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Re: David Tennant's first

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omshafuFeb 18, 2015

I'm afraid I must get off the fence and say I agree with Mark. I do get the feeling that he thinks of Just a Minute as his programme and its success is thanks to him. In fairness to Nic, my opinion may come from the way the media handle a chairman of Nic's great age; without Nic I don't think the programme would have lasted this long and I wonder about the direction it might take when Nic can no longer chair it.

Antony.

From: just-a-minute@... [mailto: just-a-minute@... ]
Sent: 18 February 2015 05:58
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] David Tennant's first

I don't mean to be unkind, but a lot of my pleasure listening to JAM is Nicholas bumping into walls and embarrassing himself when he's at his highest level of preenworthy pomposity and vanity.

He's the embarrassing try-too-hard great-uncle who sincerely thinks he's the life of the party with a responsibility to be entertaining with his Hamish/Dougal Scottish accents, his faux-French, or his umpteenth rendition of the same old story when all the other guests are wondering who he is and who invited him.

An image of Alan Partridge's dad in a gaudy waistcoat springs to mind.

Now I really understand how Clement Freud must have felt... a bit like Kenneth Branagh cast as the Gravedigger while Nicholas plays Hamlet, trips, and falls head-first off the stage (only to leap back, beaming, and declare, "I meant to do that! Aha!")

I feel better now.

Iconoclasm completed. Let the reverence resume.

My apologies to devout Nicholas-admirers.

Mark

On 18 February 2015 at 16:20, Dave B pondydave@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

Ask the audience brings up its own discussion.

Ok. Nic hardly does it any more but when he did:

How often did he leave the audience completely flummoxed as to what he had just asked? Sometimes it was clear, cheer for Kenneth, boo for Clement (and is that showing bias?),

but sometimes the cheer and boo he requested could be to support the same outcome

sometimes Nic forgot what he had just asked and had no idea who the cheers/boos were for

And he arbitrarily allocated point and subject.

Dave

Mark

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