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Re: JAM on TV

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juliajellicoeFeb 16, 2007
 

 
I remember Linda Smith was cuter than I thought she would be -- she
looked like Emma Thompson's athletic cousin. Maria McErlane looked
strangely pert. And I seem to recall Gyles or someone flirting so
heavily with Liza Tarbuck that she turned six shades of red.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:

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> I'm curious as to what people in general thought about the occasions

when JAM was on television?

>
> I've only ever seen one episode, but I've heard the audio

recordings of several episodes, some from the mid 90's and others from
1999, and obviously there were varying degrees of success, because
some of the people involved had not only never played the game before,
but never even played with each other before, and sometimes the people
on there really couldn't get a chance to get a flow going because some
of them felt the rules were too restrictive to them to allow their
humor or even their personality to come through, and sometimes they
were just intimidated, or sometimes they just didn't care about the
rules, which I think it a good attitude to have considering the
randomness of Nicholas' judgements.

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> but I do like how it provided a nice variety of people to come

onto the show, some of whom were pretty good, some were pretty clever,
some should never have been on the show at all.

>
> among my favorite guests that were on the show were Tom O'Connor,

who also goes into my list of Brief but Memorable, cuz he was not only
very good at the game, but was sharp in challenging on little words
like 'I' or 'I'm' or 'the', and had a great manner about him with an
ear for anecdotes and jokes.

>
> I also include Brian Sewell in that list as well, he was quite

smart, clever, and sounded a bit like Kenneth Williams would when he's
sounding rather posh. also he had a great and sharp tongue for
putdowns and insults which I thought were great, and he acted as if
doing the show was somehow 'beneath him'.

>
> another is Su Pollard, or perhaps the emotionally unstable love

child of Kenneth Williams. because the audiences loved her and she
may not have been that good at the game, but she argued and fought to
keep subjects, and was great at the inbetween banter, but I wonder how
well she'd do on the radio.

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> any thoughts?
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