Craig Shakespeare inspired football poetry
Chris arrived with news from Watford.
The club had a new assistant manager called Craig Shakespeare.
Scott immediately saw only one useful angle.
The surname allowed the production team to write a football version of Shakespearean verse.
Watford players including Troy Deeney and Abdoulaye Doucouré were worked into a parody sonnet.
Chris appreciated the effort while also acknowledging the entire joke existed because one member of the coaching staff happened to have the right surname.
The love-scene argument went international
Monday’s debate over whether acting intimacy counted as cheating had produced a huge response.
One of the people contacting the show was a British-born actor living in Atlanta, Georgia, who had spent years working on American television.
The automatic transcript varies his first name, so the archive does not force an uncertain spelling.
His position was clear.
If kissing happened on set, with a director, cameras and a professional scene, it was part of the job.
If co-stars began rehearsing intimately away from work or meeting privately at weekends, that crossed a very different line.
Scott still wanted to know what happened to actual human feelings in the middle.
One scene just kept going
The actor remembered a kissing scene where the director did not call cut as quickly as expected.
The moment went on for roughly three and a half minutes.
The actors kept performing.
He admitted natural physical responses could happen because the body did not stop being human simply because a camera was present.
Scott thought this supported his side of the argument.
Chris thought it demonstrated why professional boundaries mattered.
His partner was secretly listening
Then Radio 1 brought the actor’s partner Jess onto the call without telling him first.
Jess was much calmer than Scott expected.
A short professional kissing scene did not particularly bother her.
More prolonged or explicit scenes could be much more difficult to watch.
Her real boundary was what happened off camera.
If there was genuine connection away from the set, that would be a problem.
The programme had finally found the nuanced answer its theoretical debate lacked.
The job could be respected while the feelings around it were still complicated.
The accidental tongue was unavoidable
Scott asked what happened if a co-star unexpectedly used tongue.
Could the actor simply stop?
The answer was that, in the middle of a take, stopping could waste time and money.
Sometimes an accidental slip of the tongue had to be handled professionally and the scene continued.
That phrase gave the episode its title.
Funny Business found Bona & Son
Tuesday also meant Funny Business.
One company was Bona & Son, a Cambridge removals business.
Scott repeatedly heard the surname in the least innocent possible way and struggled to continue the call.
The person answering calmly explained that the business handled domestic, office and fine-art removals.
Radio 1 had once again phoned a completely respectable company and made itself the immature party.
Stiffy Art was even harder
Chris then called Stiffy Art.
The owner explained that the name came from his surname, Stiff, and the business involved abstract and expressionist art.
Chris had to ask what kind of pictures people expected from a company with that name without collapsing.
The answer was simply art.
The presenters were the problem.
Tuesday had gone from Shakespeare to Stiffy
The programme began with a Watford sonnet.
It ended with actors discussing professional kissing and a man explaining why his art business was called Stiffy.
Scott and Chris considered that a normal Tuesday.
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