gb news. >> hello there. coming up in the saturday night showdown. keir starmer is celebrating. but is it really all good for news the labour leader? muslim voters are deserting his party in droves, and a new green party candidate chanted allah akbar in free palestine and didn't mention recycling once . and drew recycling once. and drew barrymore simpering over vice president kamala harris will make you cringe so hard you can taste your own underpants . we've taste your own underpants. we've got the video of drew, not your underpants, and we've got the funniest fails of the week as it all went wrong for fat football medics and this tiktok prankster . this is your saturday night showdown discussing all tonight's topics,

my brilliant panel joining me tonight are the comedians francine lewis, ellie probert and justin panks. but first, let's get your latest news headunes let's get your latest news headlines from sam francis . headlines from sam francis. >> leo, thank you very much . and >> leo, thank you very much. and good evening from the newsroom. it's just after 8:00. the top story tonight. sadiq khan has said that it's time for the prime minister to call a general election after he won the london election after he won the london election for a historic third term. this, though, was the moment that he was heckled and booed as he started his acceptance speech . thank you. acceptance speech. thank you. london gang killed london khan killed . london. well, he beat killed. london. well, he beat his nearest rival, conservative candidate susan hall, in a contest full of criticism over mr khan's decision to expand the new capital's ultra low emission zone. however, mr khan has insisted he is keeping positive its londoners, who inspire me

every day to continue our mission of building a fairer, safer and greener london and in what i hope will be a year of great change. >> a future labour government led by keir starmer, working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more . accomplish so much more. >> labour's also celebrating successes in liverpool , in south successes in liverpool, in south yorkshire and in west yorkshire and in greater manchester. andy burnham was re—elected earlier. he there picked up just over 63% of the vote and said he'll always give his best to the job. >> i'm overwhelmed, so have so many people prepared to put their trust in me? is overwhelming . it's humbling, and overwhelming. it's humbling, and i recognise that people who vote for other parties at a general election have lent me their support, and it's why i will be very , very rigid in taking

very, very rigid in taking a place first rather than a party first approach. seems to me that's what the role of the mayor is all about, bringing people together to, you know, get everybody pulling in the same direction for a great city region like this one. and that's what i will be doing . what i will be doing. >> well, let's take a quick look at the results in those local elections across england, and the numbers as they stand at 8:00 tonight. labour now gaining control of eight councils with a total of now 50. the liberal democrats, meanwhile, have won more council seats overall than the conservatives and results in the conservatives and results in the west midlands, where a recount is currently underway, are at this stage showing a significant fall in the lead for the conservative candidate, andy street . in other news tonight, street. in other news tonight, the family of daniel anjorin say they are devastated after he was killed on his way to school in london on tuesday. the 14 year old, who's been described as loving and precious, was attacked by a man with a samurai sword in hainault. four other people, including two police

officers, were also injured. marcus monzo , a spanish marcus monzo, a spanish brazilian dual national, was charged with murdering the teenager. charged with murdering the teenager . he charged with murdering the teenager. he appeared in court on thursday . more than 20 dogs on thursday. more than 20 dogs have been seized after police raided a suspected illegal xl bully breeding farm in sheffield. 618 of the animals are being looked after in police kennels after they were discovered in what officers described as appalling conditions. sadly, though, six other dogs were so unwell when they were found they did have to be put to sleep. the breed was added to a banned list in october last year following a series of attacks. however, campaigners have argued that the ban is unlawful and they've called it irrational . and called it irrational. and finally, tens of thousands of homes in east sussex are still without water tonight, until at least tomorrow . that's after least tomorrow. that's after a pipe least tomorrow. that's after a pipe burst. southern water say that the disruption in saint leonards on sea and in hastings started on thursday . the firm, started on thursday. the firm, though, have said they are working tirelessly to get suppues working tirelessly to get supplies back to properties.

residents, though, say it has been disastrous and schools, a leisure centre and a theatre in the area have been forced to close. those are the headlines . close. those are the headlines. i'll be back at nine with another update. until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. common alerts . alerts. >> thank you sam, and welcome to the saturday night showdown . now the saturday night showdown. now the saturday night showdown. now the local election results are coming in and boy are they fun. this is moeen ali, the new green party councillor for gipton and harehills, celebrating his win by waving the palestinian flag and chanting allahu akbar, which, as he's a green party politician, i assume means please recycle responsibly . please recycle responsibly. >> voice of palestine i mean, hello , hello . hello, hello. >> blame me. green party politicians have changed a bit, haven't they? i wonder which carbon he wants to reduce first.

in fairness to him, he might have wanted to wave the british flag, but he probably didn't want to get called racist or be beaten up by cops . much safer to beaten up by cops. much safer to wave the only acceptable flag in britain. a palestinian flag. this is playing out across the country. while keir starmers labour party has taken many conservative seats , his support conservative seats, his support for israel has cost him votes in muslim areas. in blackburn with darwen, labour's vote share collapsed by 35. in muslim areas, the labour did retain control of the council in the bastwell and daisyfield ward, where more than eight out of ten residents are muslim . labour's residents are muslim. labour's support fell from 85% to 39% and they lost the seat . many muslims they lost the seat. many muslims are turning instead to the far left green party , who i thought left green party, who i thought stood for environmental issues and more socially liberal, but have now allied themselves with islamists. it seems like a bizarre alliance. after all, islam hasn't always been the best friend of the lgbtq community. in fact, in gaza , community. in fact, in gaza, whose flag mr ali flies, gays are thrown from buildings. now,

