Best Of Richard Ayoade & Mel Giedroyc | The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year 2023

Here are the funniest moments from the Richard Ayoade and Giedroyc matchup!
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[Airdate: 26 December 2023]
Pre-recorded guest questions came from Self Esteem, Anyone but You stars Sydney Sweeney & Glen Powell, Robbie Williams, The Vivienne, Big Brother presenters AJ Odudu & Will Best, Micah Richards and Sophia Di Martino. The children of Mitchell Brook Primary School acted out the coronation of King Charles for a related question.
Charles Dance read an extract from Spare, the memoir of Prince Harry. Krishnan Guru-Murthy appeared in the studio to ask a question. The mystery guests were Hobbycraft Wimbledon employees Andrew, Jacqui, Annie, and Sharon, whose TikTok video of Kylie Minogue's hit "Padam Padam" went viral, earning praise from Kylie herself.
The Big Question was asked by noted Love Island and Love Island Games contestants Megan Barton-Hanson and Toby Aromolaran, entering the studio in a pink open-top car dressed as Barbie and Ken in tribute to Barbie being the highest-grossing film of 2023.
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[@russergee49]

Mel and Richard have the same and opposite energy at the same time. I can’t describe it.

[@dalliriousOne]

I said the same thing about Mel and Noel Fielding on Taskmaster. Both absolute chaos gremlins but one is like mainlining red bull and the other is an actual sloth that’s just woken up.

[@mariaa6141]

They are all geminis ❤

[@Jamhatproductions]

They've known each other for years, they were at Cambridge together.

[@juliawirch2454]

​@@mariaa6141Came here to say this...

[@indulgeursenses]

There is a palpable dynamic with Mel and Richard and Mel and Noel Fielding. Richard's character is usually dry but when people like Mel and Noel are around he is warm and receptive.

[@ptroinks]

I love that Richard Ayoade still references the film "White Chicks"!

[@thezachman1]

The eternal callback

[@tetchypoo]

It’s a wonderfully sensitive film

[@willj24]

“Still”? This was in 2008 mate.

[@Rymdpandan]

@@willj24 You think they recorded "The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2023" in 2008?

[@murdermittensnyc]

DO YOU NOT?? 😂😂

[@advancedbasicsAB]

Mel is just such a cute person. It cracks me up when she says "Gang!". Richard's 'real' voice is hilarious

[@TheLegendOfOblivion]

Mo Gilligan just losing it at Richard's real voice is hilarious.

[@overthecounterbeanie]

Mo is a completely unfunny makeweight.

[@Alllsort]

@@overthecounterbeanieshut up man

[@beatdizzy]

Nah he's great just new to the game show milarky.

[@Palidine4M0O]

Its real, its his, Jason Statham is STILL alive, stop asking!

[@kufitop]

"What the fuck, man?!"

[@HakeemHarden]

Mel and Ayoade is the most delightful combination ever

[@denislemieux4915]

Gives me Snoop , Martha Stewart vibes

[@petesmart1983]

With much more intelligence and not criminals​@@denislemieux4915

[@mindicity3874]

Have you seen her paired up with Romesh Ranganathan on BFQ 2016?

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

​@@mindicity3874 Have you ever seen him with Noel Fielding?

[@Handsomebitchonfire]

He does have a first name lol

[@TheVoxbox13]

4:31 Richard's hand gesture + Mel's response. Gold

[@devodavis6747]

I hadn't caught that, TYVM

[@LittlePrairieLibrary]

Richard's Statham impression is the funniest thing I've ever heard.

[@JesseLeeHumphry]

"Car is waiting at arrivals" absolutely fucking floored me.

[@frostfang1]

I feel like im watching Ayode falling in love haha. They have the same chemistry him and Noel Fielding. The chaoticness just meshes.

[@carito5108]

“I don’t want you to feel like I want to leave” is classic mom logic. Every time I go to my parents house (which is always freezing BTW) my mom gets mad at me for wearing a jacket inside because I “look like I’m ready to walk out the door”

[@lisawintler-cox1641]

@carito5108 I an sincerely think you should see if your Mother can afford heat. Also, long johns.

[@mammadingo9165]

Yep the caring side of Boomer mentality.

[@malena6430]

8:50 mel's charm is so strong it managed to break richard, so cute

[@susi-emily]

I love that Mel & Sue are still around. I remember when they first appeared. They were in their 20s and so was I. Now we're all in our 50s and I still love them.

[@jimgale2079]

They’re all stars but how can you not love Richard!!!

