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00:01Last time on the Harry Hill Show.
00:06Harry Hill Show!
00:09Hello there, I'm Harry Hill and this is my show.
00:12It's the Harry Hill Show!
00:14The guest is here, Daddy.
00:16Gary?
00:18Yes, Daddy?
00:19Have you been looking into those giant eggs in the basement?
00:25No, Daddy?
00:28Right, well, we'd better welcome our guest.
00:37Joel Domit.
00:38Hi, Joel.
00:39How are you?
00:41I'm so well, man.
00:42Good to see you.
00:43It's a pleasure to be here.
00:45You're aware of it.
00:46Oh, Nicky.
00:49Yeah, it's Nicky, the Harry Hill Show mascot.
00:55You're right, yeah.
00:56Hi, Nicky.
00:57I know he's, yeah, he'll, he'll, he'll be, some, yeah, all right, okay.
01:07Oh!
01:09Whoa!
01:12Nicky, you might want to call HR.
01:16There is no HR.
01:18Joel, good to see you.
01:20So good to see you, man.
01:21Now, the last time I saw you, perhaps you'd like to explain.
01:26You were, you were inside Red Panda.
01:30I was inside a giant furry outfit.
01:33Yeah.
01:35Slightly on your advice, if I might say, Joel.
01:38Yeah, it was, wasn't it?
01:39It was.
01:40We did a gig together.
01:42So, a small little warm-up gig.
01:44And you went, I've been, I've been offered.
01:47Is that an impression?
01:51Horrigeous.
01:51Dicey, 30 seconds in.
01:54Nothing like you, Danny.
01:55There's nothing like you.
01:57I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been,
02:15you should do it.
02:17And I, I said.
02:18You said actually what you said was, it's so much fun.
02:20I said, it's so much fun.
02:22I said.
02:22You should do it.
02:22Is it a good check?
02:24Yes.
02:24And you, you said, I wouldn't do it for that.
02:27I'd do it for the fun.
02:30Am I right?
02:32Well, actually, then I said to James Gill, who runs that gig, ABC in Kennington.
02:38Hi, James, if you're watching.
02:39I'm trying to crowbar him in every week.
02:43And I said, oh, yeah, I was just talking to Joel about that mass thing.
02:46I said, you know, they've offered me this amount of money.
02:48And he sort of almost fell over and said, what are you doing?
02:51Of course you've got to do it.
02:52It's like crazy.
02:53So anyway, but I did it.
02:54And it's a very, it was a very odd experience.
02:57I've got to say.
02:58You're so good.
03:00Because also what I enjoyed about it was the fact that you, you might be the first person
03:05that we've had on the show who didn't even try to sing.
03:09Do you know what I mean?
03:10Sorry.
03:12Hello, Mum.
03:13Yeah, no, he started.
03:14Yeah, he did an impression.
03:16He did an impression of me.
03:17And then he could not sing.
03:18What do you mean he didn't?
03:20That's the best singing.
03:22I had like coaching.
03:23They've got this guy, Mark, there.
03:25I was going around.
03:26He's on his keyboard.
03:27And he's going, yeah, we'll change the key.
03:28And he's going down and down in the key.
03:31What do you mean by that?
03:32How dare you?
03:33I love the idea that you have.
03:36Someone said, I think Maya Jarma said she thought I was a professional singer.
03:44Obviously a professional singer at one point.
03:46I love the idea that Mark would be doing a full singing session.
03:50And ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:52We're warming up.
03:53Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:55Okay.
03:55I'm going to sing it like this.
03:57I'm going to sing it like this.
03:58Okay.
03:59Red Panda.
04:00Harry, if you could give it a go.
04:05Okay.
04:06We'll try out the key.
04:06We'll try out the key.
04:08No, you were great.
04:09You were genuinely brilliant.
04:10It was a mad.
04:11So fun.
04:11I mean, it was a mad.
04:12It is a mad experience because the team are lovely but completely mad.
04:18Because they really believe in the whole secrecy thing.
04:22Yeah.
04:23I mean, you're probably not aware of the, I mean, the level of the kind of, you know,
04:27that you have to wear this sort of hoodie and they give you a visor and gloves.
04:32You know, like anyone's going to recognize you from your hands.
04:35Yeah.
04:35You get in the car, you know, they send a car for you and then you, you know,
04:3910 minutes from the studio you have to put all this stuff on and you're wearing this thing saying,
04:44no one talked to me.
04:45But then what they don't sort of address is the fact that basically the driver knows who it is
04:51because you get in the car and all the audience know because inevitably you're unmasked.
04:58You're unmasked.
04:59And it's very, you have these, the hoodies and the helmets that you have to wear.
05:04Yeah.
05:05And no one talks to you.
05:07You're sitting in this caravan.
05:08Yeah.
05:09Because you don't know the others.
05:11You're not allowed to mix with sloth and conchers and, you know.
05:17Is that how you pronounce sloth?
05:19I say sloth.
05:20Well, that's interesting.
05:21Yeah, I'm a sloth.
05:22Yeah.
05:23Is that how it's done?
05:24Is that how it's done?
05:25Well, I don't know.
05:26Perhaps it's like scone.
05:55Hmm.
05:56Is confusing sloth with both where it's more like moth.
06:04There was a moth.
06:05How did you pronounce moth on the Marseilla?
06:07That's true because I pronounce moth most.
06:13And then, you know, you put the outfit on.
06:16Sorry, I'm going to carry on with this.
06:17No, I would.
06:18You put the outfit on and it's like really claustrophobic.
06:22You know, you really can't.
06:23It's like looking down a toilet roll.
06:26And it's really hot and heavy.
06:28And they're saying to me, mark the vocal.
06:31So I did the first one, right?
06:32And he goes, he said, I know how this works.
06:34He goes, you know.
06:36He said, the outfit's really cute.
