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Sticking up for Nick was: Re: Two Kenneth Williams questions - for Dean

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lapsedcatDec 3, 2007
 

 
Nicholas Parsons has come in for a lot of stick on JAM. Mostly it has
been pretty light-hearted mockery, but on occasions panellists (Derek
Nimmo in particular) could be quite bilious about him.

Parsons always held it up as a virtue that he could laugh it all off
and emerge unscathed by the criticism.

This is accepted as fact by most serious scholars of Messiter. The
fact that he went home after every recording, drank a pint of gin and
beat the kittens half to death to assuage his bitterness is a less
well-known fact but deserves a wider audience.

See this Saturday's Daily Express for an exclusive serialisation of
my forthcoming tell-all book, "Nicholas Parsons: Booze, Birds &
Blazers" (Harper Collins)


--- In just-a-minute@..., "jeremy_keens"
<jeremy.keens@...> wrote:

>
> This comment from Dean from the KW letters is a springboard for an
> opportunity to stick up for Nick as chairman. I would agree that he
> was a bad chairman from the episode I listened to (and also that

Nick

> was not a good panelist).
>
> KW did not seem to be listening - he basically agreed with a

challenge

> or asked the speaker whether they had repeated or not. Nick does
> seem(mostly)to listen and (whether or not he is being 'clever dick
> parsons' as noted by derek) often mentions repeats that panelists

had

> missed
>
> I would also agree that often his decisions are made with an

objective

> of keeping the flow going or leaning towards someone who seems to be
> doing a bit better
>
> plus his inconsistency is not surprising over so long with such fast
> decisions to make - I am still not sure about hyphenated words or
> homophones or whether you can use sub-sections of the topic [eg if

it

> was harmony could you use harm? to be extreme!]
>
> Jeremy
> who gets annoted by Nick but think he is great overall
>
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@>

wrote:

> >
> > He also says in the letter that he was terrible as chairman....
> > I think he's being a bit hard on himself there.
> >
>

 
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