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> Derek tended to always bring up the notion of trolley carts, either

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> Kenneth frequently brought up Maudie Fiddleworth, Fun with a

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> I don't think Peter had any repeated material to be honest, mostly

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> --- On Tue, 9/9/08, jeremy_keens <jeremy.keens@...> wrote:
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> From: jeremy_keens <jeremy.keens@...>
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Repeated material
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 4:24 AM
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> Hi
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> The repeated topic posts got me thinking about repeated material
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> How many times has Giles made the Balls sisters or the Schmidt joke?
> Or Clement the line about the duty of a high born man?
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> Any other regularly repeated/performed material?
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> Jeremy
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> Hi
>
> The repeated topic posts got me thinking about repeated material
>
> How many times has Giles made the Balls sisters or the Schmidt joke?
> Or Clement the line about the duty of a high born man?
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> Any other regularly repeated/performed material?
>
> Jeremy
>

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Miriam" <delmelza@...> wrote:
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> This probalby doesn't really count but Paul Merton has made many
> a "ham sandwich" during JAM ( when challenging for hesitation)
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> That one limerick about going to china with the sex crazed gorilla
> has been told more than once by more than one panelist. Miriam
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>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "jeremy_keens"
> <jeremy.keens@> wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > The repeated topic posts got me thinking about repeated material
> >
> > How many times has Giles made the Balls sisters or the Schmidt joke?
> > Or Clement the line about the duty of a high born man?
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> > Any other regularly repeated/performed material?
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> > Jeremy
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> Clement often will use the joke about P.T. Barnum and the man shot out
> of the cannon. I think he first used it when the subject was P.T.
> Barnum. He flubbed it a bit the first time, but has it down pat now.
> He always repeats man, but it seems to be ignored by the other
> panelist, probably because he gets a good laugh from it.

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> A lot depends on how we define "repeated material" but surely Kenneth
> was the king of it
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> * I've walked all the way from Great Portland Street
> * I haven't come here to be insulted
> * They shouldn't have women on the show!
> * I'm a cult!
> * They love my spun gold hair.
> * And that stream of Unwinese must have been used a dozen or more times.
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> Of course if I had another 30 seconds, I'd probably think up half a
> dozen more.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Clarkson" <punch37179@...>
To: <just-a-minute@...>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Repeated material


Clement often will use the joke about P.T. Barnum and the man shot out
of the cannon. I think he first used it when the subject was P.T.
Barnum. He flubbed it a bit the first time, but has it down pat now.
He always repeats man, but it seems to be ignored by the other
panelist, probably because he gets a good laugh from it.


--- In just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:
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> Derek tended to always bring up the notion of trolley carts, either
in supermarkets or even airports, with one wheel that always turned left.
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> Kenneth frequently brought up Maudie Fiddleworth, Fun with a
Frankfurter into any discussion on any topic.
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> I don't think Peter had any repeated material to be honest, mostly
because he was largely against rehashing the same old routine, and
frequently commented or complained on the lack of originality from the
other panelists, especially if they repeated things that he'd been
talking about just a minute or two ago.
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> --- On Tue, 9/9/08, jeremy_keens <jeremy.keens@...> wrote:
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> From: jeremy_keens <jeremy.keens@...>
> Subject: [just-a-minute] Repeated material
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 4:24 AM
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>
>
>
>
>
> Hi
>
> The repeated topic posts got me thinking about repeated material
>
> How many times has Giles made the Balls sisters or the Schmidt joke?
> Or Clement the line about the duty of a high born man?
>
> Any other regularly repeated/performed material?
>
> Jeremy
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From: "Miriam" <delmelza@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 7:05 PM
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Repeated material


> This probalby doesn't really count but Paul Merton has made many
> a "ham sandwich" during JAM ( when challenging for hesitation)
>
> That one limerick about going to china with the sex crazed gorilla
> has been told more than once by more than one panelist. Miriam
>
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "jeremy_keens"
> <jeremy.keens@...> wrote:
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> > Hi
> >
> > The repeated topic posts got me thinking about repeated material
> >
> > How many times has Giles made the Balls sisters or the Schmidt joke?
> > Or Clement the line about the duty of a high born man?
> >
> > Any other regularly repeated/performed material?
> >
> > Jeremy
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> The song which includes the lyric "I was strapped to the tiller with a
> sex-starved gorilla, and China's a bloody long way!" was a traditional
> favourite among British comedians of a certain vintage.
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> It possibly originated with Les Dawson. I certainly heard him use it in
> this
> form on his radio show, 'Listen to Les', in the Seventies. In which
> case it
> may have been written by either Les himself or his long-time
> scriptwriter
> and producer, James Casey.
>
> Some repeats of Les's radio show were aired on BBC 7 last year, and I
> think
> that sketch was one of those included. But I've also heard it
> attributed to
> 'The Goon Show' in the Fifties.
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> I certainly remember someone using it on 'Just A Minute' and getting a
> big
> laugh with it - I think it was either Peter Jones or Derek Nimmo. It
> was a
> well-known joke, always good for a laugh, and by the Eighties had become
> just part of the common currency of comedians.

On Thursday, September 11, 2008, at 04:57 PM, Robert Torres wrote:

Well Paul seems to have taken up the banner of some of Kenneth's old
catchphrases.  He's now taken the habit of calling Nicholas an
'excellent chairman' the way Kenneth used to when things went his way,
and often says 'Best chairman we got' twice in a row, which very often
prompts Nicholas to say something ridiculous like 'its the only chairman
you've got'.
 
Even in the last series Paul even went so far as to say 'I haven't come
all the way from Great Portland Street to listen to this.'


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Comments on the chairing of the show have been a common in-joke for
about 35 years, and not just from Paul and Kenneth.
On that one use of a Kenneth phrase, I just don't see Paul's use of the
phrase as being similar to Kenneth's tantrums. They're both very very
funny, but stylistically miles apart.

> It was Peter and he recited it as a limerick... (may well have been a
> song too) And Paul used it earlier this series.
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> There was a young man from Torbay
> Who was sailing to China one day
> He was tied to the tiller
> By a sex-crazed gorilla
> And China's a bloody long way
>