- Hey, guys.
So I've been on TV a couple of times.
Usually it's ended up quite embarrassing.
I mean, there was the time when I said
I was bitten on the Florida by a squirrel.
- Once I was bitten by a squirrel.
- [Host] Where did it bite you?
- Florida.
(somber music)
(laughing)
- And that was so bad.
And also the time I did this.
- Boom.
- Left snake up.
- Boom.
- Flip.
- Boom.
- Then, go down in the back.
- I was also in a pretty cringey car insurance advert
where people literally recognized me on the streets
as the annoying car insurance guy.
But something that was fun, that I was happy
to let my friends and family know about,
was the fact that I was on a quiz game show
called The Weakest Link.
- Welcome to The Weakest Link.
- It's basically a game show where
you've got to answer questions.
And after each round, you vote off the weakest link.
So, there's a bit of drama between the players.
I thought we'd watch my episode.
And, also, I'm going to try and answer the questions
that I was given on the show and see if I'm
any more intelligent than I was then.
Probably not.
Let's do this.
I don't know why I'm quite nervous to watch it.
Okay, here we go.
Okay, spot Phil.
Can you see me?
Look at me in my giant jeans.
- [Narrator] Here are the nine contestants
preparing for today's show.
Only one of them will win up to £10,000.
- There I am!
Look at that hair!
It's worse than I remember.
This bit, they were telling us
to just pretend to talk about nothing.
They were all having nice chats about their lives and stuff.
I start freaking talking to the guy
next to me about alligators.
(laughing)
He was like, who the hell is this
talking to me about reptiles?
After this, we all got ushered into a studio.
And there was no practice.
We were just right in there with Anne.
By the way, the host of the show is meant to be mean.
So, she's super horrible to everyone.
So, prepare for some roasting.
Especially at me.
- Let's meet the team.
- I'm Phil, I'm 20, from Rossendale, and I'm a student.
- I look so scared!
Can you see it in my eyes?
I'm like, I'm Phil, I'm 20.
- I'm Clare, I'm 35, I'm from Chislehurst,
and I'm a transcriptionist.
- Yes, they tried to pick people with different jobs
so that Anne could basically roast them about their jobs.
- I'm Linda, I'm 60.
- She was nice.
I might be about to stab her in the back.
No spoilers.
So, there's loads of people.
And every time someone answers a question,
the money goes up.
And if you want to bank the money in the chain,
you've got to go "bank".
- Let's play The Weakest Link.
- I was second.
I was so nervous.
- [Anne Robinson] Andrew, according to tradition,
a man asks which parent of his prospective fiancee
for her hand in marriage?
- What?
That was such a long question.
If that had been my first question,
I would not have gotten that right.
Wait, the father.
The father.
- Father.
- Yes.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
Phil, in a standard pack of playing cards,
if two of the four suits are described
as red, the remaining two are normally which color?
- I look so bored.
The answer to that is, what was the question?
Black.
- Black.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Black.
I was very northern at the time.
- [Anne Robinson] Linda.
- Linda.
- [Anne Robinson] In the childish rhyming phrase
that means very simple,
which two words proceed lemon squeezy?
- Easy peasy.
Linda!
- Sorry, pass.
- [Anne Robinson] Easy peasy.
- No!
So, we just lost all that money thanks to Linda.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil.
- Back to Phil.
- [Anne Robinson] In Karopady, which part of the foot
can sometimes be described as ingrowning?
- See, the Karopady thing freaked me out.
But then, she said ingrowing, and that's obviously toenail.
- Toenail.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Why am I so meek?
I'm like, toenail.
- Toenail.
- Anyway, this was good.
Two questions right.
I'm getting my confidence now.
We're getting to the end of the round.
- [Anne Robinson] Carly.
- [Carly] Bank.
- [Anne Robinson] In pop music--
(dramatic music)
- Carly banks.
So, that's good points for Carly.
So, this is the point where we vote off the weakest link.
And we all decide who was the worst player.
It was quite funny because they were like
pretend to write on the board as they film everyone writing.
There's a little piece of triv for ya.
There we go.
Do that flip.
- Linda.