06:39He said, that's a big plus.
06:41He said, it's between you and sloth.
06:43Sloth.
06:44I don't know what to say now.
06:45It's between you and sloth, he said.
06:47He said, but you've got to move around more
06:49because sloth is wiping the floor with you, right?
06:54So the second time, I go in and I'm doing it.
06:57Was it Bad Out of Hell, was it?
06:58Or something like that.
06:59How you got bad out of hell?
07:00Right.
07:00And about 20 seconds in, I'm completely exhausted, right?
07:06And I'm standing there in this outfit.
07:09And I'm thinking to myself, I'm 61.
07:11I'm an ex-doctor.
07:13I'm dressed as a red panda.
07:17And I'm about to have a heart attack.
07:19I'm going to be taken to hospital in this outfit.
07:23And that's going to be, you know,
07:25the final shot is me being sort of stretched out.
07:29And yeah, they'll still keep the secrecy
07:32when you're in the hospital.
07:33No, no, no, you can take the bottom off.
07:35Don't take the hat off.
07:37Don't take the hat off.
07:38I know, we can't ruin it.
07:40Yeah, it can't be an open coffin.
07:41It's got to be a closed coffin.
07:42A closed coffin.
07:45No one must know.
07:47We've got to operate on his heart.
07:48We've got to take his clothes off.
07:49Take it off.
07:51Take it off.
07:52Take it off.
07:54Take it off.
07:55Now, Joe, we have, how do you feel about AI?
08:00Wow.
08:01It's coming, isn't it?
08:02It's coming.
08:02It's happening.
08:03And you know what?
08:04I think, I think it can't replicate this.
08:09Right.
08:09Genuine connection.
08:10Oh, I see.
08:11Human, yeah.
08:12Chemistry.
08:13You know, this is what we're having right now.
08:15What we've got now.
08:16What we're experiencing right now.
08:18It can't, it can't be replicated.
08:20A lot of people say that it uses a lot of water, but.
08:24Uses a lot of water.
08:25Apparently.
08:26Yes.
08:27Yeah, I heard that.
08:28I'm not sure that's.
08:29Yeah, I heard that.
08:29Thirsty.
08:30Yeah, I don't know how that works.
08:31Yeah, I don't understand the sort of specifics of it.
08:33And also, so does, um, so does fish.
08:36No, rice.
08:37Anyway.
08:38Uh, Sarah, come on out.
08:40She's going to tell us a little bit about you.
08:45Come on out, Sarah.
08:45Don't be shy.
08:46Say hello to Joel.
08:47She's a big fan of the Mars Singer.
08:48Hello.
08:50Yeah.
08:50Hi, Sarah.
08:52I think someone else has been staring into the eggs in the basement.
08:56Um.
08:58Say hello to Joel.
09:00Hey, Joel.
09:01Great to meet you.
09:02Really enjoy your work, especially hosting of the National TV Awards, following in the
09:07proud tradition of Philip Schofield.
09:10Well, all right.
09:11It's now, um, that's a nice gig, isn't it?
09:13It's a great gig.
09:14Yeah.
09:15It's a great gig.
09:15It's a, it's a, it's a hard gig.
09:17You know, you're at the O2 in front of, uh, you know, uh, I'd say about 400 people who
09:22could do it better than me.
09:24Oh, because you've got all the, you look down, you see all the, uh, ITV family and the, um,
09:28yeah, the, all the big stars from the soaps.
09:31All the big stars are there.
09:33Um, have you ever been to the NTAs?
09:34Once.
09:35Oh, dare you.
09:36Once.
09:38I didn't mean it like that.
09:40I didn't.
09:40I did.
09:41You know, but I just.
09:42In the old days, in my heyday, before all this, um, yeah, I went once and it was at the
09:49Albert Hall.
09:50Yes.
09:50And it was like the last days of Rome, right?
09:54Because on the, on the ground floor in the stalls, you've got all the ITV families, I
09:58call them all the soap stars and Trevor McDonald.
10:02I think Trevor McDonald hosted it.
10:03Yes.
10:04Yeah.
10:04Yeah.
10:04He hosted for 30 years.
10:06Yeah.
10:06But he, he can't, uh, he's, he, he kills a joke stone dead.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Okay.
10:11He's got no comedy.
10:13Hasn't got a funny bone in his body.
10:15That guy.
10:16I mean, I love him.
10:17Which is what you want.
10:17Which is what you don't want a guy to be able to sell a joke who does the news at
10:2110.
10:22Yeah.
10:22Do you know what I mean?
10:23Yeah.
10:23A funny thing happened to me on the way to the national TV awards on TV burp.
10:31Actually, I wanted to do a whole, all of those, he used to do like one or two jokes.
10:35So he only did it for a few years, didn't he?
10:36But I wanted to put all his jokes together and do this fake advert for Trevor McDonald,
10:41the standup years, right?
10:45But ITV wouldn't let me use it because he was like a precious, he's a precious thing,
10:50a bit like, uh, David Attenborough.
10:52Now, um, I went once and like I say, so they're all down in the stalls, but all the
10:58public around, right?
11:01So, you know, uh, you know, Sharon Osbourne comes out and I was going, but then, you know,
11:06unless someone else here, they didn't like, uh, they're all going, Simon.
11:11Yeah.
11:11You know, it's like the Coliseum.
11:14Yeah.
11:14And then I thought, well, I'll leave and I'll just go home.
11:18Um, but they had these barriers, metal barriers that funneled you to the after show party that
11:23you couldn't actually, it's like cattle.
11:25You know, when you see cattle going to the, you're made to go to the abattoir.
11:30And actually by the, I, I jumped over one of the barriers and I was tasered.
11:38I was tasered by the head of, um, ITV.
11:42Uh, anyway, Sarah, do you want to tell us a little bit about, uh, Joel?
