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Re: ISIHAC - Sad news......

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cymro.gwirionApr 26, 2008
 

 
I am a real fan of this show - (you might have guessed by my uploads
of the show!!!) - maybe even more so than JAM (dare I say!). Having
said this - I really want them to let the show go now. ISIHAC would
not be ISIHAC without Humph. I agree that with Willie Rushton's death
we lost a great talent - but I can't agree that the show should maybe
have been stopped then - it adapted, and in some ways improved to
compensate for his absence - and was still extremely funny - even
though Willie was such a talent. But the show did revolve around Humph
- and I for one could not imagine anyone contemplating filling his
shoes - and I also can't imagine listening to it without Humph's
bitting humour!

By the way - for those of you who might not be aware the collection of
episodes is building up here -
http://www.archive.org/details/ImSorryIHaventAClue

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, April 27, 2008, at 06:40 AM, forrests21 wrote:
>
> > There are few people for whom the word "un-replaceable" is true but I
> > have a strong feeling that Humph was one of them. There are also only
> > a few broadcasters for whom there can be such a sense of loss e.g.
> > Brian Redhead, Brian Johnston and John Peel that would rate with
> > Humph
> >
> > As to the future - It's not that no one could do the job (Fry springs
> > to mind) but I'm not convinced that the other regulars would want to
> > do it without him - and that dynamic that was quintessentiual "Clue"
> > would I believe be too different.
>
> The Sunday Times today suggests the programme may continue. It suggests
> Rob Brydon, Jeremy Hardy and Paul Merton as contenders for the chair
and
> quotes Barry Cryer ruling himself, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden
> out of the chair - but not ruling out the show continuing.
>
> From the paper - "It has run for 36 years and the BBC must now decide
> whether to relaunch it with a new chairman. The panel of Barry Cryer,
> Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden yesterday ruled themselves out of
> daring to sit in Lyttelton's chair.
>
> "Frontrunners for the role will include Rob Brydon, who hosted a live
> show in Bournemouth last week after Lyttelton had gone into hospital
for
> an operation to repair a blocked artery; Jeremy Hardy, who frequently
> guested on the show to sing the words of one song set to the tune of
> another; and Paul Merton, who appears on television's Have I Got News
> for You and Radio 4's Just a Minute, the Clue's closest rival in both
> longevity – it started in 1967 – and success.
>
> "Cryer said yesterday: "They are big shoes to fill. Humph was the very
> hub of the show and it revolved around him. Leading the kazoo band was
> typical of him.
>
> "Long-running shows become like soaps with clearly defined characters
> and I don't think it would work if a panellist became chairman. It
would
> need somebody of stature to be parachuted in."
>
>
>
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3822583.
> ece
>
> Personally I don't see Paul as a contender - if he had wanted to be a
> regular on Clue, he could surely have become one years ago. Jeremy
> maybe... Rob maybe...
>

 
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