- So serious.
- Linda.
- Oh my God, everyone's throwing Linda
under a train right now.
- Linda.
- Phil.
(wacky horn sound)
- I thought we were friends!
I spent like two hours talking to you, Linda!
- [Narrator] Betrayal!
- Is that why she has a chat with everyone?
This is what happened when she talked to me.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, the student.
- Yeah.
- [Anne Robinson] Where are you studying?
- York University.
- [Anne Robinson] And what are you studying?
- English language and linguistics.
- [Anne Robinson] I didn't think
you were studying hair dressing.
- Oh!
(air horn noise)
- That was so quick!
I will give her that.
- Do you not like it, Anne?
- I feel like I'm a bit flirty with Anne.
Let me know what you think.
- I want to be in the media somewhere.
- Anywhere in particular?
Bottom of the pile?
- No.
- [Anne Robinson] Hollywood?
- Maybe a film director.
- I don't know, a film director.
- [Anne Robinson] A film director.
- Yeah.
- What do you know about film directing?
- Well, I make films and post them on the internet.
(laughing)
- I love that I call these films.
YouTube wasn't well known back then.
I couldn't just be like, I post videos on YouTube.
- What are your films about?
- They're all different.
- Well, roughly speaking, what's the main genre?
- Why'd she say genre so weird?
Genre.
- Genre.
Do you know what genre is?
- Yeah.
- [Anne Robinson] Yeah, go ahead.
- Like, dramas, I'd say.
(laughing)
- AmazingPhil, the channel for drama.
This was when I was in my YouTube experimental phase.
So, I did class videos like this as a drama.
- [Anne Robinson] Yeah, no horror movies?
- Some horror movies as well.
- Do you star in those?
- Yeah. I'm the hero.
- [Anne Robinson] With that hair cut?
(air horn)
- Yeah.
- Who do you want to be?
- Sassing my hair again.
- Who do I want to be?
- [Anne Robinson] Who is your hero?
- My hero, Quentin Tarantino.
He makes great films.
- He doesn't have a hair cut like yours.
- Oh!
My hair is almost the same as Anne's
I don't think she can talk.
- He doesn't have much hair at all, though.
- [Anne Robinson] No.
- To be fair.
- That is a good point, Phil.
- [Anne Robinson] Was it Linda's maternity dress?
- [Phil] The maternity dress and the easy question wrong.
- Wow, just leading me up to sass Linda's dress.
- Yeah, which really?
- The dress.
- [Anne Robinson] The dress.
(laughing)
(emotional music)
- [Anne Robinson] You are the weakest link.
Goodbye.
- I mean, she deserved it
for trying to put me in the bin, didn't she?
Then, you have to do the walk of shame,
which is very traumatic.
So, let's see how Linda goes with it.
Oh, Linda, I'm sorry for sending you
out to sea without a paddle.
- [Anne Robinson] Round two, and you have £1,000.
We're now taking 10 seconds off your time.
We'll start with the strongest link from the last round.
That's Richard.
Let's play The Weakest Link.
(dramatic music)
Start the clock.
- All right, next question for me.
- [Anne Robinson] In the late 1960s,
major discoveries were made below the North Sea
of natural gas and which other commodity,
copper or crude oil?
- Crude oil.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Yes!
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
Clare.
- So, if Richard gets this right,
then the team gets another £1,000.
- [Anne Robinson] In film, the 1985 Brat Pack
drama about college friends coping with life
after graduation is entitled St. Elmo's what?
- Fire.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
Mike--
- [Mike] Bank.
- Yes!
(dramatic music)
- That was a good round.
No one got a question wrong.
But also, that makes it hard to choose
who you're going to vote off.
Okay, Phil, who are you going to throw under the bus?
- Colin.
- He was sweet!
I think he was quite slow to answer questions.
- Phil
- [Narrator] Betrayal!
- Excuse me.
So, Andrew got binned off, and now we go to the next round.
Let's see how I do.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, of which tourist spot
on the Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall
does a signpost read 3,147 miles to New York?
- Cornwall, oh, what is that?
See, you've got to answer quickly, though.
So, I'd already failed.
