Just A Minute

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From: lapsedcat <lapsedcat@...>
To: just-a-minute@...
Sent: Thursday, 30 June 2011, 11:42
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: poll over

 

The results aren't surprising, although I agree with Dean that Chris Neill's polling was a lot lower than he deserved (surely Shappi Khorsandi and Tarby's daughter should have been below him on the list?).

Pleased to see Brandreth in the upper echelon.

The question is, were she still alive, where would Linda Smith have been placed? I'd have thought just below Merton.

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Dean" <dbedford@...> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Votes were as follows:
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Women didn't rate very well... Sue Perkins was best at eighth.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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