi1978]

It’s the reason I looked it up

[@LuDel95]

Lee's joke about Costa coffee is just legendary. He has such a quick wit.

[@sfoster.23]

You can tell it’s true because she sounds so ashamed when she reads it out

[@Telliax]

Almost as if she was an actress!

[@dyoolyoos]

To those who didn't ask: capuchin monkeys. But howler monkeys are also found there.

[@LindaC616]

Oh, yeah. Hollers are really obviously hollers. You'll hear them before you see them

[@noahmaas1670]

Yes sir, saw some near Monteverde while ziplining

[@ryanniv1851]

This will always be the greatest story on the show 😂

[@ModeratelyAmused]

The irony of only knowing of howler monkeys is that, according to wiki, of the 4 species of monkeys in Costa Rica, the howlers are the only one that don't have white in their face. Tough luck on that one.

[@peskycritter79]

David Mitchell explaining that spiders aren't insects cemented my admiration and respect for the man!

[@mikebarnard7957]

On the contrary he comes across sometimes as an arrogant and obnoxious little twerp. Stop bullying Sarah you oaf! I recall in one episode Lee saying he had a strong desire to punch him in the face. Other times he's OK!

[@OneWingedRose]

@@Hutchyy This is why educontext is important.

[@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes]

@@OneWingedRose Oh dear. That didn't really work, did it Rose?

[@OneWingedRose]

@@LoFiRecoverySoundscapes I will force puns until the day I die!

[@c0ldc0ne]

@@mikebarnard7957 When is your "Leave Sarah Alone!" video due?

[@UrDomb]

Sarah probably saw white-faced capuchin monkeys, which are black and white, and also native to Costa Rica.

[@josipmartincic2488]

Realised that the landing time would have probably been only a few hours after take-off, due to time zones, so it might have seemed alright for her, if she wasn't paying attention to flight time.

[@mikatu]

except that if you leave the UK you don't arrive "a few hours after the take-off" in Spain. Do you even know where Spain is? It takes 2 hours to get there, with the time difference you land one hour later.

[@josipmartincic2488]

The flight to Canary Islands, a Spanish Overseas territory which is a popular holiday destination for Brits who want some winter sun, is 4-5 hours, with several place-names which start with Costa.

[@weneedaladder8384]

It would still have been like nine hours after takeoff. Maybe if you left at the right time and didn't pay attention to am/pm? That's the only thing I could think of.

[@junbh2]

@@weneedaladder8384Not if you only look at the departure and landing times and don't notice the line where it tells you the travel time. The arrival and departure are always given in local time zones so e.g. if I look for flights from Paris to Toronto there are some that leave at 1pm and arrive at 3:30pm.

[@JohnKooz]

I'm glad it was true because otherwise I would have lost trust in humanity simply because of Sara's ability to tell overpoweringly detail-driven convincing lies. But because it was true, well, it's just a great scene from WILTY and a funny story to hear, fortunately!

[@Drnaynay]

Sara also once ordered a teeny tiny piece of furniture. Maybe she shouldn't buy things online? Unless she does it because it makes for good TV.

[@hotdoglegz]

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[@josemaria8177]

Sara Pascoe proving here that she should make a double act with James Acaster

[@jillhbaudhaan]

Spot on! What about Bob Mortimer?

[@mirandabaker2438]

I’m pretty sure that for Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2021 her and James Acaster were teammates! It’s hilarious

[@DodderingOldMan]

@@mirandabaker2438 Ha, yeah, I remember them joking about being cousins, and also lovers :P

[@dxb338]

shes good with rob beckett that's for sure

[@secretforreddit]

@@dxb338 She was amazing on Taskmaster with Rob!

[@mkganya6013]

"We used to make steel." And this.

[@CGagnon5]

So obviously true. The idea of using logic to say false was flawed from the start. If she were able to classify monkeys she wouldn’t have made the mistake to begin with

[@plywoodcarjohnson5412]

You gotta love this woman.

