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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

There's one big problem with the magic trick seen on BGT

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

A little bit extra, every weekday morning, from LBC's longest-serving presenter.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:06.0

Morning everybody, welcome along. It's Monday. It's the 16th of April. And apparently, I'd want you to get too excited. This is going to week. This is going to be the week that the temperature hits 26 degrees.

0:20.5

Yeah, right. Believe it when I see it. Believe it when I see it.

0:23.5

Will it be when we're here in the morning? No. Will we catch pneumonia? Probably. Will we get 26 degrees?

0:29.2

They've said so. They've said so. However, over on Britain's got talent. They had a drop in viewing

0:34.7

figures. But it's still the most watched entertainment show, because

0:37.7

it's the first time we've seen Ant on television, but bearing on mind, this was filmed ages ago.

0:41.5

Okay, watch you're watching is a programme filmed weeks ago. And it is the most watched entertainment show

0:47.0

of the year. In fact, it is the only entertainment show of the year. And I did know that Mark

0:53.4

Spellman was going to get the golden buzzer because

0:56.0

it was filmed weeks ago. Okay, he was the bloke who they had to, when you, when you, let me try

1:02.4

and explain this to you without sounding the most god-awful cynic in the entire world. When you're

1:05.9

doing magic, okay, to weave a story in is good. But the trouble is with the story that Mark wove in,

1:13.7

it's to do with his wife, Tessa's IVF and fail and all the rest of it. So they had to weave it in.

1:18.7

If you noticed, he had to win. And the reason was they gave him eight minutes on the program.

1:25.3

It was full of music with crescendos, cutaways to the wife in the

1:28.8

audience, cutaways to, cut away to people crying. It was a big, a big gig, but the trick only works

1:36.0

for that story. You can't do it again because it's been and gone. So at the moment, they're now

1:40.9

trying to think about the, about the next one. It was very good. But he's been around for a while, Mark Spellman. And as I say, it was very nice. So we had a little bit of a prediction. We had a little bit of a Rubik's Cube thing. We had a little bit done with his daughter, which we were told was two years ago. It was all they put a lot of effort into something. Then they had the big screen up so it could show it. It was a bit contrive for me.

2:01.1

Little bit. Let's see how he does on the next one. Also, Robert White, who was a comedian,

2:06.9

he's been, he's been in prison. He's a jailbird. He's spent three months in prison.

2:12.3

Now let me tell you, they say after a prank. I'm sorry, it was not a prank. Let's not try and pretend it was a prank.

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