Quick off the draw with Christmas japes

London design and marketing group Pistol managed to persuade its clients to indulge in outrageous and slightly premature Christmas exhortations last week.

Taking the form of a Seventies-style game show hosted by Barry Cheese – better known as creative director Sean Parkin – the group’s party saw representatives from clients Tesco, Roche, Nissan, Dixons and JP Fruits stripping stark naked and covering themselves in baby oil and cake.

Although part of a party game, the behaviour was entirely voluntary. ‘We just got them very, very pissed,’ admits a consultancy source. ‘And we had a hidden video camera.’

The resulting film apparently features what appears to be the last turkey in the shop. Nearly a month early.