"revived in 2016 on VIER. ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", another BBC radio comedy panel show which occupies the same Monday-night slot in the Radio 4 schedule, occasionally parodies its rival show with a round entitled ""Just a Minim"". In this spoof version the contestants must sing songs — always chosen for their highly repetitive lyrics — without repetition, hesitation, or deviation (from the tune.) The chairman, currently Jack Dee who has himself been a guest on ""Just a Minute"", imitates Nicholas Parsons' style. Just a Minute Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television"
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Introduced as ""the antidote to panel games"", it consists of two teams of two comedians ""given silly things to do"" by a chairman. The show launched in April 1972 as a parody of radio and TV panel games, and has been broadcast since on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, with repeats aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra and, in the 1980s and 1990s, on BBC Radio 2. The 50th series was broadcast in November and December 2007. After"
"producer of the long-running radio panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" since 1991. The episodes are recorded before a live theatre audience, with two programmes being recorded at each performance and Naismith traditionally performs the duties of ""warmup artist"". This usually involves testing sound recording levels by means of a ""patronising audience participation exercise"" and a joke. Naismith also provides the voiceovers for the show, such as when the host talks about something appearing on the laser display board, he is ""the mystery voice for listeners at home"". He married Belinda Campbell in Oxfordshire in June 2002. Jon"
"Susan Calman Susan Grace Calman (born 6 November 1974) is a Scottish comedian, television presenter, writer and panellist on a number of BBC Radio 4 shows including ""The News Quiz"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". She has written and starred in two series of her radio sitcom ""Sisters"", two series of stand-up show ""Susan Calman is Convicted"" and a series of stand-up show ""Keep Calman Carry On"", all on BBC Radio 4. She was one of the relief presenters for Fred MacAulay on his BBC Radio Scotland show ""MacAulay and Co"" which ran until March 2015. Other television"
"Kent, Jim Tomlinson, Charlie Watts, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, Tina May, Louise Parker, Annie Whitehead, Sue Richardson, Ben Waters, and Axel Zwingelberger. The show also featured comedy from Jack Dee, Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Rob Brydon, Jeremy Hardy, Sandi Toksvig, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton, and Colin Sell from the BBC panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue."" A recording of the show was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day 2010. The Humph Award (originally The Humphrey Lyttelton Royal Academy of Music Jazz Award) was set up with the Royal Academy of Music and is awarded"
"director of Open Mike Productions, which he also co-founded with Addison Cresswell, which produces shows for television and radio including ""Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow"" and """". Jack Dee James Andrew Innes Dee (born 29 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, presenter and writer known for his sarcasm and deadpan humour. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom ""Lead Balloon"" and hosting the panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"". He has been a team captain on ""Shooting Stars"" and hosted ""Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo"", which was nominated"
"Hardy took his place, with Miles Jupp as the guest panellist. Dates The eighth and most recent tour took place in 2017, again with Dee in the chair. Garden was again absent so Hardy took his place once more, with Tony Hawks as the guest panellist. Dates Episodes of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" were included in the package of programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue I'm Sorry I Haven't"
"Jack Dee James Andrew Innes Dee (born 29 September 1961) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, presenter and writer known for his sarcasm and deadpan humour. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom ""Lead Balloon"" and hosting the panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"". He has been a team captain on ""Shooting Stars"" and hosted ""Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo"", which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. He also presented ""The Jack Dee Show"", ""Jack Dee's Saturday Night"" and ""Jack Dee's Happy Hour"". He won ""Celebrity Big Brother"
