Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Format	Quiz show, Comedy
Starring	Simon Amstell (presenter, 2006-Present) Mark Lamarr (presenter, 1996-2005) Phill Jupitus (all series) Bill Bailey (2002-Present) Sean Hughes (1996-2002)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	152 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC2
Original run	1996 – Present
External links
Official website
IMDb profile

Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme, presented by Simon Amstell and produced by talkbackTHAMES for the BBC. It is usually aired on BBC Two. The title plays on the names of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album, and the band Buzzcocks. Series 20 of Never Mind The Buzzcocks concluded on 7 March 2007. The show began its 21st series on 15 November 2007^[1] with Simon Amstell as host and Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey as team captains, although Noel Fielding will temporarily replace Bill Bailey for three episodes of the series.^[2]. NMTB could mean: Association for Manufacturing Technology, formerly the National Machine Tool Builders Association Never Mind the Buzzcocks, a music-based comedy programme on BBC Two Category: ... Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November, 1979) is an English comedian and television presenter. ... Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Bill Bailey is also the name commonly used to refer to a popular song with the full title of Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey. Mark Bill Bailey (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks... Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, London, November 19, 1965) is an Irish comedian who, whilst being born in London, spent much of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... This is a list of episodes from the satirical music-based panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ... A comedy is a dramatic performance of a light and amusing character, usually with a happy conclusion to its plot. ... A game show is a radio or television program, involving members of the public or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, playing a game, perhaps involving answering quiz questions, for points or prizes. ... For the music genre, see Pop music. ... For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November, 1979) is an English comedian and television presenter. ... talkbackTHAMES is a British television production company, a division of FremantleMedia (part of the RTL Group). ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ... The Sex Pistols were an iconic and highly influential English punk rock band, formed in London in 1975. ... Never Mind the Bollocks is an album by the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols. ... For the panel game, see Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Bill Bailey is also the name commonly used to refer to a popular song with the full title of Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey. Mark Bill Bailey (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks... Noel Fielding (born 21 May 1973 in Westminster, London) is an English comedian and actor, best known for his role as Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh. ...

The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry. Victims of former host Mark Lamarr's attacks have included James Blunt, Bruce Dickinson, Pete Burns, Brian Molko, The Cheeky Girls, Robbie Williams, Jonathan King, Phil Collins, Blue, Courtney Love, Peter Andre, Westlife, Geri Halliwell, Claire Sweeney, Dido, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, and Elton John, who, in the 2004 Christmas special, appeared twice during a video montage entitled "people we wished we'd lost".^[3] He also attacked Chris Moyles, Chris Evans, Patrick Kielty and Jimmy Carr. Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ... James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, February 22, 1974) is an English singer-songwriter whose debut album, Back to Bedlam, and single releases — especially the number one hit Youre Beautiful — brought him to fame in 2005. ... For the record producer in the Saturday Night Live skit, see More cowbell. ... Peter Pete Burns (b. ... Brian Molko (born December 10, 1972, in Belgium) is a songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other people with the same name, see Robbie Williams (disambiguation). ... Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944, London, England) is a British singer, songwriter, TV personality, and pop music producer. ... For other uses, see Phil Collins (disambiguation). ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Blue (boy band) Blue were a successful English pop boy band consisting of four members: Lee Ryan, Duncan James, Antony Costa, and Simon Webbe. ... Courtney Love[1] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician. ... André on stage Peter André, (born as Peter James Andrea February 27, 1973 in Harrow, London, UK is a pop singer achieving success mainly in the United Kingdom. ... Westlife are an Irish pop music group that formed in July 1998. ... Geraldine Estelle Geri Halliwell (born 6 August 1972) is an English pop singer and songwriter, television personality, writer, and actress, and became famous (under the nicknames of Sexy Spice and Ginger Spice) in the late 1990s as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls. ... Claire Sweeney (born April 17, 1972 in Walton, Liverpool) is an English actress, singer, television personality and presenter who is best known for her role as Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. ... Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong,[1] December 25, 1971) is a British BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood. ... Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Christopher David Moyles (born February 22, 1974 in Leeds[1]) is an English disc jockey. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Patrick Kielty (born 31 January 1971) is an Irish television personality. ... James Jimmy Anthony Patrick Carr (born September 15, 1972 in Limerick, Ireland) is an Irish and British comedian known for his deadpan, satirical humour. ...

