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| ISIHAC tour review from the Liverpool Daily Post |
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 "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tour review from the Liverpool Daily Post (at http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/liverpool-arts/2009/09/30/review-i-m-sorry-i-haven-t-a-clue-southport-theatre-92534-24815045/ )
REVIEW: I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, Southport Theatre
Sep 30 2009 by Peter Elson, Liverpool Daily Post
LIKE a comedy comfort blanket, the I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue stage show wrapped itself warmly around a packed Southport Theatre.
The stage version of the iconic, yet iconoclastic Radio 4 antidote to panel games was indistinguishable from its parent, complete with series producer Jon Naismith acting as warm-up man.
Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor have been panellists with the radio show for 38 years – and that’s as long as I've been faithfully listening to it.
Like many of the audience, I could mouth along to some of the routines, such as the Julie Andrews Censored Song Book.
So-called “newcomer” Jeremy Hardy has been with this celebration of silliness for years and is equally adept at the quick wit for which the show is famed.
But the big problem has been finding a substitute chairman for the late, great Humphrey Lyttleton.
Luckily, his successor here, Jack Dee, has a comic persona strong enough to effortlessly anchor the mayhem.
The panel may be looking a bit jowly, paunchy and grey-haired, but their enthusiasm and comic timing are undimmed.
But then, what’s not to like in a show where you walk away at the end of the night with a free kazoo?
PETER ELSON
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Posted by lisa at 30/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| new series of "The Unbelievable Truth" & "One" with Graeme start next week |
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New series of "The Unbelievable Truth" and "One" start on BBC Radio 4 next week. Graeme will make appearances in both series. Below are blurbs about both series,. Use the "click here fore more" link below to see a list of other upcoming shows.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH
Six episodes starting Monday, 5 October
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
David Mitchell hosts the fourth series of this acclaimed general knowledge-based comedy panel game, in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
Each panellist has to deliver a lecture on a given topic - for example Elizabeth I, Cats, The Human Body or Morris Dancing - which must be entirely untrue, except for five unlikely facts. The job of their opponents is to challenge if they think they've detected an element of truth.
Devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the new series begins with a special recording from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival featuring comedians Rhod Gilbert, Adam Hill, Shappi Khorsandi and Reginald D Hunter.
Presenter/David Mitchell, Producer/Jon Naismith
ONE
Six episodes starting Wednesday 7 October 11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 4
The sketch show in which each sketch features only one voice, returns for a new series.
The comedy features internal monologues, speeches, video diaries, messages, broadcasts, dictation - any form of solitary communication or monologue, with one voice only per sketch.
One is written and conceived by David Quantick with additional material by Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Kevin Cecil, Johnny Daukes and Katie Maskell. It features the vocal talents of Deborah Norton, Lizzie Roper, Johnny Daukes, Dan Antopolski, Graeme Garden, Andrew Crawford, Alistair McGowan, Richard Bacon, Dan Maier and David Quantick.
Producer/Jon Naismith
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Posted by lisa at 29/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| The Guardian's "Comedy preview" of the ISIHAC tour |
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From http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/sep/26/sorry-havent-clue-tour
Comedy preview: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, on tour
James Kettle
The Guardian, Saturday 26 September 2009
Like Private Eye, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is one of those comic institutions where the idiosyncrasies and familiar jokes are glorious fun for the initiated, but mildly baffling to the outsider. If you're yet to master the non-rules of Mornington Crescent or blind to the enormous humorous value of the words "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia", then do persevere. Sooner or later it's going to hook you, and you'll wonder how you ever sat in an early evening tailback without it. Now, just a few years from its 40th anniversary, Clue is still delivering top-drawer consistency, despite the passing of beyond-legendary chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. Master of ceremonies for this tour is Jack Dee, providing a deadpan pivot for the flurry of puns and silliness to be expected from regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.
• Centaur, Cheltenham, Sat; New Wimbledon Theatre, SW19, Sun; Symphony Hall, Birmingham, Mon; Southport Theatre, Tue; Grand Opera House, York, Wed
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Posted by lisa at 25/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| review of Portsmouth ISIHAC stage show (contains SPOILERS) |
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Here's a brief review of the I’m Sorry I Haven't A Clue stage show at the Portsmouth Guildhall. It does contain some spoilers. (A list of other upcoming dates can be found in our FAQ.
From http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/entertainment/I39m-Sorry-I-Haven39t-A.5666866.jp
I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue
At Portsmouth Guildhall
22 September 2009
By Simon Evans
I've been a listener to the comic meanderings of the ISIHAC (as they are known for short!) team for as long as I can remember, but never seen them perform on stage before.
I was worried. Would seeing the show be as much fun as just hearing it?
