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Who Knew Celebrities Swearing Would Be So Cool?

Channel Four have slipped out a Flash movie advert which … well, it’s basically people who are on, or have been on programmes on Channel Four, such as The West Wing, ER, Big Brother, yadda yadda … and they’re swearing. A lot. I’ve no idea where it came from, but it’s certainly starting to gather moss. Watch it below.

Sarah Chalke‘s sultry “merde” is verrry nice, but the cracker has to be Janel Maloney saying “I like c**t”. Sigh.

Update 2006-03-10: Two years on … thanks to everyone who has commented on this post thus far, but extra-special-huggy-bear thanks go to Steph, Supreme Commander Hoik and Michael who put in the time and the effort to make up this who’s-who list of everyone in this trail:

  1. Tony Robinson (Time Team)
  2. Ozzy Osbourne (The Osbournes)
  3. Michelle Gomez (Green Wing)
  4. Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel Four News)
  5. Kirstie Allsop (Relocation, Relocation)
  6. Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
  7. Carol Vorderman (Countdown)
  8. Jack Osbourne (The Osbournes)
  9. Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace)
  10. Richard Maidley (Richard & Judy)
  11. Richard Schiff (The West Wing)
  12. Phil Spencer (Relocation, Relocation)
  13. Jamie Oliver (Jamie’s School Dinners)
  14. Laura Innes (ER)
  15. Graham Norton (So Graham Norton)
  16. Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
  17. Naomi Cleaver (Other People’s Houses)
  18. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (River Cottage))
  19. Sharon Osbourne (The Osbournes)
  20. Leigh Francis / Avid Merrion (Bo Selecta)
  21. Derren Brown (Mind Games)
  22. Peter Gallagher (The OC)
  23. Kim Woodburn (How Clean is Your House)
  24. Mathew St. Patrick (Six Feet Under)
  25. Iain Lee (The 11 O’Clock Show)
  26. Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
  27. Sarah Beeny (Propery Ladder)
  28. Aida Turturro (The Sopranos)
  29. John Spencer (The West Wing)
  30. Adam Brody (The OC)
  31. Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
  32. Jon Snow (The News)
  33. Mark Nicholas (Cricket)
  34. Rachel Bilson (The OC)
  35. Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
  36. Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos)
  37. Kelly Osbourne (The Osbournes)
  38. Jimmy Carr (Distraction)
  39. Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
  40. Aggie MacKenzie (How Clean is Your House)
  41. Rory Bremner (Bremner, Bird and Fortune)
  42. Peter Oborne (Why Politicians Can’t Tell The Truth)
  43. Parminder Nagra (ER)
  44. Mischa Barton (The OC)
  45. Richard Whitely (Countdown)
  46. David Starkey (Monarchy)
  47. Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
  48. Anthony La Paglia (Without a Trace)
  49. Judy Finnegan (Richard & Judy)
  50. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
  51. Dermot O Leary (Big Brother)
  52. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
  53. Davina McCall (Big Brother)
  54. Niall Ferguson (Empire, American Colussus)
  55. Kevin McCloud (Grand Designs)
  56. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
  57. Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without a Trace)

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77 Comments

  1. paul murphy

    class stuff.

    Posted on 29-Mar-04 at 01:32 | Permalink
  2. Mike Cowie

    Excellent stuff – keep it cumming Channel 4

    Posted on 01-Apr-04 at 03:58 | Permalink
  3. AceClown

    Anyone know who the seksey redhead is right after Dermot O’Leary????

    Posted on 02-Apr-04 at 11:32 | Permalink
  4. Derek Bird

    the sexy redhead is on “Six Feet Under”

    Posted on 03-Apr-04 at 05:50 | Permalink
  5. Scott

    who is that guy that says “England” cuz that is funny

    Posted on 03-Apr-04 at 11:32 | Permalink
  6. Marie

    oh my god this is the absolute best thing online! the scottish red head is so funny!

    Posted on 04-Apr-04 at 03:14 | Permalink
  7. SJC

    who is that bird who goes
    “i love the word fuck way too much”??????

    Posted on 05-Apr-04 at 12:05 | Permalink
  8. Scott

    SJC, She’s the chick from the OC… and is hott huh?

    Posted on 05-Apr-04 at 02:52 | Permalink
  9. ed

    is the last contributor a uk comedian or the actress from Without a Trace?

