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Re: (ISIHAC) Suggested replacements for Humph

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lapsedcatJun 10, 2008
 

 
I feel suitably chastened and genuinely sorry for my outburst. The
cat had been dirty on the new hall carpet and I was ornery.

I just find the Cult of Brand puzzling and worrying. Maybe because
he's everything I'm not - successful, attractive to females,
published.


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

>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "lapsedcat" <lapsedcat@>
> wrote:
> >
> >... but I actually choked on a barbecued chicken kebab
> > when the name Russell Brand was raised. I couldn't believe it.

His

> > potential suitability for the role was explained by the mooncalf

who

> > championed him as being "because he would be so different from
> Humph".
> > By that reasoning, you could nominate Ross Kemp or my mate Ned.
> Please
> > please PLEASE BBC, do what you do so well (ie, ignore Feedback
> > completely) and don't give that dandified muppet the gig. Give it

to

> > Fry and be done with it.
>
> It's great that we're so tolerant of people with differing

opinions,

> isn't it?
>
> All opinions below are, of course, in my humble opinion only.
>
> I think it would be a mistake to continue with "minimal change" (as
> someone mentioned on another post). A Clue that tries to be

similar

> to the previous incarnation is doomed to failure. Humph can't be
> replaced and shouldn't be replaced. Anyone who sits in that chair

and

> does roughly the same things as Humph did is likely to draw
> unfavourable comparisons.
>
> The show must evolve. It must move on. It must NOT be allowed to
> become a sorry post-Humph shadow of itself. Much as most of us

wish

> the show continued as before and that Humph was still here to

present

> it, he isn't. He's gone and so has that particular flavour of

Clue.

> Just as the show moved to a different dynamic post Willie Rushton,

it

> must do the same again to survive.
>
> Russell Brand wouldn't be my choice, but I certainly don't think

it's

> worth vilifying someone for suggesting it. In some ways Brand may

be

> better than Stephen Fry precisely because he is less like Humph.

It's

> good to see suggestions being made "outside the box". After all,

if

> the originators of Clue had stuck to the "box" of ISIRTA then we'd
> never have had Chairman Humph at all.
>
> So, grandees at the BBC, please surprise me. Don't just drag in
> another Radio 4 regular because that's the easy thing to do. Pick
> someone who can add another element to the show. Someone who won't
> try to be Humph. Someone who can keep the show alive.
>
> kN
>

 
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