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Jo Brand mistakes a firefighter for fancy dress on WILTY

A university-party tale joins David Mitchell's pen policy and a Series 10 marathon in the channel's ten-upload week.

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Fiery banging and firemen costumes... Jo Brand's got a HOT story 🔥

A Roman costume made from a sheet is Jo Brand's contribution to the party. The man banging on her door, she tells the panel, has come to evacuate the building, but she assumes his firefighter outfit is another guest's costume.

That is the proposition under interrogation in Would I Lie To You?'s most watched new upload, which has reached roughly 200,000 views. Brand dates the incident with a deadpan joke about 1841, then supplies the detail that gives the panel another opening: she and her companion were revising. The opposing team eventually has to decide whether any of this adds up.

Viewers are picking out the interruptions as much as the story itself. Some question the revising explanation; another points to Lee Mack checking David Mitchell's reaction after a joke. One neatly observes how an otherwise ordinary anecdote becomes a panel-wide collaboration.

Elsewhere in the ten-upload week, Mitchell gets a compilation built around his refusal to sugarcoat things, with WhatsApp groups, a three-point pen policy and other people's interference with his jigsaws among the subjects. A Series 10 livestream strings together episodes four to six, while a fresh collection offers stories billed as deserving more attention. Those two uploads sit behind Brand's clip among the channel's strongest daily draws.

The wider audience is growing, with subscribers added throughout the week and daily views close to their usual level. Around 12 million views gave Would I Lie To You? the largest weekly audience among its nearby talk-show peers. Have I Got News For You US is enjoying a sharp daily lift, while Lorraine has had a quieter week. Here, the archive's latest invitation is unusually specific: leave David's pens and jigsaws alone.

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What viewers say

I love that this could be just a mundane story, but everyone else chiming in makes it a pretty fun story to tell.
@NA-dr9osSee it on YouTube
i love the relationship between david and lee. When Lee cracked his fire joke he looked at david to see his reaction!
@aayushmathur2677See it on YouTube
I forget that Brits call a costume party a "fancy dress" party.
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