I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Series 68

[@Nienpet]

Sheer brilliance. British radio at its finest.

[@stevemills9982]

I’m listening to this instead of the news!

[@Motty1066]

I was in the audience for two of these. I’ve only just stopped laughing.

[@tomellis4750]

What goes on at the recordings?

[@samhughes9631]

@@tomellis4750 I was in the audience for two of these as well - the middle two episodes, in Margate. It's a stage show, with the panellists sitting behind desks either side of Jack Dee in the middle. Colin Sell sits at a grand piano to one side, and occasionally you'll see a good old fashioned Radio 4 engineer in a lab coat fiddling with a microphone. John Naismith (the producer) introduces the show and gets the audience warmed up with a few jokes, and asks them to cheer and applaud so they can record some applause for use in the edit. Then they record an episode - it's pretty much exactly as your hear it here, although I think they edited out a few minutes of bumph. There's an interval before they record the second episode, and then there's a few minutes at the end where they re-record any lines that Jack fluffed. It was a terrific night out - well worth going if you ever get the chance :)

[@tomellis4750]

@@samhughes9631 Lucky you. I'd love to go to a recording. I'm surprised about the grand piano, I had it in my head they trugged around a beaten-up upright. Thank you for your reply. Go well, keep laughing.

[@Astronicbuilder]

@@samhughes9631 sounds similar to an episode of Task Master that I was in the audience for. It’s amazing how they edit it down for the tv, from the start of recording it was basically 3 hours of constant laughs! It’s funny to look back at what they had to cut out too! Can imagine this is very similar.

[@samhughes9631]

@@AstronicbuilderOh man I would love to be in the Taskmaster audience! It sounds like a lot more time is spent on each episode there though - I reckon the ISIHAC live recordings were probably about 45 minutes each, edited down to 30 for the radio...

[@ericwebb1301]

OMG! Classic! I have just laughed myself to death!!

[@beckyroberts5063]

Thank-you so very much for these. What absolute joy.

[@coctailrob]

The I went to market bit had me in stiches

[@sorlain]

I have been waiting patiently for this series to once again hear Tony Hawks singing The Ketchup Song - thank you very much for making that joy available once again :)

[@antster1983]

Jan: I went to market and I bought some sprouts, a cucumber... Jack: Cardigan! Jan: No, they didn't have one my size. I bought some sprouts, a cucumber, a copy of a bicycle, some war, some peace and a cabbage - they'd just actually got some in by that point - and Gwyneth Paltrow. Barry: I went to market and I bought a sprout, a bicycle... Jack: Cucumber! Barry: They didn't have one my size... 🤣 Graeme: I went to market and I bought a bicycle, war, sprouts, some more sprouts, cabbage, peas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and even more sprouts for Gwyneth... and a cork. Tim: I sent my order to Ocado and they delivered a melon, three potatoes, an apple, another melon, a copy of Heat magazine, Katie Hopkins and frozen peas.

[@exessex3522]

30:35 Does anybody else try to guess what the joke definition of the second word will be at the beginning of an Uxbridge English Dictionary round? I didn't get 'doubloons'. I did guess correctly that 'purchase' would be things birds stand on which was on the last episode of ISIHAC I listened to.

[@hollywright9061]

😂 thanks!

[@mr51406]

18:10 could someone explain Barry’s “bigger-shoe!” joke? I know it’s some kind of London slang for something but for the life of me I can’t find a definition in any phonetic spelling I try. He used it in an episode of “The Doings of Hamish and Dougall” (hilarious series btw!).

[@ihavenot]

BIg Issue, Big Issue, the magazine about homeless issues.

[@mr51406]

@@ihavenot Ah! Now I get it! Very cool, thanks! 😊 “L’itinéraire” is the street paper here in Montreal.

[@IrenESorius]

👍‍‍👍‍‍

[@iwasglad122]

Personal opinion here but I put John Finnemore in the same bracket as Rob Brydon: Look At Me, Look At Me, Look At Me. They're not interested in the comical absurdity of this gem. Their only interest is needing to be bigger and better than anyone else, and as a result, they stop being funny and become merely tiresome. Again, only my personal opinion!

[@exessex3522]

11:48 I wonder how many times Barry Crier has said "60s rock band" during the Word-For-Word round. How ever many, it's far too many.

[@TheBrewforbreakfast]

never too many and now no longer

[@stinkypants1]

No more than Tim buzzing in and saying "hesitation"

[@stevewynnearts]

2.99

[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

Disappointed with so much crude sexual innuendo throughout these. Humph would have been disapproving of it too.

[@m.j.nicholls]

You're kidding, right? Humph reading out the Lionel Blair innuendoes were some of the funniest moments of his chairmanship.

[@philipnesbitt3334]

@@m.j.nicholls Yes and the innuendo is one of the main points of the show (or do I mean prizes!)

[@danleighton]

Having listened to every episode this year from 1980 odd onwards, I can confidently say it has got generally less innuendo laden since Humph’s chairmanship…

[@doctorcraptonicus7941]

@@m.j.nicholls - As they say Humph flies out the door when Lionel comes innuendo.

[@LoneKharnivore]

...you know Samantha has been around for decades, right? Humph used to start every round of Pick Up Song and end every show with a crude sexual innuendo regarding her.