Just A Minute

1. My favourite Just a Minute panellist is Paul Merton, because I’m a fan of his. As seen on Have I Got News For You, he is very intelligent (despite his CSE un-graded in metalwork) and can keep talking for a while. He never fails to make me laugh out loud whenever he is on Just a Minute. He also gets me laughing when he makes funny comments on other panellists’ monologues that aren’t necessarily challenges, and his fantasy of an affair with Clement Freud is a great running joke, as is the life and times of Nicholas Parsons.

2. If I could pick four people for my best ever Just a Minute panel, they would be Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Ross Noble and either Graham Norton, Tim Rice, Kit Hesketh-Harvey, Chris Neill or the late great Linda Smith. All great talkers and could talk and argue for Britain , if given the chance!

3. The person/s I would like to hear more of on Just a Minute is Dara O’Briain, because he is one of the funniest comedians around at the moment, and it’s a shame that he hasn’t the time to record more shows than he would like. L

4. The first time I heard Just a Minute, I thought “I’ll have to click ‘Listen Again’ later and listen to it a few times to catch all the gags. A bit like an audio version of Naked Gun set in 2006 or something.

5. I think if Kenneth Williams and Paul Merton had ever been on the show together I think I’d be on acid or something. I’d also think Kenneth would have it “infamy”. J

6. The funniest moment ever on Just a Minute was when Paul Merton was talking about being a “fish out of water” when he first appeared on Just a Minute, and Clement Freud buzzed in saying “Nothing has changed!”

7. The reason I love listening to Just a Minute is the long suffering host Nicholas Parsons. He holds the show together despite Paul Merton’s funny monologues and Clement Freud’s lists, trying to give the “benefit of the doubt” to anyone who’ll have it.

8. Sorry, I’ve never been to a Just a Minute recording, although if they choose Wigan as a recording location I’ll be there in a shot!

9. I’ve never played Just a Minute myself.

10. If I could meet a Just a Minute star and ask them one question, I would want to meet Nicholas Parsons, and the question would be “do you want to borrow my ladder?” Nah, seriously it would be “how do you put up with the constant barrage of abuse from Paul and Clement?”

11. The Just a Minute star I most look like is Marcus Brigstocke, because I have longish dark hair and wear glasses, although I don’t like corduroy. I most act like Paul or Ross Noble, because I love that weird and wonderful fantasy world.

12. If I had to speak for 60 seconds on a subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation, it would be the games company Nintendo or the rock band Genesis. I’d probably get buzzed half-way though.

13. Three key facts I’d like everyone on the group to know about me are…
    a) I am 23 years old.
    b) I have Asperger’s Syndrome.
    c) I have been listening to Just a Minute for just over a year, so am a new-ish fan to the show, and am interested in the show’s history and would like to learn more.

Will that do? J

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