Land's End, Land's End!
- Land's End.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Oh, I was faster in the past.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, which 1993 film drama
starred Holly Hunter as a mute Scottish woman
who communicates with others
by playing a musical instrument?
- What?
I have no idea.
And this Phil would have no idea if I don't have an idea.
- Pass.
- [Anne Robinson] The Piano.
- Pass.
Have a guess.
Always guess, Phil.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, which word, meaning deluge,
proceeds lighting to give the name--
(dramatic music)
- Oh, saved by the bell!
- Time's up, I can't complete the question.
- Good.
- [Anne Robinson] And you only won £150.
- Trash.
So, you get the idea of the show.
I'm not going to go through every question
because that would take forever.
But I am going to go through all of my questions
and see if I am better than myself.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in porcelain, the pattern
of a Chinese landscape including a river
and bridge in blue on a white background
is named after which tree?
- What?
I do not know that.
Did I know that?
- Willow.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- What the hell?
How did I know that?
That is so weird.
Willow, willow pattern.
I must have just said a random tree.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in fashion,
what "D" is the four syllable first name
of the Versace sibling who, in 1997, took over
the running of the family design house?
- Donatella.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- For that question, I actually said Donatello
like the turtle.
(laughing)
Donatello Versace.
So, after that round, they had to go back
and film me saying Donatella.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in the English language
a pangram sentence is defined as one that includes
how many different letters of the alphabet?
- Saved by the bell.
But that's embarrassing because
I did English language at university.
(dramatic music)
- Did you want to answer that anyway,
English language student?
(heartbeat)
- Three?
- [Anne Robinson] 26.
(wacky horn noise)
(laughing)
- You see it in my eyes, like I do not know the answer.
Colin gets in the bin.
- I hope Phil gets voted off because he's a student.
I don't like students.
- [Narrator] Betrayal!
- Colin, I can't believe this.
(laughing)
Because you don't see them after they leave,
so they can say anything about you.
- Round five, and you have £2,570.
- I did quite well, round five.
I did not expect to get passed round two
so this was progress.
Here we go, lads.
- [Anne Robinson] In architecture, what "V"
is a word meaning a sheltered terrace
attached to a house around the building?
- Veranda.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Yes, lad!
Phil, in classifications, the word porcine means
characteristic of which farm animals?
- I would just say pig as a random animal.
Say something!
- Pigs.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
(laughing)
- Pigs.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, according to the famous
quotation from the communications theorist
Marshall McCluhan, the medium is the what?
- Pass.
- [Anne Robinson] Message.
- The medium is the pass.
That was a more poor round.
- [Anne Robinson] Whose IQ goes down after a haircut?
(wacky horn noise)
- I feel very attacked.
I'm still being sassed about the haircut.
(dramatic music)
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in the Superman stories,
Clark Kent works for a newspaper called The Daily what?
- Yes, a geeky question.
Daily Planet.
- Planet
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Yeah.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in entertainment, the company
Aardman Animations that created Morph and Creature Comforts
was founded in 1976 in which English city?
- What?
How would anyone know that?
- Bristol.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- How would I know that?
I'm astounded.
I am impressed, Philip.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in organic chemistry,
a simple compound such as methane or ethylene
is known as a hydro what?
- Gas.
- [Anne Robinson] Carbon.
(laughing)
- Hydro gas.
Three chemistry students in my house at university
and they were all just ripping me up so much over hydro gas.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, what "W" is the name of--
(dramatic music)
- What?
- Time's up.
I can't complete the question.
And you only banked £70.
Whose fault was that?
- Crap.
- [Anne Robinson] Should you shout "Cut it, Phil?"
- Is that a haircut and a director reference
combined into one?
Anne is on fire today.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, why Carly?
- Because I thought she was the worst player.
And her dog looks a bit bored now.
(laughing)
- I said I thought she was the worst player
and her dog looks bored?
Phil!
She was the worst player.
I just wanted to think of some other reason
so I wasn't like, you were bad.
But then, the dog thing probably sounded
more insensitive than that.
- [Anne Robinson] Could you ask her to look
a bit more interested in me?
She's looking at you now, not me.
