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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)
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Panel Game (according to the introduction, "the antidote to panel games"note And according to Mrs. Trellis, "the antelope to panel pins") broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and the "classic radio" station BBC 7. Born in 1972, it was something of a continuation of the Sketch Show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again (which was also the origin of The Goodies). The main difference was that, as a panel game, they didn't need to write any scripts.The chairman was Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter (the thinking being that improvisational comedy owed a lot to jazz), who created the persona of a curmudgeonly Deadpan Snarker who would rather be doing something else. Anything else note except playing the trumpet. Barring some Early-Installment Weirdness in the first two series, the regular teams from the beginning in the 1970s until 1996 were Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden versus Tim Brooke-Taylor and Willie Rushton. After Rushton's death in 1996, the fourth panelist became a rotating position.note Jeremy Hardy usually appeared once a series before his death; since his passing, Tony Hawks has taken over as the longest-serving, and most frequent, guest. Some of the other more recurrent guests have included Rory Bremner, Marcus Brigstocke, Rob Brydon, Susan Calman, Pippa Evans, John Finnemore, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Miles Jupp, Paul Merton, Rachel Parris and Sandi Toksvig Guests have also deputised for Barry, Tim or Graeme if they were unable to make a recording. Because of the show's pedigree, and the fact that the regulars have the final say in who the guests are, being asked to appear on the show has a certain amount of prestige attached to it (and many have turned down the opportunity for fear they might ruin it).The future of the show was in doubt following Lyttelton's death in 2008, although Series 51 was aired in mid-2009 with Stephen Fry, Jack Dee, and Rob Brydon taking over the chair for two episodes each. Although he was not definitively stated to be the full-time replacement, the show returned to its regular schedule with Dee chairing every episode later that year; he has chaired every series since. (In the 2015 tour of the live show, Sandi Toksvig took the chair for some dates.)In recent years, Barry and Graeme both cut down on their number of appearances and would appear only occasionally. This resulted in the show's future being left unclear once again after Tim Brooke-Taylor, the last of the original panellists still regularly appearing on the show, passed away from COVID-19 in April 2020. It was eventually announced that the show's 73rd series in Autumn 2020 would consist of Tim's final two episodes (recorded shortly before the nationwide lockdown), followed by four remotely recorded episodes with the surviving regulars and a virtual audience (categorized by the BBC as Series 74). Since then, the show has featured an entirely rotating panel. Barry Cryer participated in the first two episodes of Series 76, his final appearance before his death in January 2022; Graeme Garden, the last surviving member of the original panel, has appeared occasionally since then.Other people on the show include Colin Sell, the long-suffering pianist, and Samantha, the entirely fictional scorer, about whom many Double Entendres are made. On one occasion, Colin Sell's stand-in as duty pianist was veteran jokester musician Neil Innes, best known for The Bonzo Dog Band and The Rutles. Humph introduced him as 'a man whose royalty payments on "I'm The Urban Spaceman" have just run out', to which Innes responded with several bars of the Death March from Aida.While winning and losing is seldom an important part of Panel Games, ISIHAC views it as entirely irrelevant. In one 1997 episode, Humph commented, "It's just occurred to me Samantha hasn't given us the score. Since 1981." It would be impossible to determine who won most of the games anyway, given that many of them don't make any sense, and the "Complete Quotes" round has the warning "points will be deducted for a correct answer".Most of the games are simply excuses for a Hurricane of Puns, but some have a surreality bordering on nonsensical. These include "Celebrity What's My Line?" (in which the panel has to guess what a celebrity does for a living), versions of board games and other quizzes (where the joke is that we need to see what's going on to understand it), and, of course the Great Game, Mornington Crescent (a game of complex and subtle rules which, to the uninitiated, sounds like people shouting out tube stations at random) and its boardgame cousin Boardo! (complete with rattling dice and clicking counters).There are also some musical rounds in the show. While the most popular musical game in the early years was the "Blues" (where each team has to create one on the spot), the three most popular throughout most of the show's run are "One Song to the Tune of Another" (which is self-explanatory, although Humph thinks otherwise), "Pick-Up Song" (where each of the team members have to sing along to a song which is muted half way through and still be in time with the lyrics when the sound is turned back up) and "Swanee-Kazoo" (where each team has to play a given song with a swanee whistle and a kazoo). There was usually a Running Gag at the expense of the late Jeremy Hardy whenever he was on the show as he was a hilariously terrible singer (which eventually extended to jokes about said singing even when he wasn't present). Some of his singing from the show (specifically "Hallelujah" in the style of George Formby) was even used as a Greatest Hits moment on the announcement of his death.The show has won three Golden Sony Awards, including one for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas Carol, a Christmas Episode which cast all the regulars and guest panelists into a version of A Christmas Carol and somehow managed to force most of the games into the storyline. This was followed a couple of years later with Humph In Wonderland. The show also spawned a sell-out live tour featuring classic rounds from previous series, initially with Jeremy Hardy as the guest; the most recent tour, in 2022, featured Tony Hawks, Miles Jupp, Rory Bremner and Pippa Evans as the panellists.In 2012, the show's official site was launched, which can be found here. | |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome | |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: in I'm Sorry I Haven't A Christmas Carol, Humph (or "Ebenezer Scrumph") sees visions of his past, present and future that prompt him to stop being a grumpy misanthrope and become nice - but when he tries to chair a panel game the panellists quickly realise that the programme doesn't work with a nice Humph. They send him back to normal by subjecting him to a round of Swanee-Kazoo. | |
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The Artifact: In the first episodes, nearly every other game involved singing, and so involved the pianist. In recent years, the only games requiring the piano at a recording session are "One Song to the Tune of Another" in the first episode and one other game at the second — and sometimes even those will be left on the cutting room floor. | |
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Man in a Kilt: The Fan Disservice variant. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: Humph once introduced a round of Mornington Crescent by saying "I hope we won't have any of the pointless bickering that has plagued this round in the past", and said that Tim could start. Graeme immediately snapped "Why does he get to start?" | |
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Calvinball | |
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Calvinball: Mornington Crescent and several other games, including "Boardo" which includes elements of every board game ever, and the "Quiz Of Quizzes" which does the same thing for other Panel Games and game shows. | |
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Ambivalent Anglican | |
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Ambivalent Anglican: One episode had a round where the panellists suggested Funny Answering Machine messages for public figures. One idea for an Anglican bishop was "I don't believe I'm in." | |
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Unwinnable by Design | |
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Unwinnable by Design: The variation of Mornington Crescent where stations with faulty elevators are wild, played when Mornington Crescent had a faulty elevator. Also, the variant where rule 12 no longer applies - Rule 12 being the one that says 'The first person who says "Mornington Crescent" is the winner." When they played "The Quiz of Quizzes", an intentionally absurd mash-up of various quiz show formats: | |
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Overly Narrow Superlative: Humph will often introduce a letter from Mrs. Trellis by saying they've received "slightly less than two letters" or "slightly more than one letter". "This was by far the most entertaining letter we received out of several hundred others...from Mrs. Trellis." | |
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Thing-O-Meter: One episode features one. | |
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Show the Folks at Home: In any round such as Sound Charades or Scandals, the "mystery voice" reads out what the other team has to guess. | |
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Funny Background Event: Yes, on radio. Occasionally on Pick-Up Song, the panellists who aren't singing will banter, joke, make comments or otherwise fool around in the background, aiming to get the singer to crack up. In another round of the same, Barry sung "Delilah". Tim can be heard saying "No—no, put them back on, madam," to someone in the audience. During one round of 'Pick Up Tune', the panellist singing 'Living next door to Alice' is accompanied by the audience very audibly joining in with 'Who the fuck is Alice?'note During live performances of "Living Next Door to Alice" by New World, after the titular line the audience would often reply "Alice? Who the fuck is Alice!?" When British band Smokie covered the song, they also made a parody version featuring EXTREMELY blue comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown shouting the aforementioned line at the appropriate times in the song. Which was LEFT IN the edit! | |
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong: In one episode, Barry buzzed in to ask if an action wasn't in complete violation of the rules. Humph removed some of his marks for not knowing the rules, and Barry buzzed in again, stating that he knew the rules now and could he have his marks back please. Humph gave them back, but removed them again for interrupting. | |
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Spiritual Successor: To I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, and in some ways to The Goodies. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: Humph wasn't exactly a small name, but his opinion that the role of chairman made him the most important person in the world was part of his persona. Woe betide the one who discussed the rules of Mornington Crescent and came to a conclusion — he'd always burst in with a statement of "You haven't decided anything, it's not up to you to decide anything, I'm the chairman". | |