"Colin Sell Colin Sell (born 1 December 1948) is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". He has become famous mostly for his long service on the latter show, where the opening credits are ""At the piano is Colin Sell, and your chairman is Humphrey Lyttelton/Jack Dee"", in the manner of the show none of the panelists are credited in the opening credits, but are introduced by the chairman, usually in a sarcastic manner (""the foremost available comedians. I'm sorry. The four ""most available"""
"Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" version once employed the famous actress (and fan of the show) Dame Judi Dench in this role and the renowned television gardener Alan Titchmarsh. Each began by performing a mime illustrating their occupation, giving a cryptic clue to the panel (appearing to a radio listener as a short silence punctuated by exclamations from the panel and laughter from the studio audience), before fielding apparently serious questions from the teams (e.g. ""Is that your own hair?"" or ""Do you kill people for money?""), who pretended not to know who they were. Musical games often involve incongruities"
"I Got News for You"", where she appeared on the very first episode in 1990. She was also the host of ""What the Dickens"", a Sky Arts quiz show. On radio, she is a familiar voice for BBC Radio 4 listeners, having appeared on ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", ""The Unbelievable Truth"", and as the chair of ""The News Quiz"", where she replaced Simon Hoggart in September 2006, but left in June 2015 in order to enter politics to champion women's rights. Her final show was first broadcast on 26 June. She presented Radio 4's travel programme ""Excess Baggage"""
"Hamish and Dougal Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, who later went on to have their own Radio 4 series, You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal. The series is occasionally broadcast on the BBC's repeat channel, Radio Four Extra. The fictional characters Hamish and Dougal originated in one of the rounds of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" called Sound Charades. In this round the title of a book or film has"
"Radio 4 programme ""I'm Suzy, and I'm a Phobic"", which was broadcast in January 2013. Phill Jupitus Phillip Christopher Jupitus (; born 25 June 1962) is an English stand-up and improv comedian, actor, performance poet, cartoonist and podcaster. Jupitus was a team captain on BBC Two's popular music quiz ""Never Mind the Buzzcocks"" from its inception in 1996 until its end in 2015, and also appears regularly as a guest on several other panel shows, including ""QI"" and BBC Radio 4's ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". Born Phillip Swan in Newport on the Isle of Wight, he took his"
"show's longevity. On 18 April 2008 the producer of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"", Jon Naismith, announced that, owing to hospitalisation to repair an aortic aneurysm, Humphrey Lyttelton would be unable to record the scheduled shows and that they would have to be postponed. The final show of the 2008 ""Best of"" tour on 22 April would be presented by Rob Brydon. Following Lyttelton's death there was speculation that the series might be cancelled because replacing him would be extremely difficult if not impossible. In a eulogy in ""The Guardian"", Barry Cryer did not allude to the future of"
"been born in Cumbria."" Garden stated that in the series they were sending up the stereotypes of Scots rather than Scots themselves. Hamish and Dougal Hamish and Dougal are two characters from the long-running BBC Radio 4 radio comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", played by Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, who later went on to have their own Radio 4 series, You'll Have Had Your Tea: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal. The series is occasionally broadcast on the BBC's repeat channel, Radio Four Extra. The fictional characters Hamish and Dougal originated in one of the"
"in Edinburgh, where a visitor who has dropped in at ""tea"" (a colloquial term for an evening meal) is informed that the host does not intend to feed them. The stereotype of Scottish people being careful with their money is regularly played on in the series. Episodes were 15 minutes long and were extensions of the one-minute sketches. The series featured two other actors: regular ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" panelist Jeremy Hardy, and Alison Steadman. Steadman played Mrs Naughtie the housekeeper, while Hardy played the local laird. The announcer was BBC newsreader Brian Perkins. The music for the"
"who has worked on the show since 1992. ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" developed from the long-running radio sketch show ""I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again"", the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game. A panel game with no competition was not itself a new idea: the BBC had a history of successful quiz shows designed to allow witty celebrities to entertain where winning was not important."