11:47Here goes.
11:50Joel Patrick Domet is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.
11:55Early life.
11:56Domet was born in Rockhampton, Gloucestershire Dart.
11:59As a teenager, he was a member of a new metal band called Cirrus, which played five shows.
12:05New metal is an alternative metal subgenre that emerged in the 1990s, blending heavy metal
12:10with hip hop, grunge, funk, and industrial music.
12:14It is characterized by downtuned guitars, a focus on rhythm over solos, syncopated riffs,
12:21and often rap style vocals.
12:23Popularized by bands like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park.
12:28It addresses angsty, emotional, and societal themes.
12:32He moved to London at the age of 19.
12:37Is that about right, Joel?
12:39That was sort of, yeah, absolutely right.
12:41I can see you as a front man.
12:42Yeah, yeah, you don't put this face on drums.
12:44No.
12:45Well, actually, you know, Angela Barnes says that you're too good-looking to be a comedian.
12:51Well.
12:51We had this discussion that, on the whole, comedians are not as good-looking as you.
13:01She's got this thing about, you know, Angela's got this sort of complex about being considered
13:05ugly, which is actually, you know, very sad, but she manages to own it.
13:10And I was saying, well, you know, I look, you know, odd or different.
13:16But we were saying that you were kind of, how do you do that?
13:21Well, here's the problem is I find you incredibly good-looking.
13:28And so you've, I think what's happened here is that you find me incredibly good-looking.
13:35I then, because it's all about taste.
13:37Yeah.
13:38And...
13:38Oh, I see.
13:39I find, yes, I'm attracted to you.
13:41Yeah, that I am incredibly attracted to you.
13:43What you're saying is there's someone for everyone.
13:46There is someone for everyone.
13:47And this, this is, this is what I want.
13:51Okay.
13:53Now, did Sarah just laugh inside the box?
13:56I think Sarah just laughed.
13:58So, what box?
14:00Sorry.
14:02So, were you playing an instrument or writing the songs or what were you?
14:05I was sort of writing the lyrics, I think.
14:08We were called Cyrus with a silent P.
14:12And clearly, clearly we didn't know psoriasis was a thing.
14:18Yeah.
14:19Okay.
14:20We did, we did.
14:22Psoriasis is a good name for a band.
14:23It's a good name.
14:24It's a good name.
14:25They would, unfortunately, would never turn up to their gigs because they're too flaky.
14:29I don't know.
14:30No, no.
14:30Is that a joke?
14:31No, no.
14:31I got more of a response than I thought it was going to.
14:33Yeah.
14:34Yeah.
14:35Yes, I'm so sorry.
14:36Sorry, it's the Dermatology Society on the, I don't know.
14:45So, and what, can you remember any of the songs?
14:48We covered a lot of songs as well.
14:51So, it was a lot of corn, deftones, that sort of stuff.
14:57And we, I remember crowd surfing once at a gig where there was only, I think there were seven people
15:03there.
15:04Right.
15:04It turns out when you crowd surf with seven people.
15:07Yeah.
15:07It feels quite a lot like your own funeral.
15:09What is the minimum?
15:10Yeah, what is the minimum?
15:12It's, I'd say seven.
15:14I'd say seven was the minimum, really.
15:15There must be a gag there.
15:16Someone must do that gag about crowd surfing at a funeral.
15:19In a coffin.
15:20It's a good gag.
15:21Write that down.
15:23Sarah, have you got anything else to say about Korea?
15:26Before stand-up comedy, Domet did some acting such as the roles of Josh in Teenage Picks, Jonathan Hansel in
15:33Casualty and Dale in The Golden Hour.
15:35Who can forget those three characters?
15:37Me.
15:38That's who.
15:39Domet is a member of National Youth Theater.
15:42Bit weird.
15:42His first stand-up gig was at a bar in Los Angeles.
15:45And he has since performed in locations including Reykjavik, Grey's End and The Netherlands.
15:51Sounds like the sort of places you only go if you're on the run from prison.
15:55In 2008, he won Best Newcomer Award and was a finalist in Stand-Up Comedian of the Year.
16:01Domet appeared in a recurring role in E4 Skins as DC Sweeney and appeared in all six episodes of Poppatron.
16:07Again, you've lost me.
16:10Domet hosted Live in Chelsea, a live discussion show revolting around the events of a popular reality show made in
16:16Chelsea.
16:17Domet took part in the 16th series of I'm a Celebrity.
16:20Get me out of here and finished in second place.
16:23Losing out to Moffat.
16:25On the back of that, Domet released his first book of memoirs.
16:28It's Not Me, It's Them.
16:30Confessions of a Hopeless Modern Romantic.
16:32The book details his romantic encounters with 40 women before meeting his wife.
16:37Domet co-presented I'm a Celebrity, Extra Camp on ITV2.
16:42The after show was axed in January 2020 due to it becoming too expensive to film.
16:48I can't be right.
16:49Is it too expensive?
16:51Was it too expensive to film?
16:53Is that still on?
16:55I'm a Celebrity, Extra Camp?
16:57Yeah, it stopped.
16:58It was too expensive to film, yeah.
17:00And then weirdly, they stopped it.
17:02It's just a ticket, isn't it?
17:04It's just a business class ticket to Australia.
17:07Yeah, I loved it.
17:08It was so fun and then stopped it for three years and then got brought back because we
17:14found out a way of making it cheaper.
17:16Ah, well, this is what we all have to do now, isn't it?
17:20We've got to find cheaper ways of making stuff.
17:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:26So you did a lot of acting.
17:29Some acting, a bits and bobs.
17:31What was the Jonathan Hansel in Casualties?
17:33And that rings a bell with me now.
17:35I was 18 when I filmed that and because I was from Bristol, so you got a chance to audition
17:41because you're from Bristol.
