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WELCOME TO JUST A MINUTE! starring GRAHAM NORTON, TONY HAWKS, TIM RICE and JENNY ECLAIR, chaired by NICHOLAS PARSONS (Radio, 4 February 2002)
NICHOLAS PARSONS: Welcome to Just A Minute! THEME MUSIC NP: Oh, thank you, thank you, hello, my name is Nicholas Parsons. And once more it is my pleasure to welcome our many listeners throughout the world. But also to welcome four clever, intelligent, witty, humorous players of the game who once more are going to pit their wits, their verbal ingenuity, their creative intelligence and all kinds of other things they’ve brought with them, as they try and speak on the subject I give them and do that without hesitation, repetition or deviation. And those four people are, in no order of seniority, Graham Norton, Jenny Eclair, Tim Rice and Tony Hawks! Will you please welcome all four of them! Beside me sits Janet Staplehurst who’s going to help me keep the score, and she’ll blow a whistle when the 60 seconds are up. And this particular edition of Just A Minute is coming from the lovely Harrogate Theatre in the heart of this lovely spa town of Harrogate in that great county of Yorkshire. And in front of us we have an enthusiastic Yorkshire audience ready to cheer us on our way. As we begin the show this week with Graham Norton and who better. Graham will you talk on the subject of more haste, less speed, and your time starts now. GRAHAM NORTON: More haste, less speed, more haste, less speed. That is the mantra repeated in the mind daily of the driver of the Trans Pennine Express... BUZZ NP: Jenny has challenged. Sorry, you were challenged. JENNY ECLAIR: Of the, of the. He said of the twice. NP: I know he did. JE: Is that not... NP: No, it’s a harsh challenge, but it’s correct yes. JE: Probably not a good time to tell them I’m from Lancashire either, is it? BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE JE: Now they hate me! NP: No... JE: Can I give Graham the round back? NP: No, you can’t give it to him back, no. No, sometimes we resist the temptation on little things like that. But it was a correct challenge Jenny, so you have the subject which is more haste, less speed, and there are 47 seconds available starting now. JE: Children are often victims of the more haste less speed curse. Refusing to tie up their shoelaces, tripping over the stairs, knocking out every tooth in their head as they take lengthy business to an orthodontist. Couldn’t you just slap their legs... BUZZ NP: Oh right, Tony you challenged, Tony Hawks. TH: Bit picky, this one! But if you’ve knocked out all the teeth in your head, you wouldn’t go to an orthodontist! LAUGHTER FROM NP AND THE AUDIENCE NP: No I think it’s very accurate actually, because you go to a dentist first. You might later go to an orthodontist. But yes Tony, a correct challenge, you have 30 seconds, the subject is, and of course a point for a correct challenge, that’s how it works in this show. More haste, less speed is the subject and 30 seconds starting now. TH: More haste, less speed. I intended to say this to a taxi driver once, but ended up saying “more hash, less speed”, and ended up at the drug dealer’s in... BUZZ NP: Ah Tim, no, Graham, you challenged first. GN: Ended up, a repetition. TH: That’s true. NP: He did indeed Graham, yes yes. More haste, less speed and there are 19 seconds available starting now. GN: The countryside around here is, I’m told, very beautiful. But who knows? Such is the soaring speed of the train as you speed through the countryside... BUZZ NP: Tony Hawks has challenged. TH: Did he say train in his last, er... GN: No I didn’t! NP: No he didn’t. So Graham still has the subject, another point for an incorrect challenge and Graham, 10 seconds starting now. GN: More haste, less speed, as Betty Ford said at a party, handing around trays! I don’t understand this expression myself. I feel that... WHISTLE NP: Whoever is speaking when the whistle goes gains an extra point. And on this occasion it was Graham Norton who with other points in that round, you won’t be surprised to hear, has got a strong lead. Jenny Eclair will you take the next round and the subject is how to look good in photos. Tell us something about how to look good in photos... LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: