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Topic: The Oddest JAM Edition?

Message 1 / 5
lapsedcatJul 29, 2008

Having just listened to a 1979 edition, featuring the Kenneths William
and Robinson, Freud and Miriam Margoles, I was struck by how strange
it was. Nick Parsons interrupted - twice! - while panelists were
speaking (with rather lame contributions which left the audience
cold), Kenneth R descended into embarrassing babytalk (when not
talking Russian), Miriam constantly made reference to a night of
passion with the chairman, dipping in and out of accents from Grenfell
to Windsor, while Freud appeared to be auditioning for a Samuel
Beckett play. Kenneth Williams alone provided the Voice of Sanity. And
even he had the odd hissy fit.

Can anyone else suggest an edition which bucked convention like this?

(BTW - cheers Don!)

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Topic: Re: The Oddest JAM Edition?

Message 2 / 5
juliajellicoeJul 31, 2008

I'm not sure it's the oddest, but I just downloaded the Chris Addison
episode and while he was an excellent panelist, the show seemed the
closest to chaos since the one Ian chaired. Even Clement, coming in
on the first subject with three seconds to go, said, "I haven't
spoken yet!" with more animation than he had in the previous 39 years
combined.

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

>
> Having just listened to a 1979 edition, featuring the Kenneths

William

> and Robinson, Freud and Miriam Margoles, I was struck by how

strange

> it was. Nick Parsons interrupted - twice! - while panelists were
> speaking (with rather lame contributions which left the audience
> cold), Kenneth R descended into embarrassing babytalk (when not
> talking Russian), Miriam constantly made reference to a night of
> passion with the chairman, dipping in and out of accents from

Grenfell

> to Windsor, while Freud appeared to be auditioning for a Samuel
> Beckett play. Kenneth Williams alone provided the Voice of Sanity.

And

> even he had the odd hissy fit.
>
> Can anyone else suggest an edition which bucked convention like

this?

>
> (BTW - cheers Don!)
>

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Topic: Re: The Oddest JAM Edition?

Message 3 / 5
Robert TorresAug 1, 2008

That was one of my favorite episodes, aside from those moments when Nick just blatantly interrupted someone for no good reason, and then tried to come up with some very pathetic reason for interrupting which made him look even more foolish.

I'm not certain of an entire episode being odd, usually it stems from individual moments, but aside from this episode, I can't think off the top of my head of yet another episode that had nothing but a combination of odd moments all lumped together.

--- On Tue, 7/29/08, lapsedcat <lapsedcat@...> wrote:

From: lapsedcat <lapsedcat@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] The Oddest JAM Edition?
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 5:15 PM

Having just listened to a 1979 edition, featuring the Kenneths William
and Robinson, Freud and Miriam Margoles, I was struck by how strange
it was. Nick Parsons interrupted - twice! - while panelists were
speaking (with rather lame contributions which left the audience
cold), Kenneth R descended into embarrassing babytalk (when not
talking Russian), Miriam constantly made reference to a night of
passion with the chairman, dipping in and out of accents from Grenfell
to Windsor, while Freud appeared to be auditioning for a Samuel
Beckett play. Kenneth Williams alone provided the Voice of Sanity. And
even he had the odd hissy fit.

Can anyone else suggest an edition which bucked convention like this?

(BTW - cheers Don!)

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Topic: Re: The Oddest JAM Edition?

Message 4 / 5
Dean BedfordAug 2, 2008

On Friday, August 1, 2008, at 06:45 PM, juliajellicoe wrote:

> I'm not sure it's the oddest, but I just downloaded the Chris Addison
> episode and while he was an excellent panelist, the show seemed the
> closest to chaos since the one Ian chaired. Even Clement, coming in
> on the first subject with three seconds to go, said, "I haven't
> spoken yet!" with more animation than he had in the previous 39 years
> combined.

The ones that come to mind are the ones with Elaine Stritch, Eddie
Izzard and Thora Hird where essentially the guests ignored the rules.
They are a lot of fun but equally you can understand why they didn't
return.

Once is funny, twice is silly, three times is a spanking as my old dad
used to say.

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Topic: Re: The Oddest JAM Edition?

Message 5 / 5
Robert TorresAug 2, 2008

Regarding Elaine Stritch, it had less to do with her ignoring the rules and more to do with the other panelists letting her suffer and not challenging her.

--- On Sat, 8/2/08, Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:

From: Dean Bedford <dbedford@...>
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Re: The Oddest JAM Edition?
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008, 7:00 PM

On Friday, August 1, 2008, at 06:45 PM, juliajellicoe wrote:

> I'm not sure it's the oddest, but I just downloaded the Chris
Addison
> episode and while he was an excellent panelist, the show seemed the
> closest to chaos since the one Ian chaired. Even Clement, coming in
> on the first subject with three seconds to go, said, "I haven't
> spoken yet!" with more animation than he had in the previous 39 years
> combined.

The ones that come to mind are the ones with Elaine Stritch, Eddie 
Izzard and Thora Hird where essentially the guests ignored the rules. 
They are a lot of fun but equally you can understand why they didn't 
return.

Once is funny, twice is silly, three times is a spanking as my old dad 
used to say.

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