The show has been running since 1996, presented, from its inception until December 2005, by Mark Lamarr (who also produced the show, from 2004 through to his departure) and Simon Amstell, who started in October 2006, and featuring regular team captains Phill Jupitus, Sean Hughes (until May 2002), and Bill Bailey (since September 2002). Bill Bailey had appeared as a guest in series 4 on Phill Jupitus' team and series 5 on Sean Hughes' team. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November, 1979) is an English comedian and television presenter. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, London, November 19, 1965) is an Irish comedian who, whilst being born in London, spent much of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin. ... Bill Bailey is also the name commonly used to refer to a popular song with the full title of Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey. Mark Bill Bailey (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for September, 2002. ...

At the end of 2005, it was announced that Mark Lamarr was to take a break from the show after 150 episodes, to concentrate on other projects. The series that aired in spring 2006 was hosted by guest presenters, before being permanently handed over to Amstell, who had appeared twice as a panellist (Series 13, Episode 8 and Series 16, Episode 11), and once as a guest presenter (Series 18, Episode 2). In his first appearance as a panelist Mark Lamarr joked that Amstell was "stealing his act". Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of episodes from the satirical music-based panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ... This is a list of episodes from the satirical music-based panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ... This is a list of episodes from the satirical music-based panel game Never Mind the Buzzcocks. ...

Following series 20 (Amstell's second as regular host), a highlights show was broadcast, presented by Alan Yentob as a parody of his own arts series Imagine. The highlights programme was sub-titled Imagine... A Mildly Amusing Panel Show. Alan Yentob (born March 11, 1947) is a British television executive. ... Imagine is a wide ranging arts series first broadcast on BBC One in 2003. ...

Classic episodes currently air on VH1 and episodes from more recent years are currently shown on Dave. VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... Dave (previously UKTV G2, UK G2; UK Gold 2 and UK Gold Classics) is a television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels. ...

Format

In the show, celebrities (usually comedians or musicians) are given tasks, such as guessing which song introduction their team-mates are attempting to recreate (with no instruments or props), and guessing which of three implausible stories about a popular musician are true.

Rounds

The first round of the show has varied over the series. Some of the rounds featured are:

• Connections, where each team must work out the unlikely connection between two musicians (eg. the connection between Jay-Z and Frederic Chopin- they both have their own brands of vodka). Formerly known as Connected.
• Sorry, No Refunds, where each team must guess the real reason, out of three given, why a musical act cancelled a gig.
• Indecipherable Lyrics, where each team must work out the real lyrics to a song, with, as the title implies, near-unintelligible lyrics. This round often leads to bizarre interpretations of lyrics, far removed from their original meaning. An example of this came when Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us" was transformed into a paean to canine pornography, with the alternate title "They Don't Care About Crufts"
• Band Names, a round where the teams are asked to give the origins of the name of a musical act.
• Freeze Frame, where each team is shown a music video, and the action is paused half-way. It's up to the teams to guess what happens next. Examples include Bruce Springsteen's video for "Dancing in the Dark" when he plucked an unknown Courteney Cox from the audience, and the AC/DC video "Big Gun" where school uniform-wearing guitarist Angus Young kicks a cap into the air which is picked up by Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose clothing turns into that of Young's, as he takes on the guitar solo.
• Word Up, where each team is given a lesser-known word in a song and are asked what that word means. Examples include Colitas, in The Eagles song "Hotel California", or Beltane in T. Rex's "Ride a White Swan".
• I Fought the Law, where each team is shown a pop act, and have to guess how they fell foul of the law, from three possible choices. When they have chosen their answer, they are told the actual answer, and for a bonus point, they have to guess who came out on top on that occasion. Examples include when The Clash were arrested, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the 1970s, for stealing pillowcases from a hotel, and Shaun Ryder, of the Happy Mondays, was arrested after crashing his car into a vicar's Lada and driving off.
• Inspector Rock, similar to "I Fought the Law", where each team has to decide how a certain object got an artist/band in trouble with the police. Examples included Courtney Love and some plumbing, Marilyn Manson and his genitals and Peter Buck of R.E.M. and a pot of yogurt.
• Do You Know Who I Am?, where the teams are shown a clip of a band, and they have to guess which, of three possible answers, was an outrageous backstage demand of said artists. Examples are ZZ Top's livestock on their 1976 world tour, Janet Jackson insisting on new black toilet seats being installed wherever she tours and Roger Daltrey of The Who insisting on a pint of Häagen-Dazs ice-cream to be placed on stage at regular intervals.
• Mama Said 'Knock You Out', a new round introduced in 2006, where the teams are shown two artists and asked for the reason behind a feud between them, out of three options. One example is a feud between So Solid Crew and Westlife over a BRIT Award.
• What Have We Pixellated?, a new round introduced in 2006, where the teams are shown a music video each, where a portion of the video has been pixellated in a compromising situation, and they have to work out what is behind the digital blur. One example is of Shakira's La Tortura where the scene in which she is chopping onions on her lap was pixellated.
• Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?, a new round introduced in 2007, where teams have to guess which of 3 items mentioned injured a particular music artist.

