Dope Free Friday: Mario Cipollini on "Candid Camera"

It's probably not really "Candid Camera", since only Americans have ever seen it and is these days just used as a phrase used to describe the exciting genre of "being a complete dickhead to people and filming it without them knowing". Because you're probably not American, you can just imagine Beadle's About instead.


Still imagining Jeremy Beadle? If you don't feel completely shafted by the standard of our TV presenters after watching this, there's something wrong with you. Fearne "Kitten Fart" Cotton isn't even in the same league, before you start emailing us.


The basic premise for the pank is that Mario Cipollini and a friend who's a bit too pixelated for us to identify are out for a ride, followed by a team director in the most emasculating car ever. Cipo is told that his bikes have been stolen by some people in a rubbish campervan, which then drives past. HILARITY ENSUES?!


You might want to fast-forward through the bits where the former World Champion picks up a boulder, only to demonstrate that he throws like a girl. He's probably had sex with every supermodel in Italy, so you're not allowed to laugh at him.


Trust Italy to make a hidden camera prank show that's presented by a woman in her underwear and takes things so far that the reveal still hasn't been done even after the celebrity has knocked out two incognito members of the production staff and is brandishing a blunt object as a weapon.

Official rating:
10/10. Here's the link so you can watch it yourselves.


Some old updates that aren't entirely awful


And there'll be even more coming to this spot just as soon as we can be bothered trawling through our somewhat embarrassing archives.

Simon and Anthony


Nigel and company


Johnathan & friends, even though they're always last with the news and the website is horrible


Dutch cyclists we like because they're better/more attractive than British riders

Bobke Strut is so good that it deserves a category of its own

Arrr, bike pirates

George!

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