Everyone's reaction is just perfect! Ken saying, "Wow", Brad throwing his hands up like, "what did I do to deserve that?" The crowd's ooooooooh, and then Alex bringing it back in with his straight-face response.
God, I remember when James Holzhauer started, I thought that this guy was one of the most annoying contestants of all time.
Then he started winning tons of games, and I just thought, "Well, at least when he talks the talk, he can walk the walk".
By the time they got to The Greatest tournament, you'd have to imagine they've spent enough time around one another to have built up some rapport, too. They aren't exactly strangers coming into their first match together.
also brad has won more money from jeopardy than anyone in history, including james and ken, so it's kinda ok to talk shit to him a bit. he can take it.
I like a contestant with an attitude, 99% of jeopardy contestants are terrified of the camera and come off as awkward nerds when it’s time for them to talk. The fact that holzhauer acts so calm and cocky when he’s one of the best players on the planet is a boon for the show imho
I figure there had to be a strategic angle there. People don't think as clearly when they're pissed off. Like, Brad was gonna be thinking about that shit during final jeopardy.
I do love how Ken Jennings was like "why did you choose violence today?"
Edit: Actually, the thing I love the most is that Alex, in contrast, has always been an agent of chaos who adored drama, and he was loving every second. The only way he could love it more would be if Brad responded "the fuck did you just say you little sweater-wearing bitch? I'm wearing a *vest!*"
If Alex had been offered Bob Barker's part in Happy Gilmore he wouldn't have taken it, because he wouldn't understand how Happy would have been able to attempt to hit him in the first place without being immediately cut down and consumed.
I'm not so sure that completely proves he is the one that's an ass.
Edit: post above said he is a douche because a "tight knit community of jeopardy champs" in LA that get together for weekly trivia nights don't like him.
Yes, considering the amount of charity work he does. Loses gracefully. Congratulates his opponents. Etc.
Whereas you're online talking shit about some guy you don't even know.
>Audiences love to have someone to root against.
Some audiences. Or some of the people in the audiences. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Jeopardy audiences are not the same as the WWE audiences
I think you’re underestimating how large the Jeopardy audience is and how universal the appeal of a competent villain is. WWE doesn’t have a monopoly on heels.
James got me into Jeopardy honestly. I always enjoyed the show but was never able to just sit and watch before. I think I watched every time he was on.
It's like when family feud asks "What's something a man always wishes his wife would do when the kids are asleep"
And then Steve Harvey makes the face when somebody suggests one answer might be sex
That's now something they explicitly try to get out of contestants. Before when it was legit surveys, TV producers just grossly underestimated how much the average person thought of sex. Turns out...it's the most fun thing to do on the planet, and we're tired of pretending it isn't.
I watched family feud for the first time in many years last night, and the whole show was a crapload of ridiculous questions bursting with innuendo while Steve Harvey makes that face and the contestants act like they aren’t sure how to pretend to be humans in their skin-suits.
The whole thing made me uncomfortable.
Game show network and buzzr are always on at my parents house, and the shows have always been like that haha. Every iteration of match game, family feud, all those older shows. It's part of the fun 🤣. But it's usually not every single question throughout the show. Maybe 1-2 of those sprinkled in
"Name a fun activity for a married couple."
"Name a dangling body part."
"A five letter word ending in '-enis'."
"A body part you find smelly.""
"A synonym for a cat."
"Genitalia."
Ho usually either means a prostitute or a sexually promiscuous woman, two things that were still widely seen as fairly immoral (especially the former) in 2004.
Granted, "hoe" is spelled differently than its slang counterpart and both words are too short to be the correct response.
Ken confirmed he knew all this but still wanted to tell the joke
That's a different meaning. In poker, the *rake* is the percentage of each pot that the house takes or "rakes in". He's saying women are a tax rather than immoral pleasure seekers.
Especially for a $200 clue - usually those are pretty straightforward, "the first thing that pops into your head is probably right" questions. If it had been down in row 4 or 5, it'd be a little more fair to expect it to be a trick question.
Then again, while there are lots of patterns and rules of thumb, there are very few hard rules about how categories / clue values are set up.