One-off mini-rounds were played throughout the 2006 Autumn season as jokes, all characterised by the same silly jingle. These rounds are: Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Frédéric-François Chopin as portrayed by Eugène Delacroix in 1838. ... Vodka bottling machine, Shatskaya Vodka Shatsk, Russia Vodka (Polish: wódka, Russian: водка) is one of the worlds most popular distilled beverages. ... Gig is the term commonly used by bands with reference to their live shows. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... They Dont Care About Us was the third US single and fourth European single released from American pop and R&B singer-songwriter Michael Jacksons 1995 album, HIStory. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Porn redirects here. ... Crufts is an annual international Championship conformation show for dogs hosted by the Kennel Club (UK), currently held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, England. ... Springsteen redirects here. ... Dancing in the Dark is an 1984 song, written and performed by American rock singer Bruce Springsteen. ... Courteney Bass Cox Arquette (born June 15, 1964) is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her role as Monica Geller in the hugely popular television sitcom Friends. ... This article is about the band. ... Angus McKinnon Young, (born on 31 March 1955, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a guitarist and songwriter who has been the lead guitarist of Australian hard rock band AC/DC since the group was formed in November 1973. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation IPA: ) (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of the U.S. state of California. ... The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ... Hotel California is the title song from the Eagles album of the same name, and was released as a single in early 1977 in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur. ... T. Rex (originally known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, also occasionally spelled T Rex or T-Rex), were an English rock band fronted by Marc Bolan. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... , Newcastle upon Tyne (usually shortened to Newcastle) is a large city in Tyne and Wear, England. ... Shaun Ryder (aka X) (born Shaun William Ryder on August 23, 1962, in Little Hulton, near Salford, Lancashire) is an English singer and songwriter and an ex postman who became famous in the Madchester era band Happy Mondays. ... Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. ... For other uses, see Lada (disambiguation). ... Courtney Love[1] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician. ... Marilyn Manson (born Brian Hugh Warner ) is the lead singer of the band Marilyn Manson. ... Peter Lawrence Buck (born 6 December 1956 in Berkeley, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Bill Berry, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe of the alternative rock band R.E.M. // After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. ... R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by Bill Berry (drums), Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass guitar), and Michael Stipe (vocals). ... ZZ Top is an American blues rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. ... Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, dancer, activist, and pop icon. ... Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. ... The Who are a British rock band that first formed in 1964, and grew to be considered one of the greatest[1] and most influential[2] bands in the world. ... Logo A Häagen-Dazs shop in Fashion Show Mall on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Westlife are an Irish pop music group that formed in July 1998. ... The Brit Awards are the annual United Kingdom pop music awards founded by the British Phonographic Industry. ... This article is about the musician. ... (English: The Torture) is a pop-reggaetón song performed by singers Shakira and Alejandro Sanz. ...

• Beaver Or Diva?, in which the teams are shown a close-up photo of some hair and are asked if it is the fur of a beaver or the hair of a diva. The third one, intended as a phonetic joke, was property guru Naomi Cleaver.
• Who Is Lily Saying This About?, played when Lily Allen appeared on the show, where the teams are told what Lily said about other artists, and had to guess who she was talking about. However, one of the sentences was said by Jamelia, another guest on the same show.
• Is This Person One Of David Gest's Showbusiness Friends?, played when David Gest appeared on the Christmas 2006 Bumper Edition of the show, where the teams are given a celebrity's name and have to guess whether or not they are friends of David Gest.

