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Richard Osman's love of language

Word of Mouth

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What Is Pointless?

Producers at Endomol devised the game pointless in 2009. Richard Osman says it was an old mechanic, this thing of asking a question to a hundred people. It's sort of like a MacGuffin in a film or a book, which is what's the engine that's driving this thing.

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