This is the BBC.

Genius. Genius.

Hello, this is Evil Genius, where I force a panel of funny clever people to weigh up cultural icons of the past.

They will choose evil or genius.

Before we get to the end of the recording, for instance, if your favourite painter was a genius,

but also had a secret seller with padlocks in which he kept his cousins and goats where he forced

them to perform, do you know what I think I've overwritten that one, that would definitely,

that would be evil. But anyway, what about today's subject? Which way will our panel vote?

I think it's only fair we do all of our thinking naked in a hot tub with our bits floating about,

because it's Hugh Hefner. Helping me decide, a comedian who can be funny on everything from

gender politics to Anne Whiddy comes here, which is essentially the same thing. It's Steven's

sticker couple of ice cubes in it at Christmas, Bailis. Hello. We also have a comic performer who

started her career in Australia, but the gender politics were just too advanced and liberal there,

so she moved to the UK instead to smash gigs here. It's Beck Hill. Gigs did not approve.

And a comedian who once politely asked if maybe we should mock both sides of the Brexit debate.

He was then labeled a right-wing extremist, ostracised and pelted with white hoods outside the BBC building.

It's Simon Evans. Before we crack on with perhaps one of the most confusing subjects without an evil genius, Hugh Hefner,

would you like to share anything your evil or genius at with me, panel? Beck?

Yeah, I want stolen microwave. Now I can't decide where you're going to stick that, evil or genius.

It's quite heavy. It's quite a heavy thing to run off with, isn't it?

Well, I was genius about it, but I used it for evil, so I worked it. They used to be a...

I probably shouldn't say this on a recording, but I used to work at Funland in London, which is

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