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Hurricane of Puns | |
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In "Late Arrivals", another Hurricane of Puns game, if the players are having trouble coming up with names that the audience doesn't consider a lame pun, someone (usually Graeme) will inevitably resort to the old standby of a "Gordon Bennett"-based joke (e.g., "Mr. and Mrs. Bennett-look-at-the-size-of-that-crab, and their son Gordon Bennett-look-at-the-size-of-that-crab" at the Fisherman's Ball). | |
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Hypocritical Humour: Often used in Humph's introductions. The typical introduction to Just A Minim is "The team will have to sing a song without repetition, oh...er...hesitation, deviation, anthrax or repetition." In one episode, Jack begins a segment talking about some programs using celebrities to boost their profile... then gets interrupted by the angry squeakings of Sweep (of Sooty). | |
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In a round of Songstoppers, Tony Hawks sang the opening lines of "With a Little Help From My Friends", and as he reached "Would you stand up and walk out on me?", Marcus Brigstocke stood up and walked offstage. Tony immediately lampshaded how the joke went down brilliantly in the theatre, but wouldn't work on the radio at all. | |
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Artifact Title: The title was originally meant to echo I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, but since Clue has outlived its parent show by decades, a lot more people know about Clue than ISIRTA. Also, the subtitle "the antidote to panel games" doesn't make as much sense now as it used to — back when it was created, there were way more 'serious' panel games on the BBC, rather than the generally comic tone of those played nowadays. Graeme once jokingly suggested to change it to "the template for panel games". | |
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Sophisticated as Hell: From a round of Closed Quotes, using insults: "Gardener's Question Tim" has Alan Titchmarsh get away with saying "bitch", on a BBC Radio 4 show pre-watershed no less... because he's asking about a female dog urinating on lawns. | |
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: subverted - see "Flowers for Algernon Syndrome", above. | |
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Borrowed Catchphrase: In one round of Sound Charades, Tim and Phill Jupitus opened their charade with "Hamish!" "Dougal!" The audience still cheered. Paul Merton once did a pun on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Graeme's Running Gag, in Film Club. The audience gave a hushed intake of breath, and Graeme then proceeded to use the exact same pun to great applause. | |
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Scunthorpe Problem | |
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Scunthorpe Problem: An episode filmed in Nottingham has Humph recount how it was originally called "Snottingham", only to be renamed because Normans had difficulty pronounced "s". He then notes Scunthorpe resisted this renaming procedure, as the audience goes wild. It took Humph two goes to regain his composure and continue. Many years later, when the show returned to Nottingham, Jack did a similar joke. This time, the audience anticipated the punchline a mile off, causing Jack to get tetchy with them (though it went in a slightly different direction). | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Humph has Nicholas Parsons, the bright and cheerful host of Just a Minute. | |
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Lyrical Tic | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_330bff09 | comment |
Lyrical Tic: The improvised blues songs were always filled with cries of "Yeah, man" or "tell it like it is" or "whoa" or anything else appropriate, fitting in with the scratchy-gravelly, 'deep American South' voices they adopted. When Stephen Fry was once filling in for Graeme, his immaculately clean voice made this complicated, so he simply said "various American noises from the back of my throat". | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Jack Dee is particularly mean to Tim whenever he gets the chance. But it's all part of the act. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_35b241c0 | comment |
Occasionally leads into Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping (such as when Marcus Brigstocke found it difficult to keep a straight face whilst accompanying Shaggy's "Mr Boombastic"). | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_36135fb0 | type |
Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: At a 2019 recording where both Barry and Graeme were absent, the recently married Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke were teamed together. | |
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Russian Roulette | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3678bb22 | comment |
Russian Roulette: Played in one episode. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_392372f9 | comment |
Actor Allusion: In a round of "Karaokey-Cokey", the audience were given "The Funky Gibbon" to hum. About three seconds in, Tim gets it and bursts out laughing. A few panellists have also been tasked with accompanying themselves in "Pick-Up Song", such as Tony Hawks singing along to "Stutter Rap" and Barry singing along to his cover of "The Purple People Eater". Barry's version of "The Purple People Eater", which topped the Finnish charts, is referenced at other times: When Richard Osman was a player in "Mornington Crescent", the game took on elements from Pointless. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3adca595 | type |
Namesake Gag | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3adca595 | comment |
Namesake Gag: Coco Chanel, inventor of the popular bedtime drink. In a Series 30 episode intro, Humph correctly states that the cardigan was named after Crimean War hero Lord Cardigan, then goes on to say that the Crimean War also produced a kind of woolly headwear named after the Battle of Bobblehat.note (Balaclava) | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: In the one-time game "Dragon's Den", the teams try to introduce "money" and "wheels" in a medieval setting, when buses, circular saws, and credit cards have been invented. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3e24af42 | type |
Musical Gag | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3e24af42 | comment |
Musical Gag: Colin will occasionally play a quick jingle or sting after a joke, and whenever the singing rounds get really off-track, he tends to change the melody around or segue into another song altogether, before continuing as normal. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3ea462d7 | type |
Take That, Audience! | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3ea462d7 | comment |
Take That, Audience!: Aimed at the Studio Audience more often than the listeners at home, since they're the ones responding enthusiastically to this show which the host apparently hates. Sometimes even simpler. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3eee0728 | type |
Captain Obvious | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3eee0728 | comment |
Captain Obvious: In a round of "Closed Quotes" where the players had to complete superstitions: | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3fb6b526 | type |
Delayed Reaction | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_3fb6b526 | comment |
Delayed Reaction: In Word For Word, Graeme will occasionally challenge for a connection on two words a long time after they've been spoken. In rounds that didn't involve him very much (such as Mornington Crescent), Humph would sometimes do this to indicate he'd fallen asleep or lost interest. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Also, there was a one-off round called Blatant Lies. Tim, with Phill Jupitus on his team, said "I never miss Nevermind The Buzzcocks...", to which Phill responded "I love The Goodies..." | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_4192763e | type |
Malaproper | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_4192763e | comment |
Malaproper: After he was awarded an OBE in 2001, Mrs. Trellis sent a letter congratulating Barry on "finally receiving an oboe". Humph once introduced an episode of Letter Writing with "There's nothing like badly-written English to really make my goat boil." | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_42064d3c | type |
Left It In | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_42064d3c | comment |
Left It In: Jack once laughed at one of the Double Entendres in his introduction, then muttered "That'll be edited out or I'm finished". Naturally, it's left in. | |
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Unexpectedly Obscure Answer | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_42a87000 | comment |
Unexpectedly Obscure Answer: It was a Running Gag in the "Politician's Ball" episode, where they played a game of 'Strip Quiz', which built on the 'old-fashioned principles of strip poker', that Tim got all the impossible questions, whereas everyone else got very elementary ones. | |
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No Fair Cheating | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_42d9daf9 | comment |
No Fair Cheating: In a round of Bedtime Stories (one panellist tells a story, and their team member has to try and play appropriate sound effects, while wearing headphones making them unable to hear the story), Graeme tried to sidestep the rules by making his own sound effects. Tim loudly accused him of being a cheat throughout the rest of the round. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_43273c71 | type |
LongRunner | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_43273c71 | comment |
Long Runner: It's been going for fifty years, making it one of Radio 4's longest running programmes and the longest running Radio 4 panel game after Just a Minute. Beginning with Ross Noble in 2009, it has had several panellists who are younger than the show itself. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: Humph's unnecessarily-complicated analogies to explain the concept of One Song To the Tune Of Another. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Tim Brooke-Taylor, who was picked on by Humph and Jack. Particularly (especially) when playing Mornington Crescent. He was also often made to sing songs outside his vocal register, which later developed into a Running Gag of making him sing along to twenty-something pop singers such as Taylor Swift and Jessie J. Pianist Colin Sell, who is the butt of at least one joke per episode. "Now listeners will be surprised to hear that pop legend Cliff Richard once insisted that Colin play in The Shadows... but then, he's not a pretty sight in broad daylight." If Colin ever speaks up, someone will usually respond with either "Sorry, who are you?" or "You keep out of this". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_485011b | type |
MadLibsCatchPhrase | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_485011b | comment |
