Just A Minute

Paul did a talk/chat at the Oxford Union a few days ago and the video has been placed on YouTube. You can see it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fijsyWOLbw

Inevitably most of the questions are about his TV work, Have I Got News for You in particular. But he does answer a couple of questions on JAM. He says the show works because of the banter between the panellists when they are not actually playing the game. This is true, I think and it's certainly very true of the Kenneth years when the relationships between the panellists and Nicholas were the highlight really. Paul says a show where the players were consistently speaking without interruption for the whole minute probably wouldn't be much fun and that's true too.

He also talks about how one panellist used to glare at the others and be grumpy but the listening public couldn't see this. As he was saying it, I thought he was referring to Clement Freud, but he then said "she" so I guess he meant Wendy Richard.

It does make me think that an interesting thing would be to hear Paul and some of the other long-serving panellists being interviewed about the game. Paul is clearly very thoughtful about his comedy. 

Inevitably though the centrepiece of the 50th anniversary celebrations is an interview with Nicholas to be conducted by Paul. I've been asked to submit a question so you may hear my voice as part of this programme - though it may also be dumped.

There is also to be an archive programme "with a twist". I've asked for broadcast dates so will post again if I get these.

Finally - an updated list of appearances this year... just 20 shows this year - though I guess the anniversary programmes may also be this year.

Paul Merton 18

Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair, Zoe Lyons 6

Josie Lawrence 5

Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton 4

Tony Hawks, Julian Clary, Sue Perkins, Ross Noble, Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, Pam Ayres, Phill Jupitus, Rufus Hound, Tom Allen, Andy Hamilton, Fern Britton, Al Murray 2

Fred MacAulay, Janey Godley, Paul Sinha, James Acaster, Mark Watson 1

It's interesting that there were far fewer debutants this year. Also Zoe Lyons appeared in all three seasons -  it's good to hear her but am not convinced she is a future regular or semi-regular. What do you think?

On 23 November 2017 at 06:28 "James R Curry scratchy@... [just-a-minute]" <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

 

Looking forward to watching (or maybe just listening) to the Merton interview.  Perhaps in my car on Friday when I drive up to Dallas.

Where do you get 20 episodes, Dean?  I'm looking at your site and see three series of six episodes each -- that makes 18.  (Also, I should let you know that Series 77 links to Series 76, so I had to enter the URL by hand...)

I had noticed the lack of debutants.  Always a balancing act, but I think we've gone too far in the direction of only using established players.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Dean Bedford dbedford@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

Paul did a talk/chat at the Oxford Union a few days ago and the video has been placed on YouTube. You can see it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0fijsyWOLbw

Inevitably most of the questions are about his TV work, Have I Got News for You in particular. But he does answer a couple of questions on JAM. He says the show works because of the banter between the panellists when they are not actually playing the game. This is true, I think and it's certainly very true of the Kenneth years when the relationships between the panellists and Nicholas were the highlight really. Paul says a show where the players were consistently speaking without interruption for the whole minute probably wouldn't be much fun and that's true too.

He also talks about how one panellist used to glare at the others and be grumpy but the listening public couldn't see this. As he was saying it, I thought he was referring to Clement Freud, but he then said "she" so I guess he meant Wendy Richard.

It does make me think that an interesting thing would be to hear Paul and some of the other long-serving panellists being interviewed about the game. Paul is clearly very thoughtful about his comedy. 

Inevitably though the centrepiece of the 50th anniversary celebrations is an interview with Nicholas to be conducted by Paul. I've been asked to submit a question so you may hear my voice as part of this programme - though it may also be dumped.

There is also to be an archive programme "with a twist". I've asked for broadcast dates so will post again if I get these.

Finally - an updated list of appearances this year... just 20 shows this year - though I guess the anniversary programmes may also be this year.

