Pots, Kettles, and a case of mistaken identity

Just now on University Challenge, Jeremy Paxman told off one of the contestants: "you know, there's no need to be so disdainful, just because you think the questions are too easy". Quite right, Jeremy.  That's your job.

This wasn't even the best moment of television brilliance I witnessed today.  Earlier this afternoon, I was watching  had on in the background and barely noticed becuase I was SO BUSY WORKING a quiz show called Pointless. It's hosted by Alexander Armstrong and involves contestants trying to come up with answers to questions which are correct but which no one else will think of.  (I have not sold it well; it's actually a very clever concept and deserves better than the daytime slot it has been given, in my humble opinion.)  Anyway, these two women had to name people who had been on the celebrity version of the Apprentice.  After much conferring, they came up with Abi Titchmarch. 

Alexander Armstrong did an admirable job of acting as if they had  given a perfectly sensible answer; but then the ladies realised they had made a mistake.  "No, wait, who do we mean?" one of them said.  "We've got that wrong.  Abi Titmuss.  TITMUSS."

"Yes, I think you probably did mean Abi Titmus" said Alexander Armstrong, trying not to explode into fits of giggles.  Erm, let's check to see how many of the people we surveyed said Abi Titchmarch, which is what you said, and so the answer I  have to take.    Not surprisingly, the answer was zero. Which is normally a good thing on this program, but only if the answer is actually correct, which of course it wasn't.