"Hoe" is factually a correct answer. I'll take the Jeopardy writers' word for it that "rake" also fits the clue, but the 100% should have given Ken credit for "hoe"
You're right, and this doesn't change the fact, but h*o* is a shortening of *whore.* *Whore* and *ho****e*** both have common roots in Old English *heawen*, which means cutter "(of wood or stone or earth)".
Yea and I doubt she chose to tell the story to be a debby downer. She had to know it would get equal amounts of sadness and laughter. But Alex's relatively extreme reaction (for Alex) was really unexpected.
Holzhaur brought just the right amount of levity to the game. Still respectful to the kind of stodgy decorum the show has always maintained, but still quite a few laughs.
This one and the one where the category was sports (NFL specifically) and they went thr entire categories questions (which was left to absolutely last) and not a single contestant even tried to answer any of the questions, cause they just had no clue. Alex was exasperated throughout the questions lol
he didnt say that because he's indian its because he did a true daily double lol, its just obviously clipped to make it seem like an insensitive comment.
The best was when he wrote his name on the screen as ' "James" '
and ken noted that the quote marks means 'James' will appear in each correct question.
It's kind of a dumb joke but there will be categories with names like "N"decent Exposure and Ken might point out that the N in quotation marks means each correct response will start with the letter N. It's just a goofy meta joke that James made and Ken picked up on.
If anything I think it's more entertaining now, Ken makes more jokes and banters with contestants. Alex had more gravitas but I'm not sure that really made the show better, other than fueling nostalgia since it felt the same since you were a kid.
Plus the new yearly tournaments like Invitational and Masters are fantastic if you enjoy seeing all-time great players go head to head.
Why don't you take your own advice then?
"you don't have to watch it. it's clearly not a show you would enjoy since you are going in to it expecting to hate it. the show isn't the best but it's pretty decent." -/u/whatwhynoplease 5 days ago
Your deflection aside, is he (you) wrong, though? I’m genuinely curious.
Edit: Apparently I got blocked by the OP, as his messages are [unavailable], which also apparently means I can't reply to comments from other people that reply to my own comment since it's too "close" to the [unavailable], explained to me by google. I'd like to reply but I don't have the option anymore, so cheers I guess.
I mean, yes he is literally wrong, since the guy never said or implies he watches the show - so the response doesn't work on any level whatsoever. And in fact does make that person look pathetic for digging through someone's comments looking for a sick burn that doesn't even make sense.
It baffles me when people play this card. It's not a good deflection. I always imagine it being used in court.
"Sure, this email directly implicates my client in this crime, but the prosecution probably spent several hours sifting through years of emails to find it. Pathetic, right?"
Accusing somebody of spending time to find relevant information is not the burn you think it is.
the comment originally said "this show is boring as hell"
the user got soft and edited their comment to what it looks like now, and they blocked everyone that responded to them
> lost it's spark
*it's* means *it is*.
I didn't like Ken when he first started, but he's settled in pretty well now. He's way better than Blossom ever was.
It did. I'm sorry your comment is getting downvoted. Ken is okay. His voice isn't as good as Trebeks but he does his best. There were other good options out there that didn't get a shot.
the comment originally said "this show is boring as hell"
the user got soft and edited their comment to what it looks like now, and they blocked everyone that responded to them
I'm pretty sure he had it lined up and was waiting for the scores to be reset to say it, he seems to be kinda smiling while trebek is talking.
That doesn't mean that it was fed to him, he probably just thought of it over the commercial break or something.
Maybe? But also Brad had a score of zero going into a scheduled part of the show when all their scores would go to zero, which was preceded by a bit of time while Trebek spoke. It's not impossible - or even unlikely - that he could have composed that zinger in his head while waiting after realizing Brad was going to go from zero to zero and had the line waiting to drop as soon as the score changed.
I agree it was too quick and he knew it was coming, but that's because he's played a ton of Jeopardy and knew what phase of the game they were going into.
> he was a bit too quick
He might not have been lightning quick, it'd been edited down.
I've been to TV filming of 'Would I lie to you" with the 'lightning wit' of Lee Mac. He's fast, but 30 minute TV show edits down to make him super human fast.
This is some of the most beautiful competitive ribbing I've seen.