i'm not going to criticise that because i don't want to be accused of being culturally intolerant or islamophobic. i just think it's a strange ideology for the green party to augn ideology for the green party to align with. but it's not the first time the far left and islam have joined forces in the 19705 islam have joined forces in the 1970s in iran, under the shah , 1970s in iran, under the shah, socialists marched shoulder to shoulder with islamists , lending shoulder with islamists, lending their support to the islamic revolution. a few decades on, and iran doesn't seem to have become the progressive paradise of equality and tolerance those socialists dreamed of. and with the demographics of britain changing, we're going to see islamism having more of an influence, and we're also going to see more alliances between the left and islam. we can already see how that might play out. in 2015, woke progressive held the first ever muslim council get elected in the united states in the city of hamtramck in michigan, the muslim council immediately turned round and banned pride flags. much liberals screeching ensued. >> i relocated from california to hamtramck. that's really far

away. and i did it because i thought it was a diverse community. >> the guardian reported on how that made progressives feel. they viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of the then republican presidential candidate donald trump's campaign this week. many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully muslim and socially conservative council passed legislation banning pride flags from being flown on city property that had , like many property that had, like many others, being flown around the country, being intended to celebrate the lgbtq+ community, muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council's unanimous vote, and on hamtramck social media pages , hamtramck social media pages, the taunting has been relentless, word, i can't see, city read, one post emphasised with emojis of a bicep flexing in a tense monologue before the vote, council member mohammed hassan shouted his justification

at lgbtq+ supporters. he said i'm working for the people. what the majority of the people like . the majority of the people like. so the muslim politicians allied with the progressives to get into power. then once they were into power. then once they were in power, they passed laws according to their homophobic ideology. if only there had been some evidence of homophobic laws in the muslim to world tip off the progressives that this might happen. still at least you showed trump guys. i mean, you showed trump guys. i mean, you showed trump guys. i mean, you showed trump that he's absolutely right. people emigrate to the west because they want the prosperity , they want the prosperity, stability and personal freedom that a liberal society provides in which isn't available under the corrupt, intolerant , poverty the corrupt, intolerant, poverty stricken hellhole that arises from medieval cultures that stifle freedom. but people don't become imbued with western values when they step onto british soil. their culture doesn't evaporate on the ride to the west, sometimes it gets stronger as people cling to their identity in a foreign culture. but there are upsides as well. in america, muslims have allied with conservatives to get sexualised books out of schools. a lot of positive

attributes are echoed in conservative and muslim cultures . respect family. working hard to better yourself . and the best to better yourself. and the best thing is progressives are scared of criticising muslims in case other progressives call them racist. so all i can say is diversity is strength. and pass me the popcorn . i'm going to sit me the popcorn. i'm going to sit back and enjoy watching how this bizarre alliance between the far left of the green party and islam plays out . i'm joined islam plays out. i'm joined tonight by three brilliant comedians . we've got francine comedians. we've got francine lewis, elle probert and justin justin panks. now, justin, why do you think local elections in england are being decided by a war in the middle east, well, it's like anything if you import vast swathes of people from a region that then they're going to just vote how they want. you can't stop them. they are part of the democracy. yeah. >> that is how democracy works. everybody's got the same. everybody's got the same. everybody's vote carries the same weight. but are you are you

surprised to see this alliance between, you know, the green party , who i would have thought, party, who i would have thought, you know, there's a lot of stuff in islam that, you know, particularly, you know, extreme extremist islam that doesn't really align with the cuddly, you know , let's all be pals and you know, let's all be pals and let's all knit our own hemp curtains, attitude of the greens. >> there's a lot of really bizarre crossovers at the moment. so you've got the queers for palestine. yeah. which, you know, no one thought they were going to be like a super group that was going to get mushed together. and now you've got the green party in palestine at the same time. and like, i kind of i get it right. if you want to be pro—palestine, that's fine. if you want to be pro lgbt, cool, you want to be pro lgbt, cool, you know, be the green party, support everything that you want to recycle . but the super groups to recycle. but the super groups is what i think. a lot of people are confused by at the moment. so you go, right, well, i want to support this, but i don't really necessarily agree with that. so when it comes with, you know, the, the progressive woke, i think they just want to support absolutely everything that they possibly can, unaware that they possibly can, unaware that they possibly can, unaware that they don't always necessarily align together. and

do you think they're sort of they want to support it because, they've seen people on the right or people, people on the far right, criticising islam . right, criticising islam. >> so they so they want to be like, oh, we're we're the opposite of those guys. so we love it. >> it's all fashion, isn't it? like it's literally people are just saying, right, well, people are waving the palestinian flag. so i'm going to do that now. you know, it's literally, you know, like how punk was a fashion back in the day. we've now got palestinian as a fashion and i don't think a lot of people necessarily know what it actually means. they're just following the trend. >> it's kind of that thing. you know that old adage , the enemy know that old adage, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and it's kind of like they were getting to bed with anyone, but it's like you were aligning, like, say, you're not only they don't align, they polar opposite, diametrically opposed. yeah and it's like you're going to use these, you know, you're sort of like say, oh we're going to we can, you know, they might throw gays off bills and stuff like that. but once they what they vote tory. oh no, they've got that's beyond the pale. we