17:43When you're a child in Bristol, you automatically can audition for Casualty.
17:47Yeah.
17:48Or Holby, I suppose.
17:49Or Holby.
17:50And so I got the part of a boy who crashes a car with his dad in it, a Bristolian
17:59boy.
18:00And so I passed my test and then the first time out, I crashed the car with my dad in
18:05it.
18:06And so it's a lot of...
18:07Do you want me to do it?
18:08Yes.
18:08This is what I did.
18:09Yeah.
18:09It's like...
18:11I'll just go again, sir.
18:15My dad's in there.
18:18Get him out.
18:20My dad's in there.
18:22My dad's in the car.
18:25I just passed my test.
18:27My dad's in there.
18:30This is very convincing, yeah.
18:33We'll see.
18:34Would you say better or worse than the Harry Hill impression?
18:37I think it's on a par with that.
18:40I always wanted to be on that.
18:42You know, I kept saying in interviews that I wanted to be on, actually on Holby, that
18:46I wanted to be, you know, how they would do like an occasional visiting specialist, you
18:51know, who's come down from London or something.
18:53And I thought, well, you know, I sort of know the lingo.
18:56I could just come on and, you know, do a bit of, I don't know, can we have a look
19:01at
19:01the x-rays?
19:02Click.
19:02When they put the x-rays up and there's some shadowing over the lower lobe.
19:07So we're going to have to do a bronchoscopy, something like that.
19:10You know the stuff.
19:11They never bit.
19:13They never bit.
19:14Like, do you think when you were a doctor and you were saying these things, is that
19:20comforting for a patient?
19:22Do you know what I mean?
19:22When I was saying it.
19:23You'd feel like, if you're like, because you're working on a, you know, on a patient, I'm
19:29imagining that it's like a meal.
19:34The liver.
19:35Yeah.
19:36With a nice Chianti and some fava beans.
19:39You're mixing that up with.
19:42I didn't have that sort of responsibility, Joe.
19:44When I was a doctor, I wasn't going like that.
19:48We're going to have to do a bronchoscopy.
19:50I was being told to go and get the x-ray or, you know, go and get the blood test.
19:55Where's the blood test results?
19:56You know, boy.
19:57It was like that.
19:58So I was very low down.
19:59I once had a job at a, when I was doing Locans, I had a job at a private hospital.
20:06Right.
20:06So private hospital, there's no accident, emergency.
20:09So it's all, there's nothing much to do at the weekend.
20:12And I was at this private hospital, just wandering around, having tea and biscuits and, you know,
20:17just like, anyway, I walked past one of the sort of private rooms and, oh, doctor, the
20:23patient said, doctor.
20:24I said, yes.
20:24I was thinking, oh, great.
20:25I've got something to do.
20:26He goes, yes.
20:27He said, could I have another pillow?
20:33I'll get the nurse.
20:36Excuse me, I've got to take this.
20:38Hello, yes.
20:38Oh, hi, mum.
20:39Yeah.
20:40You what?
20:41You run over on a zebra crossing?
20:43But they said they didn't see you, the driver.
20:46What?
20:47Oh, I see.
20:47You were on your way to a fancy dress party dressed as a keyboard.
20:52Oh, I see.
20:52So I can understand you on the zebra crossing.
20:55They wouldn't.
20:56Yeah.
20:56But you were knocked down, yes.
20:58And you kept it going, right?
21:00You kept it going.
21:01But when the paramedic turned up, right, and pressed your stomach, you made the sound of a B flat.
21:10You stayed in character.
21:12All right, mum.
21:12Well, I better get on.
21:15I've got Joel Domit here.
21:16Sarah, have you got anything further to add about Joel?
21:20Personal life.
21:21In 2020, Domit was announced as the presenter of the Masked Singer.
21:26Ha.
21:26Dum Dums went on that.
21:28Didn't you, Daddy?
21:29Where are you, Fatbird?
21:30The character Fatbird?
21:32Yeah, I remember we all sat around chanting, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off.
21:37That's it.
21:38You're up to date with Jonathan Hansel.
21:40Sorry, I mean Joel Domit.
21:43It wasn't.
21:44Oh.
21:44Oh, that's for you.
21:45Is that for me?
21:46Yeah, it's a Twix, yeah.
21:47Thank you so much.
21:48Pick it up now.
21:49Thanks, Sarah.
21:49You know what?
21:51Like, a lot of people are scared of AR.
21:54And, um.
21:55AR?
21:55AR.
21:56I said, sorry.
21:57That's my Bristolian coming out.
21:58AR?
21:59AR.
22:01AR.
22:02AR, you know AR.
22:03He's in there.
22:05Oh, Camo.
22:06It's my dad.
22:07Did it catch fire?
22:09Yeah.
22:10Yeah.
22:10It was great, man.
22:12A lot of people are scared of AI.
22:14And you know what?
22:14It's this show and meeting Sarah has made me feel more excited for the future and less scared of AI
22:22because now I can picture AI wearing kickers.
22:26Well, then we've done something good.
22:31Harry Hill Show!
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22:41Trevor MacDonald.
22:42Yee-haw!
22:43Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
22:45All of Trevor's greatest gags.
22:46Am I boven?
22:47Available for the first time on VHS.
22:50Watch as Trevor has them rolling in the aisles with fat jokes.
22:54The size of this building is absolutely incredible.
22:58Apparently, it was designed originally as a hanger for Bernard Manning.
23:05Crowd work.
23:06Incredibly uplifting to see bright young hopefuls struggling to achieve their dreams.
23:11Even though, for some, the best bit is when the judges tell them they're rubbish.
23:15And zeitgeist-busting slam-downs.
23:18Oh, dear.
23:18Sounds like Jonathan Ross has been asked to take a peck hunt.
23:21Ouch.
23:22That hurts.
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23:25Quiz shows have always been very popular, especially among politicians.