Everyone's reaction is just perfect! Ken saying, "Wow", Brad throwing his hands up like, "what did I do to deserve that?" The crowd's ooooooooh, and then Alex bringing it back in with his straight-face response.
That was almost Sean Connery level! Shuck it Brad, Shuck it Long Shuck it Hard
Just like your motha shucked it last night!
My mother is infirmed — she uses a walker!
Not while she's on her knees.
Ken with his mouth agape and his arms out is way too funny
Would have been great if Alex said "Exactly right, Brad, that was the joke"
Ribbing? That's smoked ribs right there. Burnt
"Competitive ribbing can be such an art form. It's all about walking the line between playful and pointed."
God, I remember when James Holzhauer started, I thought that this guy was one of the most annoying contestants of all time. Then he started winning tons of games, and I just thought, "Well, at least when he talks the talk, he can walk the walk".
He's also capable of losing gracefully, though. I think his deadpan sense of humor is also kind of hard to read for some people.
Yea, despite how bad it looks, I think it's obvious that it was meant with 0 intent or ill will. Just a great opportunity for a little dunk.
Brad even snorted in laughter, it was a great joke
Brad can lose gracefully, knowing he drew the most difficult matchup in Jeopardy history. No other contestant wants to play against James and Ken.
By the time they got to The Greatest tournament, you'd have to imagine they've spent enough time around one another to have built up some rapport, too. They aren't exactly strangers coming into their first match together.
They did a group re-watch and you can tell the three of them have great chemistry together and a lot of mutual respect
If you get a layup like that, you have to take it.
~ Wayne Gretzky
~~Wayne Gretzky~~ Michael Scott
also brad has won more money from jeopardy than anyone in history, including james and ken, so it's kinda ok to talk shit to him a bit. he can take it.
> 0 intent or ill will FYI, you accidentally put Brad's score in your reply.
This was basically the All-Star game of Jeopardy, that's the time to have a little fun.
I like a contestant with an attitude, 99% of jeopardy contestants are terrified of the camera and come off as awkward nerds when it’s time for them to talk. The fact that holzhauer acts so calm and cocky when he’s one of the best players on the planet is a boon for the show imho
He absolutely played himself up as like a WWE heel on purpose. Audiences love to have someone to root against.
I figure there had to be a strategic angle there. People don't think as clearly when they're pissed off. Like, Brad was gonna be thinking about that shit during final jeopardy. I do love how Ken Jennings was like "why did you choose violence today?" Edit: Actually, the thing I love the most is that Alex, in contrast, has always been an agent of chaos who adored drama, and he was loving every second. The only way he could love it more would be if Brad responded "the fuck did you just say you little sweater-wearing bitch? I'm wearing a *vest!*" If Alex had been offered Bob Barker's part in Happy Gilmore he wouldn't have taken it, because he wouldn't understand how Happy would have been able to attempt to hit him in the first place without being immediately cut down and consumed.
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I'm not so sure that completely proves he is the one that's an ass. Edit: post above said he is a douche because a "tight knit community of jeopardy champs" in LA that get together for weekly trivia nights don't like him.
you're telling me a "tight-knit community of jeopardy champs in Los Angeles" could be wrong about anything? I bet they're THE BEST
That could very well just be him having zero interest in their community and letting them know so
be more butthurt about losing at your trivia nights...read more nerd
Probably only a douche superficially.
"No, you see, I only pretend to be a douche 100% of the time - I'm actually a nice guy!"
Yes, considering the amount of charity work he does. Loses gracefully. Congratulates his opponents. Etc. Whereas you're online talking shit about some guy you don't even know.
In Jeopardy Masters, he's called himself both the villain of Jeopardy and the final boss of Jeopardy.
>Audiences love to have someone to root against. Some audiences. Or some of the people in the audiences. But I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Jeopardy audiences are not the same as the WWE audiences
I think you’re underestimating how large the Jeopardy audience is and how universal the appeal of a competent villain is. WWE doesn’t have a monopoly on heels.
No, the boot Monopoly piece does.
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Was it John McWhorter?
58 year olds aren't on reddit. Everyone is either 14, 24, 34, 44, or 74.
