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Re: JAM Drinking Game?

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bolmuldMar 21, 2007
 

 
--- In just-a-minute@..., Robert Torres
<bobbyshaddoe3004@...> wrote:

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> I've always hated it when Nicholas talks about someone leaping

forward into the same position, cuz that just seemed awfully
patronizing. it would be much funnier if he just said that someone
leapt forward, and then just leave it at that with no follow up. I
remember using the Audacity program to play around with some JAM
programs and I did that once, and it actually sounded a lot funnier
when that happened.

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> I'm not sure if there's anything else left to cover without

repeating yourself cuz we've compiled a huge list so far. I wish we
could recap and go over what's been listed thus far.

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I really disagree with you. Only when I came to this group did I find
people with the opinion that Nicholas is extremely patronizing. I
really can't see that. I just see him as this amicable, and quite
silly old man. He's perfect for Just a Minute. First off, he's a great
foil for the panelists and he knows his place and (well, at least most
of the time) doesn't try too hard to be funny. He just has a kind of
"friendly grandpa" [I know this may sound weird] vibe about him that
gives a cohesion to the game, a family-like feeling to it, that keeps
people listening. Even if you don't like him, you keep listening to it
to hear the abuse, which is telling, I feel.
That being said, with all the things that the other panelists say at
times - which are as patronizing and mean as that may seem to you - I
don't think that Nicholas is being rotten when he says that. It's just
a joke, like any other. Like when Kenneth says that "there should
never have been women on the show" (although that might be a bad
example), but you get my point.

I do think that there are many more things to be listed, particularly
of recent years, but I'm only familiar with the older shows.

 
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