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Re: Remembering your first JAM

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Sarah FalkJan 28, 2007
 

 
Stephen Fry's first appearance, in fact: 416 - What to put on a muffin (1992).

A little side explanation: My friend Dorothy and I had met at the beginning of the schoolyear when she, quite coincidentally (and wonderfully) was reading a Stephen Fry book in the row in front of me in Greek class, and we quickly discovered that we both great lovers of the English culture. The past summer, she'd studied abroad in Cambridge, where friends introduced her to "Just a Minute". I myself had found the program while browsing Demonoid.com for Stephen Fry-related media, and downloaded the episodes that pertained to him. I had put them on my iPod, but never got around to listening to them.

One weekend not long after, my roommate was driving me and Dorothy back on the 2 1/2 hour journey to university from my home city. We had plugged my iPod into the car through the tape deck in order to keep ourselves occupied. I noticed that I had JAM in my playlist, and remembering something Dorothy had mentioned about the show, decided that it would be a fantastic time to listen to my first episode.

I remember specifically this exchange, involving Nicholas's response to a challenge against Stephen:
Nicholas: I'm not going to allow that.
Stephen: Well, you're an old sweetie. Thank you.
Derek: Nobody's ever called him that before!

And from about that moment, I knew that I was in for a lot of catch-up work . . . !

--- In just-a-minute@..., "juliajellicoe" <juliajellicoe@...> wrote:
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> What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
> Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
> riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
>

 
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