didn't know that. we can't accept that. that's the thing that they've drawn the line at. >> but what interests me is that the far left lgbt community, are flying the flags for palestinians. but i mean , in palestinians. but i mean, in reality, they wouldn't last five minutes without being hung, you know what i mean? >> maybe they're colour blind. it's a similar flag. >> yeah, maybe it's got that little weird. >> oh. it's nice. i mean, the only middle eastern country that really supports. >> i mean, they have the biggest pride annually is israel . yeah. pride annually is israel. yeah. you know, that's why i think is this a trend? i mean, clearly they have no knowledge of what they're talking about. i really do think this is a trend. and i think they need to wake up and smell the coffee. honestly, that's my opinion . that's my opinion. >> i mean, i should probably i should have probably said at the start of the show that you're an impressionist. >> you know, it wasn't a meltdown having a stroke. yeah but i sort of know just going into these weird forces. >> but i will do as the night progresses . as you know, i just

progresses. as you know, i just become all sorts of people . yes, become all sorts of people. yes, it's vanessa feltz here. i'm just loving the show. i'm loving you all. i'm going to have a great time . great time. >> you didn't need the rest of us here. >> you just need one. >> you just need one. >> go home if she can. if she can do your voices, then yeah, we genuinely don't. >> there you go, jumper on seats. >> do voices. got it covered. but you all for the price of one. >> except for you. i cannot do your accent. >> you can do the scottish accent. >> i can't do the. i can only do it in my scots. i cannot do a woman talking. >> you know who he is? a male scot. >> i don't know why . >> i don't know why. >> i don't know why. >> i don't know why. >> i mean, i've heard scottish people sound like that. >> yeah, that's me after a bottle of buckfast. that's not. >> yeah. that's what was interesting about this. the muslim voters leaving labour is the i mean, according to. i think it was andrew. andrew. neither part of the reason labour opened the borders and tony blair had, you know, introduced mass immigration was to tilt the electoral scales in the favour of the left, i think the favour of the left, i think the phrase used was to rub the

right's nose in it. yeah. and it's kind of backfired because now, you know, a lot of the a lot a lot of people who come in are actually, you know, socially conservative. so it would be more aligned with the conservative, apparently the exact same things happened in america. >> a lot of these people that cross the border are very from very conservative cultures. yeah. you know , like, you know, yeah. you know, like, you know, you get people that come up there from places like cuba and they absolutely hate the left. absolutely hate the left. you know, they come from a real left. >> if you've lived under communism, you're going to hate it the most. >> yeah. yeah. so that's it's it backfires. it's all i don't know, i don't understand it, i don't you look at and you think they're not stupid. there must be something else i don't understand why they're why they're doing what they're doing. i don't understand what the end game is. >> yeah, i think politicians might be stupid, i think. yeah, that's never met one. do you think you can win back the muslim votes? i mean, obviously, you know, jeremy corbyn was incredibly popular with that block. i can't imagine why. incredibly popular with that block. i can't imagine why . and block. i can't imagine why. and yeah, keir isn't as popular. >> he's put himself in a tricky situation. but then again, i think like kind of stemming back to what i said earlier, we've

got the supergroups. everyone wants to emerge. everyone wants to be, you know, make everyone happy all the time. yeah. why don't they just focus on what they're good at and get the people that are going to follow them in that section? so i know it's you're not always going to please all of the muslims, but you might have, you know, a strong christian following this and the other just strong christian following this and the otherjust basically and the other just basically work out who your audience is, who you stand for, and then make those people happy. yeah, they don't need to make everyone happy. all the time. >> also, you're going to have like there's going to be like a big block, like it will be known as the muslim vote because the way they are, you know, they're a community, a tight knit community. so they will all vote the same way you'd think, wouldn't they? their leaders wouldn't they? their leaders would say, oh, we're going to vote this way. this benefits us. yeah so it's kind of like, you've got to court this whole big like it used to be, like other sort of votes. they'd say that, wouldn't they. like, you know. but now it's like, you know, like the muslim vote is now there's going to be this huge number of votes like one is one voting in block, i think. >> yeah, yeah. and i guess there's that block grows bigger. it's going to have more of an

influence. yeah do you think this might help, keir though in a way, because it's going to show sort of middle england that he's distanced himself from the from the corbyn years. >> yeah, definitely . i just feel >> yeah, definitely. i just feel like if we were waving the british flag, it's like it seems to be a problem. yeah. why can't we be patriotic nowadays? like why i just, you know, this is this is our country. you come to our country. it sounds terrible, but you come to our country, you know, and any country, any country, country. and, you know, i just. >> well, yeah, i wouldn't go to, you know, saudi arabia or go to, you know, saudi arabia or go to, you know, saudi arabia or go to, you know, gaza and start waving the scottish saltire being like, yeah , come on. yeah, come on. >> that's what i'm saying. >> that's what i'm saying. >> yeah. this makes me laugh because i remember all the similar sort of people that would go, oh, when the british go abroad, they're so disgusted. and the first thing they do is they find an irish bar. >> then they find someone that does an english fry up. we don't know. >> but then, oh, i love it when we get our culture and it's just like, well, which is it? you take your culture with you or don't . don't. >> yeah. this is it. >> okay. well, that's the first section out of the way, coming

up , we've got we're going to up, we've got we're going to assess the week's winners and losers and cursed or blessed under the microsoft microscope this week , a suspicious number this week, a suspicious number of boeing whistleblowers are dying before they can testify . dying before they can testify. the hollywood star drew barrymore's cringiest moment and what's racist this week? this week. driving a train is racist . week. driving a train is racist. and we'll show you what happened next. when this soldier took the bins out . oh, no. come on, wait bins out. oh, no. come on, wait till the

