Starting Games
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
- Wedding Daze
- 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
- 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
- Pa Humbug
- Right Up Your Tweets
- Frownton Abbey
- There's No Place Like Your Home
- The News
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Famous quotes containing the words starting and/or games:
“He was at a starting point which makes many a man’s career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swings and makes his point or else is carried headlong.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
Before their plays and games were organized,
They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)