Just A Minute

Does anyone know when the new series will start? Sounds like a good few shows recorded in Hay-on-Wye, with Pam Ayres finally appearing in episodes with Paul Merton and the return of Maureen Lipman and Dara O'Briain. And of course, another appearance for the brilliant Marcus Brigstocke.

Ant

--- In just-a-minute@..., "jeremy_keens" <jeremy_keens@...> wrote:
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> Hi
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> 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
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> --- In just-a-minute@..., Dean Bedford dbedford@ wrote:
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> >
> > 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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