nana. >> as well. >> as well. >> welcome back to the saturday night showdown. cursed or blessed is coming up. but first, i promised i would show you what happened when that lady took the bins out. oh, no. come on, wait till the. >> no, no, no. come on, come on. >> that's. >> that's. >> i mean, that doesn't inspire confidence, you know, regarding the power of western military. >> i don't know what she was trying to do. >> maybe she's just trying to go viral on tiktok. >> hold on. what woman who was

filming it out for a start. yeah.i filming it out for a start. yeah. i mean, come on, you you wanted to call it here? you've got it. >> yeah, but this is the army. >> yeah, but this is the army. >> this is in the army. so you know, i think i think you got to you can't be like, oh, i'm not going to take the bins out. i'm a lady. so anyway, it's now time to go through the winners and losers of the week. and cursed or blessed. first up, doesn't this look like fun ? this look like fun? >> for most? it's so much more rewarding than a boring old desk job. >> look at this office window. fantastic >> yeah. what could be better than getting behind the wheel of a train hitting the open countryside , downing tools countryside, downing tools whenever there are leaves on the line and laughing at the passengers when you eventually pull up at the platform two hours late. unfortunately, a study has found out that this noble profession is dominated by white middle aged males. oh the horror! and this has been seized on as proof of systemic racism. but is it britain is still a pretty white country, and being a train driver takes many years of training and experience, so

most drivers will be older and this will reflect the demographics of when they started training , when britain started training, when britain was even more white, and driving professions are probably dominated by men because part time driving, which would favour women, is often blocked by the unions. you think there should be more female train drivers? i mean, no , not at all. mean, no, not at all. >> francine, you don't even have to parallel park them, no. >> i would press a button . >> i would press a button. comfortable with a 22 year old male . yeah. driving my train or male. yeah. driving my train or a woman being a pilot on my aeroplane. really just like i might sound like a misogynist and ageist deep dive. that is the truth. you know, i want somebody. if i'm on a train, i want to know his experience . want to know his experience. he's been driving a long time. if anything, god forbid , if anything, god forbid, happened, he has the knowledge to be able to cope. and i'm sorry , but i know i'm a woman sorry, but i know i'm a woman dnven sorry, but i know i'm a woman driver, but i actually drive like a man. most women drivers are useless .

are useless. >> they are absolutely. so if i found out my pilot was a woman on a plane, i would be absolutely terrified. what about as a compromise? >> as a compromise, you could have a trans woman and then they've probably still got some of the skills. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> the thing is, more than forget that when they put the dress on though, don't they? >> we had all the driving skills put on a dress. she's just gone. she's gone . she's gone. >> i was going to say the thing for me is this is the most i mean, if you did a poll of who has a train set in the loft, they are all middle aged white men. >> yeah. this is like their this is their astronaut job. can they not have anything? it looks like a looks like a rubbish job. i mean, like they're just middle aged white virgins driving trains. why have you got involved in it? >> i don't know why they're shocked. >> right. so my dad worked for the ordnance survey his entire life, right? maps? absolutely loves maps. and he had this weird friend called david who was a train spotter, and we used to call him david. the weird train man. right. full name. that's quite a long nickname. yeah. david the weird. oh, is

david coming over the weird train, man. right. and he was. what if someone said draw a train spotter ? you would draw train spotter? you would draw him. he would be. he was a middle aged white man with glasses. and i don't know why i like a ghoul. yeah he had the hat and everything. flask, binoculars. right. and people are shocked that this is the type of person that likes strange eyes. yeah. they go, well, of course they do. trains are essentially made for. why have we got d e i everything? >> because you go, oh, do you know what 100% of the chinese takeaways in england are owned by chinese people like. well, yeah, because why have we got to get involved in everything? yeah. >> we need more white owned chinese takeaways. >> where do you draw the line? well, yeah, this is the thing. >> there's no bar stopping anyone applying to be a train driver . these anyone applying to be a train driver. these blokes have played with trains their whole life. they probably know exactly how many valves are in the bit of the train that has valves in it. they know everything. >> they're just train people. >> they're just train people. >> yeah, i don't even know what a valve people. and why does the push for equality only ever go one way? >> there's nobody saying, how do

we get more , you know, white, we get more, you know, white, white middle aged men into . oh, white middle aged men into. oh, yeah. yeah, into the chinese takeaway. >> i want more white middle aged men. only fans. i'm getting sick of it. >> i've actually put in too many requests for that. >> and they're they're not paying >> and they're they're not paying any attention. >> do you think there's one white, middle aged man only fans? absolutely coining it in because he's the only one on there. >> he can't drive a train. i have to do something. do i know ? have to do something. do i know? >> okay, i'll sign up in the next break. anyway. next up, we've got another boeing whistleblower has died suddenly. being a boeing whistleblower seems to be more dangerous than doing a real estate deal with the clintons. joshua dean, who was only 45 and reportedly reportedly healthy and active , reportedly healthy and active, developed pneumonia following a fast moving infection. this was after he warned of manufacturing defects in the boeing 737 max, and filed a complaint with the federal aviation administration alleging serious and gross misconduct by senior management. this is barely a month after another whistleblower, john barnet, was found dead in a vehicle in a hotel car park with

