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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Dec 05, 04 8:30 am Post subject: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
Radio 4 Monday 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue The perennial antidote to panel games. Linda Smith joins Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, with chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and Colin Sell at the piano. [Rptd Sun at 12.00pm]

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: shropshire

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:21 pm Post subject:
I love this show but will have to give this a miss, I cannot bear Linda Smith - just do not find her funny one little bit

sean
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:23 pm Post subject:
I thought she was very unfunny on HIGNFY last week. Normally I don't mind her, but the stuff with Neil Kinnock was just tedious.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:23 pm Post subject:
Don't mind her, It's Sandy Toskvig that gets on my nerves

twoscoops

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Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:30 pm Post subject:
Excellent. Will listen while tidying.

Bugs

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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:36 pm Post subject:
I quite like Sandi Toksvig... I've only kind of recently started listening to the radio, and often forget. It was really annoying when all the best jokes from the News Quiz showed up on hignfy...I know, I'm years behind everyone else on that. Don't tend to like the sit coms they do - though I did like Trevor's World of Sport, it seemed much better than the tv series.

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:39 pm Post subject:
Some of the radio stuff is excellent beyond words, did you ever catch The Legend of Trombastardos or Old Harrys Game?

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:43 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

I thought she was very unfunny on HIGNFY last week. Normally I don't mind her, but the stuff with Neil Kinnock was just tedious.

i agree - the whole programme ended up making you feel uncomfortable rather than amused.

I used to listen to the R4 comedy but it clashes with the beast's bath time and since she turned one she's developed a pathological fear fo the bath so the radio gets drowned out by the screams when we inflict this torture upon her.

We had tickets to go to the recording of the Now Show at the City Varieties in Leeds but were too jiggered to get there in the end.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: shropshire

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:45 pm Post subject:
I thought Paul Merton and Hislop looked uncomfortable too - there is a fine line between taking the mick and being blatantly rude

Bugs

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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:46 pm Post subject:

Tahir wrote:

Some of the radio stuff is excellent beyond words, did you ever catch The Legend of Trombastardos or Old Harrys Game?

You talkin' to me?

If so. Nope. Never 'eard of them. I must turn on BBC Radio 7 a bit more now that I've worked out how the freeview tuner works, I think I've got some catching up to do.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:53 pm Post subject:
I'm telling to anyone that'll listen Food and the BBC are my favourite evangelical topics, I hope one day to have converted the whole world to growing fruit & veg and listening to Radio 4.

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:55 pm Post subject:

bernie wrote:

I thought Paul Merton and Hislop looked uncomfortable too - there is a fine line between taking the mick and being blatantly rude

Please spill the beans!! What is all this about?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 3:57 pm Post subject:
I don't know either

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 4:12 pm Post subject:
This week's HIGNFY was hosted by Neil Kinnock. Will Self continually insulted him, needled him for answers to pointed questions and picked at him for going to the lords and Linda followed suit. Both of them talked over Kinnock and spoiled the scripted jokes. Merton and Hislop were uncharacteristically quiet.

jema
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Posted: Mon Dec 06, 04 4:31 pm Post subject:

Behemoth wrote:

This week's HIGNFY was hosted by Neil Kinnock. Will Self continually insulted him, needled him for answers to pointed questions and picked at him for going to the lords and Linda followed suit. Both of them talked over Kinnock and spoiled the scripted jokes. Merton and Hislop were uncharacteristically quiet.

A hypocritical old windbag like Kinnock deserves all he gets if he puts himself in that hot seat

I won't say the wit was sparkling, but I found it funny.

jema

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