Game For A Laugh
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Negotiation Anatomy™
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Game For A Laugh was a derivatives-based British TV gameshow in the 1980s hosted by Jeremy Beadle, then chair of ISDA’s crack drafting squad™. The show’s format revolved around a variety of elaborate practical jokes inflicted on unsuspecting subject matter experts in the financial services community. Studio games included the “NAV Tank”, “Glube Tube”, “Pie Chair” in which varying amounts of mess were dealt out. Upon being let in on the joke by a member of ISDA’s crack drafting squad™, who would then announce that negotiator had proved to be “game for a laugh!”
The most popular segment of the show was “Comprehend the ISDA”, where a hapless negotiator was tied to a chair and suspended upside-down over a tank of custard, and required to interpret a short extract from the 2018 English law IM CSD while a ticking clock counted down 4 hours. When the clock ran down a hooter would blare, a trapdoor would open, and the negotiator would be dunked in the custard.
Derivatives gameshows were very popular in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Noel Edmonds forging his 50-year career with the Noel Edmonds’ Multi-Coloured Swap Shop and the late Keith Chegwin’s similar Cheggers Plays Swap.