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:
“Down went the owners—greedy men whom hope of gain allured:
Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)