LAUGHTER OR NO LAUGHTER? LAUGHTER EVERY TIME...

I have a confession to make: I may be hooked on Deal Or No Deal. Not hooked as in line and sinker, but I feel this terrible desire to leave my office and pad downstairs to the telly about 4.30-40pm most days, joining the action about halfway through.

I am just fascinated by the bozos who play the game. The bozos who ‘have a system’ for a game of chance; the bozos who think a ‘lucky number’ can outwit a game of chance; the bozos who haven’t quite grasped the concept of random.

The best bit is when Noel Edmonds – who either believes it all himself, or just plays along (hard to tell which) – builds up the tension when a box ‘just has to blue’.

That is the one time when you can bet on a certainty: a big red number will come up.

You have to laugh. Well, I do.