23:31Their favourite seems to be the game from Take Your Pick, where they aren't allowed to
23:35answer a question with a straight yes or no.
23:39And classics like Trevor's Shakespeare routine.
23:41Say that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing for the soaps.
23:45But would even the Bard survive in this most competitive of worlds?
23:49Leave it, Phil.
23:51Tis not worth it.
23:52And verily, we've all had a drink.
23:54This one-off special was filmed in front of a specially invited audience of people who
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24:00With support from Fergie Mountbatten-Windsor Mountbatten-Windsor.
24:03The Duchess of York.
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24:07It's National Wonderbra Week.
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24:12Cheeky.
24:13Seven of them live from the Albert Hall.
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24:21Regency Television.
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24:25It's time for our theme of the week.
24:32Venus.
24:34And we're joined by Professor Chris Lintott, who is the Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford
24:40University.
24:41Hi, Chris.
24:43Hi, Chris.
24:43Yeah.
24:44Have you been looking into those giant eggs in the basement?
24:47No.
24:47Okay.
24:48So, take it off.
24:52Take it off.
24:53Sorry.
24:53Take it off.
24:57I keep bringing my work home.
24:59Sorry.
25:00It's awful.
25:01Hello.
25:02Hello.
25:02Do you know Joel Domit?
25:04I hope we've just met.
25:05It's a pleasure to meet you, sir.
25:06Yeah, you too.
25:06I can see you now, which is helpful.
25:08It's very exciting.
25:09Do you watch The Mars Singer?
25:11The Mars thing?
25:12Masked.
25:13Masked.
25:14I do.
25:14Yes.
25:15It's great.
25:15You'd probably be more into The Mars Singer.
25:17The Mars Singer would be great.
25:19Sounds really good on Mars.
25:20It's really good for bass, because of the different atmosphere.
25:23So, it's like a heavy rock planet, basically.
25:25I know a bit about heavy rock.
25:27There you go.
25:28It used to be a metal band.
25:31But not on Mars.
25:32Not on Mars.
25:32I'd love that.
25:33I've got so many questions for you.
25:34Good.
25:35Excellent.
25:35It's so nice to see you two bonding so quickly.
25:40So, we're talking about Venus.
25:42Yes.
25:43Chris.
25:44So, I'm going to start with the usual.
25:47What is Venus?
25:48So, Venus is a planet.
25:49It's the next one in towards the sun.
25:51From us.
25:52From us.
25:53Oh, okay.
25:53Yeah, exactly.
25:54Second planet in the solar system.
25:55And it's sort of Earth-sized.
25:57So, for most of human history, people thought it was Earth-like.
26:01You know, they thought it was a world that might have rivers and life and so on.
26:04We couldn't see the surface, because it's got this thick atmosphere that's always cloudy.
26:08Actually, when we sent space probes there, it turns out it's a hellhole.
26:11It's about 450 degrees on the surface.
26:13It's got an acidic atmosphere that would dissolve you, and pressure that would squash you instantly.
26:18So, it's basically the worst place for a holiday in the solar system.
26:21Right.
26:21Wow.
26:22Yeah.
26:23Harry, can I just predict what's about to happen?
26:25Mm-hmm.
26:27We then come to you, and you thought we were going to talk about Venus Williams.
26:32I see.
26:33Yeah.
26:34That's a better joke.
26:35Oh, damn it.
26:37I'm a terrible booking for that, if you are.
26:40You should be doing this.
26:41No, I really shouldn't.
26:43You should be sitting here, Joel.
26:44Yeah.
26:45So, it's, because you can see it.
26:47It's one of the ones you can see quite regularly, isn't it?
26:50Yeah.
26:50But you can see it at the minute in the evening sky in the west, and I love telling people
26:54to go and look at Venus, because it's incredibly easy.
26:57It's the bright thing that's in the west at sunset for the next few months.
27:01Sometimes it's in the evening sky.
27:02Sometimes it's in the morning sky.
27:04So, it took a while to work out they were the same thing as it travels around the sun.
27:07But from Earth, it's a frustrating planet to study because of this atmosphere.
27:11You only ever see the top of the clouds, basically.
27:14Right, right.
27:15Wow.
27:16Are you someone who looks at the planets at all?
27:19I do like looking at the planets, actually.
27:21I find it quite nice.
27:23I'm actually, like, I grew up in the countryside, so you could see the planets, and, you know, on all
27:29the stars and things.
27:30Now I live close to London.
27:31I miss them.
27:32Well, Venus is still there.
27:33So, I like lazy astronomy from the middle of a city.
27:36You can still see the bright planets, and Venus is nice.
27:38If you've got binoculars as well, you see the phases.
27:40So, like, the moon goes through crescent phase and half phase.
27:43Venus does that as well, and that was one of the things that told astronomers that the sun was at
27:49the center of the solar system.
27:50So, that was a really important observation.
27:52Does Venus have moons?
27:53It doesn't.
27:54It's moonless, and we don't know why that is.
27:56We don't know why the Earth has a moon and Venus doesn't.
28:00It has volcanoes.
28:02That's its main feature.
28:03So, it's got a volcanic surface.
28:05Wow.
28:05And we've recently discovered that the volcanoes are active.
28:08And we found them because there was a researcher who was bored at work,
28:12and every time he was on a Zoom meeting, he pulled up radar images of Venus's surface and compared them,
28:17and he found the one place in Venus that had changed between the two images.
28:20And he said, there's a lava flow.
28:22I think we all do that.
28:23We all do that when we're a little bit bored on the Zoom.
28:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:27Comparing pictures.
28:28So, this guy was able to see the surface.
28:31How was he able to see them?
28:32He was using, we've sent probes that have orbited Venus and used radar.
28:36So, we have a sort of map of the surface, but no pictures.