[@butcherboy2008]

Back in the late 1980s, there was a guy flying to Oakland, California and he heard the boarding call for the plane and ended up flying to Auckland, New Zealand.

[@boahnation9932]

I love Sarah. Such a good comedian and she's so beautiful!

[@seanmurray7983]

i like her quote 'real' personality on the panel shows, shes good on QI and 8 out of 10 cats, but I saw one of her standups on live at the Apollo and it was all just relationship jokes about her boyfriend and I tuned out about halfway thru the 15 minute set. People gushing about their spouse isn't funny. not a good set.

[@lmonk9517]

@@seanmurray7983 Different style of comedy. Some people excel at stand up others are better in this sort of format.

[@jaybestnz]

I just realised that Sarah's delivery is very similar to that of Paul Foot. 😂

[@c0ldc0ne]

As similar as Paul's hairstyle is to hers.

[@TheDrugOfTheNation]

cf "Julian Clary"/ "Jo Brand"

[@javiersds8081]

The story rang true to me because it's the type of mistake Sara Pascoe would make. On another episode, she told about a time she bought a second-hand miniature dresser for a dollhouse thinking it was a real piece of furniture.

[@moonliteX]

i booked flights to nice and i noticed i'm not in italy after the first night.

[@sansorio]

Sara Pascoe is just brilliant!

[@eddiek8179]

No.

[@charliestein9350]

It sounded very believable. I don't know how they thought she's lying..

[@nicosmind3]

They thought she was lying cause most people know that Costa Rica is a country and not in Spain. The trick is working out the odds that Sara isn't one of those people at her age (or rather the age she made the mistake) and then guessing on how plausible that is. Basically if they thought she was lying they assumed she was more knowledgeable than what she was. If she was 17/18 when she made the mistake I would have increased those odds. Plus I've seen her on other stuff, she's not that bright, I would have increased the odds again.

[@charliestein9350]

@@nicosmind3 I know people who could make worse mistakes than that.. I judge by the person telling the story. she seemed honest.

[@junbh2]

​@@nicosmind3There is also a Costa Rica in Spain though. I assume the country was named after it. If you were googling things and looking at a bunch of different vacation places in Europe and saw a bunch of Costa del etc names and then saw a yoga retreat in Costa Rica right among them I can just about imagine assuming for a moment that the yoga retreat was also in Spain. You'd have to be pretty distracted and not paying a ton of attention.

[@junbh2]

​@@nicosmind3I think she's reasonably smart, but super scatterbrained and easily distracted.

[@cawfeedawg]

"The good news is: a third of their team is an idiot" ~David Mitchell

[@hotpansy]

this was top tier david mitchell

[@SquidandCatAdventures]

I love Sarah Pascoe's stories.

[@jamesgrout-d7f]

Sara is funny and seems a really lovely person

[@sarahfaith6531]

I love her!! 💖🧡❤️

[@50pence59]

I had true about 30 seconds in. I could feel her pain. 😂

[@Emophiliac2]

Having been to Costa Rica and seen the Capuchin monkeys there, I would have gone along with the black-and-white description.

[@rileypeters5055]

I dont get the russet joke, could someone explain for me?

[@robhaitch5544]

Steve Davis is a red head. He no longer has red hair on his head (now grey), but still has red hair somewhere funny.

[@rileypeters5055]

@@robhaitch5544 thanks :)

[@theyearwas1473]

When ever I break up with people I fly to Costa Rica

[@peterwright4224]

True Fakt did you know their is acounter in Viennas Airport for Americans flying to Australia who have landed at the wrong airport

[@jamesbutler6253]

David didn't know where Costa Rica was.

[@TheEulerID]

I can absolutely guarantee that he does. He was simply testing the veracity of Sara's story by trying to find out if she now knows where it is.

[@TPH250290]

You really thought that he didn't know where it was because he asked Sara if she knew where it was?