The second round is the Intros round, where each team is given two or three songs, that two of the team must orally convey the intro (or in one case the instrumental section) of, without using lyrics or words, so their team-mate can guess. If the team mate does not guess the correct song, the question is passed on to the other team. On occasion (usually Christmas episodes), this round has been performed with actual musical instruments, usually bizarre ones, or with guest acts conveying the song intros to the teams. This round is one of the few to have survived the show from inception. Species C. canadensis C. fiber Beavers are semi-aquatic rodents native to North America and Europe. ... A diva is a great female opera singer, a prima donna. ... Naomi Cleaver was born on July 14, 1967 in Whitstable, Kent, England. ... Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born May 2, 1985) is a British singer-songwriter best known for songs such as Smile and LDN. She is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. ... Jamelia Niela Davis (born on 11 January 1981), better known as Jamelia, is an English R&B and pop singer and songwriter who found fame in early 2000 after impressing music executives at Parlophone Records with self-written a cappella songs. ... David Alan Gest (born May 11, 1953) is an American television personality, TV producer and concert promoter. ...

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The third round is the Identity Parade, where each team is given the name of a musician, and must spot him or her in a line-up of (usually) five individuals. The models are always introduced in order, and all but the first introduced will generally be described by a partial oronym of the target's name. Most of the time, the individuals could plausibly be the musician named, but there have been some notable exceptions: Image File history File links Nmtb. ... Image File history File links Nmtb. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Phill Jupitus (born March 6, 1962 in Newport, Isle of Wight) is a British comedian. ... Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ... Bill Bailey is also the name commonly used to refer to a popular song with the full title of Wont You Come Home Bill Bailey. Mark Bill Bailey (born 24 February 1964, Bath, Somerset) is an English comedian, actor, and musician known for appearing on Never Mind the Buzzcocks... 29 year old Birmingham lass Emma Griffiths started off as a young model, travelled the world and worked for big names such as Marie Claire, Elle, Vogue, Gap & Chanel. ... Magne Furuholmen Picture By Pam Torrance Magne Furuholmen (Mags) (born November 1, 1962, Oslo), is best known as the guitarist/keyboardist in a-ha. ... a-ha is a Grammy Award-nominated band from Norway. ... Terri Walker is a British soul singer. ... Richard Peter John Fairbrass (born September 22, 1953) is an English singer and television presenter, born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and raised in East Grinstead, West Sussex. ... Right Said Fred is the name of a British pop band, which was founded in 1989 by brothers Richard Fairbrass and Fred Fairbrass from East Grinstead. ... An oronym is a word or phrase which is homophonic with another word or phrase. ...

• In a 1999 episode, Lamarr joined the line-up with Bob Cotton of 50s revival rockers The Jets, due to the quiffs. Sean Hughes quipped that the rest of the line-up were dressed like the Fonz from Happy Days, but Lamarr was dressed as Mr. Cunningham. Inevitably, Hughes' team incorrectly picked Lamarr.
• A semi-regular member of the line-up is a black man named Athelston Williams (gaining a credit at the end of an episode in 2000), who never seems to blink or show facial expression. He is present regardless of the appearance of the hidden musician. He was once included in a lineup for The Nolan Sisters. On another occasion, Jupitus walked up to him, fell to his knees and demanded "What do you want from us?". One week, when he wasn't available, an Athelston lookalike was brought in. He was a regular in the series with guest presenters as the drummer for the pub band in the sketches played under the closing credits (once again immobile).
• Another semi-regular, during 2004, was a man dressed as a pirate holding a sword up, who, in his first appearance, was forced to drop his sword when Lamarr and all of Phill's team walked out and stared him down, until he dropped it. His repeat appearances in the show sometimes resulted in all of the line-up, except the artist themselves, appearing dressed up in pirate clothing, including, on one occasion, Athelston. Athelston Williams is a model for Ugly/Rage Modelling.
• A new regular during the current season is a psychotic looking, curly-haired man, wearing overalls. No matter what happens, he keeps staring at the team that's playing. Bailey once compared him to a mutant from the horror film Wrong Turn. Amstell has walked up to him both times he has appeared so far. At the first appearance, Amstell tried to move the model's arms and head, but couldn't, because they were "a bit stiff". All that would move was the model's hair. The second time, Amstell put Donny Tourette's glasses on the man, grabbed his arms, and made him do the hand gestures Tourette had "showed off" earlier. At the end of the round, the man walked off stage with his arms still in the position.

