On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 01:26 AM, Blackadder wrote:
> I generally try to listen to one new episode a day. So far the episode I
> like best of the ones that I got recently was the one where Kenneth
> throws a tantrum over losing the subject of stopping hickupps.
that is a classic JAM moment - and the whole ep is very funny
NICHOLAS PARSONS: And Kenneth you also begin the next round. The subject
is stopping hiccups. Can you tell us something about that in this game
starting now.
KENNETH WILLIAMS: You must alter the rhythms that have been established
in the sarspiratory diaphragm. So consequently you must breathe in a
different way. One of the best tips I can give you is to inhale deeply
and then recite a long piece. Such as
(very very fast to the point of being unintelligible) The old order
changes yielding place to the new,
and God fulfils Himself in many ways,
lest one good custom corrupt the world.
Our little systems have their day,
they have their day then cease to be.
They are but broken lights of Thee, and thou...
BUZZ
NP: Peter Jones has challenged.
PETER JONES: You'd be better off with the hiccups!
NP: So we give Peter Jones a bonus point for his delightful remark and
also another point for a correct challenge because he'd deviated from
hiccups on to a recitation of er a poem which we couldn't understand!
Peter you have 23 seconds on stopping hiccups starting now.
BUZZ
NP: Yes Kenneth you challenged.
KW: What is, how, how did the subject get taken away from me? What, what
is the grounds?
NP: Because you deviated from hiccups, you were just reciting something.
KW: On the contrary, I was describing a remedy and he...
NP: I know but your remedy went...
KW: He didn't challenge. He said "you'd be better off with the hiccups".
He didn't express a challenge. He was just making a funny remark and the
audience, for some peculiar reason...
NP: Well I thought, I thought his...
KW: ... found this very comic! I don't find it funny! I've come all the
way from Great Portland Street and I'm not here to be made fun of! Do
you think I'm some object of ridicule? Do you think that's what I am?
AUDIENCE SHOUTS OF "YES"
PJ: Yes! Yes!
DEREK NIMMO: Can we put that to the audience?