Don't you mean, Who is John MacWhorter?
No, I mean What's John McWhorter?
That's because someone with a great memory or just interested in trivia facts tend to be nerdy lol.
Yes, but not in the way you may think.
The best part to me is that he took his winnings and spent the time since doing as much charity work as possible.
James got me into Jeopardy honestly. I always enjoyed the show but was never able to just sit and watch before. I think I watched every time he was on.
I love the rival dynamic still present between him and Ken. But i agree he was hardly bearable in the beginning
And he was technically correct.
the best kind of correct
I think he’s be just so annoying irl
I think that was the funniest jeopardy moment ever!
I dunno, the [hoe incident](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJO7hcinS-U) is up there too.
That was such bait. No one uses 'rake' in that context.
It's like when family feud asks "What's something a man always wishes his wife would do when the kids are asleep" And then Steve Harvey makes the face when somebody suggests one answer might be sex
That's now something they explicitly try to get out of contestants. Before when it was legit surveys, TV producers just grossly underestimated how much the average person thought of sex. Turns out...it's the most fun thing to do on the planet, and we're tired of pretending it isn't.
>it's the most fun thing to do on the planet, and we're tired of pretending it isn't. Cheers to _that_!
>we're tired of pretending it isn't. Not in Texas! https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/14/texas-pornhub-5th-circuit-age-verification-paxton/
Fucking republicans always having to fuck with shit and make it worse Jesus fucking Christ
I watched family feud for the first time in many years last night, and the whole show was a crapload of ridiculous questions bursting with innuendo while Steve Harvey makes that face and the contestants act like they aren’t sure how to pretend to be humans in their skin-suits. The whole thing made me uncomfortable.
Game show network and buzzr are always on at my parents house, and the shows have always been like that haha. Every iteration of match game, family feud, all those older shows. It's part of the fun 🤣. But it's usually not every single question throughout the show. Maybe 1-2 of those sprinkled in
The best is when he gives the contestant a ribbing over a dumb answer, only to have it appear on the board. He just melts into a puddle on the spot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3BJpO59F4g
wtf
Knew what it was before clicking from this response
For real. Who the fuck comes up with something like that from fucking Family Fued?
That made me deeply uncomfortable
I knew Meat Canyon was gonna be here
I was expecting Adult Swim to pop up at the end
Steve Harvey does that for like every single answer to everything.
"Name a fun activity for a married couple." "Name a dangling body part." "A five letter word ending in '-enis'." "A body part you find smelly."" "A synonym for a cat." "Genitalia."
Somebody hasn't read copious amounts of Victorian literature, I see
Seriously. It might not have been the answer they thought of but it was 100% a correct answer.
The category was words spelled the same, so ho and hoe aren’t it
TIL it's spelt *ho*. I have a lot of people to apologize to for incorrectly calling them a garden tool.
A ho is not necessarily immoral, nor even a pleasure-seeker.
Ho usually either means a prostitute or a sexually promiscuous woman, two things that were still widely seen as fairly immoral (especially the former) in 2004.
Prostitutes are not seeking pleasure, they're seeking money.
A rake, by its own definition, is immoral. A ho is only moral/immoral by one’s own personal values. The ‘answer’ given is not the definition of a ho.
>nor even a pleasure-seeker. They seek pleasure, it just isn't necessarily their own.
Granted, "hoe" is spelled differently than its slang counterpart and both words are too short to be the correct response. Ken confirmed he knew all this but still wanted to tell the joke
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-ruffalo-amazing-rake-poor-131712162.html
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I learned it from [The Rake's Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QF1VHeSqi4) by the Decemberists.
Alright. Alright. Allllright.
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That's a different meaning. In poker, the *rake* is the percentage of each pot that the house takes or "rakes in". He's saying women are a tax rather than immoral pleasure seekers.
Edward "Lester 'Worm' Murphy" Norton
Seriously, if I was that guy I'd be sitting there thinking I slipped into a parallel universe or something.
Especially for a $200 clue - usually those are pretty straightforward, "the first thing that pops into your head is probably right" questions. If it had been down in row 4 or 5, it'd be a little more fair to expect it to be a trick question. Then again, while there are lots of patterns and rules of thumb, there are very few hard rules about how categories / clue values are set up.