[@blorblol]

Pretty sure Mel Giedroyc is one of the best people ever to quaff some espresso martinis with and have a laugh

[@ozkaz13]

Mel has strong good mom vibes❤

[@thezachman1]

and Richard is the introvert son that she drags to functions, but he's the one babysitting her

[@pseudonayme7717]

I find it weird that they 'imagined' what Mel looked like in the 90's, cos she was on telly in the 90's, so we have actual pics of that lol 😄

[@mandi8345]

@@pseudonayme7717 No no no, the 90s were before most people who get the pop culture references were aware of the world, or even born. Therefore the 90s are unreachably distant in time and irrelevant as they certainly never happened, and if they did its was terrible. With cocaine and racism, cocaine and racism everywhere......

[@brendajackson13]

You're absolutely right. I loved her on Travel Man with Richard🥰

[@danielblyth2841]

Be quiet ffs. 🙄​@mandi8345

[@jeanlarson3133]

One thing about Richard, he's gonna find ways to bring up White Chicks

[@theupwardspiral1580]

Jimmy only drinks wd40 😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Turalcar]

🤖🤖🤖

[@GabrielCsaba]

Richard is seriously on a level all of his own.

[@noir-214]

0:01 "Did you see that ludicrous display last night"😄😄

[@Alakaizer]

The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in.

[@jackdavids2723]

9:12 Richard hides his face laughing at the reveal of his and Mel’s answer

[@susie9893]

He was doing that at the start too, if you notice. The eyes were laughing

[@efnissien]

Thanks Mel, I thought I was the only person that still calls 'Snickers'. 'Marathon'. Mel, is so wonderfully beguilingly charming!

[@stonkr]

It will always be 'Marathon'. The other name sounds too much like trainers.

[@efnissien]

@@stonkr Yes, That's it! Thank you!

[@decodolly1535]

I never liked them so it's not an issue for me. However, I do still insist on eating Opal Fruits.

[@SemolinaBee]

National treasures, the both of them.

[@stuartstogdill2406]

Richard with the White Chicks callback is simply legendary...

[@JD86Vintage]

Jimmy is genuinely at a loss for words with Richard's Statham voice. I don't think I've ever seen him that stumped. ...I also never expected to hear that voice coming out of Richard! 😂🤣😂

[@Ssomeinxam]

I think he used it in the IT Crowd

[@ErinHassey]

He used it in the IT crowd and Mighty Boosh

[@jerrysizzler44]

Richard Ayoade, my forever love. ❤

[@MrWilson-zx9ix]

The voice is awesome. Get that man a cameo!

[@jordanhorst6]

Richard should do a whole comedy series as a tough guy 😂

[@RealMenWorshipZeus]

Richard is insanely charming.

[@mielema5157]

90's or whatever era Richard can get it. Phwoar

[@johnskrip7174]

“Retrain as dentists”

[@jellybabyace]

4:37 brilliant

[@DjinnRummy]

So good

[@masterTigress96]

That salt and vinegar joke needed a little bit of a precursor. In the full episode if I recall correctly, Jimmy jokes in the welcome message after the break that the colors for the crisps were changed. Mel then re-visits Jimmy's joke quite a while later by asking if salt and vinegar is blue, but in this edit it is just confusing and seemingly random. The full episode is available on this The Big Fat Quiz Channel, and I highly recommend it, regardless if you want to get the full context of the crisps joke.

[@mewmew32]

thank you but I still don't get it. was he referencing a commercial?

[@masterTigress96]

@@mewmew32 No, there is a crisp/chips company that recently changed the colors of the bags of crisps/chips. There is no commercial involved, I don't think the company announced that they had changed the packaging colors. That is part of the problem, they just randomly changed it without informing people upfront and that is what Jimmy's joke/complaint was about. People, myself included, have been conditioned to recognize that certain colors are used for a certain type of crisp/chip. Example: the yellow/red packaging was often used for plain, salty chips (no salt+vinigar, just regular salty chips). You could go to a completely different country in a different continent and you didn't even need to read the text on the packaging in a foreign language or alphabet to know what you could expect. That is no longer the case now.

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Thank you.

[@thornels]

Such an iconic duo

[@iamdb1990]

those two made this episode, love them

[@jasonlloyd3335]

Richard really should of got his own TV or film franchise by now. The genius but odd detective kind of thing. Dr Who obviously. An alien science officer on Star Trek. A serial killer but most of all in The Further Adventures of Maurice Moss but i think they might of done that but just called it The Travel Show.

[@stonkr]

Travel Man.

[@Corsaka]

he also hosted crystal maze for a while

[@cuclainne]

He also hosted Gadget Man.