"Band"". In 2013 he appeared with Barry Cryer in Richmond, Yorkshire, as part of the Swaledale Festival, performing jazz and blues and songs of his own composition. Colin has a son, Rob Sell, who is a saxophonist and flautist with various London area bands. Colin Sell Colin Sell (born 1 December 1948) is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games ""Whose Line Is It Anyway?"" and ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". He has become famous mostly for his long service on the latter show, where the opening credits are ""At the piano is Colin Sell,"
"series debuting on Thursday 13 November 2008. A fourth series finished on the BBC on 5 July 2011. He also starred as Harry in the 2005 film ""Short Order"". In February 2009, it was announced that Dee would be one of a trio of hosts to replace the late Humphrey Lyttelton for the summer series of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (the others being Stephen Fry and Rob Brydon). He subsequently became the permanent host from the 52nd series onwards. He is also a frequent guest on ""QI"" and ""Have I Got News for You"", which he has guest-presented"
"BBC One quiz show. Edwards stated in an interview with the ""Daily Mail"" that he has no sense of smell due to sniffing pure ammonia while in school. Edwards supported green organisation Global Cool in 2010 as part of their Traincation campaign, along with his friend George Lamb. Edwards married ""EastEnders"" and ""Father Brown"" actress Emer Kenny in 2016. Rick Edwards Richard Philip Edwards (born 20 May 1979 in Enfield, London) is an English television presenter who works mainly for Channel 4, E4 and ITV2. Edwards presented T4 for fourteen years, and has also presented ""Tool Academy"", ""Freshly Squeezed"", ""E4"
"for the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy series ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" which later featured Willie Rushton as a regular panellist. Tony Curtis is driving an Alvis Speed 20 (1932–36) named the ""Triple S, Six-Sylinder Special"", and Gert Fröbe is in a Mercedes SSK (1928–32). Terry-Thomas's car first is a Ware-Armitage, while his official entry is in a ""Nifty Nine, Mark II"". The other British team is in a Lea-Francis, outfitted with an array of ingenious contraptions including the Dawlish Klaxon, the Dawlish Periscope, the Dawlish Snow Stoppers, the Dawlish Snow Melter, bits to turn it into the"
"""Fry's English Delight"", a series on BBC Radio 4 about the English language. As of 2015, it has been running for eight series and 30 episodes. In the summer 2009 series of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", Fry was one of a trio of hosts replacing Humphrey Lyttelton (the others being Jack Dee and Rob Brydon). In 2012, he appeared as a guest panellist in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show ""Wordaholics"". In September 2012, he guest-starred as himself in the audio comedy drama ""We Are The BBC"", produced by the Wireless Theatre Company, written by Susan Casanove."
"Graeme Garden David Graeme Garden OBE (born 18 February 1943) is a Scottish comedian, actor, author, artist and television presenter, best known as a member of The Goodies and for being a cast member on ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he grew up in Preston, England. Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he joined the prestigious Cambridge University Footlights Club (of which he became President in 1964), and performed with the 1964 Footlights revue, ""Stuff What Dreams Are Made Of"" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Garden qualified"
"Institute of Blind People. Jasmine Harman Jasmine Isabelle Harman (born 15 November 1975) is a British television presenter, best known for co-presenting the Channel 4 series ""A Place in the Sun: Home or Away?"" since 2004, alongside Jonnie Irwin. Harman had a career in the health and fitness industry and later moved into television. She is a qualified fitness instructor and lived in the Algarve for several years, working as marketing manager for a health resort. It was here that she began writing professionally and hosted her own twice-weekly live magazine show on the Algarve radio station, Kiss FM, where"
"told the following joke while live on air. When Britain was an Empire we were ruled by an emperor. When we became a kingdom we were ruled by a king. And now we're a country we're ruled by Margaret Thatcher. The show continued until 1983, when he was sacked by Radio 2. Everett returned to Capital Radio in June 1984, reviving his Saturday lunchtime show. In May 1985, he was called in to replace Graeme Garden for one episode of the Radio 4 game show, ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". After Capital split its frequencies in 1988, he returned"
