
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 6 - Stewart Lee

Ideas
- Swimming lanes placed alongside cycling lanes: Not genius
- Virtual reality headsets for chickens: Genius
- Speed genius: Stewart considers some more ideas and gives his view instantly: Paint funny faces on airbags to defuse the tension around the scene of a car crash (Genius); Scratch-and-sniff airline sick bags to help you vomit (Not genius); Have all announcements in airports, railway stations, shopping centres and post offices read by Brian Blessed (Not genius); a website called "Socks Reunited" to help people find missing socks (Not genius); the political party that wins the general elections rules the country by day and the opposition rule by night (Not genius); a plan to stop world hunger by... (Run out of time).
- All vans which deliver fattening food should be on the move so that fat people have to chase after it and therefore get fit: Not genius.
- Wire a piano up to candles held by members of a choir. When one the lights is turned on, the member holding the light sings a certain not: Winner
Red Button Extras
- An animated scene featuring more of what the chicken is seeing in its virtual reality headset.
- An extended scene of the piano-choir with Dave playing "Rock Around the Clock".
- A selection of the best scenes from the series.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 1st May 2009
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Dave Gorman | Host / Presenter |
Stewart Lee | 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
Remote controlled choir
Meet the strangest choir you've ever seen.
Featuring: Dave Gorman & Stewart Lee.
Press
The guest in this episode is the bona fide genius Stewart Lee, a man the TV world inevitably can't get enough of now his own super stand-up show has come to an end. But he nearly meets his match with the inventive folk in this series finale, who offer up swimming commuters, psychologically enhanced chickens and a choir controlled by a piano. The show has been a hugely imaginative celebration of the bonkers brainwave, and we'll be sadder than a toddler who's dropped his Mr Whippy if it doesn't get another series... the tumbleweeds blowing across what must be the best props room in TV would simply be too much to bear.
Sharon Lougher, Metro, 1st May 2009