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>>>>Topic: Remembering your first JAM
Message 1 / 16
juliajellicoeJan 28, 2007
What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
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>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 2 / 16
Sarah FalkJan 28, 2007
Stephen Fry's first appearance, in fact: 416 - What to put on a muffin (1992).
A little side explanation: My friend Dorothy and I had met at the beginning of the schoolyear when she, quite coincidentally (and wonderfully) was reading a Stephen Fry book in the row in front of me in Greek class, and we quickly discovered that we both great lovers of the English culture. The past summer, she'd studied abroad in Cambridge, where friends introduced her to "Just a Minute". I myself had found the program while browsing Demonoid.com for Stephen Fry-related media, and downloaded the episodes that pertained to him. I had put them on my iPod, but never got around to listening to them.
One weekend not long after, my roommate was driving me and Dorothy back on the 2
1/2 hour journey to university from my home city. We had plugged my
iPod into the car through the tape deck in order to keep ourselves
occupied. I noticed that I had JAM in my playlist, and remembering something Dorothy had mentioned about the show, decided that it would be a fantastic time to listen to my first episode.
I remember specificall
y this exchange, involving Nicholas's response to a challenge against Stephen:
Nicholas: I'm not going to allow that.
Stephen: Well, you're an old sweetie. Thank you.
Derek: Nobody's ever called him that before!
And from about that moment, I knew that I was in for a lot of catch-up work . . . !
--- In just-a-minute@..., "juliajellicoe" <juliajellicoe@...> wrote:
>
> What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
> Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
> riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
>
<<<< 137
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 3 / 16
humiliated_grapes2Jan 28, 2007
Mine was one from 1999 with Tony Slattery, Steve Frost, Clement Freud
and Derek Nimmo, and the first subject was The Gatecrasher, and I
discovered it while searching "tony slattery" in limewire. I remember
being quite confused about how the game worked, but I worked it out
once I'd listened to a few more episodes, because I did a search for
Just a Minute in Limewire and recognised a few of the names in some of
the episodes.
Anyway, that was a long answer to quite a simple question. Sorry :p
<<<< 139
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 4 / 16
Emile JumeanJan 28, 2007
I first discovered the joys of Just A Minute in 1999. I received a
couple tapes of JAM from a friend, who in turn received the same ones
from another friend. JAM is truly the gift that keeps on giving!
The one of that batch of programmes I enjoyed the most was the one in
which Sandi Toksvig was a panellist. Why she hasn't returned to the
program is beyond me, as she was great fun! Tony's debut was also one
of the first ones I heard and enjoyed it immensely. On those tapes
were also a couple 1970's programs, so I was introduced to the fun
(and histrionics) of the late Kenneth Williams. I really would have
loved to have been able to hear these earlier recordings at the time
they originally aired.
Emile
--- In
just-a-minute@..., "juliajellicoe"
<juliajellicoe@...> wrote:
>
> What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
> Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
> riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
>
<<<< 149
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 5 / 16
gstillukJan 29, 2007
Not sure it was my first experience, but it's my most memorable.
It's the Silver Minutes episode (the one that re-ignited my passion
for it (as an adult after listening as a child), with:
"What to do with the hole in the doughnut"
and
"Round Robins"
and
"The Best Game"
those three for me epitomise (or epitomises) the nature of how the
game can be played and made so wonderful to listen to.
--- In
just-a-minute@..., "juliajellicoe"
<juliajellicoe@...> wrote:
>
> What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
> Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
> riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
>
<<<< 150
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 6 / 16
Dean BedfordJan 29, 2007
On Monday, January 29, 2007, at 05:32 PM, juliajellicoe wrote:
> What episode was your first experience with Just a Minute? Mine was
> Tony Slattery's debut, with the great levitating-a-bull running gag,
> riding a laugh and Wendy in the car park.
Mine's a bit further back than you guys and I can't now specifically
remember who was in it - but it was Kenneth and his lunacy that made me
pick up the programme for sure.