I should say to our listeners, she’s now demonstrating it ! JE: I’m putting on my faces... NP: I know you are, that’s why I said... JE: At 37 paces! NP: I know but as this is radio, I try to explain it... JE: I’m wasted on radio! Sorry where are we? NP: Where we are? Well I don’t think you are wasted on radio because your, your verbal ingenuity is brilliant! And that’s why you’re back on this show again. Jenny tell us something about how to look good in photos, 60 seconds starting now. JE: Well, how fortuitous that I should get this round. I am the mistress of looking good in photos, due to a misspent youth in a photo-me-booth. Sucking in cheeks, bones, perfecting the art... BUZZ NP: Graham, Graham has challenged you, yes. GN: I think there was a hesitation. NP: No it wasn’t! BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE JE: I think it was my speech defect... GN: Or maybe there wasn’t! NP: They’re being partisan right from the start, aren’t they! No she was keeping going... GN: Lancashire! NP: Jenny an incorrect challenge, you gain a point for that, you have 47 seconds to continue on how to look good in photos starting now. JE: Here’s a handy hint if you want to look good in a photo. Stand next to something which is much uglier and older than you are! May I suggest a ruined castle or Barbara Cartland. Oh she’s dead... BUZZ NP: Tony Hawks you, sorry, Tony Hawks has challenged you, yes Tony? TH: You can’t get a ruined castle into a photo booth! JE: I’m out of the photo-me-booth now. TH: Oh you’d moved on, had you? NP: She’s moved on... TH: And are your teeth in your mouth now or... NP: Jenny you have how to look good in photos, another point of course, 37 seconds available starting now. JE: Lighting is essential, but so is makeup. I’ll tell you the downside of looking good in photos. I had some fantastic shots done last year for a show of mine which was called Middle Aged Bimbo. (laughs) And... BUZZ NP: Tim what was your challenge? TIM RICE: Well there was a definite hesitation. NP: No there wasn’t! You can’t, you can’t have retrospective, no, it was not a hesitation. But let’s carry on, Jenny you got another point for an incorrect challenge, you keep the subject. There are 25 seconds, how to look good in photos starting now. JE: The worst thing about looking fantastic in photos... BUZZ JE: Yes I have said fantastic before, I know! NP: I know! JE: I said... NP: Tim you got in this time. TR: Yes this time, I think I’m right, there was a fantastic. NP: Yes and Tim, a correct challenge, 21 seconds, how to look good in photos starting now. TR: Photos are very technical things so looking good in them is mighty difficult. You’ve got to make sure that you don’t have redeye which is what happens when the flash gets you at the wrong moment. Your eyeballs turn this horrible colour, red, which... BUZZ TR: ... is not the same as redeye! Because redeye is one word! NP: Jenny you challenged first, what was it? JE: Well! Red and redeye. NP: No, it doesn’t matter, this, this is radio, and redeye even if it’s hyphenated, we accept it, because he repeated the word red. JE: Ah but then he went on to say redeye again! He said ah it’s not the same. TR: No, after you buzzed. NP: That was after you buzzed. And you have a point for a correct challenge, Jenny, and you’re moving forward there... TR: What? NP: It’s repetition of red. That was correct. And you have eight seconds, you take back the subject, how to look good in photos starting now. JE: Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, they look quite nice in photos. The rest of us should never be snapped in a swim wear outfit. Oh isn’t that depressing... BUZZ NP: Tim you challenged. TR: Snapped, she said snapped about half an hour ago! NP: Yes you did repeat it, so Tim you cleverly got in with one second to go on how to look good in photos... that’s gone down well, hasn’t it! Starting now. TR: Stand erect... WHISTLE NP: Tim Rice, speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point, he’s now equal in second place with Graham Norton, they’re both behind Jenny Eclair, and Tony Hawks follows. And Tim, Tim Rice, your turn to begin, the subject, Betty’s teashop. CHEERS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: I should explain to our listeners, the reason everybody in