Mad Libs Catch Phrase: The Summer 2021 series, where all six episodes were recorded from Broadcasting House in London with a virtual audience, had Jack Dee open each episode by describing it as being "part of London's ______ district", and explaining they were in an empty theatre, which was "nothing to do with Covid regulations, just (explanation which was usually something insulting the teams)". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_48dfb7e4 | type |
Stock Sound Effects | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_48dfb7e4 | comment |
Stock Sound Effects: In the DIY round (where the panellists are forced to improvise a story around sound effects) and in Cow/Lake/Bomb (the ISIHAC version of Rock/Paper/Scissors). If the players are given access to sound effects, they can often be expected to keep popping up later in the show, such as the sound of a punch in retaliation for an insult. Very often any attempt at playing the game will be abandoned in favour of playing as many random sound effects as quickly as possible. On one show, the players and the chairman were surprised to discover the teams regular buzzers had been inexplicably replaced with sound effects - Tim and Willy had a chicken, Barry and Graeme had a foghorn. This resulted in several bouts of chaos (*foghorn* "Samantha!") and a unique round of Censored Songs. | |
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Technology Marches On | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_4b17763f | comment |
Technology Marches On: Played for Laughs in a 2012 episode where the "laser display board" was replaced with the "conference size laser display board app". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: A lot of the show's familiar elements weren't present from the start - at first there was no Willie Rushton, no Colin Sell (there was another pianist, often Monty Python regular Neil Innes), no Samantha, no Mornington Crescent and no mention of "the antidote to panel games". And Humph awarded points and actually kept the score (though even then the points meant nothing). Barry Cryer was there from the first series but not as a panellist; instead he alternated with Humph in the chair (Humph was always the first choice for the job but prior commitments kept him from some of those early recordings). In the earlier years of the show, it didn't tour, so the intro lacks Humph's routine about where the show is being recorded this week. Samantha wasn't introduced until 1985, over ten years into the show's run. In early rounds of Pick-up Song, the music would start from partway through the song rather than the beginning (and hence presumably making it even more difficult for the panellist to keep in time). When Karaoke-Cokey was first played, the audience actually sang the song rather than humming. | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
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Sarcasm-Blind: The chairman will occasionally vary the "points mean prizes" catchphrase (such as "and points mean failures at Crewe"), while still expecting the audience to yell out "Prizes!" when prompted. Occasionally, however, one or two Sarcasm-Blind members of the audience will yell out the variation. | |
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Long-Runner Tech Marches On | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_53027509 | comment |
Long-Runner Tech Marches On: Averted for a time by the "Pick-up Song" round, which was still using a record player as recently as 2009 (as indicated by an episode where they accidentally played the record at the wrong speed). Eventually, however, they did switch over to more modern methods, as evidenced by recent selections including songs by Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
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I Resemble That Remark!: Sometimes. And another time: | |
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The Eeyore | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_54fdbff5 | comment |
The Eeyore: "Humph" is a very apt name indeed. Jack Dee was a worthy successor, having done a similar shtick for years. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_56240281 | type |
Country Matters | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_56240281 | comment |
Country Matters: Stephen Fry's alternate definition of "countryside" is the best-remembered, but there are plenty of other instances as part of the show's long history of double entendres... In the "Limericks" round, any line ending in "unt" (such as 'hunt' or 'punt') would always provoke masses of laughter. This delight, again from Stephen Fry, during a round of Trail of the Lonesome Pun from a Series 72 episode... | |
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Catchphrase Interruptus | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_58c32292 | comment |
Catchphrase Interruptus: On more than one occasion when introducing the "Pick-Up Song" round, after Humph has said "And points mean prizes". On one occasion he left a very long pause and the audience eventually shouted back "PRIZES!"; on another the audience interrupted him with a loud "oooh", prompting absolute bafflement from the panel. | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_592fa231 | comment |
Acquired Error at the Printer: Any round of "Historical Headlines" will feature someone (probably Barry) citing a misprinted headline from The Guardian (which has a reputation for this kind of thing). For example, Barry claimed that The Guardian's headline for the Great Fire of London would have been "London's Burping!". | |
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Even the Guys Want Him | |
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Even the Guys Want Him: After Rob Brydon sang "Delilah" in Pick-Up Song (prompting a very long, enthusiastic ovation), this exchange occurred. In an 1990's episode where Barry had sung "It's Not Unusual" in the same round: | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_5aa4ec8a | comment |
Ambiguous Syntax: Humph sometimes makes these out of his "boredly reading the prompter" act. "That went awfully well. Let's try another. I'm sorry, I read that wrong — that went awfully. Well, let's try another." | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_5c15399f | type |
Player Elimination | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_5c15399f | comment |
Player Elimination: Played for Laughs in-universe in an episode where they played an elimination-based version of Mornington Crescent (which was a pisstake of The Weakest Link and other elimination-based quiz and reality shows which were all the rage at the time): | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_5c8e6330 | type |
Thrifty Scot | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_5c8e6330 | comment |
Thrifty Scot: Hamish and Dougal. Many listeners don't realise that their starting Catchphrase "You'll have had your tea?" is a stereotypical Scots phrase with the subtext that "...because I'm certainly not spending money to feed you if you say no". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6056f853 | type |
Homoerotic Subtext | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6056f853 | comment |
Homoerotic Subtext: Whenever it would get a laugh. For some reason, Barry and Graeme are especially prone to it. When Sven's standing in for Samantha as scorekeeper, the subtext is usually just plain text. ("Well, from the big hand sweeping around my little ticker...I see that Sven's up to his old tricks again.") From a round of Notes And Queries: | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_60eac4ba | type |
Off the Rails | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_60eac4ba | comment |
Off the Rails: Where any game of Mornington Crescent is likely to go (even though, technically, they never leave the rails). The round of "Word for Word" that ended in Tim giving words by himself. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_62259825 | type |
Nintendo Hard | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_62259825 | comment |
Nintendo Hard: The announcement that Rory Bremner's "Pick-up Song" was going to be Tom Lehrer singing "The Elements Song" provoked gasps of shock from the audience, and Tim Brooke-Taylor can be heard sincerely wishing him good luck before the song starts. The music coming back to reveal that Bremner was exactly in time caused an extended ovation from the audience. | |
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Lurid Tales of Doom | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_633e176e | comment |
Lurid Tales of Doom: How The Sport is presented in Historical Headlines. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_663b80bf | type |
Law of Disproportionate Response | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_663b80bf | comment |
Law of Disproportionate Response: Humph put up with most of the show, whatever silliness was going on. However, he'd occasionally pause in the middle of a round of Closed Quotes or Notes And Queries to point out how stupid or boring the answers were. In Straight Face (a round in which each panellist says a word, and whoever elicits "even the slightest titter" from the studio audience is eliminated), Humph would usually ignore massive audience laughter, but yell "Titter!" at the very slightest giggle, or even total silence. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: During the Opera rounds, Barry and Graeme frequently throw a burst of hammy evil laughter in their performances. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: The pretense is that the rounds aren't just sensible games, but important, especially Mornington Crescent. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6eef5fc6 | type |
Temporary Substitute | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6eef5fc6 | comment |
Temporary Substitute: In one game of Sound Charades, Tony Hawks was substituting for Barry Cryer. His sketch with Graeme Garden was played between Angus and Dougal ("Where's Hamish?" "He's having his tea.") | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6ef9d3fe | type |
Christmas Episode | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6ef9d3fe | comment |
Christmas Episode: 2003's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Christmas Carol and 2007's Humph in Wonderland, which cast the regulars and guests in retellings of the respective stories that managed to shoehorn in as many of the usual games as possible. There have also been several Christmas-themed editions of the "regular" show. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6f064059 | type |
The Points Mean Nothing | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_6f064059 | comment |
The Points Mean Nothing: Or less than nothing, since points are rarely even mentioned except for the "Points mean prizes!" Running Gag before Pick-Up Song. Humph mentioning which team he thinks "won that round" is enough to get a laugh in itself. This was lampshaded heavily in one episode. Right after Humph has said "And points mean prizes", he pauses, then comments on how ridiculous that is, since he hasn't given a point since the old king died. "I mean...what do points mean?" "PRIZES!" "Shut up!" In earlier episodes, points were sometimes awarded, but they were rarely added up to a total. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_71067de4 | type |
12-Bar Blues | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_71067de4 | comment |
12-Bar Blues: The "Blues" round songs would always take this structure. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7170f25a | type |
