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Hole in the Ring

That Mitchell and Webb Look 2006 Season 1 Episode 5

SKETCH-O-VISION

A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.

The setup

A sneering quiz-show host hurries five nervous contestants through a few easy questions, mocks their pitiful score, then demands they decide who is the weakest of the bunch.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In a glowing blue studio with a revolving checkerboard floor, the host of the quiz Hole in the Ring greets his contestants: Sally, a publisher's assistant, along with William, Matt, Julia and John. He fires off rapid questions on music, chemistry and film, steamrolling anyone who asks him to repeat a question and cutting off John's slow reply as time runs out. The host then savages the team's one-point score and works up to a string of increasingly rude insults before ordering them to choose the contestant who will be the hole in the ring.

The funny people

Meet the cast. 5

Highly quotable.

Who's the git amongst the pigeons?

Who's the turd in the hamper?

Behind the scenes

The people who made it.

David Kerr
Director
Gareth Edwards
Producer

A little extra

Notes from the archive.

The quiz format spoofs The Weakest Link. This is the first of the episode's two Hole in the Ring segments.

ScriptEnglish · 13 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

00:05
Host
Welcome. Welcome to Hole in the Ring. Let's meet this week's new contestant.
00:13
Sally
Hello, I'm Sally and I'm a publisher's assistant from Warwick.
00:17
Host
Sally, let's play Hole in the Ring. And your time starts now. Matt, in which city was Mozart born?
00:26
Matt
Salzburg.
00:27
Host
Correct. Julia, on the periodics table, what element is denoted by the shrimble F-E?
00:30
Julia
Sorry, could you repeat the question?
00:32
Host
On the periodic table, which element is denoted by the symbol F-E?
00:36
Julia
Iron.
00:36
Host
No, I am. John, who won an Oscar for his performance in the 2002 film The Pianist?
00:41
John
The what? The Pianist. Do you mean The Pianist?
00:47
Host
Pianist.
00:49
John
Adrian Brodie.
00:50
Host
You're out of time, you're out of time. So, so team, at the end of that round you scored a pathetic, a gay, one point, which is shit. So, you idiots. so team who's the git amongst the pigeons who's three bob shorts of a 10 queer note who's the turd in the hamper who's thick it's time to decide who's the hole in the ring