[@TheEulerID]

@@TPH250290 Entirely. David Mitchel is a very knowledgeable guy indeed, and I certainly know where Costa Rica is, and I'm sure if I do, then he does. Although I suppose I have the advantage having actually been there. Not on a Yoga retreat however.

[@animaltvi]

Thats interesting

[@theobluebird7283]

Not-native-speaker here: please, what word is Claudia using in 4:12 (color of the monkeys)?

[@coopdivi]

"Russet" - i.e. a reddish-brown colour.

[@robbie_]

Haha she really got them there didn't she.

[@batuhanbatuhan4131]

David's team would make a perfect cast for a sitcom. I'm thinking winkleman is david's ex spouse and probation worker guy is winkleman's brother who is a very sketchy professor at a university. he plagiarizes and never properly prepares for his courses and steal other professor's presentations david is also a professor and they work at the same university. winkleman is a nice normal lady and david was too boring for her and they decided divorcing before waiting for hating each other and resenting each other. winkleman moves in with her brother who is too all over the place in contrast of david but she doesn't want to be alone and move out and always make excuses because she knows deep down she doesnt want to move on and be with someone else because she loves david she will in time accept getting old and becoming boring. both david and winkleman actually fear it but winkleman was fighting it too much while david was over-accepting it and imposing it on winkleman and coping by doing so which pushed the couple away from each other. they will marry again eventually and happily live ever after. All rights reserved 2023© (does this work?) i will keep making up show ideas for wilty teams as a cast.

[@bsmitty309]

If only that team was a little more educated they’d know capuchins are native to Costa Rica and one of the most popular on tours

[@Kerri.on.baggage]

It happens to the best of us. I only learned that Alaska was connected to Canada two years ago (I’m now 30). I thought it was off to the side kinda like Hawaii. I only learned this when we were traveling to Alaska and got worried when we drove into Canada. I thought I was being kidnapped or something 😂😂

[@TheBlackDemon1996]

Claudia's decision was based on faulty logic, because howler monkeys can be black too.

[@UrDomb]

Sarah probably saw white-faced capuchins. They are black and white and are also native to Costa Rica.

[@wowisthatgami8293]

You mean based on a faulty premise. The logic was fine, if the assumption was correct

[@TheBlackDemon1996]

@@wowisthatgami8293 ...I feel like what I said is acceptable. If there's a fault in the logic it's faulty logic.

[@wowisthatgami8293]

@@TheBlackDemon1996 I'm being pedantic, there is no fault with her logic - she's just wrong. The assumption: Howler monkeys aren't black The logic: If howler monkey's aren't black, and she said it was black, then its a lie. The logic is accurate (as in, the reasoning used to reach the conclusion is accurate), but the premise/assumption isn't.

[@supalognon]

And all that because of the marketing of the Spanish coast coined by the touristic industry, which have neither geographical/historical nor political background in Spain.

[@amoolyanarayan2148]

A story about an unplanned foreign trip happening, and not once did the question of the visa come up. 🤷‍♀️ Tell me it's about whypipo but don't tell me it's about whypipo

[@decodolly1535]

When this was recorded, British citizens did not need a visa for either Spain or Costa Rica.

[@amoolyanarayan2148]

@@decodolly1535 I was speaking as a brown person from a country with a low access passport hun

[@Anduril1974]

You can actually feel the complete disdain in David's voice when he's confronted with the sheer stupidity of Sara

[@kirikothesmug3028]

I used to think Jamaica is just a country in central Africa. i can relate

[@nikserof2183]

Costa Rica...I can't believe that anyone can be such a plonker, booking such a trip.

[@fakjbf3129]

Since Spain is part of the Schengen agreement, shouldn’t she have been tipped off by the fact that she needed a visa?

[@lmonk9517]

UK has visa free access to costa rica and spain.....

[@nirfz]

And the UK never was part of the Schengen area.

[@steve3291]

Two comedic titans here (Sarah Pascoe & David Mitchell). Sorry to the rest of the panel.

