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Re: Humphrey Lyttleton: A Celebration (R4 April 30 2008)

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Paul WimsettMay 2, 2008
 

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

>
> While I think it would be unwise to carry on, not least because

Barry

> himself is in his mid-seventies, and to end on fifty series seems a
> logical thing to do, I guess that Graham's sporadic appearances on
> Holby City, Tim's occasional forays into short-lived forgetable
> sitcoms and the pair's lack of repeat fees for the Goodies, means
> that they need the money. Barry presumably needs beer money as

well.

>
> That said, if they chose a particularly good replacement for Humph -

> so far the names Jack Dee, Stephen Fry, Denise Van Outen and Kit
> Hesketh-Hardy spring to mind (alright, I was kidding about Denise) -

> and possibly changed the rounds around a bit to freshen up the
> format, then it might just work. And if they could persuade Merton

to

> return occasionally as a guest, along with Phill Jupitus (his

handful

> of shows were, in my mind, standouts) then who's to say they

couldn't

> be good?
>
> Of course, they'd never quite recapture the same magic, but then,

JAM

> itself isn't the same as it was since the deaths of Nimmo and

Jones,

> and Freud's increasing dodderiness.
>
>

So how come dodderiness was all right in Humph (and Peter Jones) and
not in Sir Clement? There's still Ben Schott, a left of field choice,
but then Humph was left of field. I'm not sure about you going on
about 'freshing up the format', this was always being done-it wasn't
the same show that was 1972.

Humph says that there be no misplaced loyalty in not keeping the
programme-but in the end it's up to the listeners to judge.

 
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