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  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    taish23

    5 Stars Radio comedy to bewilder, bemuse and break your ribs!!! 27/11/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Laughter friom begining to the end!!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages just simply not enough of it!!

    For those of you who haven't experienced the world of 'I'm Sorry I haven't a clue' let me take a few moments to give you some information and history of the show. 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue' also called 'clue' for short and sometimes simply 'ISIHAC' is a BBC4 Radio panel game that has been running since 1972. Each week the game has 2 teams comprising of a pair of comedians who are given sometimes daft yet highly humourous tasks to do by the 'Chairman'. Since the very begining of this show 'Humphrey Lyttelton', Jazz trumpeter and band leader, had sat in the honoured position as chairman ... more
  • 53 of 53 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 PJE_

    Member since 06/08/2000

    Reviews written: 93

    5 Stars The Funniest programme on the airwaves 28/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You'll piss yourself laughing.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You'll piss yourself laughing.

    I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (ISIHAC) is the "antidote to panel games" in which four celebrities (and I use the term wrongly) are given silly things to do by 80-year-old chairman Humphrey Lyttelton until his assistant-cum-score-keeper, the lovely Samantha, blows his horn. ISIHAC, a spin off of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, was devised by Graeme Garden, and first broadcast on Tuesday 11th April 1972. The other two Goodies (Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor) were also panellists on the first show along with Jo Kendall. Oddie and Kendall were later replaced by Barry Cryer and the late Willie ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    DaC_87

    5 Stars I'm sorry... but this is fantastic. 25/08/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Side-splittingly funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages May irritate those who don't appreciate in-jokes / double entendre

    Ahh... Good old '...Clue'. The highlight of my Monday evening, and unfortunately, if the rest of the week is such, my week. Ditto month. While this may say something abuot the interest level of my life, I believe it may have something owed to the sublime quality humour of the show. Clue is currently aired on Radio 4 on Mondays at 6.30, with a repeat the following sunday, at 12.30pm. It is on rotation with other comedy shows such as Just a Minute. Archive repeats to be found on BBC7, at irregular times. History The show was broadcast on the Tuesday 11th April 1972, hosted by Humphrey Lyttleton ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 Nolly

    Member since 27/04/2001

    Reviews written: 143

    5 Stars The Samantha and Colin Sell Fan Club 25/01/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It's just so funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The seasons are very short

    If you grant me a modicum of leeway, I will introduce you to something which, until now, has only been the preserve of the learned and initiate, among whose number I happily include myself. If you don your deerstalker and look and listen carefully, you will find, among the schedules of Radio 4, a programme which provides intellectual stimulation to many thousands of people. This isn't 'A Book at Bedtime' (I prefer a nice mug of Ovaltine), or 'The Archers', although that is a worthy and magnificent programme in its own right. It is something that is much more enjoyable, and is better than ... more
  • 7 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 BNibbles

    Member since 08/10/2000

    Reviews written: 564

    5 Stars Being Given Silly Things To Do 12/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Radio is the perfect medium for innuendo

    Disadvantages Disadvantages R4 has an image problem

    I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue is one of many R4 “Comedy Slot” programmes that has been running for years under the sardonic chairmanship of Humphrey Littleton. The panellists are normally Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer and others. To mis-quote the end credits, “The teams are given silly things to do by Humphrey Littleton” These include playing “Mornington Crescent, a board game which sounds quite sensible and erudite until you realise that it’s all rubbish. There are cult Web-Radio followers of this (probably in California) who are working on coming up with the rules! Playing the ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    MarkAlston

    5 Stars Excellent 09/08/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Barry Cryer

    I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue has been running for years on Radio Four and is normally worth listening to. Humphrey Littleton, who is also a famous jazz trumpeter, presents it. Fortunately he never gets his trumpet out but does entertain with such lines. I like his dry humour and antipathy towards the players of the game whose scripted gags are sometime a bit crap. The poor jokes don’t seem to matter too much though and there is always the intellectual stimulation of Mornington Crescent to keep listeners attentive. Long may it live. ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    marcb

    5 Stars The anitidote to Panel Games 04/10/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brilliant Humor, fascinating rounds

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None that I can think of

    I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue has brightened up many a dull evening for me. It is wonderfully irreverant and has just the right hint of cheek without going over the top. The rounds are brilliant - singing one song to the tune of another, the round where the record fades out but the panelists have to keep up with the song, sound charades and of course, the wonderful Mornington Crescent (a round that still baffles several of my friends, despite the rules being so obvious!) The chairman, Humphry Littleton is brilliant, particularly with his putdowns and the way he ignores the scoring. I particularly ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Mattnottm

    5 Stars Mornington Crescent, so memorable 09/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny isn't the word!!!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None!

    To this very day, I still am perplexed on how to play Mornington Crescent! If anyone knows if there is a website about it, or literature on how to play it, contact me ASAP! This is the only programme on the radio that never fails to make me laugh. The panelists, the games, the whole lot is worth spending ½ hour once a week listening to. Humphrey Littleton makes an excellent host, and never fails to have even the panel howling at times. My personal favourites include: Cheddar Gorge, where the aim of the game is to make a story up, but you can only say 1 word at a time. You must keep the ... more
  • 3 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gerryhill

    5 Stars When Samantha met Sven. 06/08/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Witty, brilliant, just a little bit rude

    Disadvantages Disadvantages You need to get used to it

    I'm amazed that nobody's reviewed this excellent programme yet - but perhaps it's one of those programmes you either love or hate and no amount of recommendation will convert the haters. But try it, as soon as it comes back - it'll grow on you. Give it a couple of tries, in fact, so that you start to get the feeling for some of the in-jokes. For those who haven't heard it at all, it's a motley collection of "activities", some musical, undertaken by some brilliant comics. It's hosted brilliantly by Humphrey Littleton, ably assisted by the beautiful Samantha and her stand-in Sven - what a pity ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    andrewsi

    5 Stars Radio 4 does it again 22/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Extremely funny. Try to avoid listening while driving.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The untimely passing of Williw Rushton

    There are few shows that I'll rush home so that I can be back in time to catch. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is one of them. In theory, it's a panel show. Humphrey Littleton attempts to keep some sort of control over the proceedings; whilst the two teams, made up of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, and Willie Rushton, compete. (Alas, the great Willie Rushton sadly passed away a couple of years ago; since then, his seat has been taken by a variety of guests, mainly comedians. They are, alas, poor replacements). The rounds that are played are extremely silly; the sort of party game ... more
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