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*PREVIEW* Britainology 96: The X-Factor feat. Sam Lake

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

For this month's first Britainology we've brought on comedian Sam Lake to discuss the impossibly influential UK cultural phenomenon of THE X-FACTOR. Sam Lake is an Edinburgh-based comedian from Cornwall. He has recently had a critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Esmeralda’ and hosts a weekly podcast called “I’ve Had a Rosé, Let's Talk About Feelings" which you can check out here! Get the full episode on Patreon here! POPES/LAGOON SHIRTS STILL AVAILABLE! We've got some extras of our recent shirts that can be purchased online and will ship immediately! Get them here, and for Patrons remember that TFHOG69 gets you £5 off a shirt, and TFHOG420 gets you £10 off the bundle price! https://trashfuture.co.uk/collections/all MILO ALERT Check out Milo’s UK Tour here:https://miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows

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0:00.0

Help, I thought I could ride this horse, but I can't get down.

0:03.6

I'm stuck on the top of this horse.

0:06.1

It's a terrible business.

0:08.9

And then once Danny's gone, sorry, once Danny's on and Sharon's left, then you get into the Cheryl years, which are great.

0:18.3

Everyone remembers where they were when Cheryl did her first solo single

0:22.8

and performed it on the X Factor and she told everyone she was singing live.

0:27.2

And that is honestly such a good bit.

0:29.8

That's a really funny bit.

0:31.2

And then obviously the next year she had the malaria scare.

0:37.7

Oh, fuck, yeah.

0:38.6

But this is also a great moment because Nate had to go for a piss and then came back in on Cheryl Cole's malaria scare.

0:45.2

So we were saying how when Cheryl Cole joined the X Factor, she did something like crazy every series.

0:51.5

The first series, the first series she won with Alexandra Burke. She

0:55.4

gets Beyonce to sing with Alexandra Burke, which is like still like a peak British talent show

1:00.8

moment. Nobody can believe it happened. Louis Walsh is fuming because he's got JLS to sing with, I

1:06.3

don't know, Westlife or something. And they were like, how could that not have won? We've got

1:10.6

nine stools on the stage.

1:12.6

They all stood up off their stools.

1:15.3

And then the next series, Cheryl does her first solo single, Fight for This Love.

1:20.5

It's at number one for like five weeks.

1:22.6

She does a live performance of it on the show with like hundreds of backing dances.

1:26.9

It is a really good performance.

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