[@leopold7562]

Bit harsh on Lee Mack that

[@airsofter2247]

"We might have lost the round but at least now we know 1/3rd of their team's an idiot"

[@phlanjo]

Rob is very 'Butlins'

[@gilveber2929]

i am french and trying to understand when brits, scottishs etc people talk, is so hard that even the youtube subtitles option stops to work most of the time ( i am serious). But i still get how Jimmy Carr ,Sean Lock , Jon richardson, joe wilkinson ( a fckin genius but they all are) Lee Mack (the best ) David Mitchell ( a genius too) bob mortimer (another fkin genius), Rob Becke , Greg Davies, Jamie Laing, Mel Giedroyc , etc ... are the funniest persons in the world, you english are the best, sadly it s really difficult to understant your fckin accent.

[@ppodism]

Sara is just brilliant

[@JasperXoR]

Is that Steve Davis?? I wonder if he told Mitchell To cheer the X up, you miserable.... at the end of the show.

[@AdventureCyclist]

This channel is lying to us. This is NOT "From Would I Lie to You? Series 11 Episode 5. " It is from none other than Season 11 Episode 6! So, "Let's be factually inaccurate because that never causes any problems in the 9th hour of your flight!" FYI - S11E05 was the Xmas special with Richard Coles, Clive Myrie, Henry Blofeld, and Kerry Howard!

[@leeming1317]

Nothing healthy like using jetfuel to go to a 'yoga' retreat after your 'boyfriend dumps you' Men call these trips Thailand New Years.

[@katelights]

Costa Rica was named by the spanish, and it was a spanish colony, so its not completely insane.

[@nohandle508]

Have to agree with James Acaster. Is love really that blind? John Robins dodged the effing bullet.

[@raystaar]

I really admire Sara Pascoe. I wish she was featured more often on these shows. She's so clever. BTW, I suspected she was telling the truth when I saw that she kept looking up and to the right whenever she was asked questions. Memory experts tell us that's a dead giveaway.

[@nicosmind3]

She's..... Clever??? Every time I see her I think the opposite

[@AllahDoesNotExist]

No passport and visa needed?

[@Youchubeswindon]

Brits use a passport to get on any plane, even internal flights, and I believe Costa Rica is visa 'free'. I am not sure if you still do the form on the plane, or its a tick box on booking the flight for the visa. When I flew abroad when a tourist visa was required, it was filled out 30 minutes before landing, if you got on the plane, you where getting into the country sort of thing, no going to the embassy to apply and waiting 3 months for approval that 'visa entry' would be presumed to mean.

[@butmay1893]

eurgh

[@billatwal2133]

I think she made up the story you need a visa to go Costa Rica. No visa for Spain as this was during EU times!

[@gbf4382]

UK citizens do not need a visa to visit Costa Rica...

[@Youchubeswindon]

Brits use a passport to get on any plane, even internal ones.

[@kooolkidninjamaster]

Lots of places don't need a visa if it's under 90s days

[@rooty]

She's a bit like a female paul foot

[@Giltr0y]

So she lied about the monkeys then? Anyhow, i would just ask with what currency was she paying over there :)

[@VikingKong.]

She saw different monkeys.

[@HawkOfGP]

There are more than one species of monkey in Costa Rica.

[@旭球]

Geography is my strong suit, so I have a hard time grasping what an "average" person knows about geography, but I find it so hard to imagine someone getting through the entire booking process for this vacation without even *slightly* suspecting that they'd made a mistake. It actually bothers me how incorrect the base assumption is. There are so many well-known places that speak Spanish, that "Spanish name = Spain" doesn't even work as an excuse.

[@donovanfaust3227]

Weird flex but okay

[@beth12svist]

It might if you're in the UK, since Spain is by far the closest country to the UK that speaks Spanish and is, I believe, a popular holiday destination for the Brits. So it really would be the first one to spring to mind automatically when you're making an ill-advised booking in a distressed state of mind.

