On the 100th show, broadcast on 6th January 2003, John Otway became the first person to rise from the obscurity of the Identity Parade to appear as a panelist on the show. On the same show Jimmy Constable, a former panelist, appeared in the Identity Parade.
In 2007, Preston of the Ordinary Boys walked out of a recording after host Simon Amstell read disparaging extracts from his (now ex) wife Chantelle Houghton's autobiography Living the Dream. Bill Bailey went into the audience and found a replacement who looked a bit like him, and the show continued and was broadcast in full.
Additional series announced for 2022 hosted by Greg Davies with Daisy May Cooper & Noel Fielding as team captains.
An episode from the autumn 2008 series was pulled after guest captain Russell Brand got involved in a scandal unrelated to the show, and finally aired amid a run of repeats in January 2011.
The mugs that the host and panelists drink from don't contain anything hot, just cold water.