Just A Minute

From: expiration.date <expiration.date@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: The spontaneity of Just a Minute
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 1:29 PM

 

I agree, I thought Ian made an excellent chairman. If you hear the recording, Nick's comment (at around the 26:45 mark) about "there's the robin, he's just arrived" is what I was referring to - I'm almost positive that was Clement walking in.

--- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Bobby" <bobbyshaddoe3004@ ...> wrote:
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> I remember that episode, but I don't recall any veiled reference to Clement Freud arrived 2/3 of the way. There was too much chaos involved, largely between Derek and Nicholas hurling insults at each other.
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> The episode in question is another one of my favorites, largely because I thought Ian Messiter hit the right stride in his duties as chairman, its a shame it was only for one episode.
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> --- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "expiration. date" <expiration. date@> wrote:
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> > I was always surprised that they didn't make more of Clement Freud's arrival 2/3 of the way through the episode that Iain Messiter ended up hosting. Nicholas made a veiled reference to it I seem to recall but they didn't really play it up at all, which I thought was a shame, there was probably a chance for something funny to come out of that.
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> > --- In just-a-minute@ yahoogroups. com, "Bobby" <bobbyshaddoe3004@ > wrote:
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> > > I would like for a moment to talk about just how utterly spontaneous the show has become over the years. There are amazing moments that occur on Just a Minute that surprisingly are left in the recordings as they generate such incredible moments to be treasured and remembered.
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> > > Some of the most outrageously spontaneous moments reach back as far as the 1970's, one of the earliest examples I remember is apparently when Derek Nimmo was going through one of his anti-Nicholas tirades, the chairman actually got up and poured a glass of water over Derek's head.
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> > > Another example I think comes from another episode from the 1970's, it may have been from the same season of recordings, in which during another one of Derek's anti-Parson' s tirades, Nicholas again tried to throw water onto Derek, but Derek seemed ready for it and had his own glass of water, but somehow or other the unfortunate person that got caught in the crossfire was Sheila Hancock.
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> > > From the 1980's there was one episode I think when the Original Foursome were together and there seemed to be a recurring reference or allusion to the fact that prior to the recording, Derek Nimmo had let off a stink bomb in the studio. In that same episode, Derek Nimmo proceeded to put a safety pin through his nose, and then shower himself with plastic snow.
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> > > The reactions from the audiences on these occasions are priceless.
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> > > More recently there have been incredible moments caught within the recordings, like one where Paul, Clement, Graham and Linda were panelists, they were Southwold I believe and one of the rounds in which Paul was speaking, apparently a pair of children were peeking through the doors of the theater and Paul stopped his talk to invite them inside.
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> > > I'm at the present attempting to get caught up with the series, so I'm curious if there were other spontaneous moments caught on the air during a Just a Minute recording.
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