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Countdown to Hell
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The funny people
Meet the cast. 5
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Consonant please, Carol.
Sloblock.
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Richard Whiteley's hesitant patter fills a Countdown parody as contestants Simon Sad and Liz Tragic offer short answers to a suspicious selection of letters. In Dictionary Corner, Gyles Brandreth proposes an invented eight-letter word and explains its meaning at length.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Stephen Fry
Writer
Hugh Laurie
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The invented word became a running joke on Countdown. In 2009, Carol Vorderman applied to name her home Sloblock Hall after it.
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
More from across the archive.
