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Re: JAM press clips

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Dean BedfordJan 16, 2008
 

 
On Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at 04:51 PM, jeremy_keens wrote:

> Interesting indeed - especially that in 1999 Nic had chaired over 700
> episodes - which means there must be a hell of a lot in an archive
> somewhere!
>

Not sure if you're joking or not - but in case you weren't, Nicholas is
often no good as a historian. The list of shows I have is complete.

Thanks very much for the articles which I too enjoyed. Of course not
everyone likes JAM, but I do find people say who just simply state "it's
not funny" about anything that millions of people do laugh at are being
very unthoughtful. There are all sorts of forms of comedy... some love
the wit of an Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker, others say the bawdiness of
Benny Hill. Declaring popular comedy to just be "not funny" really says
nothing at all.

I see JAM is again near the top of the downloads currently on the BBC
site. Lot of people going to a lot of trouble over something so
unfunny...

Incidentally the review by David Wade that lapsedcat mentioned - Kenneth
wrote a letter of complaint about that. It's in his book of letters and
is a bit of a brilliant Williamsese. I'll copy it out if anyone's
interested.

 
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