Would I Lie To You?
- TV panel show
- BBC One
- 2007 - 2025
- 161 episodes (18 series)
Panel show in which believable lies and unbelievable truths must be identified. Stars Rob Brydon, Angus Deayton, Lee Mack and David Mitchell.
- Continues on Friday on BBC1 at 8pm with Series 18, Episode 8
- Catch-up on Series 18, Episode 7
Streaming rank this week: 124
Episode menu
Series 2, Episode 3
Home Truths
Maureen Lipman used to work in a circus double-act (Lie)
Jimmy Carr had an interview for MI5 (Lie)
David Baddiel has snogged two of the Spice Girls (True)
Ring of Truth
After a visit to Scotland, Paris Hilton demanded her PA only ever speak to her with a Scottish accent. Her PA resigned (Lie)
This Is My...
Richard: Della danced with me on my exercise video (True)
Lee: Della is an estate agent who accidently locked me in a house after a viewing.
Jimmy: This is Della, and she is my chiropodist.
Final Round
David M: I used to buy my Gran a chocolate orange every Christmas until I found seven of them in a draw at her house (Lie)
Lee: I have been attacked by a snake charmer and his snake (True)
David B: This is the neck brace I wore to get upgraded to 1st Class on an aircraft. There was nothing wrong with me (Lie)
Notes
Lee's team wins 6 points to 5
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 25th July 2008
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Angus Deayton | Host / Presenter |
| Lee Mack | Team Captain |
| David Mitchell | Team Captain |
| Paul Ridley | Announcer |
| Jimmy Carr | Guest |
| Maureen Lipman | Guest |
| Richard Wilson | Guest |
| David Baddiel | Guest |
| Angus Deayton | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dominic English | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Ged Parsons | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Steve Punt | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Aiden Spackman | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Paul Powell | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Christine Rose | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Will Ing | Script Editor |
| Barbara Wiltshire | Director |
| Andrew Westwell | Producer |
| Derek McLean | Producer |
| Peter Holmes | Executive Producer |
| Ruth Phillips | Executive Producer |
| Steve Andrews | Editor |
| Tim Ellison | Editor |
| Bex Murray | Editor |
| Patrick Doherty | Production Designer |
Press
There are many reasons to distrust this panel show, and not just because the participants spend most of their time lying through their shameless celebrity teeth. There's the suspiciously enthusiastic laughter that follows each of host Angus Deayton's excruciating autocue segues; the fact that the format is essentially that of a slightly ruder Call My Bluff (Call My Guff, if you will); and the baffling 'futuristic' set that makes the panellists look as if they're sitting behind pulsating tubes of Fruit Polos. It should be rubbish.
Instead, amazingly, it's a blazingly silly, raucously shambolic joy. And the off-the-cuff guffaws come think and fast. Let nonsense-based battle commence.
Sarah Dempster, Radio Times, 25th July 2008