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Topic: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 1 / 8
pjfitchettMar 3, 2008
 

 
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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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 2 / 8
Robert TorresMar 3, 2008
 

 

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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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 3 / 8
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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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 4 / 8
juliajellicoeMar 4, 2008
 

 
This is probably more of a running gag than a party piece, but Clement
seems to have a hangup on the name Gladys. (This is different from the
Gladys Higgenbotham bit that took over one of Graeme Garden's
appearances.) Gladys is either an old girlfriend, the landlady
downstairs or some princess. You wonder who psyched him out on that
name or if he just finds it funny. ("Freud Ego" provides no clue.)

 
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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 5 / 8
Robert TorresMar 4, 2008
 

 

This is probably more of a running gag than a party piece, but Clement
seems to have a hangup on the name Gladys. (This is different from the
Gladys Higgenbotham bit that took over one of Graeme Garden's
appearances. ) Gladys is either an old girlfriend, the landlady
downstairs or some princess. You wonder who psyched him out on that
name or if he just finds it funny. ("Freud Ego" provides no clue.)

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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 6 / 8
pjfitchettMar 5, 2008
 

 
This did occur to me when writing my original post that Derek did
amazingly well for someone playing the game for so long, doing so well
at it and yet having never, to my mind at least, repeated a set
routine. Like you say Robert, his travels inevitably come into the
proceedings but only by way of being mentioned rather than being a
backdrop for a familiar story. Peter Jones could be said to have done
similarly well although I never consider him to have been a natural
talent at actually playing the game as much as the other three were.
And as for Maudie Fiddleworth, Fun with a Frankfurter, I love her
being mentioned! I only wish Kenneth had done it more often as its
not only one of the funniest monikers ever, but Kenneth would just
bring her up randomly and talk about her as if he knew her
personally. This does also beg the question of what her name actually
was. I thought one time I read in a transcript of Dean's that it was
written "Maudie Fiddleworth-fun-with-a-frankfurter" as if it were a
ridiculously long surname. Or is it right that the "fun" is simply
additional information about her? I'm not truly interested in that
really, it's funny which ever way it is.

 
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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 7 / 8
lapsedcatMar 5, 2008
 

 
I think the least said about the frankfurter the better.


--- In just-a-minute@..., "pjfitchett"
<Philipfitchett@...> wrote:

>
> This did occur to me when writing my original post that Derek did
> amazingly well for someone playing the game for so long, doing so

well

> at it and yet having never, to my mind at least, repeated a set
> routine. Like you say Robert, his travels inevitably come into the
> proceedings but only by way of being mentioned rather than being a
> backdrop for a familiar story. Peter Jones could be said to have

done

> similarly well although I never consider him to have been a natural
> talent at actually playing the game as much as the other three

were.

> And as for Maudie Fiddleworth, Fun with a Frankfurter, I love her
> being mentioned! I only wish Kenneth had done it more often as its
> not only one of the funniest monikers ever, but Kenneth would just
> bring her up randomly and talk about her as if he knew her
> personally. This does also beg the question of what her name

actually

> was. I thought one time I read in a transcript of Dean's that it

was

> written "Maudie Fiddleworth-fun-with-a-frankfurter" as if it were a
> ridiculously long surname. Or is it right that the "fun" is simply
> additional information about her? I'm not truly interested in that
> really, it's funny which ever way it is.
>

 
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Topic: Re: Panelists particular party-pieces

Message 8 / 8
Robert TorresMar 5, 2008
 

 

This did occur to me when writing my original post that Derek did
amazingly well for someone playing the game for so long, doing so well
at it and yet having never, to my mind at least, repeated a set
routine. Like you say Robert, his travels inevitably come into the
proceedings but only by way of being mentioned rather than being a
backdrop for a familiar story. Peter Jones could be said to have done
similarly well although I never consider him to have been a natural
talent at actually playing the game as much as the other three were.
And as for Maudie Fiddleworth, Fun with a Frankfurter, I love her
being mentioned! I only wish Kenneth had done it more often as its
not only one of the funniest monikers ever, but Kenneth would just
bring her up randomly and talk about her as if he knew her
personally. This does also beg the question of what her name actually
was. I thought one time I read in a transcript of Dean's that it was
written "Maudie Fiddleworth- fun-with- a-frankfurter" as if it were a
ridiculously long surname. Or is it right that the "fun" is simply
additional information about her? I'm not truly interested in that
really, it's funny which ever way it is.

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