Susie Dent On Her Accidental Countdown Underwear Joke! | Tortoise Lates Live
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There are about 600,000 words in the English language, and yet finding the right words for the perfect situation or emotion can be difficult - especially as language changes and words and their meanings evolve. The right words can summon powerful emotions, bring down governments or inspire generations - so why do we get them wrong so often?
Join us for a ThinkIn with Susie Dent, author, lexicographer extraordinaire, and Queen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner as we find the right words for the right time, covering any emotional, political, or social situation.
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The jimmy carr “what have you been looking through recently” is brilliant. I think the 8 out of 10 stuff helped bring susie out her shell and become a national treasure
@G58
Жыл бұрын
Susie Dent has been a treasure since her first episode of Countdown - which I happened to come across, obviously completely by accident 👀🙄😎😜 Have of course been in love ever since. Who doesn’t love a super intelligent interesting woman with a sweet smile and smiling eyes?
If only there were more people like Susie in the world. So genuinely kind and well-meant. So smart, yet so socially naive. So beautiful and yet so shy. She's a real-life strong woman character. She's who everyone should be looking up to.
@scruffygaming627
Жыл бұрын
The thing is, there are many people like Susie in the world, you just never see them on TV. Ordinary, highly intelligent, mild mannered people. So its very cool to see her on TV.
@JamesWooLF
Жыл бұрын
@@scruffygaming627 You right. Still I wish there were more)
Susie Dent is the glue that holds Countdown together.
I love Susie Dent. A Scholar surrounded by Jesters.
@markc8956
Жыл бұрын
Especially the extremely unfunny and offensive Jimmy Carr
@romainsavioz5466
Жыл бұрын
@@markc8956 only your point of view
@TheUprightLuthier-1959
Жыл бұрын
@@markc8956 Jimmy is NOT offensive. Jimmy is pitiable because he is sooo needy, but he says what he says to make people laugh, it's generous. YOU choose to take offense. Susie is "effable". Which is spelled correctly.
It's one thing to realise later a joke you could have made, but it's really something to realise later the joke you did make.
I always found it amazing that Countdown had two incredibly smart and gorgeous women on it. Or was that 8 of ten cats... I never really cared much for the hosts/comedians. But when i think back, it's probably the most talented intelligent game shows on TV, just because of the hosts. Pretty amazing.
That time Susie and Rachel were talking about sharing bras and Jimmy’s jaw dropped open and he asked if he was dreaming. I think Susie’s stunning. I’d take Rachel on a date but I’d be thinking of Susie…
@oo0Spyder0oo
Жыл бұрын
Yeah and to top it off Alan Carr says even he was getting a semi while they were discussing the clothes/bra swaps!
Wikipedia says she’s almost 60, I don’t believe that one bit
@thetessellater9163
Жыл бұрын
She doesn't look a day over 59 does she?
@Rob.Martin
Жыл бұрын
She's still my celebrity crush.
@billybollockhead5628
Жыл бұрын
@@Rob.Martin : I would do such rude words to her, that she'd have to tell me what those words were.
@kumquatmagoo
Жыл бұрын
@@billybollockhead5628 5 letters. Would.
@serenityinside1
Жыл бұрын
Cum across her wearing a teddy ?
A couple of days ago she said something about her inbox being flooded. 🤣
@mikedakin2016
Жыл бұрын
haha brilliant
My mother is like that. She will say something innocently that turns out to be double-entendres, and not realize what she said. The look on her face is priceless when she finds out- either on her own or someone explains it to her.
Sorry not gonna lie, but the bit on Cats does Countdown about swapping bra's with Rachel was even more hilarious
@MrMartinSchou
Жыл бұрын
They're not swapping bras. Susie basically steals Rachel's bras is what I got from that.
Susie’s special spot is an all time great.
@judsdragon
Жыл бұрын
that could be totally misconstrued to mean something entirely different ;)
Such a crush on this woman!! Such a brilliant mind!!
Her builders and plasterers joke is the best.
Love Susie, enough said............................
Saw Susie live in Yeovil - she was great.