an apparently self—inflicted gunshot wound . he had been due gunshot wound. he had been due to testify in a lawsuit against boeing after discovering metal slivers next to wiring in the plane's that could have caused catastrophic damage. boeing has beenin catastrophic damage. boeing has been in a tailspin recently with a series of incidents involving its planes , including two fatal its planes, including two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019. seeing a total of 346 people killed. and this year, boeing was investigated after a door flew off an alaska airlines boeing 737 max nine mid—flight. but four whistleblowers, including including the two dead men, then came forward alleging that coroners had been cut and the company has reported a $355 million loss . now, to paraphrase million loss. now, to paraphrase oscar wilde, to lose one whistleblower is a misfortune . whistleblower is a misfortune. to lose two looks like carelessness, justin, i mean , carelessness, justin, i mean, obviously we can't speculate as to, you know, the internet is going wild with conspiracies. >> i don't know what they could possibly be saying, but the most important thing is i look at these two whistleblowers, you look at epstein , david kelly,

look at epstein, david kelly, jfk, white, middle aged men are overrepresented in getting bumped off by the illuminati, isn't it? we need some more diversity . diversity. >> we need more equality. we're looking for equality in the nefarious murders of. >> i don't know if that is what it seems. it seems , it seems it seems. it seems, it seems like a coincidence. and it seems like a coincidence. and it seems like if you're that low level person. unless you've, like, i think if somewhere there isn't a vauu think if somewhere there isn't a vault with some footage of you in jeremy epstein's back bedroom having a great time, they seem to like be like, oh, you got to get rid of him because we can't. we haven't got any dirt to blackmail them with. yeah yeah. julius, julian assange is alive, you know, but i don't know. so you know, but i don't know. so you sort of think they're going to kill anyone? you think they'd kill him if no one knows who you are? that's too obvious. exactly. if no one knows who you are. oh, yeah. pneumonia. yeah. >> disturbing, isn't it? it's. >> disturbing, isn't it? it's. >> it's slightly. makes me worry. >> also . it makes me worried. >> also. it makes me worried. i mean, the thing that i'm mostly worried about because i'm. i'm never going to whistle blow and boeing. so i know i'm safe, you know, i mean, i think i'm. >> but you are a white man and they are the ones getting i

actually identify as a woman, but but the thing that worries me is that boeing have been cutting corners . cutting corners. >> the you know, the whistleblowers have been saying this and obviously, you know, planes and bright that's the thing. >> the whistleblowers have been proved right. yeah. >> the whistleblowers have been yeah. >> there's been incidents. >> there's been incidents. and andifs >> there's been incidents. and and it's really affecting, you know, boeing's profitability and the number of planes they're selling. obviously, you know, you'd rather buy an airbus because it's not going to fall out of the sky. but. >> and what they're blowing the whistle on is the church of day. i think that's that is the thing. it's so anti it was it was it soros. and they're so anti what they're trying to preach and sort of like sneak not sneaking force on people. it's like this is the new heresy. yeah you can you can blow the whistle on things but not that. >> yeah. these companies are following day and you know pushing that aspect of things and taking their eye off the ball, taking their eye off the sort of, their core business. and i mean, it's fine if you're making a netflix show, you know, nobody it's not nobody's going to die if , if nobody it's not nobody's going to die if, if you know, nobody it's not nobody's going to die if , if you know, the to die if, if you know, the hobes to die if, if you know, the hobbits or a cleopatra was black or whatever. yeah, yeah,

exactly, exactly. but when it comes to making aeroplanes , comes to making aeroplanes, like, if you get them wrong, people can actually die is pretty serious business. >> yeah, it should be like the interviewing process should be. are you good at making aeroplanes? yeah. that's pretty much what they should be asking. >> are you a man? because francine's not employing you. >> is he swimming? if it was a woman , i didn't want to say it, woman, i didn't want to say it, but is it women doing it? hey! >> get off! listen, us women are good at many, many things, but driving and flying planes, flying a train, a car. >> also, i think killing the whistleblower isn't a good sign. you know, like if a whistleblowers go out and then all of a sudden they die. that's not the company saying , well, not the company saying, well, clearly, you know, we weren't doing anything. >> although, of course, there's no suggestion that, you know, unless, you know, you go on the internet and see the wild speculation, there's no suggestion that that's what boeing have done. it's just, isn't the first guy, like, put a shotgun in his mouth in the car park after the after. >> he wasn't it. it was. he waited until he had his moment.

and then it was just before or just. just before? yeah. >> just before. pretty soon before he was going to testify. so. yeah. i mean, it was. yeah. pretty strange timing. anyway, next up is hollywood superstar drew barrymore . she made her drew barrymore. she made her name in the film e.t, drew barrymore. she made her name in the film et, the story of an alien arriving on earth, houng of an alien arriving on earth, holing up in a kid's wardrobe, and then helping him to take to the skies in a bicycle, which is more believable than the fact that barrymore has now carved out a successful career as a talk show host. things hit peak cnnge talk show host. things hit peak cringe this week when vice president kamala harris turned up on the sofa . let's have up on the sofa. let's have a look. >> i've been thinking that we really all need a tremendous hug in the world right now. yeah, but in our country , we need you but in our country, we need you to be mamala of the country. yeah.i to be mamala of the country. yeah. i mean . yeah. i mean. >> someone actually posted on twitter that drew is like someone with no coke talking to someone with no coke talking to someone with no coke talking to someone with all the coke at a party. yeah, but, francis, do you know what a mammal even is. >> well, i know what a mammal

