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Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

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Dean BedfordMar 3, 2008
 

 
welcome aboard PJ! Good to have you with us.

Bobby has already mentioned Gyles who has a few routines like this - and
you mention Clement and Kenneth. No-one else is springing to mind... But
wanted to say welcome anyway :)

Dean B

On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, at 06:46 AM, pjfitchett wrote:

> Hello everyone, I've been wanting to post a few things on this forum
> for quite a while and hadn't got round to it, but here goes my
> first. On my massive but delightful trawl through all the six
> hundred and something episodes available to the group I was
> listening to a show from 1988 or 1989. I'm not sure of the date
> exactly but it was soon after Kenneth's last appearance and the
> subject was hoax. When Clement got to speak he told a story about a
> man going to a police station and reporting that a group of students
> were digging up Piccadilly Circus. Then going up to the workmen at
> Piccadilly Circus and telling them that a group of students
> pretending to be policemen was coming to se what they were up to.
> As many of you may know this is a story which Clement has told more
> than a couple of times over the many years he has been on the show.
> I noticed that hearing the first few words of this anecdote and
> knowing what was coming, was almost like turning on the radio and
> recognising the notes of a familiar song. That familiarity is just
> great. Anyway, the real point of this post was to ask if anyone
> else here has any particular favourite routines or stories that
> certain members of the panel come up with. I'm pretty sure Clement
> and Kenneth are the most common protagonists of this type of thing
> but when they're talking its such a gem anyway, who cares. Another
> point is of course that these repetitions will seem all the more
> obvious to us die-hard listeners. It might be months and maybe even
> years between retellings of certain jokes or stories but as a lot of
> us on this board probably listen to multiple episodes at any one
> sitting, we will hear them only days apart from each other. Just a
> topic for discussion anyway because its one of the things I really
> like about listening through to all these shows.
> PS, as a first time contributor to this board I did also want to
> pass on my thanks, to anyone and everyone who has taken the time and
> effort to upload shows here, its down to you that we can all enjoy
> these wonderfully entertaining shows, so here's to you
>
>

 
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