this audience has clapped is it because it’s a very famous haunt here in Harrogate. And Tim talk on the subject with 60 seconds to go starting now. TR: When I was invited to join this distinguished programme of intellectual stimulation, my real reason for coming all this way up to this beautiful beau-ti-ful... BUZZ NP: Graham you challenged first, what was it? GN: Ah some sort of stopping and possible repetition of beautiful. Just hesitation, everything really! TR: I hadn’t finished the second word! GN: And you stopped. NP: But you stopped. TR: Well yes! NP: As you realised... TR: Only as you buzzed! Only as you buzzed! NP: As you realised you were hesitating, you paused, so that’s hesitation. So Graham you got in first, 51 seconds, Betty’s teashop starting now. GN: It’s a little known fact that Betty, the founder of the lovely teashop, was also the inventor of the doily. Late at night she would toil away at the workshop with bits of lace, thinking “where can I throw this? I know, I’ll open a shop, and I’ll import tea from so far away I can charge 10 pounds at least”. I don’t understand... APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE GN: ... how that woman has the gall to do so. And yet people flock there! I think there must be something in the tea. Otherwise, i don’t know why, people would just slap... BUZZ NP: Yes Tim, what is your challenge? TR: People! NP: People, yes, a repetition of people. GN: (laughs) What’s your challenge? People! TR: People! Yes yes! NP: Right! TR: I hate people! NP: So you have the subject back again, Betty’s tea shop, 16 seconds available starting now. TR: Yes, Betty’s teashop was the sole purpose of my trek up north. I could not wait to sample the sarnies, the sandwiches... BUZZ NP: And er Tony you challenged first. TH: Well first of all, I thought that might have been a hesitation, but I happen to know he hasn’t been anywhere near Betty’s teashop! NP: You were sitting on the train with him, coming up, were you? TH: Yes! It’s a bit of a sneaky one but er... NP: It is a sneaky one but it is correct after all... TR: I never said I’d been there! I said I couldn’t wait to get there! TH: Ah! GN: You obviously could wait! TR: It’s shut! (laughs) NP: No that’s true. I’ll be fair, you know I’m always fair in this game. You did say... TH: I said hesitation. NP: ... no, no he didn’t hesitate. TH: Oh. NP: You did say that this was the reason you wanted to come here, which is probably quite false! If you’d have him for that, I think you could have had him. But no, he didn’t actually ah say he’d been there. So Tim, an incorrect challenge, you keep Betty’s teashop, not literally, but you can have the subject of Betty’s teashop with seven seconds to go starting now. TR: As you walk through the automatic doors with their laser beams keeping up... BUZZ NP: Jenny yes? JE: Total deviation, it hasn’t got automatic doors and it hasn’t got... NP: Laser beams? JE: Anything like that. He hasn’t been there... TR: No, I was talking about the airport, to come up here! LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: You, Tim, are you sure you didn’t train as... TR: A solicitor! (laughs) I did, I did briefly, yes. I failed though! NP: You can tell yes. Jenny a correct challenge yes. JE: Thank you. Thank you Nicholas. NP: Four seconds, tell us something about Betty’s teashop starting now. JE: It’s not licensed , you know! I’m not that fussed about going! You can only get tea! WHISTLE NP: So Jenny Eclair speaking as the whistle went gained that extra point, and she’s increased her lead with other points in the round. And she’s only just ahead of Tim Rice and then Graham Norton and then Tony Hawks in that order. And Tony your turn to begin, the subject now is management courses. Tell us something about that Tony, you start now. TH: Management courses through my veins! I love management! I’ve been on many management courses, one for Arsenal FC. I studied for three years, only to find they’d already given the job to Arsen Venger which was very disappointing. The same thing happened with Liverpool and Gerard Julier. Bloody French, but that’s another matter! Management courses happen a lot, I believe, up here in the lovely town of Harrogate where people... can come and do... BUZZ NP: Jenny you pressed first. JE: It’s just, it’s a