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• Dress You Up, only played twice in 2001, where the teams each get a model dressed in five items of popstars' bizarre items of clothing, and have to guess which item of clothing belongs to who. For example - one model wore a hat like Badly Drawn Boy, an oversized jacket like David Byrne of Talking Heads, a Volkswagen medallion like Beastie Boys, a mini-moustache like Ron Mael of Sparks and a Union Flag dress like Geri Haliwell.
• Dance Craze, only played once in 2001, where the teams are shown three dances to completely different music, and have to guess what moves they are. Moves included Prince Charming as portrayed by Adam and the Ants, The Twist by Chubby Checker and Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus.
• Biggie to Smalls, played once in 2006 and again in 2007, in which the teams have to put four celebrities into the correct order from biggest to smallest — the exact criteria varying with the question. For example, the first was to put Flavor Flav, Pete Doherty, Courtney Love and Pete Burns into the correct order of the times they had spent in prison, from shortest to longest. The other was to put Melanie Brown, Kenny Rogers, Britney Spears and Mick Jagger in the order of their respective divorce settlements. In this round, all celebrities were represented by people dressed up to more or less look like the real celebrity in a well-known and/or slightly ridiculous outfit. The name of this round is a pun on the name of rapper Biggie Smalls.

The final round is Next Lines round, where each team is given a lyric from a song, and must give the following lyric. Each team must attempt to give as many following lyrics as they can, within a time limit. A regular feature of this round is a guest musician on either team being given lyrics from their own songs, and invariably getting the next line wrong. However, when this trick was sprung upon Guy McKnight, the 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster singer not only recognized his own work but pointed out an error in the lyrics quoted to him by the host. (presumably an error on the question cards). He received a point for his efforts.^[4] Also on Mark Lamarr's last episode, Robert King and Sumon Sanyal (of X-Factor infamy) performed the next lines. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... David Byrne may be: David Byrne (politician) (born 1947), Irish & European official David Byrne (musician) (born 1952), musician and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrnes self-titled album David Byrne (footballer) (born 1961), football player David Byrne (web designer) (born 1981), Australian Web / Graphic Designer David Byrne (soccer), (born... Talking Heads were an American rock band existing between 1974 and 1991, composed of David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. ... Volkswagen AG (ISIN: DE0007664005), or VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ... The Beastie Boys are a hip hop musical group from New York City consisting of Michael Mike D Diamond, Adam MCA Yauch, Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz. ... Ron Mael (born J Ronald Day on August 12, 1947 in Culver City, California) is the elder of the brothers in the popular band Sparks. ... Sparks is an American rock and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals). ... “Union Jack” redirects here. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Adam & the Ants were a rock and roll group during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Adam & the Ants were a rock and roll group during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... The Twist is a 1960 and 1962 hit song performed by American singer Chubby Checker. ... Chubby Checker is the stage name of Ernest Evans (born October 3, 1941), an American Rock and Roll singer best known for popularizing the dance The Twist with his 1960 song The Twist. He was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina,[1] and raised in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended... Achy Breaky Heart is a hit country music song from 1992 by Billy Ray Cyrus, first available on his CD Some Gave All. ... Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961) is a Grammy nominated American country singer and film and television actor, who is best known for his hit single Achy Breaky Heart (1992). ... William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. ... Peter Doherty (born March 12, 1979) is an English musician, artist and poet. ... Courtney Love[1] (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician. ... Peter Pete Burns (b. ... Melanie Janine Brown (born May 29, 1975 in Leeds) (aka Mel B) is an English pop singer and songwriter turned actress and television personality best known as one of the members of the girl band the Spice Girls, one of the most successful female groups of all time. ... Kenneth Donald Kenny Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. ... Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy Award-winning[1] American pop singer, dancer, actress, author and songwriter. ... Sir Michael Phillip Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ... Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (often referred to as just Eighties Matchbox) are a psychobilly band from Brighton, England, formed in 1999. ...

