Great unanswered questions with Colin Murphy began life on BBC Radio Ulster before making the leap to the small screen. As the title suggests the show is presented by Belfast’s Colin Murphy. The premise of the show is that Colin tackles pointless, silly, existential questions with the aid of “Doctor of everything” David Booth, who has an uncanny ability to spout facts and figures off the top of his head, and Matthew Collins, who shows bits and bobs he finds on the internet to the audience via a big screen. The trio are also joined by celebrity guest and this week Celebrity Mastermind winner, Lucy Proter filled that role.
The first unanswered question to be ununanswered comes from a geordie girl via a vox-pop who asked why hearing running water when you need to pee makes you need to pee even more. Nobody bothers answering the question, they instead talk talk about how attractive she is. This would be sexist if wasn’t for the fact that is was unspeakably good looking and was wearing a funny hat.
Next up is an Australian man’s question, via the vox-pop again, who asked why don’t kangeroos and emus walk backwards. Matthew Collins unconvincingly repeats the claim that neither beast can moonwalk before being told to “hold up” by David Booth, who begs to differ. Apparently kangeroos can’t walk backwards but emus can. Booth then stars explaining why Skippy can’t walk backwards until Murphy and Porter go off on a tangent about kangeroos at a party with an awkward situation. The kangeroo party gets interupted by Matthew displaying a video of two roos having a fight.
This leads into an annecdote from Murphy who talks aout how kangeroos like to lounge around in quite a human fashion in the parks of Melbourne, then somehow the subject of kaneroos’ penises is raised and Davey has a whopper of fact to drop on this subject too; apperntly kangeroos have forked penises. This leads to more questions that Booth has no answer for. Matthew digs him out of his void of knowledge by declaring “kualas have it too”.
After a smidgen more schoolboy humour the conversation returns to the vox-pop where somebody asks does eating loads of oranges turn your skin orange. Booth goes through the science of the theory and concludes that it will work but you would need to eat a lot of oranges. Carrots work better though, as proved by Matthew who whips up a website that shows a girl who went on a 4-week carrot diet with visible results. This inevitably leads to the revelation that ginger people have a mutant skin pigment.
The final ponderance comes directly from the brain of Colin Murphy; why is that boys and old men can’t dance but young men can. David gives a scientific answer involving testosterone levels and body symetery. Matthew throws up a picture of an old man having a whale of a time on a dancefloor and a 5-year old tearing it up on Dance Dance Revelation.
Essentially the dynamic is that of a chat in the pub with your brainy mate (Booth) with the added dynamic of a big screen showing funny videos from youtube. It isn’t the most uproariously funny show on the tele (although a stronger a guest could put it closer), but at no point is it less than interesting. Well worth your time.
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