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Re: today's panel

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mathewJun 29, 2011
 

 
I feel that Paul goes thru cycles of involvement in HIGNFY. There were a few series of HIGNFY recently where i got the feeling Paul would have rather have been elsewhere, however in the most recent one he participated far more. He seemed even more lively with Reginald D Hunter so maybe its the choice of panelists as well. The only JAM episode i picked up on Paul being quieter was Episode 6 of Series 60.

It cant be easy doing the same shows over and over without tiredness kicking in. However HIGNFY was poor when Paul took a series off years ago, the same happened to Red Dwarf when Chris Barrie left for a series.

Who knows, maybe it would benefit both Paul and JAM if he wasnt in all the episodes. Give both a bit of a breather. However saying that whenever i see Paul's name missing from the panelists i do feel it won't as good. But im sure the same would have been said about Kenneth Williams and the gang.

--- In just-a-minute@..., Don Judge <don@...> wrote:
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> I am an avid fan of "Have I Got News for You" on TV and Paul sems very subdued on that too these days.
> He just sits there looking into space a lot of the time, obviously I cannot tell if he does the same on JAM never having been to a recording.
> On HIGNYY every now and then he pipes up and it's usually a stroke of genius comment but they are too few and far between for my liking.
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> Like many of the greats in the world of comedy Paul has suffered from depression in the past, I hope it isn't a symptom of that returning.
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> >From: Espen Krømke <espen.kromke@...>
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> >On 29. juni 2011 03:41, Dean wrote:
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> >>if I read twitter correctly the panel at tonight's recording was Julian Clary, Josie Lawrence, Phill Jupitus and Rick Wakeman. If correct, it will be the first Paul has missed in a while.
> >Wow that's news indeed. Could it be what some of us has mentioned
> earlier, that Paul has appeared less motivated at some shows lately
> (I'd say the last couple of years, with exceptions of course, but
> still...)?
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> >If this is him saying "I can't do this many shows" then that's cool,
> but if it is the producers saying "he can't do that many shows" then
> that's sad. We all know what Paul has meant for JAM since the 90s!
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