Volunteers for Just a Minute panel

[mrodoc]

Anyone fancy being on the panel for this year's Cavers' JAM. Currently it is at 16.30 on Saturday afternoon. I think Roo Waters and Rostam Namaghi were interested.

 

[mrodoc]

Currently have two parties prepared to join in so need two more.

 

[mudman]

Currently have two parties prepared to join in so need two more.

I wasn't going to this year, but if you can't find anyone else, give me a shout.

 

[mrodoc]

I wasn't going to this year, but if you can't find anyone else, give me a shout.

Thanks but I need your real name (I suspect I should know it) although I could just shout 'Mudman where are you?'

 

[mudman]

DOH!
I've PM'f you.

 

[mrodoc]

I had just about worked it out! Process of elimination like Cluedo. Thanks anyway. Whether the dreaded Nigel Atkins is about I don't know.

 

[christine]

I'm never speaking to Martin Grass again.

 

[cap n chris]

I'm never speaking to Martin Grass again.

Does he still exist? I thought he'd long since evaporated into a miasma of misogyny and anachronistic irrelevancy. Mind you I expect he still has a bunch of keys which (no longer) open anything particularly exciting. Just kiddin' Natrix Natrix. If the cap fits..

 

[Mrs Trellis]

That's something I'd really, really like to have a go at.

 

[mikem]

Pete was asking for volunteers for next year at end of session - now he has a professional buzzer set up (once he learns how to use it!)

 

[mudman]

Pete was asking for volunteers for next year at end of session - now he has a professional buzzer set up (once he learns how to use it!)

He definitely needs a Samantha.

 

[mikem]

Yes, but where to find one. Apparently Beryl Reid was on the pilot episode, 91 series ago:

BBC Radio 4 - Funny in Four - How to play (and win) Just A Minute

An instruction guide on the best way to succeed at Just a Minute.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mrs Trellis]

He definitely needs a Samantha.

Samantha is away with her new gentleman friend - they're touring India & Pakistan so he's looking forward to taking her up the Khyber.

 

[mikem]

Is that deviation, hesitation or repetition...?

 

[Mrs Trellis]

I imagine all three by the time they return.

 

[mrodoc]

Bear in mind Samantha is associated with I'm sorry I haven't a clue

 

[mikem]

As is Mrs Trellis, but doubtless inspired by

Samantha's inabilities as score-keeper often form the basis for humour; in a programme from 1997, Humph said: "It's just occurred to me that Samantha hasn't given us the score... since 1981."

They are "only" up to 79 series!

Another long-running gag involves one of the panellists putting forward a challenge of "hesitation" when another panellist leaves a long pause in the middle of speaking, a reference to Radio 4's other long-running panel show Just a Minute. (Likewise, occasionally on Just a Minute, a panellist will make a challenge of "Mornington Crescent".) Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton frequently poked fun at Just a Minute and its chairman Nicholas Parsons. Lyttelton's successor, Jack Dee, has continued with and expanded upon this, mimicking Parsons by constantly emphasising the long experience of some panellists, and the fact that the programme can be heard all over the world.

 

[Mrs Trellis]

I suppose you could always have an empty chair while Samantha's away with Mr. Coxon-Balls