Sed 18: Just a Minute.
May. 18th, 2015 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightofdayeI might as well make a series of this. Today's Six-Thirty BBC Radio 4 comedy was Just A Minute.
Just A Minute is a long running show. It hit its 45th anniversary in 2012 (when did it start? how old is it now? Ha! Surprise math test!) and it celebrated by being let on the tv for a bit.
Now the game is easy to understand and hard to play. There are four contestant and one at a time they are given a subject for which they have to speak about for a minute without hesitating, repeating themselves or deviating from the given subject. If they do they can be challenged by the other players who will then have to speak on the subject for the rest of the minute.
Sources of humour include the panelist's often bizarre interpretations of subjects, especially those they know nothing about. Challenges and interruptions not really based on the rules, and arguing with, insulting and absurdly flattering the host, Nicholas Parsons who has been with the show from the beginning.
Now do the math again, the chairman is getting on a bit and is getting increasingly... eccentric, which can add its own humour.
I've listen to Just A Minute for a long time, it's interesting to think how my liking for it has waxed and waned over the years. I used to be much more enthusastic about it than I am. Now, is it really not as good as it used to be wonder, or is it just growing up that has led to a change in tastes?
Just A Minute is a long running show. It hit its 45th anniversary in 2012 (when did it start? how old is it now? Ha! Surprise math test!) and it celebrated by being let on the tv for a bit.
Now the game is easy to understand and hard to play. There are four contestant and one at a time they are given a subject for which they have to speak about for a minute without hesitating, repeating themselves or deviating from the given subject. If they do they can be challenged by the other players who will then have to speak on the subject for the rest of the minute.
Sources of humour include the panelist's often bizarre interpretations of subjects, especially those they know nothing about. Challenges and interruptions not really based on the rules, and arguing with, insulting and absurdly flattering the host, Nicholas Parsons who has been with the show from the beginning.
Now do the math again, the chairman is getting on a bit and is getting increasingly... eccentric, which can add its own humour.
I've listen to Just A Minute for a long time, it's interesting to think how my liking for it has waxed and waned over the years. I used to be much more enthusastic about it than I am. Now, is it really not as good as it used to be wonder, or is it just growing up that has led to a change in tastes?
