Just A Minute

Just a Minute on TV is more of an acquired taste. it works when there is a mixture of established and experienced panelists as well as fresh faces who can interact well with each other, and when this did happen, it works, but when a majority of panelists are fresh faces, what you end up with are a bunch of people challenging very often for very fatuous reasons on minute hesitations that not only disrupt a person's flow, but ruins the comedy for one and all.  plus also you end up with a bunch of people that are complete and utter crap at sticking to the rules, and nine times out of ten have nothing of any particular interest to say on a subject they're given. 

 

some of the stuff from when the show was on TV in the mid 90's was pretty cool thanks largely to the established presence of Tony Slattery (who is always funny and inventive).  A majority of the shows from the daytime TV version in 1999 was also pretty cool, but some occasions either tended to be utterly boring or just descended into outright anarchy and pettiness.  Sometimes its funny when things descend into anarchy, but the two occasions I'm thinking of involved the two shows where the panelists were Barry Cryer, Su Pollard, John Sergeant and Brian Sewell.  Things descended into such anarchy that it just took away from the overall enjoyment.  Much as I enjoyed the panelists individual contributions, it was very hard to actually like absolutely everything that went on during both shows.