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Richard Osman's love of language
Word of Mouth
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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