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Re: Paul Merton: Innovative Rebel turned Strait-Laced Co...

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DeanApr 17, 2010

The show has changed a lot every time major players left - when Kenneth died, when Derek and Peter died, and I think the show is sounding a lot different now without Clement. So it will sound different without Nicholas. I hope whoever the new host is tries to do his or her own thing rather than mimick Nicholas - that's why I hope for an adventurous pick like Julian Clary or David Mitchell or Liza Tarbuck rather than say Gyles..

On Clue, I thought it a mistake to just write the same scripts they would have written for Humph and get the new chairman to read them. But Clue is all about familiar jokes and I guess the feeling was they can't change without losing that...

From: Steven

Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:39 PM

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Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Paul Merton: Innovative Rebel turned Strait-Laced Co...

I took a friend to one of the recordings at the Shaw Theatre, and her comment at the end was 'I always thought Clement was so miserable... he always sounds it, but watching him live he never stopped smiling and laughing.'

I fondly recall going to one of his last recordings at Broadcasting House, and at the end of the show he just stood at the front of the stage. Knowing his famed antipathy toward signing autographed I went up and gingerly put out a hand to shake his. He shook mine with a gracious smile. I said how much I had enjoyed everything he had done. A couple of months later he had died.

People should stop knocking Nick... he is the lynch pin of the show, and it will NOT be the same when he can no longer take the chair. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is NOT what it was without Humph, just a pale imitation. I dread the day Nick is not there to run the show.

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