For the Christmas Eve 2006 Bumper Edition, the Next Lines round was omitted in order that the teams, plus a guest band and members of that show's Identity Parade, performed a particular song (chosen, in a short skit, by Dreidel). Phill's team, with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, performed Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls", and Bill's, with a Bollywood Bhangra band, Rednex' "Cotton-Eyed Joe". Dreidel A dreidel (Hebrew: סביבון, ) is a four-sided top, played with during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. ... The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain is a musical ensemble featuring ukuleles in different registers and an acoustic bass guitar (although the orchestra prefer to class it as a bass ukulele). ... Rachel Lauren Stevens (born April 9, 1978) is an English singer and actress and an occasional model who lives in Hampstead, London. ... Some Girls is the third single from Funky Dory, the debut solo album by Rachel Stevens, released in the summer of 2004. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... Bhangra (Punjabi: , , ) is a lively form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. ... Rednex is a Swedish manufactured band that had an international novelty hit with the song Cotton Eye Joe in 1994. ... Cotton Eyed Joe is a popular American folk song known at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. ...

In the first series of 2005, Mark Lamarr introduced a new segment after the end of the quiz proper, where Lamarr tells the audience punchlines which weren't used during the show. Often these have included incongruous references to fingerless gloves. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In most of the episodes in the Spring 2006 series, there was an intro or outro sketch where Phill, Bill and Athelston (see above) played in a pub band called Fat, Gifted and Black (a play on Young, Gifted and Black). The guest presenter would usually be the lead singer for this segment (e.g. Lauren Laverne, and Ricky Wilson) Young, Gifted and Black is a soul album by Aretha Franklin, released in 1971 (see 1971 in music). ... Lauren Laverne in 2007 Lauren Laverne (born Lauren Gofton on 28 April 1978 in Sunderland, England) is a disc jockey, television presenter and former singer. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

International versions and similar shows

• In 1999 Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa hosted a short-lived one-hour music-themed game show with a somewhat different format on the USA network called Happy Hour (not to be confused with the sitcom of that name).
• In 2002, an American version of the show on VH1 with the same title, hosted by comedian Marc Maron, lasted for a month — see entry on IMDB.
• An official Dutch version, Doe Maar Normaal (which translates to "Just act normally", but is also a combination of famous Dutch bands Doe Maar and Normaal), hosted by Sander Lantinga, started in June 2007. It is broadcasted by BNN. Regular panel members are comedian Arie Koomen, judoka Dennis van der Geest, actress Ricky Koole and rapper Pepijn Lanen (De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig).
• An Australian show, Spicks and Specks, hosted by stand-up comedian Adam Hills and presented in a similar style but with different question formats has been broadcast on the ABC since 2005.

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Merchandise

Book

In 1999, BBC Worldwide published Never Mind the Buzzcocks: The Book, the CD, the Brief Intense Rush (followed by a feeling of paranoia and insecurity). The book includes famous moments from the first five series of the show, from selected Identity Parades, I Fought The Law, Word Up and Connections rounds, along with collections of Mark Lamarr's one-liners from the show, and some new material written especially for the book. The CD is an Intros round game to play at home. BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. ... Mark Lamarr (born Mark Jones on January 7, 1967 in Swindon, Wiltshire) is an English comedian and a presenter on radio and television. ...

Board game

In 2000, Paul Lamond Games released the Never Mind the Buzzcocks board game, licensed from the BBC and Talkback. The board game is played as follows: the players arrange themselves into two teams. They have two counters each on the board - one as a point marker along the edge of the board and the other to select the round they have to play on the roll of a dice. There are six rounds that can be played: For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Talk radio is radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...

