Genius With Dave Gorman
- TV panel show
- BBC Two
- 2009 - 2010
- 13 episodes (2 series)
A TV version of Dave Gorman's radio series, in which he and celebrity guests decide which of the public's ideas are "Genius". Stars Dave Gorman.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4 - Johnny Vegas
Ideas
- Dating insurance which consists of each member of the couple paying a pound a week. Whoever gets dumped gets the cash: Not genius
- Torture boxes: Designed to punish inanimate items: Winning genius
- Zip-up animal suit which your pet wears. When it dies, you put another animal into the suit and children don't know the pet is dead: Genius
- The conveyer duvet: a duvet that is twice the width and surrounds the bed, so when one partner pulls the duvet to their side, the duvet just turns around: Not genius
Red Button Extras
- Extra idea - Rebuild the British Empire by invading all 21 countries that do not have armies: Not genius
- Speed genius: Johnny considers some more ideas and gives his view instantly: Standardise the full English breakfast so that people are no longer short-changed on sausages (Genius); Central locking houses (Not genius); A plan to solve kangaroo overpopulation and destroying minefields (Genius); Painting a large turquoise square in your garden so it looks like a swimming pool from far up (Genius); A film called "Oompa-Loompas vs. the Munchkins" (Not genius); Vibrating sofas which filters loose change into a tray (Not genius); A plan to create a dietary supplement which could reduce heart disease which would involve... (Time runs out).
- An extended conveyer duvet scene.
Notes
This episode was moved back a week because of the Masters golf tournament.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 17th April 2009
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Dave Gorman | Host / Presenter |
| Johnny Vegas | Guest |
| John L Spencer | Director |
| Simon Nicholls | Producer |
| Ali Bryer Carron | Executive Producer |
| Armando Iannucci | Executive Producer |
| Mark Lawrence | Editor |
| Nick Peto | Editor |
| Simon Rogers | Production Designer |
Video
The Conveyer Duvet
Here's Dave Groman and Johnny Vegas in bed together, with a duvet which circles the whole bed.
Featuring: Dave Gorman & Johnny Vegas.
Press
Dave Gorman's guest tonight is a slimmed-down, healthy-looking Johnny Vegas, who is called upon to decide which ideas are pure genius and which are the product of unsound minds. One scheme is for so-called dating insurance: a couple puts money in a pot every week and, when they split up, the one who has been dumped gets the cash. Better still is the gentleman who has invented a box for the torture of inanimate objects. Why? "Because inanimate objects are so intensely annoying and there are very few ways you really get back at them." The most alarming moment is when Vegas gets into bed with Gorman to demonstrate a fully wrap-around duvet. Forces are unleashed that are very hard to control.
David Chater, The Times, 17th April 2009This fun little show has been coming on leaps and bounds over the weeks after a slightly off-colour start. Tonight sees the always lovely Dave Gorman joined by Johnny Vegas, who is going to bring his tap-room wit and stout clagged phlegm to the proceedings. As ever, the real stars of the show are the contestants who have come up with 'genius' ideas and invention that are wilfully impractical and often quite surreal.
mofgimmers, TV Scoop, 17th April 2009