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Re: What I have got on my Ipod

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delmelzaOct 31, 2011
 

 
I have a couple 2GB mp2 'sticks'-one totally devoted to UK comedy
( and the occassional american bit)

Besides JAMs- I'm Sorry I'll Read that again ( my 1st uk radio comedy)
Clue/Eric Idle Live/Best of Flanders & Swan/Goon show Songs/Assorted comedy/novelty tones/Dixon of Dock Green( with david tennant)/Masterson's Inheritance/Dessert Island disk W/Graham Norton- not listened to yet/Fry's English/some bits from the Have I got News audios, and slightly out of place is an episode of Torchwood audio drama.
oh and an episode of Says You( triva & word play)-one of the 2 usa radio panel shows that I know of- going to a recording soon when they come to seattle.Miriam

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dave B <pondydave@...> wrote:
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> If I tire of listening to JAM on my Ipod, then its Linda Smith's a Brief History of Timewasting or Milton Jones. I have Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dads' Army and Hancock but they rarely get an earing.
>
> Though I think Milton is very funny with scripted material and one liners he knows well (and he makes me feel happy), I just don't think he could manage Just A Minute.
>
> I have changed the thread title as Mark has launched this off on a tangent. Also now sounds like a JAM subject........
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>
> Dave
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> ________________________________
> From: nylon net <nylon@...>
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Sent: Monday, 31 October 2011 12:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Re: What is JAM?
>
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>  
>
> Oh what a tangled weave this thread could become.
>
> I started with the Goons on the radio at the age of about 8 (about 1965) and can still nearly wet myself hearing them for the hundredth time ("Caesar ruled with an iron fist, a wooden foot, and finally a piece of string.")
> I love Brit comedy - esp. Python, Coogan, Buzzcocks, QI - well, nearly everything except 'My Family' and 'On the Buses'.
> I like non-Brit material that has a Brit feel - particularly the Canadians (e.g. Northern Exposure, Corner Gas).
> Some of the drier American styles are good (30 Rock, Frasier) - and most of the stuff they get on cable because they won't show it otherwise.
> Unfortunately most Australian comedy doesn't go down well with me (esp. our sitcoms)
> I'm fond of black stuff like South Park, John Waters' films etc.
> And you'll be pleased to hear I love 'Flight of the Conchords' - I think the Kiwi sense of humour is more Brit-like than ours.
>
> What do you other guys have on your comedy iPods?
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>  
> Mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: dbedford@...
> >Sent: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:35:34 +1300
> >To: just-a-minute@...
> >Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Re: What is JAM?
> >
> >
> > 
> >This is an interesting post... gee, we've had some interesting, thoughtful
> posts recently that have been most enjoyable to read.
> > 
> >Mark, I wonder if you would post some of your other comedy interests, I'd
> just be interested to see them. I do agree â€" and I think Paul Merton once made a
> similar remark â€" that part of the enjoyment of JAM is that it can be played in
> different styles, and enjoyed on different levels. And there's an old saying
> that goes something like “"once you try to analyse why a joke is funny, the joke
> disappears...”. Still it's fun to talk about.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >From: nylon net
> >Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 6:43 PM
> >To: just-a-minute@...
> >Subject: RE: [just-a-minute] Re: What is JAM?
> > 
> > 
> >
> ><soapbox>
> >
> >As with the peculiarly oblique and ineffable
> appeal of R.E.M., if one could ever reach a clear conclusion to the meaning of
> JAM, it will lose its powerful joy.
> >
> >To me, it is the fact that it is so
> varied in its observation of rules, its catholic delivery styles, and its
> ever-shifting "purpose" that it continues to be fresh and curiously attractive
> over the decades.
> >
> >Once the mystery goes, interest soon follows. Like
> children, we keep listening because the ground of JAM keeps shifting under our
> feet and it fascinates us. It defies definitive classification. While we *want*
> to finally categorise it and earmark it and say we grok it, the adult in us
> hopes we never will because after that point, it loses its flavour.
> >
> >I
> once read that it's the faults in our partners that we love, not their
> perfections. It's the crooked teeth in our favourite actors that endear them to
> us, not their pearly Hollywood caps: and it's the eccentric oddities of JAM that
> keep me coming back, and analysing it too much starts to defeat my own enjoyment
> of it.
> >
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