tiny hesitation. NP: Yes it was hesitation, it was yes. JE: Yeah. He ran out of steam, didn’t he. NP: He did run out of steam, yes. TH: Yes. NP: He was trying to think of what was all the other football managers he could through and, and trying to link them up without hesitating is difficult. So Jenny you got in first and there are 30 seconds on management courses starting now. JE: Do you know, I’d rather stab myself in the eyes with one of Betty’s silver cake forks than go on a management course! Fortunately I’ve never been gainfully employed in my life and I’ve never had the need! But don’t you do... BUZZ NP: Tim yes you challenged. TR: Two nevers. JE: Yes, and waffling as well. TR: Yes, that and waffling! NP: But that’s not within the rules of Just A Minute, you can waffle as much as you like, provided you don’t hesitate, repeat anything or deviate. And Tim, 19 seconds is available, you take over management courses starting now. TR: In stark contrast to the rather depressing talks that we’ve heard from the other panellists on this subjects, I find (starts to talk through a large yawn) management courses extremely interesting and (normal voice) they fire me up with enthusiasm every time I think about them! What fantastic deeds once can achieve on a course. You go out to some remote part of Lancashire... WHISTLE NP: Well Tim Rice kept going on that rather boring subject with a certain aplomb until the whistle went, gained a point for doing so and he’s now only one point behind our leader Jenny Eclair. Graham it’s your turn to begin, the subject is budgies. I don’t know whether you are a budgie fan but tell us something about budgies in Just A Minute starting now. GN: “Do lemons have legs?” enquired the drunk at the party. “No,” said the hostess. “Oh dear, I’ve just squeezed your budgie into my gin!” That was one of the first jokes I can ever remember being told! Perhaps it was because of that that I then wanted to have a budgie of my own! Billy, he was gold, he couldn’t talk or sing. In fact his only talent was being able to spread his droppings halfway across a large living room from a tiny cage! That’s a gift... BUZZ NP: Tim you challenged. TR: I think he got a pigeon! LAUGHTER FROM GN AND THE AUDIENCE TR: Well this bird... NP: Yes... TR: ... he’s claimed to talk about has none of the attributes of a budgie. Clearly it’s not a budgie. Clearly it’s deviation. GN: Have you had a budgie? TR: (laughs) Yes, when I was very small. NP: I don’t think you should bring his private life into this. But no, no, the thing is... GN: They’re useless! There’s no point to them! TR: Every budgie I’ve met sings and trills happily. Either you’re a very cruel man or it was a pigeon! GN: Or it was just an Irish green thing that was quite stressed! NP: No, actually budgies don’t talk, unless they’ve been trained by a human to do so. They don’t naturally do it. They... they might naturally sing... GN: I think Tim knew they didn’t come out of the egg going “hello!” NP: No but, but my daughter had budgies when she was a little girl and I know, and some of the most... TR: So you’re a grandfather! NP: What’s that? And we... TH: I want to talk more about budgies during the round! And less in between! NP: All right so I’m er he could have a budgie which was inhibited and didn’t sing very well. And so I’m going to give Graham the benefit of the doubt and say keep the subject of budgies with 28 seconds to go starting now. GN: I loved that little bird, my feathered friend. I would skip home from school and go “Mummy, out of the way, I’m off to see the thing in the barred thing in the thing...” BUZZ NP: Tony you, you challenged first. TH: I... GN: Why, what was wrong? What was wrong? TH: There may just have been a repetition of thing. NP: There were too many things. GN: Ah right! NP: Yes you were getting away from using the other word, you said the word thing and then repeated the word thing. So Tony you’ve got in on budgies, 17 seconds available starting now. TH: When I was nine years old, my father brought home a pet pigeon and I said to him “I don’t want one of those, there’ll be muck all over the...” BUZZ NP: And Jenny you challenged. JE: He’s talked now a lot about pigeons, hasn’t he, not budgies. Do you think? TR: Yes. NP: Yes I do. TH: Hang on! What do you... JE: I