Just A Minute

Seeing as we didn't look like getting near the 100 voters total, I thought I'd close the poll, which ran on the blog as well as here.

 

Votes were as follows:

 

Paul Merton 22

Ross Noble 15

Gyles Brandreth, Stephen Fry, Tony Hawks 12

Julian Clary 11

Graham Norton 10

Sue Perkins 8

Sheila Hancock 7

Marcus Brigstocke, Kit Hesketh-Harvey 5

Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence 4

Shappi Khoprsandi 3

Fred MacAulay, Liza Tarbuck 2

Tim Rice 1

Chris Neill 0

 

The final results are about where the producers would be, I'd suggest. Apart from Ross and Stephen, the top raters are those that appear most frequently - and one imagines the producers would be delighted to have Ross and Stephen on more often.

 

Women didn't rate very well... Sue Perkins was best at eighth.

 

I feel a bit sorry for Chris Neill - I suppose I can't honestly say he would have received one of my four votes - but he's always been very funny on the programme, and is tops at banter and repartee. I think I'd have had him in my top 10.

 

The other interesting point to me is how well Gyles Brandreth did. You get a few people who say they dislike him but he adds something different. I think he deserves the rating he got.