is. i've never heard this term before, but i watched this, and i found it so cringe, i have to say. i mean, a lot of these american hosts are a bit like this. i mean, i got to tell you, iused this. i mean, i got to tell you, i used to love james corden. i was a great admirer of his writing, his acting, but he's gone to america and he's become one of these cheesy american chat show host who has actually put a cringe costume on. right, in my opinion. but i just didn't understand why she was to talking kamala harris like she was the saviour. you know, i'm talking to her about being a stepmom and disney and also almost looking at her like she was the messiah. yeah it's just how far we've dumbed down an infantilized culture that you've gone from frost nixon to this, will you be my mummy? >> and it was like she looked like she went to lop one out and start breastfeeding it. so cringey. it was awful. >> she always wants to sit on

her lap and yeah, yeah, it was just so like and it's just your look at politics now and it's just like casting. >> it's like the casting the wrong. >> that's a great point because politics is all about feelings and this gushing sort of it should be about manifesto hsi. >> it'sjust should be about manifesto hsi. >> it's just all we want mummy. >> yeah. and textbook isn't it, of these hoes. >> and i do feel it was actually more cringe than watching tom cruise on oprah jumping on the sofa saying he was in love. yeah, that. >> well, that was tough for tom cruise because he needed a box to actually climb up on the sofa. so it was really cringey. >> yeah, it really was. and i say that's that's is that the level of political discourse? >> and on a side note, if we're going to judge american politicians like their fitness to run the country by their parents in joe biden should be out of the oval office on a register because he was he showering with his daughter and stuff? yeah. and every time he's around a kid, he's like that bloke that went to the snooker last week. he's always like sniffing their hair and stuff. >> oh yeah. yeah. >> oh yeah. yeah. >> no, i mean something clearly went wrong with, with hunter. i mean, he's called waleses the best pair. i mean, for somebody

like, i respect hunter in a way, he's like, what is he, 54 or something now? and he's still living like he's liam gallagher in 1990. >> mckeith hunter, what do you expect gonna happen? oh, he's going to be absolutely fine. yeah. so level headed hunter off you go into the wild. >> do you find this sort of deification of politicians a bit a bit weird ? like, you know, the a bit weird? like, you know, the way drew barrymore was talking to kamala? >> you know, the thing about the person that's got the coke talking to the one that doesn't, i genuinely watch that. and i was like, oh my god. she feels like the woman at the house party that's done too many mushrooms and wants to talk to you on the on the bathroom floor. yeah. oh, let me tell you about some crystals. and like, once you read your horoscope and things, i'm like, you're drew barrymore talking to the vice president of the united states. >> it's also so reductive . it's >> it's also so reductive. it's reducing her to just this role of a mother. it's like it's not even. it's all like, it's politicians . she's a career politicians. she's a career politician. >> it's like, oh, will you be a mummy ? it's just so weird.

mummy? it's just so weird. >> and it's sort of odds with what the rest of the country thinks. kamala harris has got even worse opinion poll ratings than joe biden. so, you know, it was just a person to person . was just a person to person. >> and drew barrymore's from the hollywood machine. and so used to schmoozing and that muscle in her brain that is just schmaltzy and sentimental is like so overdeveloped. yeah. they can just tap into it and just say the most saccharine, sickly thing and not know how it looks and feels. it's like, yeah, absolutely . absolutely. >> and obviously when we're talking about coke and mushrooms, we're talking about coca cola and chestnut mushrooms. anyway, next on the saturday night show down it's culture corner. we'll ask whether square jawed people have more right wing views, and if women would rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear. and never mind bears, i'll show you what happened when these dudes decided to get in the cage with some lions.

oh oh. welcome back to the saturday night showdown. culture corner is coming up. but first, i promised i would show you what happened when those dudes were hanging around in the lion's den. oh my gosh. >> oh, no . i cannot . >> oh, no. i cannot. >> it's fine. it'sjust. he's just playing with them. i think if the line was serious, i think the guy would be would be dead by now. yeah. reminds me of, siegfried and roy nick read and roy, they were doing a magic show in las vegas, and they had these , these white siberian these, these white siberian tigers that they trained and one of them just eventually was like, you know what? i'm bored. >> i'm a bit peckish. >> i'm a bit peckish. >> i'm a bit peckish. >> i'm bored. i'm bored of doing what these magicians tell me to do. and he turned around and just almost ate one of the guys, like, really? seriously. much, much worse than that. >> i mean, what were you thinking? what were you

thinking? what were you thinking? going into a lion's den?i thinking? going into a lion's den? i just don't get it. >> i like the way the lioness comes over as if she's going . comes over as if she's going. he's not worth it, gary. leave him alone . him alone. >> you got to watch out for actually . actually. >> beautiful. >> beautiful. >> the manager's posturing hold me back. and the women they play playing for keeps. they get the stiletto off. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> they do. yeah. >> they do. yeah. >> go right in there. anyway, it's >> go right in there. anyway, wsfime >> go right in there. anyway, it's time for culture corner, and we're going to start with the latest debate to sweep social media. people have been asking whether women would rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear. i mean, it's not really much of a debate, is it? but a few wacky outsiders have said they would prefer to be stuck with a man, but they were in a huge minority, as the vast majority of people said they would rather hang out with an animal that's quite likely to kill and eat them than a member of the opposite sex, who might help them to find food and shelter. now, francine, i've got to ask you, have you seen this question going, going round? >> i have, i saw it on tiktok. and would you rather be in the stuck in the forest with a man or a bear? well, i think anyone who says a bear is a bear face. liar, i mean, come on, you know ,