28:39The only pictures we've got are from a couple of Russian probes that landed in the 70s,
28:43and they each sent about one picture before they melted.
28:46So, they lasted about 10 minutes on the surface.
28:49I think I saw that on Instagram.
28:50Is it like that picture, and the planet's really, like, it's got a black surface?
28:54Yeah, and they said that rock.
28:55Basically, a couple of pictures of rocks was all they managed.
28:57But we've got radar images now.
28:59So, we've got a map, and we can see these volcanoes.
29:01And then the real interest is the atmosphere, which is this thick sulfuric acid atmosphere.
29:07Sulfuric acid?
29:08Yeah, yeah.
29:09So, it's not a nice place to live.
29:11But a friend of mine, Jane Greaves, looked at the top of the atmosphere and found a chemical called phosphine,
29:17which on Earth is produced by life.
29:19In fact, it's produced by penguins.
29:21And so, Jane reckons there might be life in the upper atmosphere of Venus.
29:26Bacteria.
29:27Oh, not penguins.
29:28Well, it'd be nice if there were penguins, wouldn't it?
29:30I think penguins flying around the atmosphere of Venus is a nice thought,
29:33but penguins can't fly.
29:35And, yeah, sulfuric acid's bad for penguins.
29:38So, where's all this stuff?
29:40So, is it like, was Earth like that?
29:44I mean, what I'm getting at is if we wait long enough,
29:47will Venus then cool down, sulfuric acid go, and just, like, you know, develop?
29:52Yeah.
29:53We actually think it's the other way around.
29:54So, we think Venus would have started off reasonably temperate and a fairly lovely place.
29:58And then, for some reason, the greenhouse effect got out of control and it developed this thick atmosphere.
30:03So, this could be our future if we really screw up the planet.
30:06It's really not a...
30:07What do you mean if?
30:08Yeah.
30:09Well, we'd have to really screw it up to get to Venus levels.
30:12But we know something happened there.
30:15So, on Earth, we have plate tectonics.
30:17Think the continents move around.
30:19On Venus, that doesn't happen.
30:22And we think that maybe the whole thing sort of solidified and then got this runaway atmosphere.
30:27Maybe four billion years ago, something like that.
30:30Wow.
30:31So, are you saying that the people on Venus didn't recycle their straws?
30:35That's right.
30:36Yeah.
30:36And this is what happens to you if you don't reuse your coffee cup.
30:40And how long would it take for a probe to get to?
30:43Well, it's just next door.
30:44So, you can get there in a month or so.
30:46We've got some probes planning to get to Venus.
30:49It's quite easy to fall into the inner solar system.
30:51So, actually, a lot of probes go to Venus on the way to somewhere else.
30:55They go in and slingshot around Venus and then head off to wherever you want in the solar system.
30:59So, it's also a sort of service station for the solar system.
31:02It's annoying, isn't it, that Venus, the closest one only a month away, is not really worth...
31:07Well, you certainly wouldn't want to go and stand there.
31:09I mean, it's interesting scientifically.
31:11So, people like me are interested in it.
31:12But no, it's not a holiday destination.
31:14No.
31:14So, the next one that's worth visiting really is Mars, right?
31:18For people.
31:19Yeah, Mars is the most Earth-like.
31:20I mean, it's nowhere near as nice as Antarctica.
31:23It's still a horrible place to be.
31:25But each of these worlds tells us a different story.
31:28So, the other weird thing about Venus is that it spins really slowly.
31:33So, if you're on Venus, the day is longer than the year.
31:37In other words, it goes round the sun once, faster than it rotates.
31:41Yeah, I thought that might break you.
31:43So, yeah.
31:44I've got a two-and-a-half-year-old, and sometimes it feels like that.
31:47Yeah, yeah.
31:47Yeah, yeah, I can imagine.
31:51Surely, this day's been a year.
31:54Unbelievable.
31:55Wow, fantastic.
31:56I could still see that thought going into your head.
31:58It's still sinking in.
31:59You're going to be telling people this at the pub later.
32:01Is it because it's so big?
32:03Why is it going so slowly?
32:05We don't know.
32:06One, we've got a mad idea, which is that maybe something hit it and slowed it down.
32:10But, to be honest, that's the kind of thing that planetary scientists say whenever they
32:14don't know what's going on.
32:15How did the moon form something hit Earth?
32:17How did, why is Mars the way it is something hit it?
32:19So, that's guessing, really.
32:21So, but was it formed before Earth, or it was all part of the same?
32:26It was probably around the same time.
32:27So, the planets formed just when the sun's young, about four and a half billion years
32:31ago.
32:31But we think that early solar system was a bit chaotic.
32:34There may have been about 20 things the size of Mars knocking around, and a few of them
32:38survive to be the planets that we've got today.
32:41Wow.
32:42Is that the only one without moons?
32:45Mercury doesn't have moons either.
32:47So, the two innermost ones don't have moons.
32:49So, maybe that's a clue.
32:50Interesting.
32:51And then, there was this nice pattern.
32:53Earth's got one.
32:54Mars has got two.
32:56They found, Galileo found Jupiter had four.
32:58So, there's this pattern, one, two, four.
33:00But Jupiter turns out to have hundreds of the things.
33:01So, that ruins that idea.
33:02Oh, right.
33:03The other fun thing about Venus is the naming system.
33:06So, because it's the planet of love in traditional mythology, the...
33:11Why is that?
33:12Just because it's bright?
33:13I think because it's sort of bright and shiny and only there sometimes, maybe.
33:17I think the fact it appears and disappears in the evening and morning, you know, you can
33:22extrapolate from that.
33:23But lots of cultures associate it with love.
33:26But, yeah, I didn't know where that joke was going.
33:30Because it's the planet of love, all the features on Venus are named after women, except
33:35for one big mountain, which is named after the physicist James Clark Maxwell.
