Just A Minute

> I think Nicholas usually means to keep talking during the laughter...
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> cheers, Dean

Yeah he does - but he definitely does give both explanations at different times as Pondydave describes. Just one more of those things that Nich has just never quite pinned down.... And what's worse he then takes it upon himself to explain it to others!

For me, talking through loud laughter makes no sense (except in JAM) and I think the term 'riding the laugh' must originally mean timing your next line just as the laughter from your last one dies down enough for you to step back in.

> Listening to my immense JAM collection (thanks to you uploaders) every night I still cannot work out what Nicholas means by riding a laugh. Sometimes he says you have to try and ride a laugh and keep going, which to my mind is like white water rafting, staying on top of the laughter as it rises and falls. And on other occasions he says, you cannot ride a laugh, you have to keep going. Which implies riding a laugh means to Nic that you only speak when you can fit a word between the crescendos and is hesitation.I'd say I have heard Nic give both versions equal usage over the last ten years. I suppose we could have a poll...or ask the audience...maybe to boo and cheer at once for the same idea, another occasional fault of Nicholas.
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> Cheers
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> Pondydave