Pointless

I can't bear it when they ask the contestants questions with the cameras on them so the viewers can't work out the answers - particularly in the rounds where there are numerous photos and you have to choose the pointless ones. You only get to see them for a nanosecond before they cut to Trevor and Sandra telling you about what they'd do with a thousand pounds if they won it.

It's obviously very cheap TV, but it's been going for what seems like 100 years, so it must be popular.

Barbadosbelle

Cabbie21

Does it really matter?

I get more irritated with the lovely Lee Mack saying after the questions on 'The 1% Club' - 'Let's see who are still in' and then goes on to show us all the one's who aren't!!

Great programme though - especially with the help of the pause button!!
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He is lovely, though 😁

I'd have got the 1% question more than once, but might not actually have got there!

Alexander ‘s ears are huge!!

Babs03

I have a crush on Armstrong. Love his voice.

I can't stand his twaddle!

"Three great looking answers - if one onf them is pointless what would you like to do with the £1,250?"

My husband always says "Shove it right up your....I don't get out of bed for less than £50,000"

Cabbie21

Does it really matter?

I get more irritated with the lovely Lee Mack saying after the questions on 'The 1% Club' - 'Let's see who are still in' and then goes on to show us all the one's who aren't!!

Great programme though - especially with the help of the pause button!!
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If there was no waffle, the episodes would be no more than 15 minutes in duration. Apart from the questions everything else is filler.

I have a crush on Armstrong. Love his voice.

My nephew has recently been a contestant and yes they are told to say their names, applaud other contestants and think of an interesting, amusing or fascinating story about themselves.
I too fast forward all the chat and just watch the questions and answers.
Alexander Armstrong needs a medal for always appearing interested and saying positive things day after day.

I find the need to keep asking contestants to say more about themselves when they have already been introduced and said stuff about themselves before, annoying. I just want to play the game. I don’t know about others but I am not really interested in the contestants.

There is an awful lot of waffle on Pointless so I usually watch on iplayer then speed through the names etc and just watch the questions and answers.

Because they all seem to do it, I just assumed they had been to do that.

Probably nerves in both cases. They aren't professional TV presenters, and most of them won't have been in front of a camera before.