T-Word Euphemism | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7170f25a | comment |
T-Word Euphemism: An inversion by Jeremy Hardy during his first appearance in 1996. Hardy fumbles a line, swears and then apologises 'for using the fuck-w'. (This has been left in the CD of the live recording, but obviously was edited out of the broadcast.) | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_72757e0d | type |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_72757e0d | comment |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: At the more ridiculous answers to the questions in the "Notes and Queries" round, Humph would insist they were all "out of a real book". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_76b4b7dd | type |
The Comically Serious | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_76b4b7dd | comment |
The Comically Serious: Any time a patently ridiculous round is introduced, the chairman will explain the rules as if it makes perfect sense, and the teams will often try to play it "seriously", such as "Name That Barcode". Several of the guests (notably Rob Brydon, Tony Hawks, Pippa Evans and Rachel Parris) are actually quite accomplished singers, and whenever they get a turn in "One Song to the Tune of Another" the show will invoke this by giving them a particularly ludicrous combination (such as the theme from Spider-Man to the tune of "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables, or the theme from The Muppet Show to the tune of "A Whiter Shade of Pale") which they will sing completely straight-faced. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_77b03c0a | type |
Remember the New Guy? | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_77b03c0a | comment |
Remember the New Guy?: "We're now going to play that old favorite, Spot The Ostrich!" The first ever game of Mornington Crescent was introduced in the same way. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: In a 'General Knowledge Quiz' round where Humph gives the answers and the team supply the questions, Stephen Fry responds to 'Scrape the flesh roughly with the teeth' by saying 'How do you not give a bl-... I can't say that.' | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7a560a7b | type |
The Trope Formerly Known as X | |
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The Trope Formerly Known as X: In S25E04, "The artist formerly known as Prince" was the subject for a round of "Limerick" which, in five lines, managed to work in just about everything that was ludicrous about the situation. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7b74adb2 | type |
Grandfather Clause | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7b74adb2 | comment |
Grandfather Clause: Back when ISIHAC started, it was common practice for radio comedy shows to have a pianist (or even an orchestra, in the case of The Goon Show) providing live music (indeed, Dave Lee, who provided the service for I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, was the pianist for the first few series). These days Colin Sell is pretty much the only example left. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7bb1296b | type |
"Rashomon"-Style | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7bb1296b | comment |
"Rashomon"-Style: In a series of interviews with the different cast members, one of the questions was "How was Samantha discovered?". Everyone has a separate story. (Humph claims she was working behind the bar at The BBC canteen — once-producer Paul Mayhew-Archer implies he discovered her in a strip club — Jeremy says she was working as a waiter and Graeme made her have extensive plastic surgery.) | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7d32da92 | type |
Lost in Transmission | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7d32da92 | comment |
Lost in Transmission: One round of "Mornington Crescent" opened with Humph passing on an apology from the BBC that some listeners were experiencing local interference. He then went on to announce that he was going to explain the rules of the game. Cue an extended burst of static. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7eebe99c | type |
The Alcoholic | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_7eebe99c | comment |
The Alcoholic: What everyone believes Barry to be. In one round of Sound Charades, Tim and Jeremy do the title Miracle on 34th Street with this: Another example, from a round of Complete Quotes: In one episode, Humph mentions that Barry proposed to his wife in a pub and, gripped with the romance of the moment, even got up on one knee. In a round about things people would never say, Tim proposed "Barry Cryer: Just a half for me, thanks." Barry immediately came back with "Tim Brooke-Taylor: I'll get them in." Barry was once described as being in a bad mood because someone had cut all the ring-pulls off his lunch. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_83445b04 | type |
Pun | |
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Pun: Many of the round introductions. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_83cef301 | type |
Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_83cef301 | comment |
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Word for Word, the disassociation round, in which various obvious connections are ignored in favour of more convoluted examples (often divided by several subsequent answers). | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_83ea0763 | type |
Rouge Angles of Satin | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin: As with Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud above, Humph would sometimes do this with the script. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8409a385 | comment |
"One Song To The Tune Of Another" is introduced by Humph explaining the simple concept by means of an impossibly obtuse and roundabout metaphor, always finishing with a crack at pianist Colin Sell. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_867c3744 | type |
New Rules as the Plot Demands | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_867c3744 | comment |
New Rules as the Plot Demands: Lockdown Mornington Crescent, the rules of which change with literally every move, thanks to the ever-shifting tier system. Rory Bremner complains that it cheapens the whole game if the rules are that inconsistent. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: The opening spiel for a round of Uxbridge English Dictionary often involves the host offering to explain the distinction between two commonly confused words (such as "habitable" and "livable"), giving a very precise definition of the first, and then giving a completely fake definition for the second ("whereas 'Livable' is where Scousers come from"). From "Late Arrivals To The Television Ball": One round of new definitions featured this: | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_87d7e9fa | type |
Surreal Humor | |
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Surreal Humor: A serious problem for the teams whenever they have to do closed quotes from famous people or children, with the actual answers usually being far more bizarre than anything the panellists can dish out. | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent? | |
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What the Hell Is That Accent?: In one round of "Sound Charades", one team is given "Dances With Wolves" and adopt Wolverhampton accents that almost immediately start slipping, leading to them going on a tangent about how they sound more South African now before getting back on track. | |
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Medium Awareness | |
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Medium Awareness: Routinely subverted. Since the show is non-fictional, everyone has medium awareness, but the trope is relevant because of the show's tendency to use visual imagery on the radio. For example, in the (now rarely played) round Call My Bluff, all of the panellists give their own definition of a word, then reveal which one was true. We hear the rustles of paper as the answers are shown (and possibly some interested mumbling), and that's it. In an early episode, the audience were treated to the teams playing a round of Hide and Seek on stage. This was topped in a later episode by the teams playing another round of Hide and Seek, where the studio audience hid from the teams! This sort of thing used to happen all the time, in fact — there would be rounds were panellists tried to eat an apple without using their hands (with scattered comments throughout), for instance. Not to mention the jigsaw puzzles and board games. In a round of Songstoppers, Tony Hawks sang the opening lines of "With a Little Help From My Friends", and as he reached "Would you stand up and walk out on me?", Marcus Brigstocke stood up and walked offstage. Tony immediately lampshaded how the joke went down brilliantly in the theatre, but wouldn't work on the radio at all. | |
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Well, This Is Not That Trope | |
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Well, This Is Not That Trope: Often. | |
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Unwinnable Joke Game | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8c58b9bb | comment |
Unwinnable Joke Game: The basis of several one-off games (such as the teams' variation on Linking Cities, which involves one person saying a city and the next player saying a city that begins with the last letter of the previous city... whereas their version used months of the year, and then days of the week). | |
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Terrible Pick-Up Lines | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8c5cff7b | comment |
Terrible Pick-Up Lines: There have been two rounds based on this. One was "themed pick-up lines" for a given profession or hobby (so for example, for birdwatchers "If I told you I knew Bill Oddie, would you hold it against me?") The other was suggesting replies to terrible pick-up lines: | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Played for laughs when the attempt to play "Hunt the Slipper" is brought to a halt by Graeme's innocent question "Humph, should someone have brought a slipper?" | |
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Minimalist Cast | |
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Minimalist Cast: The majority of episodes between 1974 and 1996 featured the same panel, and even the guest panellists tend to be drawn from a fairly small pool of names. | |
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The Voiceless | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_8ec0abf | comment |
The Voiceless: Samantha, and her occasional replacements Monica and Sven. Who are all entirely fictional, existing only as Double Entendre fodder: Colin Sell is also voiceless insofar as he has no microphone and can't return any of the endless shots taken at him. (Occasionally he says something loud enough to be heard in the background or communicates via the piano, like falling on the keyboard in response to being "killed".) In Christmas Clue he played the part of Cratchit but, as the character is too poor to buy a microphone, he's still only barely audible. He got a couple of properly audible lines in the Hogmanay Special of spin-off show Hamish & Dougal when he played himself (with Humph as the Laird's butler, Lyttleton) | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_91e8bb36 | type |
Trivially Obvious | |
