Just A Minute

--- On Mon, 9/1/08, William Clarkson <punch37179@...> wrote:

From: William Clarkson <punch37179@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Subjects used muliple times
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Monday, September 1, 2008, 8:31 PM

I believe the subjects green fingers, and body language have also been
used more than once. You may recall the herbaceous border argument
that Paul made (on green fingers) and held up the show for almost 2
minutes. Both body language segments stood out, one Greg made and
obscene gesture, twice, and was had for repetition. The other was by
Stephen Fry, who brought the show to a standstill by claiming his
bottom spoke fluent German.

Dean, when I saw this subject come up, I too though about the How to
attract someone's attention episodes. It is interesting to note, that
Linda Smith appeared on both episodes. The one where Paul takes the
subject first and ignores Nicholas is one of my favourites and I have
to be careful not to mix it up with the other.

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "howstean" <howstean2@. ..> wrote:
>
>
> > It is interesting that some subjects come up again and again. One of
> the
> > weirder coincidences is that the same subject "how to attract
someone's
> > attention" was used as FIRST SUBJECT in both 628 and 630 - two weeks
> > apart!
> >
>
> Yes, I wondered about that at the time. I know that recording sessions
> for Clue ran for a lot longer than broadcast, and rounds were tried
> and discarded to be re-recorded at a later session. But I believe JAM
> doesn't have that luxury, so an obvious mistake had to be left in.
>
> Does anyone know if a recording has ever been such a failure that the
> whole show had to be scrapped ? I seem to remember hearing of one
> episode when Kenneth Williams got in a temper and refused to
> contribute for most of the show, but it went out more or less as
> recorded, I believe.
>
> Regards
> Phil
>