Arthur Smith and Clive Anderson in “Unfinished Business”

Arthur Smith

D'you know what you should drink with the beating heart of a cobra? This is a dish in China where you get a cobra—and it's brought to the table alive. They then slice it open, rip the heart out, and it's beating on the plate there—you have to chase it round the plate, I s'pose—and then you drink the blood of the snake as the wine.

Clive Anderson

Actually, I ordered the lasagne …