The night obtained even stranger for Whitehall as he was requested by Arteta to be accountable for the karaoke machine. But Arteta was not greatest happy when he could not get the title of a track right.

Whitehall continued: "And then it got even worse because after the bowling they went through to the next room and it was karaoke. Arteta came over to me and he was like 'Right, the karaoke machine's over there, we'll give you the songs, you put them in'.

"I used to be like 'I'm an expert comic, I'm not your karaoke b***h'. I did not say that, I believed that in my head.

"I said 'Yes okay, I'll stand over there'. The whole evening I was having to put in the songs for the Arsenal team. Arteta called me a p***k because I couldn't spell 'Despacito'."

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