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Trivially Obvious: A Running Gag with Jack Dee is his introducing wherever the show's being recorded at as being "indisputably a town / city in [county]". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_937fc70c | type |
Chalk Outline | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_937fc70c | comment |
Chalk Outline: In a round of What's the Problem?: | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: From a round of Complete Quotes that used proverbs and sayings: | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_950bbfa7 | type |
Take a Third Option | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: In a round of Blind Date, Tim has a choice between three contestants (who are, of course, Barry, Graeme and Willie). He chooses number four - Colin Sell. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
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Never My Fault: If the music comes back in "Pick-up Song" to reveal that the panellist was significantly out of time with the original, they will often make some comment about the original singer "losing it". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_99385626 | type |
Once for Yes, Twice for No | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_99385626 | comment |
Once for Yes, Twice for No: The "Dummy Keyboard" round, played in one episode in series 30, involved Colin Sell tapping out rhythms and the contestants trying to guess what tune it was. When it came time for the contestants to guess, Colin started audibly answering "yes" or "no", leading to Humph complaining that he's not supposed to talk. Barry suggested that instead he should knock once for yes and twice for no. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_99b2613a | type |
Oop North | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_99b2613a | comment |
Oop North: Frequently used for definitions in the Uxbridge English Dictionary. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9b57f005 | type |
AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9b57f005 | comment |
Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Humph would usually do this rather subtly, placing — or neglecting to place — emphasis on a word to completely change the meaning of the sentence. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9c550e26 | type |
Word Salad Title | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9c550e26 | comment |
Word Salad Title: "Cheddar Gorge", the game where the panellists take turns saying one word at a time to keep the sentence going on as long as possible. The introduction often claims that the title is self-explanatory. By contrast, "One Song to the Tune of Another", which is as self-explanatory as you could ask for, is treated as a Word Salad Title and introduced with an overly-elaborate analogy to make things "clearer". | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9ce377f1 | type |
Cure Your Gays | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9ce377f1 | comment |
Cure Your Gays: Referenced in one episode when Sandi Toksvig was the guest panellist. Jack was reading out some quotes from love songs for Closed Quotes and said, in an incredibly monotone fashion, "Baby, I'm hot just like an oven. I need some lovin'." Sandi proceeded to burst into giggles, then commented "Blimey, Jack, you could have me on the turn, I can tell you..." | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9d4be0e | type |
More Popular Spinoff | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9d4be0e | comment |
More Popular Spin Off: I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again ran for eight years. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue started in 1972 and is still going. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9dcc010d | type |
Signature Sound Effect | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9dcc010d | comment |
Signature Sound Effect: Humph had a car horn which made a distinctive honking noise, used for Cheddar Gorge or to signal the end of a round. Since Jack took over, a gong has been used for the same purposes. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9dfb8296 | comment |
This Is Gonna Suck: During a particularly long and tortured pun in the "Late Arrivals at the Vicar's Ball", Barry Cryer exclaimed "Come on, lemming, over the cliff!" | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Suspiciously Apropos Music: Jeremy Hardy once had to accompany Joe Cocker singing "With a Little Help From My Friends" in Pick-Up Song. He immediately laughed at the first line, "What would you do if I sang out of tune?" | |
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Orphaned Setup | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9e5369d1 | comment |
Orphaned Setup: During the usual Take That! against Colin in an introduction to "One Song to the Tune of Another", Humph read out "Even after all these years, the sound of Colin's playing still makes me want to clap"; this alone was enough to get laughter and a round of applause from the audience, and he decided not to bother with the punchline.note It wasn't until the episode was released as part of the "Live" CD range that the punchline was revealed as part of the retakes between shows: "Both hands over both ears!" | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9edfdf1f | type |
Studio Audience | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_9edfdf1f | comment |
Studio Audience: Recorded in front of one. They've got such a wide range of responses that they often add to the show — truly bad puns are given a Collective Groan, most of the Running Gags provoke cheering, and then there's the strange honor of having a single person applaud a joke, which Barry has fondly dubbed an "applau". | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Sarcasm Mode: Everything the chairman says which isn't directly insulting, stealthily insulting, or leading up to a joke will be delivered like this. | |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_a10d8339 | type |
The Show Must Go On | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_a10d8339 | comment |
The Show Must Go On: Mildly — there've been a few episodes in which the buzzers have malfunctioned or been mislabelled. Or, in some cases, Humph just got confused about who was challenging: In another episode, Graeme had Bell's Palsy while recording. He didn't bring it up until it was his turn in One Song To The Tune Of Another. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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In Cheddar Gorge, saying "comma" to buy time, or three contestants conspiring to create the phrase "...and yet strangely..." to force someone to describe something twice (or more). In the introduction to Cheddar Gorge, Humph would sometimes define the noise made by the klaxon horn. "If I decide that a full stop has been reached, you'll hear this...(honk)...as I prod a baby elephant with a stick." One person saying 'and' or 'yet' in Letter Writing, the two-man version of Cheddar Gorge. | |
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Improv | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_a33b90b2 | comment |
Improv: Tim Brooke-Taylor described about a fifth of the show as being ad-libbed, although Willie Rushton reckoned it was closer to half. (The live stage show, being a selection of "greatest hits", is nearly all scripted, although certain rounds which have to be improvised to work, such as Letter Writing, are different every night.) | |
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The Butler Did It | |
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The Butler Did It: Spoofed in a round where the players had to improvise a detective story with the title "Murder by Moonlight": almost immediately, Barry Cryer established that "Moonlight" was the name of the butler. He turned out to be innocent in the end, though. | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: Whenever Jeremy Hardy's turn comes up in a music round, or a game of Mornington Crescent is announced. In a straighter example of the trope, Colin is once accidentally shot during a round of Russian Roulette. Humph immediately shouts "Yes!" | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Alan Titchmarsch, also doing double-duty as several other famous gardeners for a round of "Gardeners Question Tim". | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: More or less every round of Letter Writing will have this exchange. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
| I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_a7aef9ff | comment |
Obfuscating Stupidity: Part of Humph's ability to get away with scathing Take Thats and filthy innuendos was his befuddled persona, which managed to simultaneously make the jokes less offensive and more funny. When rounds of Sound Charades get really obvious, the guessing team will usually beat around the bush with lots of humming and stalling. | |
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Pinball Gag | |
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Pinball Gag: Referenced in a round of "Limericks" on a show from Edinburgh: | |
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Scare 'Em Straight | |
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Scare 'Em Straight: In one round of Closed Quotes, the quotes were taken from PSAs. A few of them were so hilariously horrifying that the panellists burst out laughing when the real answers were shown. In a round of Notes And Queries, the questions were all taken from children. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Humph. His entire persona was that of a bored old man who was baffled and annoyed by the entire show and everyone who was on it. | |
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Underwater Fart Gag | |
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Underwater Fart Gag: One "Good news, bad news" exchange, has the good news be "I got a new jacuzzi" and the bad news be "It wasn't a jacuzzi when I got in." | |
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Informed Flaw | |
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Informed Flaw: There are incessant jokes about Colin Sell's terrible piano-playing, even though he is actually an excellent pianist and plays flawlessly in every episode.note Except in the "Bad-Tempered Clavier" game where his playing is deliberately awful for comic effect, which in itself requires great skill. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: In an episode when Andy Hamilton was the guest, Humph pointed out an oddity in the buzzers. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Subverted; Humph regularly borrows other game show catchphrases...and gets them wrong. Quite a lot of games have catchphrases of their own: "Adjudication, Humph?" said by Barry, whenever an argument about the rules of Mornington Crescent cropped up. Back when the show still ended every show with "The [Profession] Ball", the phrase "Will you welcome, please, Mr. and Mrs..." was often used, and frequently subverted, being substituted with poetic nonsense. | |
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Our Product Sucks | |