• In the Style of..., where the team leader has to sing a song in the style of someone notable, e.g. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in the style of Mick Jagger. or Start Me Up in the style of Jeremy Clarkson.
• When I Was Famous, where the team leader asks a trivia question, and the other team members have to guess the answer.
• Intros round, the only surviving round from the TV show. Each team gets one intro per round.
• Vital Vinyl, where the team leader asks a trivia question about a song or an album, and anyone from either team can answer.
• Songs in One Sentence, where the team leader divides their team into two, and one section of the team has to describe a song without mentioning the song title or any lyrics in the song, and the other section has to guess what the song is.
• Your Number's Up, where the team leader reads the category on the card to the opposite team, for example, name four songs that mention American states in their titles, for which you might answer Massachusetts (The Bee Gees), Hotel California (The Eagles), Englishman in New York (Sting), and Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

The teams earn the number of points given for the round on the card. For "In the Style of...", it is always one point for the song, and two points for the artist they are doing the song in the style of. At the end of their turn, the team moves their counter on the outer ring clockwise, by the number of points they scored. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is one of the popular English nursery rhymes. ... Sir Michael Phillip Mick Jagger (born July 26, 1943) is an English rock musician, actor, songwriter, record and film producer and businessman. ... Start Me Up is a song by The Rolling Stones featured on the 1981 album Tattoo You. ... Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The Bee Gees: Maurice, Barry and Robin The Bee Gees were a British and Australian band, originally a pop singer-songwriter combination, reborn as funk and disco. ... This article is about the album. ... The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ... Englishman In New York is the title of two entirely unrelated songs, one recorded by Godley and Creme and one by Sting. ... This article is about the musician. ... Sweet Home Alabama is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. ... Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced lĕh-nérd skin-nérd) (pronounced ) is an iconic U.S. Southern rock band. ...

The team that overtakes the other on the squares on the edge of the board wins the game.

Controversial Guests

On an episode aired in 2001, Cradle of Filth's Dani Filth was a guest on the panel, and was subsequently banned from ever appearing on the show again, after Dani and other members of the panel became "Hopelessly drunk". Other guests have appeared while noticeably drunk including Amy Winehouse. Cradle of Filth are a heavy metal band formed in Suffolk, England in 1991. ... Dani Filth (born Daniel Lloyd Davey on July 25, 1973 in Hertford, England) is the lyricist, vocalist and founding member of the British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth. ... Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English soul and jazz singer songwriter. ...

The Ordinary Boys lead singer Samuel Preston walked off the show after Simon Amstell read an extract from the autobiography of his then-wife, Chantelle Houghton.^[5] Prior to the quote being read, Amstell mentioned, after Ed Byrne's introduction, how going on a gameshow for a date was pathetic (as Ed Byrne had been on Blind Date) and then looked at Preston, a reference to Preston's appearance on Big Brother. Preston didn't seem to take to the humour, inviting more comments from Amstell, including "I really like your album", and mentioning how the majority of the tracks are written by someone else. He was replaced by audience member Ed Seymour, picked out by Bailey (on the grounds that he was of the closest physical resemblance that could be found), and credited as "special guest".^[6] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For the American Civil War naval officer, see Samuel W. Preston Samuel Dylan Murray Preston (born 16 January 1982), more commonly known as Preston, is the lead singer of The Ordinary Boys, an English pop band. ... Chantelle Vivien Houghton (born August 21, 1983 in Brentwood, Essex, England, now known as Chantelle Preston) was billed as the first non-celebrity to feature in the Channel 4 reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother in 2006. ... Ed Byrne Ed Byrne (born April 10, 1972 in Swords, Dublin) is a stand up comedian from Ireland and is probably best known as being the voice of the Carphone Warehouse adverts. ... // Celebrity Big Brother 6 was the fourth series of Celebrity Big Brother UK. The series started on 5 January 2006 and finished on 27 January 2006, running for three weeks. ...

Notes

1. ^ Never Mind the Buzzcocks. Radio Times. Retrieved on 2007-11-08.
2. ^ "Fielding to guest captain on 'Buzzcocks'", BBC Press Office, 2007-10-29. Retrieved on 2007-11-15. 
3. ^ "2004 Christmas Special". Never Mind the Buzzcocks. 2004-12-20.
4. ^ Guy McKnight corrects Mark Lamaar on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. BBC. Retrieved on 2003-02-17.
5. ^ Singer Preston storms off TV quiz. BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-02-13.
6. ^ My night on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. BBC News. Retrieved on 2007-02-14.

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