"he was an established guest on quiz shows and celebrity panel games: ""Celebrity Squares"", ""Blankety Blank"", ""Countdown"" and ""Through the Keyhole"". When asked why he appeared on these ""ludicrous programmes"", his answer was simple: ""Because I meet everybody there"". For 22 years until his death, he was a panellist in the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy game show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", which he joined as a regular team member in the third series in 1974. In its later years, the show's wealth of silliness, smut and punning was drawing audiences of up to a thousand people"
"Jasmine Harman Jasmine Isabelle Harman (born 15 November 1975) is a British television presenter, best known for co-presenting the Channel 4 series ""A Place in the Sun: Home or Away?"" since 2004, alongside Jonnie Irwin. Harman had a career in the health and fitness industry and later moved into television. She is a qualified fitness instructor and lived in the Algarve for several years, working as marketing manager for a health resort. It was here that she began writing professionally and hosted her own twice-weekly live magazine show on the Algarve radio station, Kiss FM, where she worked with DJ"
"It also may have influenced other spoof-based British radio programmes such as ""Radio Active"", ""On the Hour"", ""The Sunday Format"", ""The News Huddlines"", and later ""Bleak Expectations"". Several cast members have since appeared in the radio comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"", a spinoff from ""ISIRTA"" that has outlived it by decades. Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden continue as regulars on the show. Episodes of ""ISIRTA"" have frequently been heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra (available on digital television, DAB digital radio and the web). Listeners in Australia occasionally find ""ISIRTA"" in the 5.30am vintage comedy timeslot"
"and Jeremy Hardy. Lyttelton died peacefully following his surgery on 25 April 2008 with his family around him. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 1995 episode of ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" as a tribute on Sunday 27 April, and a retrospective programme presented by Kenneth Clarke on Wednesday 30 April 2008. Radio 4 celebrated ""Humphrey Lyttelton Day"" on Sunday 15 June 2008, including a new profile of ""ISIHAC"" by Stephen Fry called ""Chairman Humph — A Tribute"". After his death, the controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer, said: ""He's just a colossally good broadcaster and possessed of this fantastic"
"with Nena's ""99 Luftballons"". After the panellists are introduced, a brief snippet of Carl Orff's ""O Fortuna"" from ""Carmina Burana"" is played. The 99p Challenge The 99p Challenge is a spoof panel game originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The show is presented by Sue Perkins and features a selection of regular panelists such as Armando Iannucci and regular writers Kevin Cecil, Andy Riley, Jon Holmes and Tony Roche. Panelists are given silly tasks by Perkins (in a manner not dissimilar to those given on ""I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue"" by Humphrey Lyttelton) and are awarded pence for being"
"Fat Quiz of the Year"" on Channel 4 since 2004. On the radio, ""The News Quiz"", ""Just a Minute"", ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" and ""The Unbelievable Truth"" are among the most popular and long-running panel shows, all of which air on BBC Radio 4. British comedy panel shows feature mainly male guests. A 2016 study that analyzed 4,700 episodes from 1967 to 2016 found that 1,488 of them had an all-male lineup, and only one an all-female cast. The proportion of women rose from 3% in 1989 to 31% in 2016. Australian panel shows include advertising-focused ""The Gruen"
"(Brydon, optimistic and always eager to do an impression; and Coogan, misanthropic and bitter that he's not the major international star he believes he should be). Brydon's book ""Small Man in a Book"" (the title a play on his ""small-man-in-a-box"" impression) was published in November 2011. In 2006 Brydon first appeared on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"". His singing voice earned the unprecedented accolade from the former host, Humphrey Lyttelton, of being ""not bad"". When the team went on a tour of non-broadcast stage shows, Brydon filled in as chairman when Lyttelton"
"Mornington Crescent (game) Mornington Crescent is a game featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show ""I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue"" (ISIHAC), a series which satirises panel games. The game consists of each panellist in turn announcing a landmark or street, most often a tube station on the London Underground system. The aim is to be the first to announce ""Mornington Crescent"", a station on the Northern line. Interspersed with the turns is humorous discussion amongst the panellists and host regarding the rules and legality of each move, as well as the strategy the panellists are using. Mornington"