Paul Merton 18

Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair, Zoe Lyons 6

Josie Lawrence 5

Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton 4

Tony Hawks, Julian Clary, Sue Perkins, Ross Noble, Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, Pam Ayres, Phill Jupitus, Rufus Hound, Tom Allen, Andy Hamilton, Fern Britton, Al Murray 2

Fred MacAulay, Janey Godley, Paul Sinha, James Acaster, Mark Watson 1

It's interesting that there were far fewer debutants this year. Also Zoe Lyons appeared in all three seasons -  it's good to hear her but am not convinced she is a future regular or semi-regular. What do you think?

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On 23 November 2017 at 09:31 "James R Curry scratchy@... [just-a-minute]" <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

 

Sorry Dean,

I was on my way somewhere when I wrote that, earlier.

This page:

http://just-a-minute.info/hist1.html

Contains links to all the series.  But it looked like Series 77 linked to Series 76.  I think you may have now fixed it.

Series 79 links to Series 78 still, which is how I missed that Series 79 had 8 episodes.

My world now makes sense again.  :)

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Dean Bedford dbedford@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@...> wrote:

there were eight shows in the last series 6 + 6 +8 = 20

will have a look at the link thing. Would be good if you were more specific though as there are now a thousand pages on that site with links all over the place

On 23 November 2017 at 06:28 "James R Curry scratchy@... [just-a-minute]" <just-a-minute@... > wrote:

 

Looking forward to watching (or maybe just listening) to the Merton interview.  Perhaps in my car on Friday when I drive up to Dallas.

Where do you get 20 episodes, Dean?  I'm looking at your site and see three series of six episodes each -- that makes 18.  (Also, I should let you know that Series 77 links to Series 76, so I had to enter the URL by hand...)

I had noticed the lack of debutants.  Always a balancing act, but I think we've gone too far in the direction of only using established players.

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Dean Bedford dbedford@... [just-a-minute] <just-a-minute@... > wrote:

Paul did a talk/chat at the Oxford Union a few days ago and the video has been placed on YouTube. You can see it here - https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=0fijsyWOLbw

Inevitably most of the questions are about his TV work, Have I Got News for You in particular. But he does answer a couple of questions on JAM. He says the show works because of the banter between the panellists when they are not actually playing the game. This is true, I think and it's certainly very true of the Kenneth years when the relationships between the panellists and Nicholas were the highlight really. Paul says a show where the players were consistently speaking without interruption for the whole minute probably wouldn't be much fun and that's true too.

He also talks about how one panellist used to glare at the others and be grumpy but the listening public couldn't see this. As he was saying it, I thought he was referring to Clement Freud, but he then said "she" so I guess he meant Wendy Richard.

It does make me think that an interesting thing would be to hear Paul and some of the other long-serving panellists being interviewed about the game. Paul is clearly very thoughtful about his comedy. 

Inevitably though the centrepiece of the 50th anniversary celebrations is an interview with Nicholas to be conducted by Paul. I've been asked to submit a question so you may hear my voice as part of this programme - though it may also be dumped.

There is also to be an archive programme "with a twist". I've asked for broadcast dates so will post again if I get these.

Finally - an updated list of appearances this year... just 20 shows this year - though I guess the anniversary programmes may also be this year.

Paul Merton 18

Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair, Zoe Lyons 6

Josie Lawrence 5

Sheila Hancock, Graham Norton 4

Tony Hawks, Julian Clary, Sue Perkins, Ross Noble, Stephen Fry, Marcus Brigstocke, Pam Ayres, Phill Jupitus, Rufus Hound, Tom Allen, Andy Hamilton, Fern Britton, Al Murray 2

Fred MacAulay, Janey Godley, Paul Sinha, James Acaster, Mark Watson 1

It's interesting that there were far fewer debutants this year. Also Zoe Lyons appeared in all three seasons -  it's good to hear her but am not convinced she is a future regular or semi-regular. What do you think?

--

James R Curry

scratchy@...

 

 

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James R Curry

scratchy@...