Aficionados of BBC Radio
Four’s long-running antidote to panel shows I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue knew
what to expect when host Jack Dee brought the team to the Edinburgh Playhouse
on Sunday evening. And the hundreds who turned up weren’t disappointed.
Regular team members Barry
Cryer – whose 80th birthday bash is also being celebrated in the
capital as part of the Fringe – Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor were joined
by a favourite son of the show, Jeremy Hardy with resident pianist Colin Sell
the butt of Dee’s acerbic wit as usual.
All the old favourite games
were there; One Song to the Tune of Another, Pick Up Song, Sound Charades and
Mornington Crescent and others were lapped up by an appreciate audience who
couldn’t get enough. Dee brought a local touch to the humour with a couple of
digs at Hibernian FC, much to the delight of those Hearts fans in the audience.
Provided with kazoos as part
of the show, the audience joined in the swanee kazoo round with gusto and the
veteran stars of arguably the most popular comedy radio show in the country
provided brilliant entertainment. Even the mythical ‘Samantha’ provided comedy
of the ‘double entendre’ variety – most of the audience had heard these gags
before in the course of the show’s 43 year history but lapped it up
nonetheless.
A wonderful evening’s
entertainment and a cracking way to end the weekend.
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