33:40So, there's Maxwell's mountain and then it's a planet named for women.
33:44Like?
33:45Aphrodite.
33:46They're mostly fictional women.
33:48Are these like craters or things?
33:49Yeah.
33:49Well, it's got a few craters, but mostly mountains and volcanoes and highlands.
33:53I like...
33:53There's Ishtar planetus, which sounds like a disease, but it's actually the big highlands
33:58in the north of Venus.
33:59That's named for a Babylonian love goddess.
34:02You were thinking of plantar fasciitis.
34:04Ah, there you go.
34:05Yeah.
34:06What...
34:07And you say it's like a black...
34:09The two photographs we've got of it, it's like a black sort of...
34:12Yeah.
34:13Sort of Lanzarote.
34:14Yeah, it's partly it was used again.
34:15It's actually got very much that vibe, but at the cheaper end.
34:18So, you've got some rocks on a beach.
34:20And we don't really know much about the surface, because we haven't managed to land there,
34:25apart from these two Russian probes, which melt pretty quickly.
34:28So, it's an unexplored planet that we've only been able to see from above.
34:32Do you think we will be able to land, but we'll be able to make something that doesn't melt?
34:35My favourite idea is there's a French idea for a balloon that surfs around in the atmosphere
34:40of Venus and would touch down at various points and then take off again, so to use the atmosphere
34:45to explore it, which is...
34:46It's very Belgian, that, though, isn't it?
34:47It's got sort of Jules Verne vibes, I think, it'll be fun.
34:51Well, plastic, I mean, what do you keep sulfuric acid in?
34:54I think you can keep it in, I don't know, I'm thinking like school labs have it in glass,
34:59right?
34:59I got told off for playing around with it.
35:01Maybe it's a glass probe.
35:03You can have that.
35:04Maybe.
35:04You can have that.
35:06So, if you can't get there, how do you know about all this sulfuric acid, the details of it?
35:12Yeah, well, we can use telescopes from Earth to look at the chemistry of the atmosphere,
35:16so mainly radio telescopes, but we also sent a couple of probes that went through the atmosphere
35:20and sent back information as they were melting, as they went down.
35:23So, the final scream of these things was to tell us that the atmosphere was acidic.
35:28So, this is the kind of thing you spend...
35:30Planetary physicists like to spend 20 years building a spacecraft and then have it dissolve
35:34quickly in the atmosphere.
35:35That's amazing.
35:35But while giving us information as it goes.
35:37It's kind of like when I do a really bad gig and like...
35:42Never.
35:43Never, Joel.
35:43I don't care what they say.
35:45I appreciate it.
35:47Don't believe what they say online.
35:52You know, like, really, like, it's awful, awful stuff, and you say a joke, and for maybe
36:01the first time, and when people don't laugh at it, and you're like, oh, I now know that
36:06doesn't work.
36:07Yeah.
36:08Yeah.
36:08Did that make sense as a metaphor?
36:10Yeah.
36:10Yeah.
36:10I mean, have you got a joke?
36:12A lot of us have got a joke that we have that we thought was really funny, but never
36:19got a laugh.
36:22I'd realised recently that I'm not one of those comedians that makes it look easy.
36:27So, do you know what I mean?
36:28Because there's those comedians that make it look so just easy, and like, you know,
36:32you're like Kevin Bridges, and you're like, pow, pow, pow, people, you know?
36:36And I've realised that when I do a gig, usually about half of the people leave, and I can imagine
36:42them all going like, I might give that a go, actually.
36:44Yeah.
36:45I had a joke.
36:46Yeah, I had a joke, which I keep returning to.
36:48It never gets a laugh, but I think it's really funny.
36:50I don't really understand why it doesn't get a laugh.
36:52I say, I've got good news and bad news.
36:55I said, the good news is, my sister had a baby.
36:58And they all go, yay.
36:59And I say, but the bad news is, she ate it.
37:03It doesn't, everyone's just like, what did he say?
37:08Sister ate it.
37:09Yeah.
37:10Never mind.
37:10All right, well, thanks so much for telling us all about Venus, Chris.
37:15Go look at it in the night sky.
37:16I think everyone should look up, even if you live in the middle of London, go look up
37:20in the west at sunset, and you'll see Venus shine.
37:22Yeah, and actually, like you say, all you need is a good pair of binoculars.
37:25Ideally.
37:26Okay, thanks so much, Chris.
37:29Thank you, Chris.
37:30Thanks, that was fun.
37:32Excellent.
37:35It's time to play Name the Celebrity Seed.
37:46I'm sure you're familiar with the game Name the Seed, Joel, aren't you?
37:50Very familiar, yes.
37:51Yes, everyone's playing it at home.
37:53We've got a celebrity version.
37:55Ooh.
37:55You know how they have a celebrity version of, I don't know, a catchphrase or the chase
38:00or weakest link.
38:01We're following in that line.
38:04I have a sealed Ziploc bag used to contain a child's poncho.
38:07In that is the box.
38:09It contains how many seeds?
38:11Over 8,000.
38:13If I'm being rather cursory with these instructions, it's because I am bored of them.
38:18Ooh.
38:22In there, we have a sealed envelope.
38:24And what does it say on that?
38:27It says, Joel, it just says, Joel Domic with one T at the end.
38:32Actually, there's an I in there as well.
38:33There is.
38:34Dominic.
38:34There's a lot going.
38:35Let me just correct that because that's rather unprofessional.
38:41Joel Domic with two T's.
38:43No, it's all right.
38:44It's all right.
38:46Now, what I'm going to do is in here is a seed.
38:51Okay.
38:52And I just have to be a bit careful.
38:53And on that seed is a photograph of a celebrity, a well-known person, that you have got to name
39:03the celebrity.
39:05Just get it up the right way.
39:07That's right here.