    Posted on 06-Apr-04 at 12:40 | Permalink
  10. neil

    well, both. She’s the actress from Without a Trace and she’s from the UK

    I just wanna know who’s that cutie in the middle who says “shitface” and giggles?

    Posted on 06-Apr-04 at 02:42 | Permalink
  11. claire

    merde is klass i like dat and the waaan kaaaa at the v end is amazin

    Posted on 06-Apr-04 at 09:48 | Permalink
  12. Adam Garratt

    I love Channel 4 for showing these well-edited, in-between progamme exerts, they always make me smile. It is good fun initialy guessing what they are all talking about, but this one in particular is fantastic. So nice to see celebs swearing, it appears as though all the TV actors actually enjoyed the interviews with Channel 4, when they must get so many boring questions asked. Well done again, enjoy this, Janel is by far the best, wow!

    Posted on 07-Apr-04 at 11:00 | Permalink
  13. m.

    this is excellenttttttttt.. is it possible to somehow save it? i dont know much about pcs but id love to have it as a file in my pc..

    thanks!

    Posted on 08-Apr-04 at 11:01 | Permalink
  14. stefanie

    “i love the word fuck way too much” is mischa barton

    the girl in the middle who says “shitface” and giggles is rachel bilson.

    both on the OC

    Posted on 08-Apr-04 at 11:18 | Permalink
  15. Poploktom

    WHAT A GREAT AD. Avid Merrion’s Comment was good as well as the BUGGERATION.My fav has to be Merde cuz i actually know what that means!!!

    Posted on 08-Apr-04 at 11:44 | Permalink
  16. Poploktom

    SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY

    Posted on 08-Apr-04 at 11:47 | Permalink
  17. mooks

    what does merde actually mean?

    Posted on 09-Apr-04 at 01:34 | Permalink
  18. http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=merde&langpair=fr|en

    Posted on 09-Apr-04 at 12:02 | Permalink
  19. billy

    merde means shit in french, and dat bloke at the end from scrubs is well funney. ha ha ha

    Posted on 16-Apr-04 at 02:28 | Permalink
  20. Scotty McGotty

    “You Fuckin CunT” (enfasise the T)

    Posted on 16-Apr-04 at 03:39 | Permalink
  21. Mr Moon

    “Far Kewwwwww”

    Posted on 16-Apr-04 at 03:41 | Permalink
  22. sj

    sweet lovin it…never get tired of it have seen so many times

    Posted on 20-Apr-04 at 12:31 | Permalink
  23. Shane

    Anyone got (and fancy making) a complete list / script?

    Posted on 27-Apr-04 at 01:37 | Permalink
  24. Goulan

    WTF!

    Aren’t we all becoming very liberal these days. Everything goes…

    Posted on 28-Apr-04 at 03:28 | Permalink
  25. Bobby

    who’s the first guy who says ‘cunt’?

    Posted on 01-May-04 at 09:58 | Permalink
  26. it took some doing do to some cleverish redirection, but if you want a copy of this, right click the link below and click save target as

    http://cache.neuro.me.uk/tmp/s/swearing1.swf

    Posted on 13-May-04 at 11:00 | Permalink
  27. Captain Kirk

    I think Judy Finnigans FUCK is the best – got me hard actually !!!!!!!!!

    Posted on 16-May-04 at 05:16 | Permalink
  28. badger

    Absolutely brilliant. Mark Nicholas saying shitfuck. doesn’t get much better than that.

    Posted on 27-May-04 at 03:27 | Permalink
  29. P.D.

    also..if anyone knows of similar clips – ie. the C4 add asking celebrities what they do to relax etc. could you drop me an e-mail.

    Cheers, ah amusement.

    xXx

    Posted on 02-Jun-04 at 10:53 | Permalink
  30. meghan

    does anyone know if the second person to say cunt is enrique murciano (danny from without a trace)? also, can you download the other ones?
    and, how cute is anthony lapaglia?!

    Posted on 04-Jun-04 at 05:08 | Permalink
  31. maria

    what is it parminder nagra says???

    Posted on 04-Jun-04 at 06:08 | Permalink
  32. Ben

    where can i download the rest of these?

    Posted on 07-Jun-04 at 10:52 | Permalink
  33. FUCKING brilliant!!!
    Richard whitely saying “Sloblocks!!!!” is absolutely fantastic….
    If anyone wants to see something similar, the people at my production company have made a little compilation of stupid things they’ve said. http://www.thomvaughan.com has all the goodies.
    Nice work, C4! :-)

    Posted on 15-Jun-04 at 11:06 | Permalink
  34. where can i download the rest of the interviews?

    luv nicole
    -x-x-x-x-
    :) :D

    Posted on 06-Nov-04 at 02:46 | Permalink
  35. Sanh

    Hey do you know who is the guy just before Janel Maloney?