thought this round was budgies, not pigeons! GN: Yeah! NP: It is and er I think in Just A Minute you have to establish if you’re going to compare, you have to establish much more rapidly that you’re on the subject of budgies. He seemed to go off on pigeons... SHOUTS OF “OOOOHHH” FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Do you want to run the game? SHOUTS OF “YES” FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: No, I think, I think it’s a fair challenge and er... TH: I’d only been going about four seconds! NP: No you’d actually been going seven seconds. TH: Oh I stand corrected! NP: Jenny, budgies is with you, nine seconds starting now. JE: Some people are massively allergic to budgies. And they develop chest infections, a bit like pneumonia, so think before you buy one from your nana. Another thing you must do is... WHISTLE NP: So Jenny Eclair with points in the round, including one for speaking as the whistle went has moved forward. She’s slightly further ahead of Tim Rice and Graham Norton and Tony Hawks in that order. And Jenny it’s also your turn to begin and the subject is, oh very good for you, Jenny, high spirits. Sixty seconds starting now. JE: You don’t have to be drunk to have high spirits, though the two things aren’t mutually exclusive! I started my journey to Harrogate in high spirits but British Rail put paid to that! Also something else that really unnerved me, how many people were asking Graham for his autograph and ignoring me. So my high spirits turned to sour grapes by the time we got to the station. (in whiny voice) “Oh Mister Norton, can I have your autograph? Oh I think you’re really good...” BUZZ NP: Tim what was your challenge? TR: We had a repeat of autograph. JE: Yes. NP: We had the autograph before. JE: So did he! There were about 300 of them! GN: So the thing was I did try! When I was signing the paper put in my face, I was going “ask her! I’m going to be on this train for hours! She’ll sulk! Ask her!” JE: “Who is it? Is it Su Pollard?” LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: So er Tim you challenged first and you’ve got the subject of high spirits so there are 35 seconds starting now. TR: This giraffe goes into a bar and says “the high balls are on me” and all the other animals were extremely thrilled at this fantastically generous cocktail offer. High spirits, I personally go for whisky with just a dash of ice. This is the way the Americans tend to drink it, and normally I don’t follow that nation slavishly, but in this particular case I feel that ice is the one thing you can add to that scotch... BUZZ NP: And Graham challenged. GN: Now now, was there a repetition of ice? NP: There was. TR: There was, cock! GN: Was there? TR: Yes. GN: You’re kidding! TR: Yes. GN: How funny is that? NP: Then you listened well, you had a correct challenge and you have 13 seconds, the subject is high spirits starting now. GN: I imagine that people who go into the other world and turn into spirits... BUZZ NP: Jenny you challenged. JE: I wish I hadn’t because I was wrong. I’m so sorry! NP: So what you were thinking? JE: Spirits but that’s in the title. NP: That’s right, yes, you can... GN: That’s right! NP: Just to reassure our listeners, you can not only use the subject, but also any of the words in the subject, you can repeat those in the show and he repeated spirits. So, five seconds, you have another point Graham, and you continue on high spirits starting now. GN: When I worked in restaurants, we would call them dusty spirits for no-one could be fagged to get the chair to get up there... WHISTLE NP: And so Graham Norton speaking as the whistle went, gained that extra point. He’s now equal with Tim Rice in second place just behind Jenny Eclair and just ahead of Tony Hawks. Tim Rice your turn to begin, the subject is having the last say. There are 60 seconds as usual starting now. TR: Here is an interesting paradox. I am talking to you tonight and it will be extremely interesting, on having the last say, and yet I’m having the first say... BUZZ NP: And Graham challenged you almost immediately, yes? GN: Repetition of interesting. TR: No! NP: No. GN: Wasn’t it interesting paradox, and then you’re going to be very interesting. TR: Ice I repeated! GN: I thought I was on a roll! Wasn’t it interesting