[@moniqueengleman873]

This is hilarious 😂😂

[@lakrids-pibe]

oh gang

[@sanityisrelative]

I just can't get over Jimmy calling them "Blink One Eight Two" like a fucking monster

[@miaschu8175]

Why? How is their name said? I can't get over the fact they're still going.

[@sanityisrelative]

@@miaschu8175 "blink one eighty-two" not "one eight two"

[@Storm-dm4bx]

I grew up with blink182 and I never in my life have heard or said it as blink one EIGHTY two. You're mad.

[@georgerendell7292]

@@Storm-dm4bxNo it is one eighty two, listen to the band say it or any American, this is like when we get annoyed at Americans saying David Atten-burrow, they’re just wrong and most Brits are just wrong about Blink haha

[@iliketrains3495]

One Eighty Two is correct, though I've never said numbers like that, maybe it's an American thing

[@MommyOfZoeAndLiam]

I know Mel is probably only like 10 years older than me, but she always reminds me of a fun granny.

[@Zoey1999z]

The host looks like young Richard Nixon.

[@outseeker]

very high quality content :)

[@lachazASMR]

I need more Richard doing Statham.

[@esriallbritten128]

Ayoade is one of the best surrealists ever

[@psychojoe4764]

I get the feeling Richards wife requests that voice from time to time.

[@susie9893]

🤭🤭

[@poponachtschnecke]

Is it just me, or does she look vaguely like Noel Fielding?

[@canadaclaret]

Mel as the Doctor would be brilliant.

[@SgtSlippySticks]

I adore Mel- 'Mel and Sue' was brilliant and I had a crush on them both. It's the personality.

[@highlandoutsider]

Same 🥰

[@alexisb3829]

I love Mel

[@kimhewer1479]

Beckhams cupboard 😂😂

[@jason6569]

I'm Canadian, no idea who they are but Richard and Mel are freakin hilarious together 😂😂😂

[@alexpeartree2019]

7:21 Mo's brain exploding

[@mariammeliksetian7916]

They might be my new favorite team LOL.

[@tugafuria]

It took me ages to realise that Richard sounds like Arthur Shelby when he does that voice, I knew it sounded like someone, just couldn't think of who 😂

[@WOK-YT-handle]

😅😅😅 Richard’s 90s picks 😅😅😅

[@youngwang97]

They have some fun and play the game

[@susie9893]

Richard doing Stratham 😂🤣🤣🤣 I could listen to that all day 😂😂 Can you imagine what Travel Man would've been like if he'd voiced it with this?? 😂🤣 🔫 💀

[@nirvanaheights]

Mel is so funny 😂

[@GroovingPict]

Mel looking a bit like Sarah Michelle Gellar in that left picture

[@decodolly1535]

Thank you! I immediately said she looked like "Buffy" and got stared at as though I'd lost my mind.

[@jaybee2337]

I thought the same!

[@lochdown5509]

Am I the only one who thinks Jimmy is slowly morphing into Peewee Herman's doppelganger?

[@susie9893]

No, no, he's a real boy

[@Lazarus-aap]

7:14 is what you want

[@deaniweenie]

would have been better if you'd edited the answers in

[@mandi8345]

After many of Richards previous appearances being a bit snarky and standoffish (in the sense that you do what you like, ill do what I like, we can exist as we must, but we will do so peacefully or it will become everyone's problem (as part of his schtick of course. but still hes an intelligent comedian, and kind of paints himself into a corner with the whole antisocial thing sometimes), seeing Mel's Auntie that just wants to be buddies with her sisters kids (who cares if they may be adopted) vibes be so perfectly out of phase that instead of canceling and getting a painfully awkward pairing their mutual off kilter vibes invert each other and constructively mix into an adorable team!

[@MissyGail4eva]

I truly appreciate your epic (yet unsuccessful) attempt to forego a legendary run-on sentence with a period (but it still read as a comma) and a few haphazard parenthesis. Good fun. 😊

[@jarryndhu2084]

Salt and vinegar chips (packet/crisps) are pink in Australia! 😁

[@Doctor-Stoppage]

I kept wondering why Katherine Ryan looked so familiar and then I realized she looked like Janice from the Muppet Show.

[@ladyflimflam]

There is a clip where David Tennant is singing West End Girls and Katherine is miming the trumpet part where she has big Janice and The Electric Mayhem energy.

[@IrfanMatloob]

Love it

[@davegesell5470]

An entertaining compilation, but it's clear whoever comes up with the titles doesn't know what words mean.