    Posted on 27-Jul-05 at 08:32 | Permalink
  36. hotroxx

    Does anyone have any other ads in this series that they could transcribe? I am putting together a fansite for the actor Richard Schiff (the guy that says ‘cocksucking motherfucker’) and if I could have a list of his answers it would be cool. Any help appreciated.

    Posted on 26-Sep-05 at 01:42 | Permalink
  37. Steph

    Ok, so here’s the people I knew, or got from this site. Feel free to add as theres a bunch I dont know.

    1. Tony Robinson
    2. Ozzy Osbourne
    3. Michelle Gomez
    4.
    5.
    6. Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
    7. Isabella Rosellini
    8. Jack Osbourne
    9. Enrique Murciano (Without A Trace)
    10.
    11. Richard Schiff
    12.
    13. Jaime Oliver
    14. Laura Innes (ER)
    15.
    16. Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
    17.
    18.
    19. Sharon Osbourne
    20.
    21.
    22. Peter Gallagher (The OC)
    23. Aggie and Kim (How clean is your house)
    24.
    25.
    26. Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
    27.
    28.
    29.
    30. Adam Brody (Scrubs)
    31. Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
    32.
    33. Rachel Bilson (Scrubs)
    34. Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
    35.
    36. Kelly Osbourne
    37.
    38. Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
    39. Kim and Aggie (How Clean is your house)
    40.
    41.
    42. Parminder Nagra (ER)
    43. Mischa Barton (The OC)
    44.
    45.
    46. Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
    47. Anthony La Paglia (Without A Trace)
    48.
    49. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
    50.
    51. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
    52.
    53.
    54.
    55. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
    56. Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without A Trace)

    Posted on 18-Nov-05 at 06:21 | Permalink
  38. Steph

    *30. Adam Brody is from The OC, not Scrubs, sorry!

    Posted on 18-Nov-05 at 06:22 | Permalink
  39. Kirsten

    *33. Rachel Bilson is from The OC, not Scrubs!!

    Posted on 20-Nov-05 at 01:53 | Permalink
  40. OC- Lover

    The one before Mischa Barton is the one from “Kick it like Beckham” sorry i do not know her name!
    I like Rachels : “Shitface” and then giggles so sweet and Mischas : “I like Fuck way too much” and Sarah Chalkes “Merde” always makes me laugh!!!!!
    This thing is so funny!!!!!

    Posted on 20-Nov-05 at 09:40 | Permalink
  41. You’re trying to remember the name of Parminder Nagra from Bend It Like Beckham and ER :)

    Posted on 22-Nov-05 at 10:37 | Permalink
  42. Meghan

    #28 is (don’t know her name) Janice from the Sapranos.

    Posted on 23-Nov-05 at 06:44 | Permalink
  43. Steph

    Yeah, I knew she was in BILB, but I assumed ER was the show she was supposed to be representing on this.

    Rachel Bilson – my mistake. I am an OC fan, so excuse some of the typos. I must admit the list was written at night and I didnt check it.

    Posted on 24-Nov-05 at 02:08 | Permalink
  44. Dan.d aka scrambled eggs

    Kelly Douchbag is not swearing im surprised you couldnt of think of a better swear word looking at your background.

    Posted on 10-Dec-05 at 07:10 | Permalink
  45. Mr Twain

    21 is psychological illusionist Derren Brown – I love the fact that they’ve stuck him in a launderette.

    Posted on 23-Dec-05 at 09:31 | Permalink
  46. woo woo

    oh

    Posted on 23-Dec-05 at 09:45 | Permalink
  47. Gabbury

    The guy from scrubs is a fucking legend!!!!!

    Posted on 25-Dec-05 at 12:30 | Permalink
  48. Ian

    I like the woman that says cocksucker in a really husky voice lol. Makes me laugh

    Posted on 28-Dec-05 at 01:38 | Permalink
  49. Annie

    SO FUCKING AMAZING

    Posted on 29-Dec-05 at 07:20 | Permalink
  50. Kate

    29) John Spencer – West Wing

    Posted on 07-Jan-06 at 05:59 | Permalink
  51. Emma

    37. Jimmy Carr

    Posted on 09-Jan-06 at 04:58 | Permalink
  52. tayla

    i don’t get it when that dude was like england?????