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Our Product Sucks: The show was punctuated by the host Humph commenting on horrible the programme was, both in concept and execution; implying that he wanted to be somewhere (indeed, anywhere) else; wondering why anyone would be listening to this; suggesting their listener numbers were in single figures; etc. The contestants often agreed. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Harry Hill does this to himself, twice in the same episode even. First during Uxbridge English Dictionary, and later on when he puts on a very exaggerated Irish accent during Sound Charades, suggesting he could walk it back if it's too much. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Humph gets to deliver a lot of them, mostly against the team members and Colin Sell, occasionally against other broadcasters. And sometimes the panellists: Tim and Graeme both sometimes name-check and mock the BBC executives who hate The Goodies and try and stop it being released on DVD. The team members take friendly shots at each other quite often, as well. The show was parodied in the 1990s in a brief sketch on On The Hour. According to The Clue Bible note The Fully Authorised History of "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" from Footlights to Mornington Crescent, by Jem Roberts Graeme Garden said he enjoyed the sketch, adding that he looked forward to hearing On The Hour's fiftieth series. Whenever Chelsea supporter Andy Hamilton is on the panel, some of the jokes will invariably be against a rival football team: On one occasion, the intro to a round of "Straight Face" claimed that the idea of a comedy routine in which the aim was to avoid making the audience laugh had been pioneered by Hale & Pace. On one occasion when Jeremy Hardy is asked to sing when the show was recording in Liverpool, Jack Dee gets defensive and tells the audience "even the Beatles let Ringo sing sometimes!" | |
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Politeness Judo | |
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Politeness Judo: Occasionally, when the other team announce that their work for Sound Charades is a book / film / TV series, Graeme will casually ask "What's it called?" | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Humph once introduced an episode of Letter Writing with "There's nothing like badly-written English to really make my goat boil." | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
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In "Word For Word" (the "word disassociation game" where they have to say a word completely unrelated to the last one), Barry would sometimes challenge by claiming that two words put together were the name of a sixties rock band. This would sometimes be further elaborated on with Barry being challenged to sing one of their songs. In the same game, if a challenge is awarded to Barry and Graeme, Graeme will sometimes begin by saying an affirmative word such as "Okay", or "Right", and, after a Beat, add "That was my word." Eventually subverted: | |
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Low Count Gag | |
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Low Count Gag: In a regular gag, the chairman uses variations of this joke to say the show has been deluged by an unprecedented number of letters, and it's from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: In one round, the teams are asked to imagine the result of certain companies merging. Barry says that Lastminute.com and Firkin Breweries would merge to get "Last Firkin Minute", and Tim comes up with Kellog's All-Bran merging with Bernard Matthews Farms to get "something that's Norfolk and tasty". note Say it aloud and you'll understand. | |
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Yes-Man | |
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Yes-Man: Panellists would occasionally play this for laughs, sucking up to Humph in the most obvious fashion. Once subverted, when Barry mentioned what a marvellous chairman he was and what a great job he was doing. Humph awarded him and Graeme ten points for prefacing with that, and awarded Tim and Willie fifteen points for not starting with that. | |
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Brief Accent Imitation | |
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Brief Accent Imitation: One way of playing the "Pick-up Song" round. Occasionally leads into Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping (such as when Marcus Brigstocke found it difficult to keep a straight face whilst accompanying Shaggy's "Mr Boombastic"). If someone challenges for repetition, hesitation, or deviation in a round outside Just A Minim, Jack has taken to replying with his Nicholas Parsons impression. "No, no, Tim, I don't think that's right...but the audience enjoyed your challenge so much!" | |
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Empty Chair Memorial | |
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Empty Chair Memorial: Played with, when Willie Rushton passed away he was never replaced as a regular, his seat was only ever filled by a guest performer. | |
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Tomato Surprise | |
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Tomato Surprise: A few games rely on the fact that there's no visual aspect for the joke. During a round of "Who Am I?", where the panellists had post-it notes with the name of a celebrity written on them attached to their heads and had to ask questions to find out who they were, all four of them managed to correctly guess the celebrity almost instantly. At the end of the round? | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Humph would occasionally do it, and similarly he would say things like "That was a good round" in a wooden tone suggesting it was written into the script and his own opinion was quite different (sometimes specifically saying "or that's what it says here, anyway") or changing the emphasis of the phrase. From a round of Call My Bluff: | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: An occasional game asks the players to suggest new meanings for real acronyms, such as text abbreviations adapted to the elderly. Series 57, Episode 6 had this exchange. | |
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Informed Attribute | |
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Informed Attribute: Parodied with the "LASER DISPLAY BOARD" (sometimes extra words suggesting technical brilliance are added into the description) which allegedly informs the studio audience of whatever the secret is, as the Mystery Voice does for the listeners at home. Of course, like Samantha it's entirely fictional, and there's an audience laugh when the secret turns out to be written on an ordinary cue card which the show producer runs across the stage with. One of the many features of the internet-linked liquid-crystal laser display board is to confuse the listeners at home who haven't been to a recording, and to make them wonder why the audience laugh when the title is displayed (although this was more effective prior to the advent of the internet; these days, everybody knows the secret). | |
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Helium Speech | |
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Helium Speech: In a round of Pick-Up Song, Tony Hawks was tasked with accompanying Pinky and Perky's cover of "Baby Love", and was given helium to help him. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: In one episode, a variant on the "Mystery Illness" game was played called "Scandals". The scandal Tim and Jeremy had to guess they'd been involved in was accepting honours for cash. Barry and Graeme... had accepted a booking on Quote, Unquote. | |
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Subverted Punchline | |
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Subverted Punchline: This was a staple. For example: | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: Ranges from surreal logic to out-of-nowhere assumptions to logic that makes sense in its own internal world. Many of the answers in Notes And Queries fall under this as well. | |
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I Am Spartacus | |
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I Am Spartacus: Before one round of "Pick-Up Song", Humph replaced "What do points mean?" with this. Most of the audience just cheered, but a few shouted back "No, I'm Spartacus!" | |
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Censored for Comedy | |
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Censored for Comedy: The "Censored Songs" round, in which they sing karaoke with strategically-placed censor bleeps to make the song sound a lot ruder than it originally was. This game arguably never bettered the episode in which we heard... Another brilliant one "Whenever I feel a[buzz] / I hold my [buzz] erect / And whistle a happy tune / so no one will suspect I'm a[buzz]... Whenever I [buzz] / The people I [buzz] / I [buzz] myself as well..." This concept originated with I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. In one round of Closed Quotes, the quotes came from an interview with Ozzy Osbourne. Humph censored the more explicit words by honking his horn. In a round of Sound Charades, Tim and Jeremy illustrated The Sopranos by putting on high-pitched soprano voices and talking like typical gangsters, excessive swearing and all. The swearing was all bleeped out in the broadcast version, which Barry predicted — afterward, he quipped "You'll bleep with the fishes!" In a round of I'm a Celebrity Let Me In, Jeremy and Tim were applying to be tenants as Ozzy Osbourne and The Queen, with Ozzy throwing in the usual censored profanities. It's not long before Her Majesty starts throwing them in too. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In spades, especially the Songbook, Film Club or Book Club rounds, which revolve around making puns about popular films (or songs, or books). Then there are rounds like No Budget, which are about modifying book, film, or TV titles to reflect their, well, lack of budget. Sometimes the panellists will play their own versions of existing games, such as their version of Countdown: | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: A limerick. Much of the chairman's material plays on this. The credits describe the show as "(contestants) were being given silly things to do by (chairman), with Colin Sell setting some of them to music". | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: Mrs. Trellis of North Wales, who writes many letters, e-mails, texts and so on to the show under the mistaken belief that she's writing to another show, always confusing the chairman for some other programme host. Usually, these messages make some amount of sense. Sometimes, they're just...weird. This was an example of a joke about people on the train who answer their mobile phone (then a relatively new thing) and loudly and obnoxiously talk about inane things (stereotypically beginning 'I'm on a train'), to the annoyance of the other passengers. In The '90s they were so prevalent to be a time-specific Mattress-Tag Gag (see Trigger Happy TV). The letters are usually puns, topical jokes, or, as stated above, jokes about communication. (An e-mail from Mrs. Trellis is usually filled with confused strokes and slashes, for instance.)note Doctor Anthony Clare was the BBC's resident radio psychiatrist, a sort of British Frasier Crane, who presented shows on mental health issues | |
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Jedi Mind Trick | |
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Jedi Mind Trick: Graeme will frequently ask "What's it called?" at the beginning of the other team's Sound Charade. Unsurprisingly, it never works. | |
