The Beginning Games
All series. At the start of the show, Ant and Dec always perform a short comedy sketch, usually based on something that has happened in the news recently. E.g.; when a celebrity complained after a reporter tried to photograph them on their holidays, Ant pretended to get angry with the camera crew and demanded that they stop filming. The cameras were briefly switched off while Dec tried to calm Ant down and when they came back on, Ant and Dec had switched jackets.
After the sketch, they announce what's coming up on the show and then Ant goes up into the audience and starts talking to some of them. He usually picks on two or three people and says something embarrassing about them and then picks on a third or fourth person and announces that they will be playing a game live in the studio. A lot of research goes into these games and they involve the person's family and friends.
Games Include:
- Mr and Mesmerised
- Court in the Act
- Where's your Shed At?
- STOP! That's Mine
- Stars in their Lives
- Shame That Tune
- This Is Your Diary
- Prankety Prank
- Wedding Daze
- How the Other Half Lives
- Trouble & Strife
- Imitation Street
- I'm a Believer
- The 'person's name' show
- Ant & Dec Book club
- Dude, where's my car?
- Fame for a Laugh
- Fame doesn't change him/her
- Pa Humbug (only for the Christmas special)
Read more about this topic: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Famous quotes containing the words beginning and/or games:
“But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 10:6-9. . . .
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)