| Genre: | Comedy Panel game |
| Director: | Barbara Wiltshire |
| Presenter: | David Mitchell |
| Starring: | Team captains Richard Ayoade Micky Flanagan |
| Narrated: | Guest narrators |
| Theme Music Composer: | Ephraim Greenland |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
| List Episodes: |
|
| Producer: | Arron Ferster |
| Editor: | Steve Andrews Tim Ellison |
| Location: | The Maidstone Studios |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Company: | Maverick Television That Mitchell & Webb Company |
| Channel: | Channel 4 |
Was It Something I Said? is a British comedy panel show that was broadcast on Channel 4, presented by David Mitchell and featuring team captains Richard Ayoade and Micky Flanagan. Celebrity guest narrators appeared in each episode, including David Harewood, Phil Daniels, Charles Dance and Mariella Frostrup.[1]
The show was spun off from the Quotables website, commissioned by Adam Gee at Channel 4 in collaboration with the Arts Council England in 2011. The programme included a play-along second screen game based entirely on Twitter.
The panel had to guess which of three celebrities said a particular quote read out by the guest narrator. The same celebrity could have more than one quote. At the end of this round, Mitchell asked the home viewers to complete a famous quote via Twitter, and upon return from the commercial break, asked the panel to complete it.
The panelists were given only specific key words and must complete the entire quotation. For example, the words "score" and "seven" would lead to Abraham Lincoln's famous opening line from the Gettysburg Address, "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
A quote was given completely out of context and the panelists had to determine the context of why the quote was said.
Teams played one at a time and have to determine if the quote was said by either of the opposing team members, David Mitchell, the guest narrator, or a "virtual TV guest" (random celebrity).
The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:
– Indicates Micky's team won.
– Indicates Richard's team won.
– Indicates the game ended in a draw.
| Episode | Original broadcast (extended version) | Micky's team | Richard's team | Scores | Guest narrator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlie Higson | Jimmy Carr | 1–2 2–3 | David Harewood | ||
| 2 | Gabby Logan | Ed Byrne | 2–2 2–3 | Phil Daniels | ||
| 3 | Romesh Ranganathan | Jason Manford | 2–4 3–4 | Mariella Frostrup | ||
| 4 | Katherine Ryan | Bob Mortimer | 2–5 3–5 | Brian Blessed | ||
| 5 | Robert Webb | Miles Jupp | 4–2 5–3 | Charles Dance | ||
| 6 | Sally Phillips | Reginald D. Hunter | 3–3 6–4 | John Sergeant | ||
| 7 | Rhod Gilbert | Josie Long | 3–5 5–5 | John Craven | ||
| 8 | Vic Reeves | Josh Widdicombe | 3–3 3–3 | Kirsty Wark |