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Show Stopper | |
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Show Stopper: Many of the more familiar running gags and rounds such as the introduction to Mornington Crescent and "Your turn, Jeremy" in a singing round. Any reference to The Goodies would invariably draw huge cheers and applause. | |
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Damned by Faint Praise | |
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Damned by Faint Praise: In one episode, recorded in Milton Keynes, Jack states that it is definitely "a city in Buckinghamshire." | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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invokedDude, Not Funny!: In one episode, Humph messes up one of his lines. The cast respond to it by pretending to treat him like a doddering old man. The audience generally reacts with laughter, but when Barry rubs it in by saying "Your trumpet went very well at the auction!", there's a pretty huge audience groan to signify he's gone too far. | |
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Monochrome Casting | |
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Monochrome Casting: Has featured precisely one non-white comedian (Omid Djalili) in forty-seven years. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: The entire point of the Opera round, which challenges the players to sing dull pieces of text in epic faux-operatic style. | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
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Dreadful Musician: The show has constant jabs at Colin Sell, pretending he - a very fine pianist - is one of these. Just about every explanation of "One Song to the Tune of Another" ends with a shot at his apparent lack of ability. The "Bad-Tempered Clavier" round has to take the cake, though, with the host explaining how the panelist will struggle to sing properly as Colin Sell plays like an imbecile with his hands the wrong way round... and the difference is, this time it's deliberate. As for actual examples, perhaps none are more infamous on this show than Jeremy Hardy, who apparently had no idea what a tune even was when given a shot at a musical round. In one game of "Pick-up Song" where he actually did a passable job (with "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"), everyone reacted with shock. David Mitchell's first attempt at "One Song to the Tune of Another"note "A Whiter Shade of Pale" to the theme from The Muppet Show prompted the response of "I miss Jeremy." | |
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To the Tune of... | |
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To the Tune of...: 'One Song to the Tune of Another', of course. | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Neither the chairman nor any of the panellists have any qualms about making insulting jokes about one another. Despite this, the close friendship of everyone on the show is obvious. Humph mentioned in an interview that Colin's mother had been upset with him regarding the "awful things" he said about her son. He clarified that, off-stage, they were very good friends. | |
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Plato Is a Moron | |
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Plato Is a Moron: "Eton's most famous former pupils include The Duke Of Wellington, William Gladstone, George Orwell, and Humphrey Lyttelton, the jazz musician and panel game host. It doesn't say what those other three are famous for." | |
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Welcome to My World | |
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Welcome to My World: In the opening of "Murder by Moonlight": | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: You'll Have Had Your Tea? The Doings of Hamish And Dougal, a surreal sitcom about two elderly Scottish gentlemen Cryer and Garden invented for the "Sound Charades" skits. A one-off Mockumentary In Search of Mornington Crescent, in which top BBC journalist Andrew Marr completely fails to find out what the rules of Mornington Crescent actually are. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Some of the more hilarious examples of One Song To The Tune Of Another: "Girlfriend in a Coma" to the tune of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" "Bat out of Hell" to the tune of "Postman Pat" "Bigmouth Strikes Again" to the tune of "Over the Rainbow" "Anarchy in the UK" to the tune of "Singin' in the Rain" "My Favourite Things" to the tune of "The Funeral March" It can become something of a Running Gag for one particularly downbeat song to be used as the tune for several completely inappropriate sets of lyrics; "The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" has been used for "I'm Too Sexy", "The Gummy Bear Song" and the theme tune from The Muppet Show. There's also the "Opera Time" game, where they sing the words of something banal (like a recipe) as an operatic duet. | |
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Unfortunate Names | |
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Unfortunate Names: As "willy" is a term for penis in Britain, mentioning Willie Rushton can often lead to this, usually at Humph's expense. | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: Sometimes prompted, sometimes spontaneous. In Sound Charades, the audience will react with either applause or booing depending on how accurate the guesses of the guessing team are. In Pick-Up Song, they occasionally clap (something pointed out by Humph is that the audience seldom know the exact rhythm, thus misleading the singer into going faster or slower than they should) or sing along. In Mornington Crescent, they applaud, collectively gasp, cheer — and one or two members of the audience has actually yelled out possible moves. And, of course: The audience spontaneously claps and cheers at the announcement of Mornington Crescent, and in recent years has also started doing this for "One Song to the Tune of Another", "Pick-Up Song" or any time Jeremy Hardy is called upon to sing. | |
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering? | |
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Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: In the limerick rounds, the panellists would often come up with bizarre lines out of nowhere. | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: Hamish and Dougal. | |
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With Lyrics | |
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With Lyrics: "One Song to the Tune of Another" can become this if the second song doesn't normally have lyrics. | |
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Role-Ending Misdemeanor | |
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Role-Ending Misdemeanor: In-universe, after the infamous "Sopranos" Cluster F-Bomb, this was predicted: | |
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Beat | |
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In the same game, if a challenge is awarded to Barry and Graeme, Graeme will sometimes begin by saying an affirmative word such as "Okay", or "Right", and, after a Beat, add "That was my word." Eventually subverted: | |
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No Budget | |
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No Budget: The apparent lack of funding for the show is sometimes joked about. invoked Mentioned in a round of "Word For Word". Paul Merton buzzed Barry and Graeme, and Humph initially overruled his challenge, saying that they only had one buzzer and that was with Tim and Paul. He then says "...oh, thank you, Paul" as footsteps are heard, and then Graeme says "For those of you listening in stereo — it's over here now!" Later, when Barry challenges Tim and Paul, Paul says "we'd better have the buzzer back then, hadn't we?" and footsteps are heard again. There's also a round that's sometimes literally called "No Budget", where the panellists have to think up "cut-price" version of well-known media, such as Wuthering Hillocks or The Chihuahua of the Baskervilles. | |
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Depraved Kids' Show Host | |
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Depraved Kids' Show Host: Sweep the puppet... at least, according to what Jack says he suggested. "Throttle Graeme? That's not very nice." | |
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Genre Refugee | |
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Genre Refugee: Richard Osman, one of a very few guest panellists not to come from a comedy background. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone/Dull Surprise: Humph sometimes used this for laughs, such as giving the teams praise in a wooden tone that suggested he was wearily reading out a prescripted line. Probably the best example is when he used Anne Robinson's catchphrase in a round parodying The Weakest Link but without any of the viciousness: | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor | |
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Biting-the-Hand Humor: Much snark is often thrown at BBC Radio 4, with the recurring joke that people who listen to it are exclusively elderly middle class folk, and any listener who isn't has simply gotten lost. The show is broadcast on BBC Radio 4. John Cleese, who had first become famous as part of precursor show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again and who had participated in at least the first series of ISIHAC, once made the arch remark to his former co-stars | |
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The Illegible | |
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The Illegible: Humph would rag on the producer Jon Naismith for his terrible handwriting, at one point claiming he needed to pin it up on a board and run past it to have any chance to understand it. | |
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Late to the Punchline | |
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Late to the Punchline: From one round of Closed Quotes: | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: Most often used in the intro to Swanee-Kazoo. | |
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Last-Second Word Swap | |
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Last-Second Word Swap: In the Limericks game, subverting the audience's expectation of the "obvious" rhymes. (It's not Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion because the substituted words do fulfill the rhyme as well... usually.) In some limericks, the competitors actually predict the rhyme about to come, with embarrassed mumbles such as "Oh, that one..." | |
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Pet's Homage Name | |
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Pet's Homage Name: One round of "Limerick" unfolded thusly: | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: In the "Kiss of Death" round, each panellist has to come up with a one-liner that will not only end a date but make sure it is never repeated. One of Graeme Garden's was: | |
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Innocent Innuendo | |
