Just A Minute

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...> wrote:

From: kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: panel news
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 12:33 PM

 

Looking forward to those shows.

John Bishop has long been one of my favourite panellists on Fighting Talk where he's both funny and talkative. He also has a well-received show on BBC1 TV on Saturday prime-time. We don't get many Scouse accents on JaM and I hope he did well enough to be invited back.

Interesting to hear about the swearing - I wonder if Stephen K Amos will be bleeped or whether it'll be more heavily edited.

Cheers

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@..., "deanbedford" <dbedford@...> wrote:
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> I tried to post this about 20 hours ago but it doesn't seem to have turned up so will try again
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> revised teams for Edinburgh - they were
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> * Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and John Bishop
> * Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fred MacAulay and Stephen K Amos
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> so two newcomers - apparently Mr Amos had troubles with the swearing. He may also be the first person of African-American or West Indian descent to appear on the radio programme since the very first series.
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> Interesting that Paul was the only player at both shows...

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, deanbedford <dbedford@...> wrote:

From: deanbedford <dbedford@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: panel news
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 12:09 PM

 

I tried to post this about 20 hours ago but it doesn't seem to have turned up so will try again

revised teams for Edinburgh - they were

* Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Shappi Khorsandi and John Bishop
* Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair, Fred MacAulay and Stephen K Amos

so two newcomers - apparently Mr Amos had troubles with the swearing. He may also be the first person of African-American or West Indian descent to appear on the radio programme since the very first series.

Interesting that Paul was the only player at both shows...

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:
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> look's like the panel for one of the Edinburgh shows was Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Jenny Eclair and Stephen K Amos - anyone have any news on the other team?
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> you can see a brief clip from the show here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/4898995858/
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--- On Wed, 8/18/10, kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...> wrote:

From: kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...>
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: panel news
To: just-a-minute@...
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 2:40 PM

 

Hello Robert,

That entirely depends on the context. If the word in question refers to a cat, or could possibly refer to a cat, that's fine. If it obviously refers to a part of the female anatomy, it's not fine, at least for broadcast before 9pm in the UK. Comments about "stroking Mrs Slocombe's pussy" were the staple of a primetime BBCTV show for many years.

If you're referring to the line in the 40th anniversary show ("I'm reliably informed it's the only pussy in the White House that Hillary doesn't mind Bill Clinton stroking") then get-out-of-jail-free card that Graham used was to use it as a double-entendre. Clearly the line could be intepreted as referring to a cat just as it could equally be referring to something else.

This is widespread on the BBC; I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue use it extensively, especially in the "Lionel Blair" introductions to Sound Charades as well as the infamous "Janet And John" stories on Terry Wogan's various shows. Julian Clary based much of his early career (and early appearances on JaM) on innuendo and double-entendres.

Given Steven K. Amos's history then it's unlikely he'd be using it as a "double" though. And, with the possible exception of the word that also means a donkey, it's very, very unlikely any of the other words you quote would make it into any pre-9pm Radio 4 show.

Cheers

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres <bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:
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> ...same with 'pussy' as is evident from that one thing Graham Norton talked about years ago on the subject of 'socks'.