Just A Minute

On Sunday, March 30, 2008, at 06:42 AM, Robert Torres wrote:

> Actually, to be accurate, it wasn't a skit about the Royal Family.  In
> actual fact, Jeremy was referring to the Royal Family as being
> parasites.  Because I believe he said something to the extent of there
> being a family of parasites that exist in Buckingham Palace, which is
> what the audience reacted to. 

I'm not sure what you think is factually incorrect, unless it 's just
the word "skit". The word "quip" or "joke" would better describe what
Jeremy was doing as it was just one sentence, but it's hardly a
significant factual error. My dictionary defines "skit" as "a light
piece of satire" and that's not a million miles away from what Jeremy
was doing. Jeremy did use the word parasites and clearly was referring
to the Royal Family.

I would more question the claim - in the original trivia - that he
hasn't been invited back to JAM since. For all we know he may have been
invited back several times. I doubt this one joke has had any effect at
all on his JAM career and Jeremy has continued to make jokes about the
Royals on News Quiz and Clue. Indeed the fact that he appears so often
on other Radio Four panel games is more likely to be the reason he
doesn't do JAM, IMO.

Finally just a thought. I'd like us to try and avoid phrases like "in
actual fact" and "actually to be accurate". Firstly the phrases are
tautological - all facts are actual - but more importantly they just
have a condescending tone which we want to avoid in a group where we all
try to be friendly with each other and have fun.

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