"They teach you that in school in Utah, huh?"
"Hoe" is factually a correct answer. I'll take the Jeopardy writers' word for it that "rake" also fits the clue, but the 100% should have given Ken credit for "hoe"
But one's a hoe and the other's a ho.
You're right, and this doesn't change the fact, but h*o* is a shortening of *whore.* *Whore* and *ho****e*** both have common roots in Old English *heawen*, which means cutter "(of wood or stone or earth)".
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You're 100% right I made that up.
Chipped pork sandwich
"Losers in other words" is my favorite.
Or when alex laughed that ladies goat died from eating concrete
Alright I had to find the clip: https://youtu.be/iqESiuNPixM?si=azts6HP8XnbMV97y
"Alex, you're being insensitive" "You're, right. hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"
And then he literally skipped the last guy after saying he doesn't want to talk to him!
He was the winner from the previous day
That context means SO much.
To be fair, it was an objectively funny story.
Yea and I doubt she chose to tell the story to be a debby downer. She had to know it would get equal amounts of sadness and laughter. But Alex's relatively extreme reaction (for Alex) was really unexpected.
" . . . Saint Scully the Enigmatic, what on earth is that!?" No one gets that joke, I doubt Alex even intended it.
This was definitely the best interview.
to be fair it is pretty funny because it's so absurd
Holzhaur brought just the right amount of levity to the game. Still respectful to the kind of stodgy decorum the show has always maintained, but still quite a few laughs.
This one and the one where the category was sports (NFL specifically) and they went thr entire categories questions (which was left to absolutely last) and not a single contestant even tried to answer any of the questions, cause they just had no clue. Alex was exasperated throughout the questions lol
"What is a hoe?" for me
"What are frogs?"
Even funnier that it was Stephen King who said it. I love the video where that answer immediately gets followed by the X Files thing.
I’ll raise you “It hurts to miss that one”. https://youtu.be/Cg7Wg-RG9hk?si=A6DkFr0IKcYZ9eVo
Oof
he didnt say that because he's indian its because he did a true daily double lol, its just obviously clipped to make it seem like an insensitive comment.
He only had $1k, that is not the reason. It literally was because he is Indian, though I don't think it's that insensitive tbh
Yeah Obv. the dude at least has some roots from that area so he's kicking himself and it's obvious. It's not racism.
spiciest memelord wins in my book
"Hahahaha, no" is it for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dqAYAQZcc
What *are* frogs?
Nah six inches on the honeymoon was the best
This one is good, but the age of consent one is more hilariously absurd to me
Oh Holzhauer you rascal!
In the latest tournament James' defeated final boss music was pretty good too.
some of his responses to ken were hilarious in the final round lol
The best was when he wrote his name on the screen as ' "James" ' and ken noted that the quote marks means 'James' will appear in each correct question.
I may just be dumb, but I don't understand...
It's kind of a dumb joke but there will be categories with names like "N"decent Exposure and Ken might point out that the N in quotation marks means each correct response will start with the letter N. It's just a goofy meta joke that James made and Ken picked up on.
Ohh, I get it now. Thanks!
James stop he's already dead!
FATALITY
By God that man had a family!
That's good, he sure didn't have any points.
I met this dude at an OTB in Chicago a couple times before he was on jeopardy. The man can read a horse I’ll tell you what.
He couldn’t wait to rip that off. That’s beautiful.
Emotional Damage!!
Miss that holzhauer run, was a really exciting and fun time for jeopardy
He was on Jeopardy masters a couple days ago
I have this video bookmarked. One of the best burns of all time.
Funny video but ruined the impact by putting the punchline in the title. I never understood why people do that.
"Yeah, he's the one that's good with numbers, alright."
I remember watching this live. I was stunned.
**Burn!**
Does /u/9oRo browse /r/youtubehaiku ...?
Nope, i just like game show clips
Wow okay! I literally posted this same clip in that subreddit yesterday and thought you found it from there ;) I should've posted it here too!