Although I liked the others too, as a kid I was always waiting for
Kenneth to do something, to go off on one of those rants... I can
remember scouring the radio listings every week waiting for JAM to come
back on air, retiring to the bedroom to listen....
<<<< 151
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 7 / 16
Gregory AugerJan 30, 2007
I was sometime in 2005 but one of my first few
episodes involved a Herbacious Border and if you've heard it you'll know what
I'm on about. Also in the first few I listened to Pam Ayres and Linda Smith
appeared and I found them amazing!
<<<< 185
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 8 / 16
bobbyshaddoe3004Feb 3, 2007
--- In
just-a-minute@..., "Gregory Auger"
<gregory.auger@...> wrote:
>
> I was sometime in 2005 but one of my first few episodes involved a
Herbacious Border and if you've heard it you'll know what I'm on about.
Also in the first few I listened to Pam Ayres and Linda Smith appeared
and I found them amazing!
>
I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
other examples as well.
<<<< 187
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 9 / 16
Sarah FalkFeb 3, 2007
Jesus Christ on a pedestal. Nicholas Parsons--inept as a chairman?
--- In
just-a-minute@..., "bobbyshaddoe3004"
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:
> I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
>
> essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> other examples as well.
>
<<<< 189
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 10 / 16
Dean BedfordFeb 3, 2007
On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 04:32 PM, bobbyshaddoe3004 wrote:
> I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
>
> essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> other examples as well.
But if Nicholas had made the logical decision, ie. that you can't be
outwitted by a herbaceous border - we wouldn't have had that five
minutes of pure radio magic...
<<<< 190
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 11 / 16
Sarah FalkFeb 3, 2007
--- In
just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 04:32 PM, bobbyshaddoe3004 wrote:
> > I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> > that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> > jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
> >
> > essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> > Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> > other examples as well.
>
> But if Nicholas had made the logical decision, ie. that you can't be
> outwitted by a herbaceous border - we wouldn't have had that five
> minutes of pure radio magic...
>
Exactly. Exactly. They're playing for an audience; they're not trying
to run a quiz show! Would you want JAM to turn into University
Challenge or Jeopardy, straight-up win points/lose points, no
tangential discussions, no room for rule-breaking? What is the point?
That is the question.
<<<< 204
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 12 / 16
Robert TorresFeb 4, 2007
Oh come on, the man was once outwitted by an herbacious border, doesn't believe in extra wide fitting shoes, thinks that you can be overcompensated by a huge duffel coat, gives someone a bonus point just for saying 'bonus point', or how about this:
Ross Noble was speaking on a subject, was surprised that he still had it, Tim Rice challenges for deviation, Nicholas says that it wasn't that it was hesitation, then gives the subject to Paul when Paul wasn't the one who challenged.
or how about on a more recent episode when Kit Hesketh Harvey was talking about some subject or other and talks about being a young TV, and it takes Nicholas TEN MINUTES to realize that TV stood for transvestites even though the other panelists were saying it to him throughout the whole argument and Nicholas was still wittering on about TELEVISIONS that Kit was dressed as a television, and even AFTER the realization he was STILL
talking about televisions afterwards, this coming from someone that wouldn't shut up about being in the Rocky Horror Show.
Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote:
Jesus Christ on a pedestal. Nicholas Parsons--inept as a chairman?
--- In
just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "bobbyshaddoe3004"
<bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
> I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> that was so
hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
>
> essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> other examples as well.
>
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<<<< 208
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 13 / 16
Robert TorresFeb 4, 2007
that is true, and I wouldn't want to give those five minutes back for anything. they were so funny. one of my comments regarding herbacious borders was 'Dear Gardener's Question Time, my herbacious border has recently garnered the funds to declare his candidacy for the Presidential election'.
now, my first JAM episode that I ever listened to was I think the one that featured Dr. Magnus Pyke's final appearance on JAM, I think, either that or it was the one that featured Michael Palin's final appearance, or it was one that featured Peter Cook's final appearance. notice a running theme here?
Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 04:32 PM, bobbyshaddoe3004 wrote:
> I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
>
that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
>
> essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> other examples as well.
