This week on The Variety Show! 🎉

Tom and Rob return fresh from their chaotic CheapShow appearance with a brand new episode packed full of madness!

• 🎤 Fixing Naughty Songs: Tom rewrites last episode’s cheeky lyrics for a 2025 audience!
• 🍫 Mega Taste Test: Dubai Chocolate, Japanese White Peach Fanta, Lays Pulled Beef Crisps, Yorkie Brownie & Biscuit, Cherry Peace Iced Tea… and more!
• 🥪 Ultimate Sandwich Chat: What’s the dream sandwich if money was no object?
• 🐣 Chocolate Easter Egg Controversy: Tom explains why the word “Easter” on chocolate eggs is making the internet lose its mind.
• Plus, a 1-minute clip from Tom and Rob’s guest appearance on CheapShow!

🎧 Listen now for laughs, snacks, and retro chaos!

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Shut Up and Answer the Question

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Tom and Rob are back with big opinions and bigger laughs. This week, they deep-dive into Sabrina Carpenter’s latest — and why Juno might be unfairly judged compared to decades of musical crimes. The duo also check out a fresh batch of Summer Blockbuster trailers, including the new Naked Gun movie (yes, really), and give their brutally honest takes.

Meanwhile, Tom and Gemma overhear a bizarre exchange in Tesco that you won’t believe. And to top it all off, Do You Remember makes its return with game-based nostalgia from both Tom and Rob.

Segments include:

🎵 Music Chat: Sabrina Carpenter & Juno

🎬 Summer Blockbusters: Trailer Reactions (incl. Naked Gun)

🛒 Tesco Talk: “It Tasted Wrong”

🕹️ Do You Remember: The Game Edition

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🎙️ Episode Title: Battle of the AI Idiots 🤖🧠

In this wild ride of an episode, Tom and Rob are back—and things get chaotic fast. It’s man vs. machine, taste buds vs. awful treats, and common sense vs. That’s Life magazine. Buckle up.

👉 Find the Fake Headline

Tom’s trawled through the bizarre world of That’s Life magazine to find 7 real (and really bad) headlines—and he’s thrown in 3 fake ones for Rob to spot. Spoiler: they’re all awful.

👉 Adverts That Need to Chill

Tom’s got a bone to pick with two radio ads that have been driving him slowly insane. Get ready for a rant you didn’t know you needed.

👉 Taste Test: Pepsi Chaos Edition

Pepsi Cream Soda. Pepsi Strawberrys ‘n Cream. Exploded eggs. Three taste tests. Zero enthusiasm. Can anything redeem this fizzy disaster?

👉 Battle of the AI Agents: Gemini vs ChatGPT

It’s a tech showdown! We pit Google’s Gemini against OpenAI’s ChatGPT in three ridiculous challenges. Who’s the smarter AI—or the bigger idiot?

This episode has it all: weird headlines, AI face-offs, and questionable food choices. Hit play and join the madness. Don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share if you survive the exploded eggs.

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It's Episode 53 and today the boys are talking...

Film character ages

Can Rob guess the age of characters in film and television? Will he get higher or lower right? Let's just say Stiffler's Mum was a surprise for all of us!

French Treats and Tangy Tots

France was a let done last episode, will they make up for it with their sweet snacks? Tom also finds new Jelly Tots in Tesco.

T has stopped asking 'Why'

T no longers asks Rob 'Why' to everything he is told. This means something else must be happening.. What's he about to start asking? We also share controversial ways to deal with the dreaded 'Why'.

Films are how old now?

Back in episode 1, Tom made Rob feel old by making him guess how long ago certain films were released. In this episode, we take a look at 10 more and force him to guess the year of their release.

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It's Episode 52 and today the boys are feeling angry. Well. Tom is and Rob has to catch up.

France makes Tom Angry

After a 21 hour day, delayed flights, emergency maneuvers and poor airport retail choices, how else are you meant to feel?

Phones make Rob Angry

What do mean it needs to be wrapped? Rob breaks his phone screen and has to hastily use birthday wrapping paper for DPD.

Popular YouTubers and K make Tom Angry

What, people can be popular on YouTube and it not be aimed at Tom or Rob?

Bing on repeat for T makes Tom Angry

No, we're not talking the search engine. Instead we're looking at the whiniest of little turds called Bing bunny.

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It's Episode 51 and the boys are back in the office recording. A little late due to illness but look at that, it released on time anyway!

Taste Test

We normally do this at the end of the episode but hey, things are always up for change!

Ranting...

This was only meant to be a 10 minute session but Rob had other ideas.. We rant dogs, plants being eaten, Currys selling McAfee and people peeing on the toilet seat.

Complete the Slogan Quiz

Another day, another quiz. How many British slogans can you remember from Toms list?

Red Nose Day

It's been 40 years since this charitable cause was created, what do you remember? What was your favourite nose?

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It's Episode 50 and we're 2 years old!

Coming up this season

We're officially calling this season 3. What are we planning? Find out here!

Best bits of the past two years

We select some of our favourite moments from the past two years. Irony Spider anyone?

Monkeys Paw

Rob has to make three wishes, Tom has to ruin them. Will they survive playing Monkeys Paw?

Taste Test

We invite Prison Pigeon back for the celebrations for him to royally screw up the test items.

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