Just A Minute

 



I am a big fan of the older shows. They were quality. Nowadays people interupt for the sake of it and hardly anyone speaks for a whole minute. I still like the show, but not a patch on the Derek Nimmo, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock, Kenneth Williams and Peter Jones days. Paul Merton is good, but I don't want him on every show.

 

Does anyone have some old shows to share please?

 

Robert

 -----Original Message-----
From: just-a-minute@... [mailto:just-a-minute@...]On Behalf Of Wayne Styles
Sent: 30 September 2012 12:49
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Re: Pre Merton Broadcasts

 

Interesting point, I like the older shows and listen regularly to them. Yes they are slower, but they do entertain and the regulars such as Peter Jones, Kenneth Williams and Clement Freud were funny in different ways.  Some of the guests were just so bad at it as well, made it all the more funny, Aimee McDonald and Wendy Richard always make me giggle.  If you get a chance do listen to these show to get an insight into how things have moved on as well. 

Kenneth was a really odd man in public and private and listening to him at times gave an insight into his state of mind.  

In a recent interview a producer "cant remember his name" said that he would lift his arms up to indicate to Kenneth to give the show a boost and off he would go, then lower his arms again to indicate to Kenneth to let the show calm down and that he was the only person who could do this.

Dont get me wrong I like Paul on the show and he does give it his all most of the time, but I dont always get the laughs out of the show that the older ones provide.

Each to his or her own I suppose.

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From: kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...>
To: just-a-minute@...
Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2012, 12:17
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: Pre Merton Broadcasts

 

I couldn't agree more. I am not a fan of the older shows at all.

I'm not sure why it is that I don't like the older shows. Perhaps it's to do with dated humour; perhaps it's to do with the format and dynamics of the show which have changed subtly over the decades; perhaps (and please don't take this the wrong way) it's because it's a panel of four people who have largely slipped from the public memory.

I'm sure there are lots of people who would love to hear the older shows. I certainly have no objection to them being re-broadcast. Just not at the expense of the newer shows.

I expect that the BBC will still own the UK broadcast rights for all JaM shows. One consideration may be that some of the older shows are available for purchase on CD and MP3 (I know some of the newer ones are too). Whether re-broadcasting the older shows would stimulate interest in the CDs and therefore boost their sales or people would record them and depress CD sales is a debatable point.

Cheers

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@..., "Espen Krømke" <espen.kromke@...> wrote:
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> Well, if BBC think anything like me, my guess would be that they simply
> find the newer shows to be more fun to listen to. I know I do. The only
> reason why I keep pre-Merton shows in the JAMmer shoutcast
> (stream.beatradar.com) is because I know there are some who still
> appreciate those shows.
>
> In fact, I would not even have been a JAM fan today, had it not been for
> the era introduced with Merton.
>
>