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Small Talk
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
Raymond Terrific opens his studio discussion programme in a new guise, Small Talk, a format experiment he makes clear he opposed: instead of experts, his guests are some of the most superficial people in public life and the topics are deliberately trivial. He introduces each panellist with a withering summary of how they became famous, from a reality-show contestant to a former footballer jailed for racism who now runs a nightclub, while a person in a lion costume sits silently at the end of the table. Anita describes herself as deeply spiritual and explains that she unwinds in a candlelit bath, Tony settles on his favourite flavour of crisps, and Raymond's composure cracks. When he presses Anita on which crisp is objectively the best, he is ordered to stop because the conversation has become slightly too weighty, and the hairdresser Zack Chancery, known only for a name that sounds like a font, answers his question about his day in a single word. Raymond closes by bitterly predicting an even more degrading stunt for his next charity appearance and apologising to the viewers.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Tonight we'll be discussing some tiny matters of no real consequence.
I'm being told that that talk is actually marginally too big.
You are a hairdresser who first came to the public's attention for having a name a bit like a font.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
David Kerr
Director
Gareth Edwards
Producer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
A variation on the show's Big Talk discussion sketches, which Robert Webb's Raymond Terrific also hosts.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:03
Raymond Terrific
Good evening and welcome to small talk i'm raymond terrific and in a format experiment that i was not in favor of tonight we'll be discussing some tiny matters of no real consequence joining me in the studio instead of the usual boffins are some of the most superficial and idiotic people in the public eye anita you got your pubes out in big brother your question how do you like to relax
- 00:23
Anita
well i'm a very spiritual person as anyone who knows me would tell you and i just like to chill out in the bath with some oils and some candles and just get a little bit of headspace yeah
- 00:32
Raymond Terrific
that That was awful. Right, press on. Tony, you were a professional footballer before having to go to prison for racism. You now run your own nightclub. Your question, what's your favourite flavour of crisp?
- 00:44
Tony
Er, probably prawn cocktail.
- 00:46
Raymond Terrific
I hate this! Anita, what is objectively the best crisp?
- 00:51
Anita
Oh, that is a tough one.
- 00:52
Raymond Terrific
Sorry, I'm going to have to stop you there. I'm being told that that talk is actually marginally too big. Zach Chancery, you are a hairdresser who first came to the public's attention for having a name a bit like a font. Your question, how's your day been?
- 01:06
Zack Chancery
Super.
- 01:09
Raymond Terrific
Well, that's all from Smalltalk. For next year's Children In Need, hopefully they'll just get me to sit in a bath of pot noodle or cut my cock off or something. In the meantime, sorry and goodnight.
- 01:19
We don't!
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