    Posted on 14-Jan-06 at 05:18 | Permalink
  53. shannon

    he hates Englang to the point that it has become a swear word to him… kinda like if I were to say FRENCH instead of FUCK

    Posted on 17-Jan-06 at 06:30 | Permalink
  54. Louise

    Is there any more clips of celebrities like these on the internet?

    I have seen a few one TV but I would like to see the others (if there is any)

    Posted on 22-Jan-06 at 06:08 | Permalink
  55. supreme commander hoik

    Right, here’s the updated list (though there’s still a few I don’t know)

    1. Tony Robinson (Time Team)
    2. Ozzy Osbourne (The Osbornes)
    3. Michelle Gomez (Green Wing)
    4. Krishnan Guru-Murthy (The News)
    5. Kirstie Allsop (Relocation, Relocation)
    6. Sarah Chalke (Scrubs)
    7. Carol Vorderman (Countdown)
    8. Jack Osbourne (The Osbornes)
    9. Enrique Murciano (Without A Trace)
    10. Richard Maidley (Richard + Judy)
    11. Richard Schiff (The West Wing)
    12. Phil Spencer (Relocation, Relocation)
    13. Jamie Oliver (Jaime’s School Dinners)
    14. Laura Innes (ER)
    15. Graham Norton (So Graham Norton)
    16. Jamie Lynne Di Scala (The Sopranos)
    17.
    18. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Some boring programme)
    19. Sharon Osbourne (The Osbornes)
    20. Leigh Francis /Avid Merrion (Bo Selecta)
    21. Derren Brown (Mind Games)
    22. Peter Gallagher (The OC)
    23. Kim Woodburn (How clean is your house)
    24.
    25.
    26. Judy Reyes (Scrubs)
    27.
    28. Aida Turturro (The Sopranos)
    29. John Spencer (The West Wing)
    30. Adam Brody (The OC)
    31. Janel Maloney (The West Wing)
    32. Jon Snow (The News)
    33. Mark Nicholas (The Cricket)
    34. Rachel Bilson (The OC)
    35. Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)
    36. Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos)
    37. Kelly Osborne (The Osbornes)
    38. Jimmy Carr (Distraction)
    39. Ken Jenkins (Scrubs)
    40. Aggie MacKenzie (How Clean is your house)
    41.
    42.
    43. Parminder Nagra (ER)
    44. Mischa Barton (The OC)
    45. Richard Whitely (Coutdown)
    46. David Starkey (Monarchy)
    47. Peter Krause (Six Feet Under)
    48. Anthony La Paglia (Without A Trace)
    49. Judy Finnegan (Richard + Judy)
    50. Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck)
    51. Dermot O Leary (Big Brother)
    52. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under)
    53. Davina McCall (Big Brother)
    54.
    55. Kevin McCloud (Grand Designs)
    56. Zach Braff (Scrubs)
    57. Marianne Jean Baptiste (Without A Trace)

    Posted on 23-Jan-06 at 07:11 | Permalink
  56. Michael wasting his life

    Here you go:

    17. Naomi Cleaver (presents one of those bourgeois property-porn programmes; only one whose identity I’m not completely sure of – ugh, ending sentence in a preposition)
    24. Mathew St. Patrick (Six Feet Under)
    25. Iain Lee (alleged comedian; The 11 O’Clock Show and RI:SE)
    27. Sarah Beeny (Property Ladder and non-threatening, big-titted bourgeois wank-fantasy)
    41. Rory Bremner (exceptional impressionist and alleged satirist; Bremner, Bird and Fortune)
    42. Peter Oborne (journo -political editor of The Spectator- author, opiner; Why Politicians Can’t Tell The Truth [as opposed to journalists, eh Peter?]
    54. Niall Ferguson (historian, author, a Scot, and the thinking woman’s crumpet – a sort of younger, fuckable Joan Bakewell, if you will; Empire, American Colussus)

    Posted on 26-Jan-06 at 02:50 | Permalink
  57. Steph

    17. Naomi Cleaver is from Honey I Ruined the House

    (hooray for pay tv!)