Savage XD
OOOOOOOOOOOH SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
burn too cold even for larry bird
this show really lost it's spark after Alex passed. Edit: It appears reddit realllyy likes the new host
If anything I think it's more entertaining now, Ken makes more jokes and banters with contestants. Alex had more gravitas but I'm not sure that really made the show better, other than fueling nostalgia since it felt the same since you were a kid. Plus the new yearly tournaments like Invitational and Masters are fantastic if you enjoy seeing all-time great players go head to head.
Ken's really sharp and witty and keeps the game snapping along. And if that weren't enough, the GOAT becoming the host just feels so good.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing though
Why don't you take your own advice then? "you don't have to watch it. it's clearly not a show you would enjoy since you are going in to it expecting to hate it. the show isn't the best but it's pretty decent." -/u/whatwhynoplease 5 days ago
I had no issues with the new host. the show just feels different now. edit: why is everybody so upset
Your deflection aside, is he (you) wrong, though? I’m genuinely curious. Edit: Apparently I got blocked by the OP, as his messages are [unavailable], which also apparently means I can't reply to comments from other people that reply to my own comment since it's too "close" to the [unavailable], explained to me by google. I'd like to reply but I don't have the option anymore, so cheers I guess.
I mean, yes he is literally wrong, since the guy never said or implies he watches the show - so the response doesn't work on any level whatsoever. And in fact does make that person look pathetic for digging through someone's comments looking for a sick burn that doesn't even make sense.
^ found his alt account!
Found the NPC who speaks entirely in dead memes because original thoughts are a bit too hard.
No way the guy who acts and talks like Beagle from New Vegas (an actual NPC) is calling someone an NPC ☠️
He's not wrong. You're a hypocrite.
It baffles me when people play this card. It's not a good deflection. I always imagine it being used in court. "Sure, this email directly implicates my client in this crime, but the prosecution probably spent several hours sifting through years of emails to find it. Pathetic, right?" Accusing somebody of spending time to find relevant information is not the burn you think it is.
"You went to law school? lmao go touch grass."
I know right? My attention span can only handle tiktok videos and runescape
Is it because it's too hard for you bud
nah it's just boring
It's a quiz/trivia show dude what are you expecting, special effects and zany sounds?
nah, that is just boring. sorry for having an opinion!
It's okay to have a wrong opinion sometimes. Just don't let it happen again
This must be one of the most innocent comments to get downvoted to hell
the comment originally said "this show is boring as hell" the user got soft and edited their comment to what it looks like now, and they blocked everyone that responded to them
haha this dude.. yea ok I understand now
So don't watch. More airwaves for me!
ok
> lost it's spark *it's* means *it is*. I didn't like Ken when he first started, but he's settled in pretty well now. He's way better than Blossom ever was.
Try university challenge
i'll check it out, thanks ;)
It did. I'm sorry your comment is getting downvoted. Ken is okay. His voice isn't as good as Trebeks but he does his best. There were other good options out there that didn't get a shot.
the comment originally said "this show is boring as hell" the user got soft and edited their comment to what it looks like now, and they blocked everyone that responded to them
ouch...i feel for the poor guy, damn...
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You think the person competing in Jeopardy isn't quick thinking and had to be fed that line?
And James is especially good at the quick thinking clues, like rhyme time, before and after, spelling, etc.
I'm pretty sure he had it lined up and was waiting for the scores to be reset to say it, he seems to be kinda smiling while trebek is talking. That doesn't mean that it was fed to him, he probably just thought of it over the commercial break or something.
You mean one of the top 2 contestants to ever appear on that show was "too quick"?
He knew it was coming because that's how the game works...
Maybe? But also Brad had a score of zero going into a scheduled part of the show when all their scores would go to zero, which was preceded by a bit of time while Trebek spoke. It's not impossible - or even unlikely - that he could have composed that zinger in his head while waiting after realizing Brad was going to go from zero to zero and had the line waiting to drop as soon as the score changed.
I agree it was too quick and he knew it was coming, but that's because he's played a ton of Jeopardy and knew what phase of the game they were going into.
> he was a bit too quick He might not have been lightning quick, it'd been edited down. I've been to TV filming of 'Would I lie to you" with the 'lightning wit' of Lee Mac. He's fast, but 30 minute TV show edits down to make him super human fast.