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Re: the next season

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jeremy_keensJun 9, 2007
 

 
Hi

A new member who has love JAM for years - sometimes I hope to be awake
at 5:30 on monday morning to hear it here in australia - and thanks to
the uploaders of shows - amazing resource.

You would need to explain to these people that the show IS the
interruptions. it is the interaction, the anger, the banter - having
heard some of the more recent ones I can see that the kenneth williams
golden age is continuing. How people (the panelists, ringmaster,
audience) respond to good bad or indifferent interruptions is what
makes me last - the one minute ramblings are probably the least
involving parts

Jeremy

--- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford <dbedford@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Sunday, June 3, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Dave wrote:
>
> > Some interesting insight on Radio 4's Feedback programme this
> > week explaining how the station's audience is mainly over 40 and
> > the way they use comedy to cross over to the younger and future
> > audience. They target the 6-30pm slot which is, of course, where JAM
> > resides. Two women aged 34 and 56 (I think it was) were selected
> > to talk about two shows currently in that slot. They didn't really
> > like either but in passing they both expressed a great dislike for
> > JAM "God! It seems like its been going on forever!" etc.
> >
> > Lets hope the BBC look to a more representative cross-section
> > about what should stay as they experiement with this slot.
>
> Well in broadcast terms of course, 40 years is a hell of a long time. I
> think the show has changed a lot in style over the years, but as the
> format has stayed much the same I guess it could seem very repetitive
>
> If you wander round the BBC website forums you do find people who seem
> to really dislike the show. There was one a couple of months back who
> said she couldn't understand the thinking behind the show and she
put it
> something like this. "Who was it who thought up the idea of bringing
> together some of Britain's funniest people, people like Paul Merton,
> Ross Noble, Stephen Fry and Graham Norton, you start them talking and
> then have Clement Freud interrupt them when he picks up that they've
> repeated AND".
>
> You think about it like that and I suppose it is hard to explain the
> appeal of the show to some people.
>
> Just wondering how you'd (this is everyone not just Dave!) would defend
> the show to this person. Let's not focus on whether there are many
> challenges on "and" - I'm more interested in hearing what you think
> about great comedians being stopped mid-flow, which is the basis of the
> show after all...
>
> Dean
>

 
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