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The introduction to "Sound Charades" involves Humph comparing it to Give Us A Clue (the TV version of Charades) and making some homosexual Innocent Innuendo about that show's regular Lionel Blair. In the last few years this has changed to Blair simply being insulted as untalented or unable to find work, likely because since the revelations about Jimmy Savile and a string of other high-profile entertainers the innuendos became considerably less amusing (and, with Blair's death in 2021, the gag has been retired altogether). Following Lionel Blair's passing, "Sound Charades" has stopped referencing Give Us A Clue, and instead invites comparisons to classical mime, often with interesting pseudo-facts about Marcel Marceau. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Averted after Willie Rushton's death. Recognising that he could never truly be replaced (and the possible replacements were mostly much younger comics with different styles), his seat was instead turned into a rotating guest spot. | |
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Strongly Worded Letter | |
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Strongly Worded Letter: The letters from Mrs Trellis of North Wales would sometimes veer into this territory; not helped by the fact that she was often unaware of exactly what programme she was writing to. | |
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Running Gag: "Mornington Crescent" segments always start with Humph reading out the one letter they've had sent in this week, which is always from a Mrs. Trellis of North Wales, and is addressed to some other radio presenter. "One Song To The Tune Of Another" is introduced by Humph explaining the simple concept by means of an impossibly obtuse and roundabout metaphor, always finishing with a crack at pianist Colin Sell. Similarly, the show begins with Humph talking about the city in which it's being recorded this week (with jokes about its reputation and history) before segueing into an insult directed at the contestants. Humph would also close the show with a saying usually involving Fate, Destiny, Time and Eternity, but sometimes also Hope, Despair and Doom. In earlier episodes he instead sometimes ended with a joke about looking at his watch and seeing they'd run out of time: Members of Humph's posh family were often mentioned on the show as well. The introduction to "Sound Charades" involves Humph comparing it to Give Us A Clue (the TV version of Charades) and making some homosexual Innocent Innuendo about that show's regular Lionel Blair. In the last few years this has changed to Blair simply being insulted as untalented or unable to find work, likely because since the revelations about Jimmy Savile and a string of other high-profile entertainers the innuendos became considerably less amusing (and, with Blair's death in 2021, the gag has been retired altogether). Following Lionel Blair's passing, "Sound Charades" has stopped referencing Give Us A Clue, and instead invites comparisons to classical mime, often with interesting pseudo-facts about Marcel Marceau. Later seasons' "Sound Charades" also invariably feature Barry and Graeme's "Hamish and Dougal" characters, who begin every sketch with "Ah, Hamish!" "Ah, Dougal!" "You'll have had your tea?" Played with in one episode where Andy Hamilton was standing in for Graeme. In the Film Club round, Graeme will usually do some variation of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. In the "songbook" version, Barry often does one based on "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (for example, in "Pharmacist's Songbook", "Super canine pencil styptic, Ex-Lax and some douches". Barry will also sometimes do an Anti Humour one where he just replaces one word in a list of media with the same word related to the subject without it being a pun, ending with a Comically Missing the Point one. For example, Entomologist's Book Club: In "Late Arrivals", another Hurricane of Puns game, if the players are having trouble coming up with names that the audience doesn't consider a lame pun, someone (usually Graeme) will inevitably resort to the old standby of a "Gordon Bennett"-based joke (e.g., "Mr. and Mrs. Bennett-look-at-the-size-of-that-crab, and their son Gordon Bennett-look-at-the-size-of-that-crab" at the Fisherman's Ball). When a round went on for a bit, Humph would pointedly mention that he had a gig in Hull the following week. Also to punctuate that a round had gone on too long, Barry sometimes mentioned that he had black hair when they started. In "Complete Quotes", if the last word of the quote snippet is "an", expect a reference to hard-right politician and media personality Ann Widdecombe. For example, Complete Advertising Slogans: "Go to work on an..."note "...egg", the famous slogan from the Egg Marketing Board "...Widdecombe". In "Word For Word" (the "word disassociation game" where they have to say a word completely unrelated to the last one), Barry would sometimes challenge by claiming that two words put together were the name of a sixties rock band. This would sometimes be further elaborated on with Barry being challenged to sing one of their songs. In the same game, if a challenge is awarded to Barry and Graeme, Graeme will sometimes begin by saying an affirmative word such as "Okay", or "Right", and, after a Beat, add "That was my word." Eventually subverted: In Cheddar Gorge, saying "comma" to buy time, or three contestants conspiring to create the phrase "...and yet strangely..." to force someone to describe something twice (or more). In the introduction to Cheddar Gorge, Humph would sometimes define the noise made by the klaxon horn. "If I decide that a full stop has been reached, you'll hear this...(honk)...as I prod a baby elephant with a stick." One person saying 'and' or 'yet' in Letter Writing, the two-man version of Cheddar Gorge. In early seasons, Humph would say they were just about to play a game called "Wobbling Bunnies". There was either never enough time, or "the apparatus" hadn't arrived yet. Quote... Unquote is one of the show's recurring targets, which frequent jokes about how unfunny it isnote Which stems from Radio 4's scheduling shuffle in the mid-90s, which saw Clue and The News Quiz move and Quote Unquote promoted to the 6:30pm slot. Tim Brooke-Taylor's impression of Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest, in particular the famous "A HAAAAANDBAAAAG?!" line. Whenever Humph was particularly inattentive, Barry would respond by treating him as a senile old man. ("The visitors are coming in a minute! ...Put your trousers on!") This once combined with the 'gig in Hull' gag, when the teams had just finished a round with no reaction from Humph. Barry yelled "We've finished, Humph! We'll go for a walk on the seafront later!", to which Humph responded "I've just left for next Thursday's gig in Hull." In games like Just A Minim and Word For Word where challenges are allowed, Humph would occasionally accept a challenge, then let the subject go to anyone except the person who had challenged. In Uxbridge English Dictionary, Barry will occasionally say a word ending in '-ish' or '-y', and define it as 'rather like [word]'. (Such as "Vanish: Rather like a van.") Sometimes there are running gags that only last the length of that episode, such as in this round of Uxbridge English Dictionary: Whenever he's a guest, Tony Hawks tends to have his (rather good) singing tested to the limit by giving him the most ridiculously hard songs to sing along to in "Pick-up Song", often ones which are extremely fast-paced and / or in foreign languages (including Gangnam Style, Bamboleo and Macarena). If an audience start clapping along to someone's singing, Jack Dee has developed a running joke of referring to it as something else (including rain, people eating crisps, and the audience trying to break down the doors of the theatre). | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Don't Explain the Joke: A couple of shows have featured someone doing this to cover a joke that didn't get a laugh, ending by adding "and I wish I was dead". In one recent episode, Tim did this, and Jack said "Tim, the audience are right." Another variation is when someone tells a joke that doesn't get a laugh, wait for a joke that does, and then repeat the joke. If it doesn't get a laugh then, expect it to be turned into a Running Gag. A further variation is to completely kill the joke with overexplanation, thereby making it funny again. In one episode, Humph explained one of the jokes in his introduction long after the audience had finished laughing, then added "That was for any of the stupider listeners at home." | |
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Fun with Foreign Languages | |
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Fun with Foreign Languages: Translated Phrases, which gives us such translations as Film Noir = "my photos haven't come out", and variations of the theme of adapting song/film/TV titles or proverbs for foreign audiences. | |
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Doomy Dooms of Doom | |
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Humph would also close the show with a saying usually involving Fate, Destiny, Time and Eternity, but sometimes also Hope, Despair and Doom. In earlier episodes he instead sometimes ended with a joke about looking at his watch and seeing they'd run out of time: | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: A frequent source of humour (as in Celebrity What's My Line?, where a celebrity is introduced and the panellists have to guess what they do for a living). Often in Sound Charades, when the guessing team have figured the charade out, they'll name something humorously out of the blue. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "The first round this week is called Round One." "The next game is called Word For Word. It's a word game." Often invoked in the set-up to the One Song To The Tune Of Another game. "Round One will be followed, in time-honored tradition, by Round Two." Most incarnations of Cheddar Gorge (especially Letter Writing) will result in this when the panellists force each other to describe something with more than one adjective. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: One show has a round in which Jack asks "Where's the Gents'?". Barry buzzes in and answers ("Down the stairs, second on the right"), and Jack goes on to introduce the next round, Mornington Crescent. Halfway through that round, deep in a discussion of the minutiae of the rules, Tim asks Jack for an adjudication — and the sound of a flush is heard, followed by Jack hurrying back up the stairs to the game. | |
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Chromosome Casting | |
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Chromosome Casting: Between 1973 and 1996, the regular panel was made up of five men, and even when one of them was unavailable their stand-in would almost invariably be male; the only women to appear from the show's inception up until Willie Rushton's death were Jo Kendall (a regular on the first series who had also been on I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again) and Denise Coffey (who deputised for unavailable regulars on several occasions between 1979 and 1997). Following Rushton's passing, things barely improved despite the now-regular guest spot, with Sandi Toksvig and Linda Smith being the show's only regular female guests. Things have improved a little in recent years with Jo Brand, Susan Calman, Pippa Evans, Rachel Parris and Victoria Wood all being added to the roster. | |
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