- [Carly] I know!
- The dog should win.
We should just give the dog the money.
Cancel the show.
Dog, go buy all the treats.
- Let's play The Weakest Link.
Start the clock.
Phil, in human biology, which word is both
a job title in the medical profession
and a term meaning to feed a baby with milk?
- Nurse.
- Pass.
- [Anne Robinson] Nurse!
- I knew something that I didn't!
(cheering)
I'm not getting gradually stupider.
Anne actually screamed nurse at me.
Nurse!
- [Anne Robinson] Nurse!
Phil, in science the temperature at which
a flammable substance will ignite
when a flame is applied is called a flash what?
- Point.
- Bomb.
- [Anne Robinson] Point.
- Flash bomb?
- [Anne Robinson] Which word for a person who believes
that it's impossible to know whether God exists
was coined in 1869 by the biologist Henry Huxley?
- Atheist.
- [Anne Robinson] Agnostic.
- I'm doing terrible at this round.
- [Anne Robinson] In pop music, Elvis Presley's
cover version of Blue Suede Shoes
was a UK hit single in May 1956 at the same time
as the original by Carl who?
- Stephenson.
- [Anne Robinson] Perkins.
- Just say Stephenson in the hope that,
out of the 20 million last names,
it would magically be that one.
Okay, here's the thing.
Marie and Clare got like two questions right in that.
And I got zero.
So, look at what happened.
- [Narrator] Phil is statistically the weakest link.
- Oh!
- [Narrator] For the second round in a row,
the strongest link is Clare.
But, who will survive the final vote?
- Oh, my gosh.
This was tense.
- Voting over, it's time to reveal
who you think is the weakest link.
- This is when I thought I was going home.
- Marie.
- Phil.
- So, did Clare get rid of Marie
because she was better than me?
So then, she would go against me in the final
and have more of a chance at winning the money.
Conspiracy theory activated.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare, why Marie?
- Before the start of the round,
I was going to vote for Phil.
- Before it started?
- [Clare] But, Marie had such an awful, awful round
that I couldn't just vote for Phil.
It just would have been unfair.
- [Anne Robinson] Well, Phil, you can't get much worse
than not answering a single question correctly, can you?
(laughing)
- No, that was terrible.
- Did you think Marie was the worst player?
- No, I thought I was the worst player.
- [Anne Robinson] Exactly!
- Honesty is the best policy.
- [Anne Robinson] Marie, you are the weakest link, goodbye.
- Marie, thrown into a blender by both of us.
- Round eight.
And you have £2,830.
- Chunky bit of cashola.
So, we could get £3,000 extra
if we get all of these questions right.
- We'll start with the strongest link from the last round,
which certainly wasn't Phil.
It's Clare.
- Sass.
- Let's play The Weakest Link.
(dramatic music)
- [Anne Robinson] Start the clock.
Phil, in geography, the cities of Toledo and Cleveland
are in which US state?
- Cleveland, Ohio!
I've been there!
Come on, Phil!
- Alaska.
(laughing)
- Alaska.
Sorry to everyone in Ohio.
Now I've visited you.
I know where you live.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare, in sport, the English footballer
Sir Stanley Matthews was nicknamed the wizard of what?
- Wrigley Place.
- Oz.
- [Anne Robinson] Dribble.
In DIY, which three letter word follows fret, hack, and jig
to give the names of three cutting tools?
- Saw.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct.
- Yes, lad.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare.
- I was good.
- [Anne Robinson] In food, a Cornish couple called
Alan and Jenny Gray created a cheese
in the 1970s giving it what name,
that is their surname spelled backwards?
- Her questions are well harder than mine on this.
- Pass.
- [Anne Robinson] Yarg.
Phil, in literature, the poet and critic born in 1822,
who is the eldest son of the headmaster
of Rugby School was Matthew who?
- McConaughey.
- Samston.
- [Anne Robinson] Arnold.
You won nothing.
(wacky horn noise)
(laughing)
Therefore, your prize money is--
- Dreadful.
- [Anne Robinson] £2,830.
Only one of you can take it away.
- Oh, God.
