Hello, welcome to the show.

In the studio today is one of the great political comedians of our time.

He's the news quiz host.

He's a taskmaster champion and the statistics man on test match special.

It is, of course, the mighty Andy Zaltzman,

and these are its five brilliant things.

Here I am with, you know him as Andy Zaltzman,

I know him as hot dog.

Oh dear, that's already begun. Yeah, well, we used to live together at edinburgh yeah and it was

and i don't think people would necessarily put us together but we've been friends for a long time and

when i used to do gigs in london and he would very kindly um let me stay at his uh well it was your

your now wife's flat.

Yes.

Yeah, it was wonderful.

Yeah.

And now here we are.

Yeah. It's so nice to see you, mate.

You too, yeah, yeah. And I can already see out of the corner of my eye, not to give the game away, but a great big cricket bat. Right. Which would, it will come as no surprise to anyone who's seen Andy or indeed indeed saw Andy on Taskmaster, wearing full, full kit wanker, I believe is the phrase. Okay, is that the official term? Yeah, I think if you wear your full kit, your notice of full kit. Oh, right, okay. Yeah. But you wore it well. Well, you've got to commit, haven't you Russell? Yes. You're going to... Are you wearing a box now?

Always. Always. Exactly. I've had a, you know... Basically, I've had it surgically, like, permanentised. And we were just talking off air, and we will get to the show in a minute, but it's just nice to catch up with a pal. this brilliant cricket pub called sixes

and there's like a bunch of them around

and I sort of recommended to you. but it's just nice to catch up with a pal. There's a brilliant cricket pub called Sixes,

and there's a bunch of them around,

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