But if Nicholas had made the logical decision, ie. that you can't be
outwitted by a herbaceous border - we wouldn't have had that five
minutes of pure radio magic...
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<<<< 209
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 14 / 16
Robert TorresFeb 4, 2007
well I know all that, and I sure as hell wouldn't want this show to turn into one of those boring quiz shows, but I just don't like how is it that Nicholas bends rulings for one person on a challenge, but suddenly turns around and denies that same challenge for someone else. i mean it's utterly mindboggling, especially in the light of the fact that Nicholas is forever wittering on about having to be 'fair within the rules of the game'. i mean the fact that he allows certain people to get away with murder and then when others try to do the same exact thing, they're penalized for being 'too clever'.
Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote:
--- In
just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, Dean Bedford <dbedford@.. .> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 04:32 PM, bobbyshaddoe3004 wrote:
> > I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> > that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> > jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
> >
> > essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> > Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with several
> > other examples as well.
>
> But if Nicholas had made the logical decision, ie. that you can't be
> outwitted by a herbaceous border - we
wouldn't have had that five
> minutes of pure radio magic...
>
Exactly. Exactly. They're playing for an audience; they're not trying
to run a quiz show! Would you want JAM to turn into University
Challenge or Jeopardy, straight-up win points/lose points, no
tangential discussions, no room for rule-breaking? What is the point?
That is the question.
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<<<< 210
>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 15 / 16
Sarah FalkFeb 4, 2007
After reading this, your other post, and having followed some of your
outraged comments on the blog, I realize it's clear that you have a
deep-seated problem that logic can't even hope to clear up. I won't,
then, waste as much energy as I might have in telling you how utterly
wrong you are.
It's hilarious to read your crudely-constructed sentences, strung
together by inappropriately placed commas, harping on about how
Nicholas can't put a coherent thought of his own together. Good God.
Is your prejudice keeping you from actually listening to the man? Have
you read his books? You claim that he goes on and on about such things
as how he's the main source of comedy, and that he won't stop
reminding us that he was in the Rocky Horror Show. A Google search
through Dean's transcripts will show definitively that neither is
true. The comedy comment is ludicrous, for he never says it. As for
Rocky Horror, the vast majority of the time, someone else (like Paul
or Gyles) always brought it up first, and Nicholas' comments about it
are very short--all he wants to do is keep the game going.
In comedy, Nicholas Parsons HAS had a lot of experience being the
"straight man", but I'm not going to sit here and quote his book at
you. Just because he's not perfect doesn't mean that he's not
brilliant. Saying that you'd be able to do better points firmly to
delusions of grandeur on your part.
--- In
just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:
>
> Oh come on, the man was once outwitted by an herbacious border,
doesn't believe in extra wide fitting shoes, thinks that you can be
overcompensated by a huge duffel coat, gives someone a bonus point
just for saying 'bonus point', or how about this:
>
> Ross Noble was speaking on a subject, was surprised that he still
had it, Tim Rice challenges for deviation, Nicholas says that it
wasn't that it was hesitation, then gives the subject to Paul when
Paul wasn't the one who challenged.
>
> or how about on a more recent episode when Kit Hesketh Harvey was
talking about some subject or other and talks about being a young TV,
and it takes Nicholas TEN MINUTES to realize that TV stood for
transvestites even though the other panelists were saying it to him
throughout the whole argument and Nicholas was still wittering on
about TELEVISIONS that Kit was dressed as a television, and even AFTER
the realization he was STILL talking about televisions afterwards,
this coming from someone that wouldn't shut up about being in the
Rocky Horror Show.
>
>
> Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote:
> Jesus Christ on a pedestal. Nicholas Parsons--inept as a
chairman?
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "bobbyshaddoe3004"
> <bobbyshaddoe3004@> wrote:
>
> > I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> > that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> > jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
> >
> > essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> > Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with
several
> > other examples as well.
