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Re: Gyles Brandreth

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DaveFeb 14, 2007
 

 
My opinion og Phil Jupitus rose a great deal when I saw him on TV
doing his own stand up show a few years back now. It was really quite
good.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Sarah Falk" <minerva.moon@...>
wrote:

>
> In JAM, it's true that the newcomers often finish last, but they are
> also often given points very generously by Nicholas and the other
> panellists, who do things like purposely buzzing in incorrectly

while

> the newcomer is speaking. The thing is that the regulars are still

so

> good that they end up winning anyway . . . but they aren't greedy
> about it.
>
> I think part of the reason why newcomers on QI win, as well, is that
> you can lose collosal amounts of points by forfeits, and the

regulars

> aren't afraid to shout out the "obvious" answers for the sake of
> comedy. The newcomers generally are trying to "do well".
>
> I haven't watched/listened to any Danny Baker past QI, so perhaps I
> haven't gotten the real measure of him. I do like him from what I've
> seen, but that cloud thing is worrysome. Someone should ask him what
> would happen if a ball was thrown in the air by someone inside a
> moving car--according to his logic, you wouldn't be able to catch it
> again!
>
> Phill Jupitus is pretty good, in my opinion; not really one of my

very

> favorites, but he's not a killjoy by any definition. His Stephen
> impressions are some of the highlights of the show.
>
> --- In just-a-minute@..., "Nathan Leonard"
> <dreadedwoekitten@> wrote:
> >
> > Okay, I admit that I didn't actually take note of their scores.

Anyway,

> > since the total number of points scored in each episode varies so
> greatly, I
> > think it's probably fair to say that Stephen (or whoever keeps the
> score)
> > has generous days and harsh days.
> >
> > I don't think it's the same in Just a Minute at all, though. Most
> of the
> > people who I've heard on it for the first time (at least in the

last

> couple
> > of series) have finished in "a triumphant fourth place", as

Nicholas

> puts
> > it. That's because Just a Minute is different to most panel games
> in that
> > there is actually a game involved, and a game that's quite

difficult, at

> > that.
> >
> > As for Danny Baker, I don't know why I dislike him so much, he

just

> really
> > gets on my tits for no apparent reason. At least it was for no

apparent

> > reason, then I downloaded some of his Xfm shows off UKNova, and I
> realised
> > how collossally arrogant he was, and that he wasn't as clever as

he

> seemed
> > to be. For example, at one point he ridicules a caller while on

the

> line
> > and then repeatedly through the rest of the show because the

caller

> made the
> > (correct) statement that clouds are moved by the wind. Baker
> believed (and
> > would not be corrected in this) that the clouds always stayed in

the

> same
> > place and the Earth just rotated beneath them. I mean, come on.

If

> that
> > was the case, then the weather forecast would be the same every

day.

> > Furthermore, the reason the caller called up to mention this was
> that Baker
> > had suggested that people should travel by flying straight up and
> then just
> > waiting for the Earth to rotate beneath them before landing

again - the

> > caller was just phoning up to point out the existence of air and

the

> fact
> > that it rotates along with the Earth, but Baker would not be

told.

> And that
> > was not an isolated incident. In the end I couldn't get through

all the

> > shows I'd downloaded because of his collossally misguided

arrogance, and

> > just had to delete them.
> >
> > I take heart from this because originally, I just didn't like him
> because of
> > gut feeling, but I was later vindicated. This is the converse of

Phill

> > Jupitus, to whom I also took an instant dislike, but whom I am now
> getting
> > into.
> >
> > On 2/13/07, Sarah Falk <minerva.moon@> wrote:
> > >
> > > (I was typing a reply to you and Firefox "quit unexpectedly".

No

> > > kidding it was unexpected. Ugh. Take two . . .)
> > >
> > > I don't have anything against Rory, really, but his displays of
> > > knowledge were less entertaining and more tiresome than Gyles's

were.

> > > Danny Baker I like, because you can tell that he's genuinely
> > > interested in things. I would cite you examples (and I did in

my first

> > > draft), but you probably have to watch it to understand what I'm
> > > talking about. I find it endearing.
> > >
> > > In QI, as in "Just a Minute", people generally seem to do well

if

> > > they're new panellists, mostly because everyone--Stephen, the
> > > regulars, the scorers--are easy on them so that they feel

relaxed. But

> > > I mean that in the sense that newcomers usually win against the
> > > regulars, not that they do continually worse. I wouldn't say

that they

> > > run out of interesting things to say; not at all. I know that

Jeremy

> > > Clarkson won two games: his first and his last, out of three.

And

> > > Danny Baker won both of his, and scored higher on the second

than on

> > > the first!
> > >
>

 
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