On Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at 06:44 PM, charles_454545 wrote:
>
> Listening to this episode now, I'm only about halfway through and my
> goodness it's full of classic moments. Graham's getting the Benefit of
> the Doubt after discussing how to get the Benefit of the Doubt...
> Paul's similar word trap.. and the back-to-back full minutes from Gyles
> and Paul.
>
> Nicholas said it's rare for two full minutes to happen in a single
> episode, but I wonder if he's not being too cautious. I can't remember
> them /ever/ happening one after the other...?
It was a top-class show.
I reckon - although I haven't done a full analysis - that there are far
fewer people going the full minute these days. I have a vague
recollection that someone else did it this season, but prior to that I
don't remember it happening for years.
Two in a row isn't a record though. This is from JAM in 14 August
2000 ...
NICHOLAS PARSONS: And you begin the next round Sue, and the subject is
bath time. Oh what a lovely subject! Sixty seconds as usual starting now.
SUE PERKINS: In a very famous bath time incident, the Greek thinker
Archimedes leapt from the soapy suds crying "Ulrica!" Not many know that
the Swedish blond haired meteorologist is such an inspiration and muse
to the thinkers of the early age. But indeed the play "My Dear" was
written about Anne Diamond, an embittered woman, and a host of GMTV
presenters, Eamon Holmes, Fiona Phillips from the core of The Furies in
Onastya. In my own bath tub, I like to talk to Barry Norman, formerly of
the BBC but now languishing with Sky for a great deal more money than I
will ever earn! I talk to him about my feature length film which is a
post feminist reworking of the Bible, featuring Kevin Costner as Lot,
turned into a pillar of salt, but still managing to pump out 10 films a
year for a total of $40 million. Other things I contemplate in my bath
tub...
WHISTLE
NP: So Sue Perkins started with the subject, and finished with the
subject and went for the full 60 seconds and that hasn’t happened for a
very long time! And for someone who’s only just started playing the game
that was very very applaud... and the audience showed their appreciation
by the way they clapped. And you have increased your lead because you
have not only gained a point for speaking as the whistle went but you
get a bonus point for going without being interruption for 60 seconds.
Jeremy Hardy, would you take the next subject, it is bringing home the
bacon. Sixty seconds as usual starting now.
JEREMY HARDY: If you bring home the bacon, it means that you are the
bread winner. Now by that, I don’t intend to say you have won some of
that yeast based food, in the sense of an enevelope appearing through
your door saying "congratulations, you may be the winner of a sliced
wholemeal". What I’m saying is you have brought home the income upon
which your family will live. It may not be the sole person doing this
but in a sense you have brought home that bacon. The Roman Army were
paid not in money or salt, but in fact bacon. This is something that
very few people realise because in those days they didn’t have currency,
because you simply could buy with money in the way that you can with
rashers! Another thing that you can do with bacon is skin grafts. You
thought pigs could only be used for their organs...
WHISTLE
NP: So Jeremy Hardy started with the subject, completed it, went for the
full 60 seconds without being interrupted, without hesitating, repeating
himself or deviating. So he gets a point fro speaking as the whistle
went and the bonus point for not being interrupted. That has never
happened in Just A Minute before, two consecutive rounds for the full 60
seconds. We are making history today! And you good people of Dorking can
now go home and say I was there! I was there when it happened!
TONY HAWKS: Am I next Nicholas?
NP: Yes you’re next.
TH: No pressure then!
NP: Your turn to begin, Tony, jumping to conclusions. Try and see if you
can go on that one for 60 seconds starting now.
TH: I’m always jumping to the conclusions. Not long ago I saw Nicholas
Parsons outside a theatre dressed in a leather skirt with fishnet
stockings, wearing makeup. And I assumed he had just left the stage of
the Rocky Horror Show where he had been appearing. But no, in fact, it
was just a Friday night and he was out at one of his clubs! But at
school, we used to have a little club called the Jumping To Conclusions
Gang. Ah one person would come to a conclusion and the rest would jump
around shortly afterwards! This is tremendous fun. Ah we used to do it
throughout break and sometimes into the lunch hour as well, depending on
whether anyone had actually reached a conclusion or not. The Conclusions
were a band I formed in the 16th year of my life and we were
particularly good. I played a little bit of bass, some other instruments
but now it looks like I’m going to do it as well...
WHISTLE
NP: My goodness me! Oh the record books are being thrown out of the
window! We’ve gone not for two but now for three rounds.
TH: Trouble is the show’s going to be 15 minutes long!
The next to speak of all people was Clement but he could only go 15
seconds...