liar, i mean, come on, you know, you know what mesh is? >> if i had the choice of being in the forest with my orgy or a bean! in the forest with my orgy or a bear, i would choose the bear. >> you would rather have a bear drive a train than a woman, though. yeah this is absolutely ridiculous. >> like you could be eaten by the bear. so what's the worst thing that could happen with a man? okay, he could kill you. you could eat. >> you could be jeffrey dahmer. it's up to you. >> on the upside, you could fall in love. you could you know, he could communicate with you. >> at least you sound like you've never seen a disney film. >> yeah, i think this poll is how many people crazy? what percentage of women don't know what a bear is? >> i think like people think, oh, i think they've just did they poll people coming out of watching paddington two or something? have you seen the grizzly man? yeah, there was a guy that lived amongst bears and he gave him names like mr chocolate. yeah. you really thought of chocolate for just one day? >> just ate him and his girlfriend got hungry because he's a bear. >> the bears heart rate wouldn't

have even gone up. yeah, that's just like. >> like i saw some people saying , 0h, >> like i saw some people saying , oh, men mansplaining why women are wrong if they pick a bear, it's like, no, it's not mansplaining to explain probability. yeah that's literally all it is, isn't it? you're more likely to live. >> it's literally probability vie. so when you look at the statistics and you go, right, 98% of sexual offences were committed by men does not mean 98% of men commit sexual offences . yeah, but 100% of offences. yeah, but 100% of bears will eat you and you can't outrun a bear 100. >> you can't outrun a bear. >> you can't outrun a bear. >> you're a lot safer with a man, but also . which man? yeah, man, but also. which man? yeah, because, i mean, there is a few men on the planet that are going. do you know what? i'll take the bear boobs. >> yeah, but then, i mean, if it was, if it was somebody like bear grylls. yeah. bear grylls, rather, you'd rather be the grylls strong man. anyway, next we've got some interesting research from our old friends at stanford university. they say that political beliefs can be determined based on inherent facial characteristics and artificial intelligence. apparently i can pick up on them. this is all led to the finding that people with square jaws are more likely to vote for

right wing candidates, while people with a more slender look lean towards the left. now, square jaws tend to reflect increased testosterone, which leads people to become stronger , leads people to become stronger, more assertive and more self—sufficient. all of these are right wing traits , as are right wing traits, as opposed to those feeble, chinless girly men who can only achieve anything by leeching off society. so socialists sadly , society. so socialists sadly, testosterone levels are dropping in the west, mainly due to obesity and inactivity. i'm not suggesting the government is putting anything in the water so it looks as if we're heading for communism. i mean , hell does communism. i mean, hell does this. does this worry you that, the fact that testosterone levels are dropping means we're doomed to an eternity of left wing politicians ? wing politicians? >> i mean, it's a bit of a catch 22 situation, isn't it? like we don't want too much testosterone . but also, i do want a man that can put a shelf up and fight a bear and fight a bear, because i did choose the man as we've just learned. but i'm also trying to work out does that mean that i am more likely to vote right

wing? because i think i've got quite a strong jaw? you have. yeah. so i think i have. i got maybe i've got enough testosterone . yeah. it's all in testosterone. yeah. it's all in my jaw, right. >> yeah. it's the only bit i think justin voting right wing is it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> what would hang on. >> what would hang on. >> what would the jaw do. what would the jaw. yeah. >> if you look at hitler, hitler had a very diminished little chin. >> so there's always outliers. yeah yeah. and also keir starmer's got quite a jaw on him hasn't he . hasn't he. >> he does. maybe that'll save us. >> us. >> maybe he's gonna be a masculine george sheep's clothing. >> an infiltrator. >> an infiltrator. >> this is absolutely bonkers though isn't it. i think things are gonna be if you've got a certain nose. yeah, you know, you might be. >> yeah. i'm not gonna touch that. i was gonna say something. absolutely crazy. >> you can change the shape of your nose. do you know what i mean? people are changing their jaw shape. >> yeah. that's true. >> yeah. that's true. >> zac efron's done it, hasn't he? >> lots of people. most women put filler in their their jaws, but they make it so. i mean, but like you said, in the bit you just read leo, it is true that a i think, you know, men have the little line here. >> that's because when you're in the womb, apparently your jaw

grows out and fuses together right? and testosterone makes it grow quicker so it doesn't have time to match up. that's why that's a masculine. so it is so a mask. so a guy with a is it a cleft chin or what do you call it. yeah. cleft chin. yeah. cleft chin. they would be super testosterone. and it does make you aggressive more competitive and an aggressive well competitive. they say a competitive. they say a competitive person is going to want a free market rather than because they're going to thrive and succeed in it. >> yeah. that's that's just your wheelhouse. yeah. >> anyway, next on the saturday night showdown , we go through night showdown, we go through some of the craziest videos of the week with a tiktok prankster getting arrested by armed police, football medics who are too fat . and we'll show you what too fat. and we'll show you what protesters would be like as animals . and speaking of funny animals. and speaking of funny videos, i'll show you what happened when olly alexander really got into his swing to make me dizzy from your kisses