The worry was misplaced. The teams; Tim Brooke-Taylor with Jeremy Hardy and Graeme Garden with Barry Cryer were on good form. Although much of the show is scripted there is room for improvisation.
The music rounds have always made me laugh most and tonight – with the marvellous Colin Sell on piano – we witnessed a treat. In Old Songs New Words we saw Barry Cryer perform an admirable My Old Man's A Dustman to the tune of Heartbreak Hotel but the limelight was stolen by the musically challenged Jeremy Hardy whose Kung Fu Fighting sung to the tune of Scarborough Fair was hilarious.
Many of the old-favourites made an appearance; the slogan round (Portsmouth: Gateway To Havant was one gem), and Uxbridge English Dictionary ('insolent' redefined as: 'to fall off the Isle Of Wight ferry).
The second music round, Pick Up Song where the contestant is asked to sing along to a song which is faded out, attempting to keep pace when it's faded back in again, proved to be my highlight.
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Posted by lisa at 22/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 16.09.09 |
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Here's a message from the official I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue mailing list:
Dear I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailing List Member,
Just to let you know we will be announcing the venues and hosts for the forthcoming series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue in early October. It is our intention to continue with different hosts for each show, at least for the next series.
Meantime, we are soon to be in the midst of a small tour of the UK. Do come and see the show if you can. We had a terrific reception in Woking and Carlisle for the July dates.
The show stars the regular team with Jeremy Hardy our guest panellist and Jack Dee in the chair.
Apologies to those who booked in Dartford only to find the show was cancelled due to a power cut. We were waiting in a nearby hotel to see if the power could be restored in time. Alas, it couldn't.
Most of these tour dates are completely sold out, but some do still have tickets available. Our booker Helen Chattwell has been phoning round the theatres to see if they can come up with any offers exclusive to members of our mailing list. Here's what she's managed:
SEPTEMBER
Fri 18 - MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE (0844 847 2295) Are offering £5 off tickets in the Grand Tier to members of this list. The offer is only available by phone, and you need to quote the password 'Jack Dee'.
Sun 20 - BRISTOL HIPPODROME (0844 847 2325 or www.ticketmaster.co.uk/venue/189858)
Are also offering £5 off tickets in certain seats. The offer is available over the internet (password 'Mornington') and with the password 'Mornington Crescent offer' if booking by phone.
Mon 21 - PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL (023 9282 4355) Are also offering £5 off selected seats to members of this list. It's only available to phone bookers, and you need to quote the password 'Mornington Crescent'
Sat 26 - CENTAUR CHELTENHAM (01242 572573 booking via the Everyman Theatre Box Office) Will offer £5 off selected seats to members of the mailing list, but only if they telephone the box office and quote the 'Mornington Crescent' password.
Sun 27 - NEW WIMBLEDON THEATRE (0844 871 7646 or www.ambassadortickets.com/New-Wimbledon-Theatre)
Are offering a discount on tickets to an added matinee performance at 2.30pm just to members of this mailing list. They say: 'On the 19th September we will release 100 tickets at a special price of £19 especially for ISIHAC fans. Available on Price Band A and B, matinee performance only. Only available by calling the box office on 0844 871 7646'.
You need to say you're on the mailing list and our calling about the discounted tickets.
Each show starts at 7.30pm and should be finished by around 10pm.
Finally, I should alert you to the fact that a book entitled 'The Clue Bible - The Fully Authorised History of 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue', from Footlights to Mornington Crescent', by Jem Roberts, is shortly to be published by a division of Random House. We'll have an offer for members of the mailing list in the next mailout. Meantime, here's how the book describes itself: "The official, definitive, exhaustive, complete, history and doings of the antidote to panel games: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. With forewords by Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor".
That's about the size of it. We'd like to thank you all for your continued support, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at our forthcoming shows.
With best wishes
Jon Naismith
Producer, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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Posted by lisa at 16/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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| Satsuma link / Graeme interview / Humph in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations |
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A couple of news stories from the last few days.
* The Listen Again link for episode 4 of "The Long Hot Satsuma", which made its BBC Radio 7 debut today, is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mq4pf/The_Long_Hot_Satsuma_Episode_4/ The show, which features Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, & Alison Steadman, can be heard through next Tuesday evening (London time).
* An interview with Graeme, to promote the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Official Stage Tour, appeared in yesterday's edition of the Liverpool Daily Post. Use the "click here for more" link below for a cut & paste of the article.
* A quote from Humphrey Lyttelton is to appear in the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The quote is: "As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation". The full story, from The Telegraph, can be read using the "click here for more" link below.
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Posted by lisa at 15/09/2009 00:00 GMT |
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Thanks to Ben Tumney for the following news about interviews with Tim & Graeme to promote the upcoming Goodies shows at 
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