- [Anne Robinson] Now, you'll play against each other.
Up to five questions each.
- So, look at me here knowing
that my ass is sweating with fear.
- If there's a tie, we'll go
for sudden death until we have a winner.
- We have to stab each other with swords.
- Let's play The Weakest Link.
(dramatic music)
Phil, as the strongest link in the last round,
you have the choice of who goes first.
- I'll go first.
I should have let her go first.
Then, I would have been less nervous.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in wildlife, which South American
mammal, bred for it's meat, milk, and wool
is unusual in that the first two letters are the same?
- Gnu.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct answer is llama.
(laughing)
- Can I just explain myself?
Dan'll never let me live this down.
I can't believe one of my answers
was llama and I got it wrong.
I'm usually so good at animal questions.
But I got heard the question wrong.
I thought she said no two letters are the same.
So, I was trying to think of animals
that have no two letters the same.
And, for some reason, my stupid brain went to gnu.
- Gnu.
- I didn't even know if that's how you say it, gnu.
And no one even knows what that animal is,
but it has no two letters the same.
But the answer was llama.
If I ever see a gnu in the wild,
I'm just going to have a full on meltdown.
So, that was a gigantic fail on my part.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare, Paul Michael Glaser
and David Soul had cameo roles in which
2004 film that was adapted from the TV
series in which they'd starred?
- I would not know that.
- Starsky and Hutch.
- [Anne Robinson] That is the correct answer.
- Clare.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil.
- What are you doing?
- [Anne Robinson] A violin known as Solomon, ex-Lambert
that sold at auction in 2007 for more than
$2.5 million was made in Cremona by which craftsman?
- See, my grandma was like, Phil, you should have known this
because you played violin at one point.
They didn't teach me about this frickin thing.
- Pass.
- [Anne Robinson] Stradivarius.
- Stradivarius.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare, according to the authorized
version of the bible, the book of Genesis opens
with which three word phrase meaning at the start.
- In the beginning.
- [Anne Robinson] That is the correct answer.
- That was such an easy question.
That's not fair.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in the late district,
a farm called Hilltop that now belongs
to the national trust, can still be seen
as it was when which children's writer lived there?
- Enid Plyton.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct answer is Beatrix Potter.
- Damn it.
There's two animal writers and I just chose the wrong one.
- [Anne Robinson] Clare, in the British nobility,
which rank is above a baron, but below an earl?
- Duke.
- [Anne Robinson] Correct answer is Viscount.
- Oh, one more try, one more try.
Come on, Phil.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, in language, which term
for a small-roofed, and sometimes movable, booth
is derived from a Turkish word meaning pavilion?
- See, I remember the answer to this question,
and I think this is a stupid question.
- Port.
- The correct answer is kiosk.
(dramatic music)
- Failed!
I was so close to winning.
I wish I'd have gone second because I think I knew
at least one of her questions.
- [Anne Robinson] That means Clare, you're today's
strongest link, and you go away with £2,830.
- Well done, Clare.
- [Anne Robinson] Phil, you leave with
nothing, nothing, nothing.
Join us again for The Weakest Link.
Goodbye.
- Goodbye.
- I'm sad that I haven't won.
But, I think it was quite an achievement
getting to the final.
And I've done all students proud.
(laughing)
- It's quite a wholesome little end for me, isn't it?
- Anne said that I look too old for my age.
So, I might spend some of the money on cosmetic surgery
so that I could look like her.
- That's such a good sass.
Okay, I'll give her that one.
Enjoy the money.
I feel like, being a student, I would have bought
something more fun than Clare.
But, she did play a good game.
So, I can't be angry.
But I was so overwhelmed that I got to the final.
I couldn't believe it.
I didn't tell any of my friends and family as well.
So, when we all watched the show together,
they were like, what?
They were all expecting me to get voted off first.
If you did enjoy that too, please give it a thumbs up.
And, hopefully, you learned some random trivia
that you could use.
(voice cracks)
Voice is breaking.
That you could use if you have a go
on a game show in the future.
I hope you're having a good day.
And I'll see you very soon.
You are the weakest link, goodbye.
(upbeat jazz music)