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This supercut proves that Victoria Coren Mitchell is the undisputed Queen of Burns

Oonagh Keating. Updated April 29th, 2019

If you haven’t watched Only Connect, BBC’s quiz of lateral thinking, you’re not only missing out on potentially being able to answer part of two or three questions each week, but also the host, Victoria Coren Mitchell, delivering some seriously sick burns to the teams. Radio Times writer, Scott Bryan, has collected some of them for your edification, and here they are:

“I’d like to start by mentioning Battersea Dogs’ Home, which I’ve visited recently.

You can’t help but fall in love with them – their eager little faces, their panting enthusiasm, their obvious intelligence.

Sadly, many of them with a traumatised look – all thin, with strange bald patches.

Let’s meet the teams.”

They’re balanced perfectly by some so-bad-they’re-brilliant puns at the end of the show. Victoria was unwilling to take all the credit for this beautiful introduction style:

Her efforts had not gone unnoticed.

The contestants obviously take the ribbing in the right spirit.

Scott’s response says it all.

You can read his piece on this for the Radio Times here.