LENNIE BENNETT (of LENNIE AND JERRY) helmed this flimsy half-arsed rip-off variation on Hollywood/Celebrity Squares. Nine celebs, perched in precarious-looking square vertical arrangement, e.g. NORMAN COLLIER, MIKE REID, MIKE READ, BARBARA WINDSOR etc., delivered punchlines to jokes instead of answers to questions. So it’s a different show entirely! See?

The Mother-in-Law
July 24, 2009 at 8:46 pm
One of the funniest things Adrian Juste ever did was a sketch where Jeremy Beadle was on the lowest tier of the Punchlines celeb line up, and above him were heavyweights like Cyril Smith and Bernard Manning which resulted in the whole thing crashing down on Beadlebum’s head.