The studio audience are muted and unresponsive throughout the show, so much so that Leslie Phillips and Terry Wogan make multiple references to the lack of response to their jokes and anecdotes. Later, Billy Warlock will tell the audience "I'm kidding" after a similar lack of reaction to a jokey remark.
Terry mentions Leslie Phillips having worked with Seymour Hicks. In the magazine "The Oldie" (Issue 215, February 2007) Phillips was quoted as describing Hicks as "an overbearing shit.'