Ah f**k! I was eating a pickled onion (as you do) and that made me laugh so much, I snorted pickled onion juice. That clears the sinuses, let me tell you.
I love her!
Most beautiful woman in the whole wide world
"I'm gonna fire one off across her bow so they know we aren't playing around." - someone in some movie, I think
She is a national treasure and 🔥
"Only on the train home did I get it". I'm sure, she did.
Props to susie for knowing she's not funny. Great linguist 👍
I once saw Susie on regular Countdown define the word "tribade" and get no reaction.
I don’t get it?
@daneenmurf1043
Жыл бұрын
Dont worry it will come to you
I don't get it. 😳🤔
@ausomeaspie
Жыл бұрын
OH! RIGHT! OK, NOW I GET IT!
@derfinsterling
Жыл бұрын
I also don't get it
@nkt1
Жыл бұрын
@@derfinsterling Come across can be taken to mean ejaculated upon, particularly since a teddy is a piece of underwear.
@Milamberinx
Жыл бұрын
@@pomerau I very much think a teddy is funnier than an inflatable doll. Modern teddies are basically designed to be kind of chaste sexy, and the question, asked in earnest, has the double meaning of a well crafted joke. An inflatable doll is... a blunt instrument.
@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium
Жыл бұрын
Erm… she meant a “teddy” as in woman’s lingerie and “come across” as encountered. SO The jesters took it as “come” as in male ejaculation. 😮 So “have you come across a teddy?” Is a whole different meaning! 😂
I don't get it.
Susie is fabulous and she can be very funny, but doesn’t réalise it.
id rather rachel , id settle for susie , but probably end up with some slag in the audience , susie is really good as the straight guy in comedy and at least she has a laugh with it
Algorithm not strong with this one. 🤔
Susie is lovely but doesn't have a sense of humour. She's a good sport though and the 'Catsdown' version wouldn't be the same without her.
I thought this was a recent interview with Ozzy Osbourne when I saw it in my feed. No offence intended. Ozzy has had so much work done.
@electricbreeze
Жыл бұрын
@@pmbbmp Very slight.
@westthedalles
Жыл бұрын
They didn’t select a very flattering thumbnail, did they.
I’m of the opinion that upper middle class women have been our downfall.
@robertbagley9199
Жыл бұрын
Care to elaborate?
@thetessellater9163
Жыл бұрын
Greed and the enslavement of the masses to the capitalists has been our downfall !
@OptimusGPrime
Жыл бұрын
@@robertbagley9199 They probably mean that upper middle class woman are better than them, and people like them. Thus, they have been replaced by a superior stock of humans. Sorry about your downfall. 😥#BetaMaleDownfall
@nelsonclub7722
Жыл бұрын
No its just Australians - what language do they speak? Correct. Foul language.
@rickyanthony
Жыл бұрын
I think you're thinking of pre-grated cheese.
I've come across a couple of teddy's too, its great fun. Shout out to all the teddy wearing mamma's❤
@Alex_Greu_de_gasit
Жыл бұрын
please explain the original joke, I'm not a native speaker of English...
@bigl6322
Жыл бұрын
@@Alex_Greu_de_gasit I am a native English speaker, but I am American and I don’t quite get it either. A teddy is a 1 peice garment of lingerie, but I think the key has more to do with knowing the personalities hosting and attendees, and I don’t recognize the name. Possibly if I watched the episode…I suspect it’s a gay reference to someone named teddy…
@steve_ancell
Жыл бұрын
@@Alex_Greu_de_gasit Come as in cumming (ejaculation). Teddy as in on piece lingerie silky body suit or romper. Shooting one's load over a teddy-clad woman or man.
@5161estel
Жыл бұрын
@@bigl6322 listen carefully, I've 'cum' across a few teddy's in my time and yes a teddy is a sexy piece of lingerie.
@TheKosstImogen
Жыл бұрын
@@Alex_Greu_de_gasit Basically it's that what Susie said could be interpreted as "Have you ejaculated on lingerie?" No people called Teddy are involved!
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