Just A Minute TV Ep6 2/2

[@hootsmon]

Love Sue Perkins. So cute and smart.

[@erictaylor5462]

She is very good at this game.

[@hootsmon]

Perky Perkins...smart and sweet..Have a good weekend ,Eric :)

[@erictaylor5462]

hootsmon I do like her. Have a great 4th even if you're not American.

[@hootsmon]

Cheers Eric..From England but reside in Tokyo so now it's the 5th! Saturday..Got a gig coming up so off to the soundcheck....Happy 4th July ,sir...tttfn

[@erictaylor5462]

hootsmon Are you a musician? My favorite joke is American's asking people "Do you have the 4th of July?" "Of course, we also have the other 364 days of the year."

[@indirin]

When Graham Norton interrupted for "This is so boring," there actually had been a repetition of the word "eat."

[@parkviewmo]

"Thorax Prong. Isn't he a Scandinavian film star?" Superb!

[@lravenl]

Graham and his UHHH... LOL

[@TheJonathanNewton]

Tony Hawks doesn’t seem to have any eye contact with anyone...?

[@RFC3514]

+Jeremy Turcotte / +parkviewmo - Surely, _"Thor_ Axprong".

[@gelert456]

Tony Hawks is marvelous.

[@parkviewmo]

Nicholas looks much better in this lovely blue jacket.

[@LordlyJeremy]

"Thorax Prong sat in his dressing room..."

[@pippipster6767]

It’s interesting how Sue Perkins puts herself forward as a red blooded heterosexual… When she is a lesbian. Embarrassed about it? One would’ve thought not. Interesting.

[@bobbyshaddoe3004]

Just because she prefers women doesnt mean she hasnt considered the chaps at one point.

[@bradfilippone7064]

Since they're allowed to repeat the subject, why not just repeat it over and over for sixty seconds? Or would that be called hesitation?

[@RFC3514]

+Brad Filippone - It would be called "a very bad comedy show that would get cancelled after one series".

[@namk19]

Brad Filippone it'd be deviation

[@RFC3514]

Kyle Wheeler - On the contrary. It would literally be the _opposite_ of deviation.

[@namk19]

RFC3514 or maybe devious repetition

[@653j521]

Deviation from a fun show. :)

[@namk19]

Has Graham Norton ever won a game?

[@namk19]

I've checked it out and yes he has

[@thechatteringmagpie]

Don't agree with the John McEnroe observation. I found his behaviour tiresome and childish.

[@Toastybear1]

I'm really not trying to be sexist, but it occurs to me that the best episodes always have more men (especially on the radio) and the reason this episode is the best is because sue perkins is basically a man :L

[@RFC3514]

+marcus allison - Congratulations on doing it _without even trying_.

[@Toastybear1]

fair enough, i think men are funnier comedians on the whole than women- un ashamed and not denying thats what i think- in the real world, i don't give a damn if your a man or a woman, but i do think they're better comedians......

[@RFC3514]

marcus allison - There's a difference between thinking that the best comedians are men and thinking that men are better comedians. It's like the difference between thinking that the best chefs in the world are French and thinking that "Frenchmen on the whole" are better chefs (and then dealing with obvious exceptions by saying "well, he might be Scottish but he's basically French, so my prejudice stands"). Is Sarah Millican also "basically a man" ? What about Victoria Wood? Aisling Bea? Sara Pascoe? Joan Rivers? Tina Fey? Jennifer Saunders? Are they good enough to be accepted as honorary men? And are Michael McIntyre, Richard Herring, Stephen K. Amos, Al Murray, Jim Davidson, Lee Evans, etc., "basically women" ?

[@Toastybear1]

your absolutely right, and i can't deny your point, it was a sexist point, and regarding comedy, it would seem i am actually sexist, because yes, i do think that men are better comedians generally, because men and women have a different mindset etc, which both have pro's and cons, but i think mens suit comedy more, but thats my opinion, and I'm certain that others find women funnier 'on the whole' and no, those others are not 'basically men' and i don't find many of them very funny, and its not to do with being "good enough"- my point was that sue perkins is quite masculine, and behaves in a less.... 'feline' way than some others. In a programme like Just A Minute, women tend to take the game seriously, and try to score points, whereas I've noticed (THROUGH LISTENING MY ENTITRE LIFE AND OBSERVATION not prejudice....) that men don't care and just try and be funny like being given a topic for a stand up routine. People are brought up to take offence these days, so you can't make comments that differentiate anyone, but women are always saying they better than men at things.....

[@RFC3514]

marcus allison - Is Paul Merton a woman? Because he scores more points than anyone else (in fact, he has won nearly 60% of the episodes he was on - and it's mostly thanks to interrupting other contestants, because he's quite bad at going a whole minute). If you think "men just try to be funny while women try to score points", I guess you're saying they fail at _that_ as well, because, out of all contestants that have been on more than five times, only four women have a record above 25% (which is the "break even" point in a show with 4 contestants). One of them is Sue Perkins, BTW, but I'm told she's "basically a man", so she probably doesn't count. ;-) You're absolutely free to make any comment you want, but other people are also free to point out that you're trying to rationalise a prejudice. Sue Perkins, Shappi Khorsandi, Liza Tarbuck, Ruth Jones, none of them put winning ahead of being funny. And all of them were funnier than John Sergeant, Hugh Bonneville or Russel Tovey (and at least on par with a couple of others), in the last series. In fact, the only female contestant that seemed to care about winning was Josie Lawrence, and that's probably because she has (correctly) figured out that wit doesn't come naturally to her, so she might as well focus on scoring points. But that's not because she's a _woman_, it's because she's Josie Lawrence. And she _still_ managed to be slightly funnier than John, Hugh or Russell, all of which are (basically) men.