[@kami3000]

I think the assumption was not "Spanish name = Spain" but Spain has a lot of places called like "Costa Blanca", "Costa Brava", "Costa del Whatever", and those places are very popular amongst the average European traveller.

[@nicosmind3]

I wish the panel would have asked how old she was when she made this mistake. For a 17/18 year old I can see it happening pretty easy. Like I would still put odds against it but even 1/5 still happens so not impossible. But mid twenties and older I'd really doubt it then ... Then again Sara ain't the brightest person out there so that increases those odds again

[@louissanderson719]

Depends. I’ve heard a lot of Americans associate anything Spanish with Mexico… so yeah..

[@elcomentarista2813]

between America and Souht America?? hahaha so south america is out of America??? haha Between the USA and South America may be...

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

We'd say "The Americas" in the UK to refer to both continents. There's no place called "America" for South America to be part of (except for the United States of). I've heard its different elsewhere and in other languages?

[@sebastiano728]

Yes! In Latino countries, they’re all considered one continent called America. So people are taught that the Earth only has six continents.

[@Broccoli_Highkicks]

For large parts of the world, the United States of America and America are basically synonymous. Sure, it's technically wrong, but colloquially only a pedant would pick you up on it.

[@newtonwhatevs]

There's (almost) civilised America and wild South America.

[@missydavis6678]

Ok, now its the beared mean mans time to stop being mean! Annoying. 🙄

[@Zombie-lx3sh]

There's no way this flight would take anywhere near 14 hours. I would have said lie for that reason alone. She probably also learned in school that spiders aren't insect. My guess is that those two mistskes are related in that they both spawn from bad memory.

[@LindaC616]

Anywhere from 11 to 21 hrs from London

[@maja1157]

"There's no way this flight would take anywhere near 14 hours." This is why education is so important

[@krbrower]

Also, the arrival time would have been local time (6 hours earlier than local UK time) effectively reducing the apparent “flight time” to a more reasonable 8 hours.

[@TheEulerID]

When I flew to Costa Rica, it was not direct and went by the USA. I don't even know if there are direct flights from the UK.

[@crabby842]

I've always wondered if she just forgot how long the flight was. Direct flights are about 11 hours. If it were not direct, the airplane map wouldn't show the final destination as CR. So yeah, I agree it's unlikely. I also thought it was a lie at first because of that.

[@James-iz9qb]

Sara is the pretty girl that always rejected David....and at last he can use his nerdiness as a form of revenge

[@newtonwhatevs]

I find him attractive.

[@Danburybeeches]

I know this is playing for laughs, but there is something so inherently misogynistic about the whole tone of this bit.

[@peppeccino]

out of genuine interest, elaborate please

[@user-ln2go4xp6d]

as a feminist, strongly disagree.

[@Ruminations09]

@@peppeccino I presume that Danbury is referring specifically to the joke about Rob trying to pick up women which honestly... yeah, I kinda agree with. I love this show, but it is kinda frustrating to me how frequently they make similar jokes where the whole punchline is "man attracted to woman, lol". It's not really funny so much as just mildly uncomfortable. They've gotten much better about it in recent series, but in the older ones (and this one is at least 5 years old now) those jokes are constant. That being said, Danbury did seem to be saying the *whole* bit is misogynistic, implying everything about this particular statement from Sara, not just the joke about Rob. And if they really did mean it that way, I disagree there and am not sure where that is coming from.

[@MrPicklerwoof]

Oh not all this nonsense again...

[@Aniaas1]

@@Ruminations09 I mean even rob's bit isn't misogynistic though - rob is obviously the butt of the joke (awkward/cringey/fumbling attempts with a woman), so if anything it's misandrist? Not that I think there's anything either way in this whole bit mind

[@alanhutchins5916]

BLONDE…🙄

[@richardjamesss438]

Sarah pascoe is so gorgeous