Ha, no way! I don't have the channel and only see the odd clip on YouTube. Some of the personalities on it can be hard going.

But I'm intrigued now...it wasn't Mark Webber in the Identity Parade round, was it?!

Cheers!

Ha, not sure I've quite got the stamina to watch them all in full!

Is Herring a Pulponian?

I have answers!

Series 3 Episode 9, aired 18/10/2023, a question posed during round one ("What a way to make a living") preceded by a clip from the Disco 2000 video:

"What job did Jarvis's mum make him take at 17?"

A. His mum got him a job at a fishmonger in the hope that the 'rough lads' who worked there would toughen him up. His main job was scrubbing shellfish but if a customer asked if he had any crabs, Jarvis would point at his crotch and say "Ooh missus," and start scratching his knackers.

B. She asked a family friend to let him shadow them during their shifts at the local abbatoir. However, Jarvis was fired after two days because he refused to wear the uniform. He said, "It's pretty rich that they acted like me not wearing a hairnet was the most fucked up thing happening there when I literally saw a pig explode."

C. She got him a job at the factory that makes big tractor wheels. Speaking about it on The One Show, Jarvis told Alex Jones and Ronan Keatng, "It was okay".

Some quotes on Jarvis from the participants:

• Daisy May Cooper: "I think he'd [Jarvis] make a really good draft excluder."

• Noel Fielding: [discussing the Brit Awards saga] "I imagine if you tried to put Jarvis in prison he'd just walk through the bars."

• Danny Goffey: "He's lovely, Jarvis, he's a real sweetheart."
  
  

Daisy's team plumped for B. Which was wrong, obviously.

And here's the quote that earned Sturdy some cold hard cash, courtesy of Russell Senior:

"He had a very convincing patter for selling fish, with lots of sexual innuendo... People would ask, "Have you got any crabs on you, cock?" and he'd say "Ooh missus, the trouble with me," and scratch himself, or, "I've got a lovely piece of tail end for your husband, love."

Just remembered that they approached me about this, think they found the Truth & Beauty quote on my blog, I just said "go ask Mark Sturdy" I think, but I don't think they contacted you? Hope they at least bought a copy of the book!

Thanks for digging that up Pip! I don't recall them contacting me at all.

Even though they got it from the book, I'm 99% sure I got that quote from somewhere else. Can't check right now but the source should be referenced in the book. Oh well, thanks to whoever did the original interview, Omnibus Press is now £412.50 richer, and I'm 50% of that closer to paying off my advance. Funny old world.