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Laurie Blake hosts six comedians and a live audience in the first episode of What Were You Thinking?
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What Were You Thinking? | Episode 1
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- 0:19Laurie explains how teammates use clues to locate a hidden target on a spectrum dial.
- 2:53Sullivan's wedding-versus-funeral prompt starts a debate about running out of food.
- 13:31Kemah faces a spectrum stretching from passive aggression to psychological warfare.
- 32:20The impression round blends Michael Caine with Harry Kane, then Stephen Fry with Gollum.
- 40:19The final round asks captains to rank teammates' responses to "How This Email Finds You".
- 48:05The final envelope reveal decides the result.
Running out of food sounds like bad news at a wedding. Sullivan Brown's teammates must decide just how bad, and whether a funeral would be worse. That is the opening puzzle in "What Were You Thinking? | Episode 1", No Rolls Barred's move into a studio comedy game show inspired by Wavelength.
Laurie Blake hosts, with Sullivan, Kemah Bob and Lil Wenker facing Dom Allen, Pravanya Pillay and Chris Grace. A hidden target on a spectrum determines where each clue should send the team's dial. The reasoning is where things get wonderfully tangled: Dom offers Snoopy somewhere between man's best friend and worst enemy; Kemah supplies "Sorry." on a scale from passive aggression to psychological warfare.
The episode drew roughly 117,000 views, making it the most-watched of the week's six uploads. Viewers are discussing Laurie's panel-show hosting style, the surprise of discovering a real studio audience and the wedding-food argument. Later, the format makes room for impressions blending Michael Caine with Harry Kane, and Stephen Fry with Gollum.
Across the channel, nearly 930,000 weekly views came with modest subscriber growth. Daily viewing is above its usual pace. Nearby board-gaming channel Shut Up & Sit Down had a smaller viewing week, while Tiktok BoardGames drew a much larger audience.
The new show also carries the strongest daily momentum, with its companion clip and the older "Operation, But SERIOUS" among the other busy uploads. Operation supplied several of this week's short clips, but Blair took the week's biggest departure from the tabletop: an announcement that she is learning to wrestle with Michael Oku before appearing at Electric Brixton later in November.
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I do enjoy Laurie’s hosting ordinarily, but I’ll admit that he seems SO in his element doing more traditional hosting like this. I know it’s probably not /that/ different from plenty of other things he’s done, but he really did feel very natural hosting like a ‘proper’ panel show sort of thing.
@cardboard-boxgames9308See it on YouTubeTo see you guys go from the backroom of a cafe to a live studio audience has been a ride! This was great! Can't wait to see what the rest of the episodes have in store! 10/10
@SteelharbingerofdeathSee it on YouTubeI did not realize there was a live audience till they first showed the audience cam at 6:29 I was shook it wasn't just canned laughter
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So many great jokes in this video and somehow the funniest thing was "Magicians Without Borders"
@liamallen100See it on YouTubeNo Waves Lengthened
@IgorBazelanSee it on YouTubeSo this is what it was all leading to. Couldn't be happier honestly
@KvallnSee it on YouTubeBeing a wedding planner and hearing them say “it’s a good thing to hear at a wedding” BLEW MY MIND😂😂
@mckenziefaith3448See it on YouTubeyou know, i FELT like it was the right moment for dom to enter his team captain david mitchell era.
@AngelaLSullivanSee it on YouTubeOh gosh, the instant slip into Fry's mannerisms with hands and all, Dom is a gift to the world.
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Which two voices does Dom blend in the show's impression round?
Dom's impression prompt combines Stephen Fry with Gollum.