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Re: JAM press clips

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lapsedcatJan 16, 2008
 

 
Yes please Dean, I'd like to see the letter.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...>
wrote:

>
>
> 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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