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. clown world is coming up. but first, i promised i would show you what happened

when eurovision song entrant olly alexander really got into his stride . his stride. >> and you make me dizzy from your kisses. >> will you take my hand and spin me round and round. >> until the moment never ends. make me dizzy. >> it's not even in tune. no, it's not going to win the eurovision . eurovision. >> that's what offended me the most . it was >> that's what offended me the most. it was the singing. >> unless this. you know, i don't care about the bra. that was. yeah, that was. >> that was not in the scale that i know. >> that was great. i love the bra, the essentially the orgy going on behind him. >> but it was the singing that was like, you do. >> his voice thinking, i can really sing . really sing. >> anyway, it's time for clown world and some genius on the internet has come up with the idea of matching the shrill calls of protesters with some sounds from the animal world. this is high art. take a look. brownite are you proud of

yourself ? yourself? >> whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. where is your god now , now all where is your god now, now all you need a god because you're awake now you need a bullhorn. >> cause your voice is small . >> cause your voice is small. protect our chair. >> talking. i mean, talking of declining testosterone , i think declining testosterone, i think we've got some some examples of it there, i've been watching the videos of the student protests in america. right now. and one of them, because the frat bros have come out to sort of counter protest against the anti—israel protestors and one of them was videoed offering 100 bucks to any one of the anti—israel protesters that could do one push up. >> it's a oh, that's just orwell's animal farm, isn't it? >> yeah. it's like and i just see him like, who are you shouting at? >> why are you protesting in an american campus? yeah, get on a plane. you never know what they're yelling about. what they're yelling about. what they're doing. >> yeah, like when it came down

to the animals. the animals made that bearable. but i felt like i understood the animals more. yeah, yeah, they're just shouting into the void. going for it . but then, you know, the for it. but then, you know, the goat comes on and i'm like, i feel you. yeah >> anyway, next up we've got the tiktok prankster who tried to film a supposedly harmless prank on the king's guards horses and ended up in handcuffs. let's take a look at this. i don't know his name . know his name. >> he's . he's come >> he's. he's come. on. » .— >> he's. he's come. on. >> i feel like missy has got a lot to answer for. you know, there's this trend of tiktokers going. i don't know, i don't know. tiktok seems to make people feel invulnerable. >> yes, exactly. i've seen people doing this. i see someone do a selfie with a dangerous animal. yes, like nobbled them. but i just think this is so. i just saw pranks and i thought they'd got my name wrong .

they'd got my name wrong. happens all the time. we talked about having a hissy fit. >> we've not done anything for the views on a tiktok video. yeah, clearly, no . yeah, clearly, no. >> but that's all because you're looking at it through a and i just think it's such a hack thing. >> we know that they stand there and they don't react. and people have been doing it since the 60s, 70s. >> it's like, what does every generation oh, do you know, you can go up to him and do anything? >> i'm not really like that sort of unofficial, but i like to see them get their comeuppance. that's like so satisfying when all of a sudden they're like, oh no, no. yeah. when you see that turn,i no, no. yeah. when you see that turn, i love it. >> and it's a different it's not the one they don't get off the horse. there's other ones who come in with like you know, machine guns and stuff and they storm through, you know, and they've got their this is where i'm walking. >> don't stand in my way. i'm going to storm through. and then people go, oh, i can't believe that they ran me over. it's like, yeah, but they're doing a job at the end of the day. yeah. just let the person do a job. >> and what other country could you go up to? you know, an official royal guard? yeah. and mug them off. >> only in britain is touching the horse more offensive to

people? >> you can do what you want to. >> you can do what you want to. >> the bloke you touch that horse and you are just fair game. >> next, let's take a look at some crack football. paramedics in action. this. that some crack football. paramedics in action. this . that press. in action. this. that press. >> press. press. press. press >> press. press. press. press >> i mean, doesn't that just, you know, we're living in an era of fat acceptance, but doesn't that just show that sometimes you got to be able to cover a certain amount of distance quite quickly? >> can't even run across half a foot. that's like chief wiggum off the simpsons, isn't it? like so what? they had to come in and help them out like a relay? >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> and they took their stuff. >> and they took their stuff. >> but then the people carrying the stuff don't know how to use the stuff don't know how to use the stuff. they're putting the stethoscope in the wrong way. >> who's in that come back? i mean, that's albert bachet. >> but maybe it's the theory of like, they're never going to have to do anything. you know, when you watch the olympic swimming. yeah. and there's a lifeguard sat there and you go, that person is not doing absolutely anything because you could put anyone in that seat as a lifeguard at the olympics.

yeah. >> not then. i couldn't. >> not then. i couldn't. >> i'm not jumping at all. but that's what they've done. they've got anyone can do that job because you're never going to have to do it. and then it actually happens and they go, oh no, what am i going to do? i've actually got to do something now. >> and luckily they are on a football pitch. >> so there are people who are good at running right there. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> i mean it's just like, i don't know, like i said, diy wherever it is, it's just like it's getting to this ridiculous thing where you're not even don't even have to be fit for purpose. yeah. >> you can have a little you can have roofers of like, like vertigo and stuff. >> up next, it's mark dolan tonight. what have you got for us this evening, mark? >> well, leo, a growing scandal at the bbc based around discrimination. >> why prince harry deserves a hero's welcome when he comes back to the uk next week . plus, back to the uk next week. plus, they did well on thursday in the local elections , but labour are local elections, but labour are not going to form an overall majority. i'll get reaction from edwina currie, a amazing sounds brilliant mark. >> well, thanks to my brilliant panel tonight . i hope you panel tonight. i hope you enjoyed the show and we'll see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well

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gb news. >> it's 9:00. on television. on radio and online in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight in my big opinion. allegations of discrimination and divisive box ticking at the bbc, our national state broadcaster . there may state broadcaster. there may even be breaking the law. find out more about this shocking scandal in just a moment. in the big story, new polls suggest that sir keir starmer will fail to win an overall majority at the next election. could the tories achieve the unthinkable, drag themselves out of the gutter and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? i'll be speaking to someone who's been where the tories are and done it before now. what do you imagine a green party election victory looks like? hippie types a message about recycled something about carbon emissions? not so much. take a look at this.

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