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>>>>Topic: Re: Remembering your first JAM
Message 16 / 16
Robert TorresFeb 4, 2007
no, it's quite clear that logic has no place on this program, because I sure as heck haven't seen it. i mean logic is thrown away for the sake of laughter and entertainment or for what Nicholas perceives to be entertainment or just for the sake of creating banter and humor or trying to elicite some sort of outraged reaction from the other panelists, and while I can see that obviously it does work in some cases, in other cases it doesn't because really it just makes nonsense out of things. I mean granted yeah when he disagrees with someone it creates some really great moments, but Nicholas can be very very condescending, patronizing and pompous about it all, which is what really annoys me more than off the wall decision making that comes around. and if you do listen carefully, there are several instances that whenever someone has a real go at Nicholas he usually says something along the lines of 'Oh I do give them good cues, don't I?'
and might I just add that I what I mean was that Nicholas goes out of his way to pretty much imply that he is the source of the comedy generated on the show. I know it came out the wrong way, and in regards to the Rocky Horror comment, back in the mid to late 90's during some of the shows you often heard it being mentioned that Nicholas was in the Rocky Horror Show, because there was a revival of the stage show going on at the time.
and yes I do listen to the man, very closely, and there are several instances where he can't seem to speak properly, then again the same could be said about the other panelists as well. and I never said that I could do better, nor do I believe that I could do better. so now who's having delusions?
Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@...> wrote:
After reading this, your other post, and having followed some of your
outraged comments on the blog, I realize it's clear that you have a
deep-seated problem that logic can't even hope to clear up. I won't,
then, waste as much energy as I might have in telling you how utterly
wrong you are.
It's hilarious to read your crudely-constructed sentences, strung
together by inappropriately placed commas, harping on about how
Nicholas can't put a coherent thought of his own together. Good God.
Is your prejudice keeping you from actually listening to the man?
Have
you read his books? You claim that he goes on and on about such things
as how he's the main source of comedy, and that he won't stop
reminding us that he was in the Rocky Horror Show. A Google search
through Dean's transcripts will show definitively that neither is
true. The comedy comment is ludicrous, for he never says it. As for
Rocky Horror, the vast majority of the time, someone else (like Paul
or Gyles) always brought it up first, and Nicholas' comments about it
are very short--all he wants to do is keep the game going.
In comedy, Nicholas Parsons HAS had a lot of experience being the
"straight man", but I'm not going to sit here and quote his book at
you. Just because he's not perfect doesn't mean that he's not
brilliant. Saying that you'd be able to do better points firmly to
delusions of grandeur on your part.
--- In
just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com,
Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
>
> Oh come on, the man was once outwitted by an herbacious border,
doesn't believe in extra wide fitting shoes, thinks that you can be
overcompensated by a huge duffel coat, gives someone a bonus point
just for saying 'bonus point', or how about this:
>
> Ross Noble was speaking on a subject, was surprised that he still
had it, Tim Rice challenges for deviation, Nicholas says that it
wasn't that it was hesitation, then gives the subject to Paul when
Paul wasn't the one who challenged.
>
> or how about on a more recent episode when Kit Hesketh Harvey was
talking about some subject or other and talks about being a young TV,
and it takes Nicholas TEN MINUTES to realize that TV stood for
transvestites even though the other panelists were saying it to him
throughout the whole argument and Nicholas was still wittering on
about TELEVISIONS that Kit was
dressed as a television, and even AFTER
the realization he was STILL talking about televisions afterwards,
this coming from someone that wouldn't shut up about being in the
Rocky Horror Show.
>
>
> Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@ ...> wrote:
> Jesus Christ on a pedestal. Nicholas Parsons--inept as a
chairman?
>
> --- In
just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "bobbyshaddoe3004"
> <bobbyshaddoe3004@ > wrote:
>
> > I LOVE the episode that had to do with herbacious borders, I thought
> > that was so hilarious, cuz I was able to come up with more sarcastic
> > jokes about how you could be outwitted by an herbacious border.
> >
> > essentially I reference this episode every time I comment about
> > Nicholas' complete and utter ineptitude as chairman, only with
several
> >
other examples as well.
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