Hypothetical
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Host
Josh Widdicombe
Co-hosts
James Acaster
Broadcast
Hat Trick for UKTV, shown on Dave, 13 February 2019 to present
Synopsis
Comedians, all familiar faces to the Dave audience, are invited in by Josh Widdicombe. Co-host James Acaster puts forward an unlikely situation. The comedian's task is to engage in flights of fantasy and improvise their way into a sensible answer.
In the first half of the show, two of the panel fly solo with answers to the idea. The other two do battle against each other. There's a pairs round, where the couples confer on their answer, and James Acaster lives out the hypothetical in real life. The final round features a guest celebrity, who has been asked about certain scenarios, and given an answer: the panel's task is to match them.
How is this a game? James awards points on a completely arbitrary basis, based on his feelings about the answer, and a winning team is declared.
Hypothetical divided opinion: for every viewer who loved it, there was another who found it dull.
Inventor
Josh Widdicombe, Tom Craine, and Matthew Crosby; Craine and Crosby are also credited as "Writers", Widdicombe as "Executive Producer".
Title music
Sanjiv Sen, credited for "Music".