    Posted on 31-Jan-06 at 02:49 | Permalink
  58. claire

    i found another one of the ads, but i wish i could see them all. they’re hilarious. anyway, this is the one with the question: “when did you lose your virginity?”

    http://www.devilducky.com/media/26383/

    Posted on 14-Feb-06 at 02:03 | Permalink
  59. randomer

    tis so awesome! :o Judy swearing hahaha

    Posted on 25-Feb-06 at 07:36 | Permalink
  60. Sophie the amazed

    OMG! my brother just showed me this clip its actually the funniest thing I’ve ever seen and can i just state that adam brody (number 30) is absoultey gourgeous! Any hoo thank you channel 4! and am i being a spac but where is the link for the virginty thing ont the devil duck website cus i couldnt see it. cheers if you know.

    Posted on 05-Mar-06 at 07:45 | Permalink
  61. SJC the one with the dark hair is rachel bilson (who i apparetly look like…i wish) n the one with the blonde who says “i like the word fuck way too much” is mischa barton, both from the OC.
    If anyone gets hold of the HTML code for this let me know ive wanted it for agesss!

    Posted on 26-Mar-06 at 04:52 | Permalink
  62. lauren ambrose is after dermot oleary

    Posted on 26-Mar-06 at 04:52 | Permalink
  63. crystal

    OMG derren brown, SO HOT!

    Posted on 16-Apr-06 at 05:55 | Permalink
  64. Kathryn

    Those Channel 4 films are awesome, especially this one! And Derren Brown- sooooooooo hot!

    Posted on 25-Apr-06 at 04:43 | Permalink
  65. Emmy

    DERREN BROWN!!! I love these SO much, oh my gosh! Crystal and Kathryn, watch out for Derren on this one: http://www.devilducky.com/media/26383/ (Thanks to Claire who posted it above) *dies*

    Posted on 29-Apr-06 at 02:36 | Permalink
  66. pap

    Derren Brown should be credited as from “Mind Control”, not “Mind Games”

    Posted on 29-Apr-06 at 03:34 | Permalink
  67. Emily

    Bradly Whitford is fantastic

    Posted on 29-Apr-06 at 06:28 | Permalink
  68. Christine

    Oh, this is only the most brilliant video ever. I just wish we could download it, because that link posted two years ago to the cache’d one doesn’t quite work anymore.

    Posted on 03-May-06 at 04:12 | Permalink
  69. Has anyone any idea where the other ads from this series are, the only other one I found is “Age you lost your virginity”

    Posted on 03-May-06 at 06:30 | Permalink
  70. Melissa

    Bradley Whitford is so cute when he swears.

    …well, he’s cute all the time, but you know..

    Posted on 19-May-06 at 09:51 | Permalink
  71. Prillo

    Ah, I see I am a rather late discoverer! Nevermind, it still rocks my socks.

    Any chance you could reactivate the link for the clip? I’ve been lookin’ all over, trying to download it, but I just can’t find anything, except your link, which doesn’t work. D’oh!

    Posted on 19-Jun-06 at 08:52 | Permalink
  72. sparklyjojo

    has anyone got any way of me being able to download a copy of this? the link above doesn’t seem to be working for me– thanks

    Posted on 28-Sep-06 at 09:02 | Permalink
  73. G

    parminder nagras roughly translates to: Bastard dog

    Posted on 18-Oct-06 at 10:25 | Permalink
  74. Daz

    I liked when they asked the celebrities what was their 1st record they bought.

    Does anyone know what Marcia Cross’ was (Bree from Desperate Housewives)?

    I’d LOVE to know. Thank-you.

    Posted on 13-May-07 at 05:11 | Permalink
  75. robert

    the second last one – zach braff – is awesome.. he’s acting just like on scrubs :D and all the oc stars rachel bilson, adam brody, peter gallagher and mischa barton were awwesome too :P never heard them swear.. and the show KICKED ASS!!!!! lol

    Posted on 07-Apr-08 at 12:22 | Permalink
  76. Ernie Chippenwax Borehole.

    How sad the open howl of an audience branded by televisual lobotomy.
    How sad the hankering pangs of the porn hungry.
    How bad the voyeurs decent to celebricity.
    How strong the arguments brought about by the ultra-intelligent loafers in defense of the truly stupid content of 89% of broadcasting.
    How deluded the internet swingset.
    Carry on.
    best wishes…

    Posted on 20-May-08 at 08:44 | Permalink
  77. Elena

    I think the fourth one is Danny Pino (Cold Case). Or… maybe I was counting wrong. But he’s in there, it looks like!

    Posted on 02-Oct-08 at 06:08 | Permalink

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