paradox and then... JE: Interesting and then interested, I think he did. NP: Yes he said interesting and interested. JE: Yes. GN: I’m not at all sure! NP: Tim you have the benefit of the doubt, you have 53 seconds, having the last say starting now. TR: Even Heidenberg’s Uncertainty Principle doesn’t have the paradoxical intrinsic interest that this ... BUZZ NP: Tony Hawks challenged. TR: (cries) Oh! TH: He’s talking nonsense! TR: I ground to a complete halt. I’m glad Tony stopped me. NP: You were, you were going off in a direction you’d never been before, and you thought how the... anyway it doesn’t matter. Tony you had a correct challenge, there are 42 seconds available, you have having the last say starting now. TH: Being a keen observer on life and noticing things other people don’t, it’s come to my attention that politicians sometimes like to have the last say. I watch them on Question Time and such abeuurgh whatah! BUZZ NP: Jenny you challenged first. JE: Well he developed a speech impediment! And hesitated, hesatahh! NP: Yes we interpret that as hesitation. TH: Yes. NP: So Jenny a correct challenge, 29 seconds, the subject is having the last say starting now. JE: It’s very important to have the last say when you’re arguing with your partner. As I’m choking... BUZZ JE: No can you not Graham, I’ve just got a cough! NP: Oh Graham... Graham... GN: Oh that was an excuse! NP: It’s one of those shows where, have a drink of water... GN: Repetition of cough! NP: I think Jenny, I’ve got to be strict within the rules of Just A Minute, you had started and it was unfortunate but that is... JE: I choked! NP: That you choked! Graham you have the subject, 25 seconds, having the last say starting now. GN: Dear God, I wish someone would have the last say on this subject! Giving someone your last rollo is preferable to giving someone the last... BUZZ NP: Yes Jenny you challenged. GN: Yes all right! JE: Someone. NP: Someone, so you’ve got it back... JE: I’ve got a point. NP: Yes you’ve got a point and if you’d kept going all that time you wouldn’t have got that point. So it all works out in the end, doesn’t it. Fifteen seconds... GN: You’re right, it is! NP: Jenny you have the subject back, having the last say, 15 seconds starting now. JE: The only way to have the last say with your partner is to bore him... BUZZ JE: Yes? NP: Yes Tim you challenged first, yes, what... TR: There was a repeat of partner. NP: That’s right, your partner came into it. Tim you have the subject, you have, which is having the last say, 12 seconds available starting now. TR: I had a lovely budgie when I was a nipper called Bob ad he was a sweet animal. But he always insisted on having... BUZZ NP: Ah Graham? GN: Deviation, a budgie’s not an animal, it’s a bird. NP: Well animals are birds. TR: Birds are animals. GN: No, birds are birds, animals are animals. Sheep can’t fly! TR: We are all animals! NP: We’re all animals. TR: You are an animal. GN: Let me write this down! It’s very deep! NP: Tim, an incorrect challenge... TR: Well done! NP: So you have five seconds to continue on having the last say starting now. TR: As my final word I’d like to say the chairmanship of this programme has reached new heights of excellence... WHISTLE NP: So Tim Rice speaking as the whistle went has moved forward. Oh and Tim is now equal with Jenny Eclair in the lead, just ahead of Graham Norton and then Tony Hawks in that order. And we’re moving into the final round. And Graham Norton it’s your turn to begin, the subject is showing your face. You have 60 seconds as usual starting now. GN: Showing your face is when you sort of pop into a bar, and go “hi! Where’s the food?” take it all, and leave! And not showing your face could be... not going to a bar... BUZZ NP: And Jenny, Jenny you... JE: He hesitated and then he went into a repeat. It was really bad! NP: That’s right, yes. JE: Yes. NP: So Jenny... GN: I didn’t deviate though. JE: No, you didn’t! Not yet! NP: No, no, 52 seconds Jenny, showing your face starting now. JE: Radio is a very good medium for showing your face on. Thank goodness, we all chorus. It’s the only thing you can do that’s kind to the over 40 year old woman. Oh... BUZZ NP: Tony you challenged. TH: Well she stopped. There are other things you can do! NP: Yeah there are other thing you