[@padstowphantom]

AI 90s Mel is bloody gorgeous!❤

[@smoath]

@ 2:33 Jimmy's "Shhh" actually silences the audience 😋

[@copasetic1]

I’m glad jimmy has such a a distinctive laugh. All of that plastic surgery has blunted his ability to display normal human emotion.

[@randomkilo]

7:13

[@lawjef]

Imagine TBFQOTY or 8OO10CDC without Richard Ayoade. Seriously. Imagine the jokes without his input. He IS the show.

[@Sinsults]

I'm having a hard time imagining that since I've no idea what either of those things are. He was great in Garth Marenghi's though.

[@checksanity]

@@Sinsults The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year; 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. This video is taken from the first ;)

[@peri7435]

​@Sinsults TBFQOTY = The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year (this show) 8OO10CDC = 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown

[@SuperlunarNim]

love Hench Ayoade

[@GabrielCsaba]

08:43 Prens Charuls th' Keng

[@mcjecca]

"the other one goes in the sidecar"

[@patrickmalloy137]

Mr. Ayoade may wish to have a word of apology with Mr. Soyinka.

[@user-yv2qr4xt9]

Yes, it threw me too when he said Achebe won the Nobel Prize. I had to Google it to be sure!

[@dianecheney4141]

Travis should have put up a sign saying with who

[@TheHollerofBluthulu]

I love Mel she's so great

[@AlanRowarth]

Young Mel giving very Buffy the Vampire Slayer energy

[@chrisp1355]

Richard will be playing a gangster in his next gig.😊

[@YodaMan-420]

i would ask why we havent seen Noel and Russel teamed in a while but then i remember Russel kinda went crazy and stop wondering.

[@yebutmynameiskyle]

Don't forget the sexual assaults.

[@MarkPentler]

@@yebutmynameiskyle i think he's hoping we do...

[@puirYorick]

The other one rides in the sidecar.

[@keeklawless9248]

The Unpronouncables was also the name of a sketch in The Fast Show.

[@Christina-Claire]

Does Richard use that voice in other places 👀 👀👀😂

[@annebonny42]

So the candy companies decided to not have separate names across the pond.

[@dislecsyk991]

Wait...do I only understand Kourtney Kardashian's All The Small Things reference because I'm OLD?

[@elvikingobarbaroja]

That David Beckham is brilliant!

[@Superior-Spider-Man-q5o]

Waiting for the one they're doing this year.

[@lucasmcconnell3201]

Did Jimmy say "Blink One Eight Two"? And no one called him out? haha

[@courtneypike350]

Apparently that’s how the Brits say it. I had no idea.

[@kakashisharigan336]

Are they related?

[@jakethehud]

In Mel's AI images, in the middle one she looks like Reba McEntire.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

1:24 Yes! I see it now! 😅

[@JohannesVanDerStuyvebode]

I'll take 1000 Richard Ayoade and Mel Giedroyc but not 1 Katherine Ryan, thank you dearly.

[@lethewardssunk5833]

Clickbait. Richard didn't break

[@ukaszpolak2606]

Wow Michael Richards has changed a lot since Seinfeld

[@daftphil9706]

But how do stones get in your shoes??

[@Rykanable]

I wondered why I hadn't seen this episode yet and then I saw Rosie Jones and remembered.

[@dandanz7877]

he should voice batman. and play batman

[@mikedocherty3874]

Just realised how sloped Jimmy Carrs' tiny little shoulders are.😮😅

[@miaschu8175]

I think the screws just needed tightening. (The WD40 could be applied at the same time.)

[@Scratch83]

Im annoyed that I can't watch this episode. I really like Richard Ayoade and Katherine Ryan. Sucks man.

[@samanthaxwalker]

Richard is so hot.

[@harryr2431]

Aw, man. They dont realize that the "Travis, I'm pregnant" thing is an old bit that blink 182 and fans have done for decades.

[@rowredround7206]

I think it was mentioned in the full episode.

[@mandi8345]

Yeah....but most people who get modern pop culture references think Blink 182 is a classic rock band the way 90s kids made our older siblings cringe when we made a stink about 'discovering this cool old band.....lead zeplane.....or something like that.....' Ive legitimately had to stop myself from backhanding some little shitling who was getting all high and mighty because they happened across this neat old band no one really knows about and probably wouldnt be into, its too bad they're not touring anymore after the lead singer shot himself..... The times they are a changin.....all we are is farts in the wind.....pungent in the moment then fading to a distant memory.....

[@laurenecarter246]

​@@mandi8345 "lead zeplane"... 😂😂😂

[@miaschu8175]

How would anyone outside of the "Blink 182 is a proper rock band" bubble know anything about signs held up at their gigs? Or want to.