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It's a pointless in-joke that excludes the viewers.

There's nothing wrong with continuity announcers having a bit of a laugh, but it has to make some sort of sense and the viewers have to be included.

Also, if the point is that they could announce anything because everyone knows what's coming on next, at what point are Channel 4 going to consider the fact they could run the station without any continuity and save a bit of cash?

I think it's worked.

3 pages of pish onwards, you're all still talking about it...

For all the wrong reasons.

Here's your explanation when Nick Hewer appeared on HIGNFY (30 seconds in)...



You can sleep soundly tonight.

Well well, don't you all look foolish now.

"Now"?

That was charitable of you.

Oh great, so we were supposed to understand a reference from an edition of a show a couple months old and one that not everybody watches.

Sure, I feel completely and utterly foolish now.

Well, today the CA said "Now on Channel 4, it's clock time". It sounds like they are mocking you, Susan Jones.

I'm with Phil on this one. If these were actually supposed to be jokes, written with the intention of referencing that HIGNFY clip, then it's worse because it's so obscure and woefully unfunny. How does "now on Channel 4, the cat's got the cream" allude to a month old HIGNFY clip, other than the fact that Nick Hewer said 'cat' in it? It's still sh!t continuity.

They might as well say "now on Channel 4, do you know anybody training for an apprenticeship? It's Countdown" - barely connected to Nick's past on "The Apprentice" and equally unfunny.

Haven't you just displayed your own lack of ability to identify a joke? Of course it isn't a reference to an obscure Have I Got News for You clip. Connews was clearly joking.

I thought you were going away.

Totally agreed with all of the last three pages of posts. How dare they make jokes I don't understand on my television when I am watching. Whenever I see any form of out-of-place humour on my television I instantly send an angry-worded complaint to the channel in question, demanding them never to show the horrific sin of 'fun' in my presence ever again. Attempts at comedy should be left to proper comedic broadcasts, like The Royal Bodyguard.