39:07You've got to name the celebrity and the seed.
39:09You haven't got to, but, I mean, ideally, you'd have a go at it.
39:16Okay, you're happy with those instructions?
39:18Yeah, I'm ready.
39:19If you're struggling, we do have the magnifying glass, but that will reduce the number of points
39:23you're able to.
39:26That's fair, isn't it?
39:27I think it's really fair.
39:28Yeah.
39:28Okay.
39:29Let's play name the celebrity seed.
39:32Hang on.
39:35Sorry about that.
39:36Again, let's not.
39:39We're very much on a shoestring here.
39:42Name the seed.
39:43Here we go.
39:45Bomb, bomb.
39:47Bomb, bomb.
39:49We should have done a new metal version of the three.
39:54Okay.
39:54You should be looking at it.
39:56Sorry.
39:57Oh, my God.
40:00Oh.
40:01Come on.
40:01Oh.
40:03How tall are you, Joel?
40:06Oh, my God.
40:07Okay, we'll go back down again.
40:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:10That's fair.
40:11Oh.
40:15There's a couple of points it catches.
40:16I'm not quite sure.
40:17Oh, wait.
40:18I've got it.
40:19Oh, God.
40:20What is that?
40:23Name the seed.
40:24Name the seed.
40:25Oh, God.
40:25That's really tough.
40:29That's going to help.
40:29Look at that.
40:30It's going to help.
40:30This is so good.
40:31We do have this option, of course.
40:32No, I don't want it.
40:33I don't want it.
40:40Is that a bit of polish?
40:43Is it Britney Spears?
40:45Is it Britney Spears?
40:47Final answer.
40:47Is it Spears on a cheer?
40:53Final answer?
40:55Spears on a cheer.
40:56Britney cheers.
41:00That's more clever than we deserve.
41:06That's cleverer than we deserve.
41:07I think it's Britney Spears on a cheer.
41:09You're saying Britney Spears on a cheer seed.
41:13Oh, no.
41:14It's not.
41:15Can I?
41:16Yes.
41:16Can I?
41:16Yes.
41:17You can try to upgrade.
41:19I, I still don't think it might, it's not pretty, it is a, it is a woman, a blonde haired
41:25woman, you're quite right.
41:28Oh, this is, this is.
41:34So competitive, isn't it? So competitive, doesn't want to be.
41:40It's, I can, it's a blonde haired lady.
41:46And she's kind of got dark roots.
41:49Well, that would, that's a, for you to say, not for me to say.
41:53Dark roots, and it feels like.
41:56A dark rooted blonde haired lady.
42:00On a, on a, on a, what's bigger than a cheer?
42:15What's bigger than a cheer?
42:17Seed.
42:18Hmm.
42:20I'm not, I mean.
42:21Pop it, you know, poppy's smaller, isn't it?
42:23I don't, you know, I don't, this stuff is, you know, we buy this stuff in, I don't know anything
42:28about.
42:30We buy the, um, pre-made cassettes.
42:33I really want to know who that is now.
42:34Well, of course, everyone does by now.
42:37It's really good.
42:44I don't know if we've ever had it, uh, built up so much.
42:47Fever pitch.
42:49Oh, it's my wife.
42:54It's my wife.
42:57On an onion seed.
42:59On an onion seed.
43:01Oh, and there is layers to both.
43:04Yes.
43:05What is your wife's name?
43:06Is it Hannah Cooper?
43:07Hannah Cooper Domit.
43:09Wow, that is amazing.
43:10I thought she was Britney Spears.
43:11That is amazing.
43:13That was name the celebrity seed.
43:16Dark roots, he said.
43:19Celebrity.
43:20Dark roots, though.
43:22Dark roots.
43:23He does have dark roots.
43:27Gary's Joke Corner.
43:29Time for Gary's Joke Corner.
43:31Now, Gary is taking over from me in 2030.
43:33I'm retiring.
43:34And, of course, he needs jokes, Joel.
43:37Yes.
43:37Do you have a joke for my friend Gary, my son Gary?
43:41This is my favourite joke when I was young.
43:44Oh.
43:47And it's quite simple, actually.
43:49It's quite simple.
43:50Great, great.
43:51Yes.
43:52Simple's good.
43:54What is, what is blue and smells of red paint?
44:02What's blue and smells of red paint?
44:08A whale that has had its skin removed.
44:14No, of course not.
44:15I don't know.
44:16I don't know.
44:16What is blue but smells of red paint?
44:20Blue paint.
44:25Smells of red paint, yeah.
44:27I just think it's great.
44:28It's clever.
44:29It's subversive.
44:30It's clever and it's subversive.
44:32Subverts the form.
44:33Yeah, exactly.
44:34And for a children's joke, it sort of quite picks apart the form.
44:39Yeah.
44:40You know?
44:40Yeah, it's clever.
44:43But I'm not sure if I have to.
44:46Gary, have you got a joke for us?
44:47Yes, I have, Daddy.
44:50Don't make that noise, Gary.
44:52It'll limit your appeal.
44:54Here, Daddy.
44:54I saw an ex-Newsnight presenter in the pub.
44:58Really, Gary?
44:59Yes.
44:59Last night, as a matter of fact.
45:01Yeah, she was all on her own and no one was talking to her.
45:04Maitless?
45:05No, Kuzberg.
45:11Well, that's the sound that tells me we've come to the end of our podscarf.
45:15So all the remains is to thank our expert, Chris Lintots, and of course our special guest, Joel Domit.
45:51Everyone, thanks for watching.
45:52See you next time.
45:54Of our dreams.
46:01I can't believe Deborah Meadon wouldn't wear this.
46:03I can't believe it either, yeah.
46:10Harry Hill Show!
46:14Daddy!
46:15Daddy!
46:17Gary, what's going?
46:19Who?
46:26It's the Harry Hill Show!
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