can... she stopped! She thought of what she said and brought herself to a halt. Ah Tony correct challenge, another point, 42 seconds, showing your face starting now. TH: Jenny was absolutely accurate. The beauty of radio is that you don’t need to show your face. But the beauty of your voice can... BUZZ NP: And Tim challenged first. TR: Two beauties. NP: There were two beauties. TH: Yes you’re right, the beauty of radio. NP: You have 34 seconds... TH: It was very pleasing though just to hear you put your hand up and say “two beauties” though! NP: Ah you have a correct challenge Tim and you have 34 seconds, showing your face starting now. TR: However unattractive you are, it’s usually better to show your face than other parts of your anatomy to complete strangers. On the other hand, if you are intimate with someone, then anything can go. You can let rip you with your elbow, your thigh, your knickers, and your... BUZZ NP: Jenny challenged. JE: Your your your your. NP: Your your. TR: Your your. You’re so right! NP: You might, you might let one your go but three or four... TR: Yes I agree, I... NP: Jenny... TR: It’s terrible really. I’ve lost form! NP: You’re not doing too bad! TR: I’d like to go now! NP: You’re only three points behind our leader, Jenny Eclair who has the subject, she has 23 seconds, showing your face Jenny starting now. JE: You don’t want to show your face if you’re robbing a bank. Wear a balaclava for heaven’s sake. They’ve got CCTV cameras in... BUZZ NP: Ah Graham yes? GN: It seems churlish but there was CC. NP: Yes, CC! JE: Oh! BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE NP: Listen, audience... GN: All right, there wasn’t! She just did! NP: She repeated C! Graham got in first, just, 17 seconds, showing your face starting now. GN: In remote villages of Yorkshire, county fairs, people enter their faces in competitions. This is known as showing your face... BUZZ NP: And Tim challenged. TR: You wouldn’t have a county fair at a remote village. You’d have it in a fairly important town! A rural centre! You’d have it somewhere terrific like Harrogate! NP: Yes that’s right, you have them in the country outside but it’s not near a little country village. I think that’s a good um challenge of deviation so.. GN: An annoying challenge! NP: But accurate so Tim you have got a point of course, 10 seconds are available, tell us something about showing your face starting now. TR: If you want to look good in a photograph, I recommend you show your face. This is more often than not the best feature... BUZZ NP: Tony challenged first. TR: I didn’t hear it. TH: I think he said best in the first... round. NP: That’s right. When you were talking before Tim, you actually said... TH: The best thing when they meet something. NP: The best thing to do is to show your face. So Tony, well listened, you have got in with five seconds to go on the subject, showing your face starting now. TH: I always show my face whenever I go to a party. There’s no point in covering it over with... WHISTLE NP: Well let me give you the final situation as we have no more time to play Just A Minute. Tony Hawks who has done so well in the past, came up, he only finished just in fourth place. He was, no, no, it doesn’t matter. I mean it’s the contribution that is so important. And he was a little way behind Graham Norton. And this is very interesting, he was only one point behind Tim Rice. Who was only one point behind Jenny Eclair, so Jenny we say you are the winner this week! It just shows the generosity of the Yorkshire people you know. A lassie from Lancashire and they applaud her to the ceiling for winning the game. Well done! It only remains for me to say thank you to our four fine players of the game, Graham Norton, Jenny Eclair, Tim Rice and Tony Hawks. Thank Janet Staplehurst for helping with the score blowing her whistle so well. We thank our producer Claire Jones for the way she directs it all, and we are deeply indebted to Ian Messiter who created the game. And we are also indebted to this audience here in the Harrogate Theatre who have cheered us on our way in true Yorkshire style! From our audience, from me Nicholas Parsons, from our panel, good-bye, tune in the next time we play Just A Minute! THEME MUSIC |
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