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Re: Wasn't Chris great

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Emile JumeanFeb 5, 2007
 

 
I was very impressed! I think Chris Addison is one of the best
newcomers to JAM there has been in a long while! And I hope he'll
become one of the newest "regular" panellists.

Emile

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...>
wrote:

>
> I really enjoyed today/yesterday's show - I thought it was the best of
> the current season. So many great moments. Paul saying the national
> anthem of Vulgaria was "piss off, piss off..." Chris saying Vulgaria's
> economy was kept alive by selling houses to comedians. The bit at the
> end with the gestures on body language. It was delicious.
>
> And I think Chris Addison is a JAM regular of the future. It has to be
> said I am abysmally poor at this sort of prediction. The last person I
> predicted would be a regular on the basis of their debut was Lee

Mack in

> 2004 - and he's yet to have even a second show. I said Tim Rice was
> bound to appear lots more often after he was very funny in 2002 - he

was

> then missing in action for three years!
>
> So I am the angel of death but I thought Chris was just right for

Just A

> Minute. The main thing is interacting with the others - that's when the
> real magic occurs. You get the subjects an hour or so before, any
> half-decent comedian can look at a list of 10 subjects and think of the
> odd amusing remark to make on them. But the test is if you can pick up
> something someone else said and run with it.
>
> Chris challenged the others vociferously, took jokes and made them into
> running gags. He was competitive, witty, surrealistic, he improvised

and

> he kept on getting involved. I thought the sign was when Clement told
> him "you're not that new any more". Clement picked up the fact that
> Chris is a damn good player of this game.
>
> And... it was great to have Graham Norton back. I thought it was his
> best show for a while. Sometimes once he's been away for a while, he
> almost seems out of practice, and he seems to contribute only when

given

> the subject, but that wasn't the case today.
>
> Paul was excellent. He always is.
>
> That was a top-class show.
>

 
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