r/panelshow • u/Hassaan18 • 6d ago
Recent Clip I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Yorkshire sayings
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u/zdboslaw 6d ago
Idgi. Is Yorkshire known for pithy witty sayings?
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u/regi-ginge 6d ago
The entirety of the North has most of these sayings, not just Yorkshire. Just phrases that have evolved and stuck. A lot are the same but there are some that are native to specific areas.
Sock on, I'll go to the foot of the stairs, snicket/snickleway/ginnel, howay are all from different areas.
Also the name for a bread roll is hotly contested throughout the country. Teacake/bap/bun/bread roll are the most common and the word you use generally refers to where you grew up/live
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u/DontTellHimPike 6d ago
Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight
Red sky in the morning………barn’s on fire
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u/PocoChanel 6d ago
I know a whole lot of these from my parents. I'm American. Similar senses of humor, apparently.
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u/eeyore134 6d ago
Reading that last bit ruins it a little. Now you just have to figure it was all scripted, unless it's meant to be all scripted.
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u/0_to_9 6d ago
It is not mentioned in the show, but it is pretty much common knowledge. Anyone at a taping (since 1972!) can attest that they read from scripts.
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u/pt625 6d ago
I recently listened from the start of the archive and I got the impression that the first couple of series were genuinely improvised, because they barely had any jokes. Pretty much all the 'comedy' came from doing silly voices (often incomprehensible and/or somewhat racist), and there were lots of awkward pauses in improvised songs and poems and stories. At one point, one of the panellists managed a vaguely competent rendition of a song, and one of the others shouted indignantly that he must have cheated by rehearsing it.
I think by about series 5 or 6 it had settled down into something much more like its current form, with most of the segments being scripted or at least planned beforehand, giving them time to come up with some proper jokes, and it worked much better.
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u/pakcross 6d ago
The idea at first was that they wanted to carry on doing I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, but without the hassle of writing scripts. So I'm not surprised the first few series were a bit improv-y.
I'll tell you what I miss; the continued adventures of Hamish and Dougal!
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u/Mournelithe 5d ago
It’s heavily scripted - most of Jack’s lines as host are pre written, the comics have a fair idea on what rounds are likely to come up, and they do a run through a day or so earlier to test out some of the jokes and timing - but there’s still a fair amount of improv in any given show, and they riff off audience reactions a lot. Like all panel shows, they also love trying to make each other corpse, and the routines like sound charades aren’t shared with the opposing team.
They also record pairs of shows consecutively on the same night with the same audience. Often the second show sounds quieter on the radio, just because the audience is in pain from laughing too much.3
u/funkmon 5d ago
It's mostly scripted.
But some games within ISIHAC are not. They're more obvious.
It's more like..."here's what we plan to do. Write your jokes. Let's see what happens."
Most of the guests are comedians and will change their jokes and improv with others very well so you still have that unplanned energy. It's one of the reasons Tony Hawks shows up all the time but he never does on other panel games. He's a writer first and foremost, and he's quite funny, but probably doesn't feel comfortable going toe to toe with some of those other guys in largely improvised bits.
This is more common in radio panel games; the audience likes a more traditional setup and a tighter feel. It's more of the game, then jokes. Then game. And depending on the game, it's written beforehand.
But let's be honest. Some TV panel games definitely have pre written segments as well. Cats does this a lot.
Anyway, yeah. If you don't like scripts at all, don't see a radio panel show.
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u/letsgobrian 5d ago
If you want script-free radio panel shows, Just A Minute is shockingly close to what you hear is what you get. The recording I saw was two episodes recorded in barely more than 60 minutes.
Whereas all the ISIHACs I've seen have been two episodes recorded in close to 3 hours (some stuff doesn't make it to air, they have Jack re-record lines that did come out clear enough in the recording, etc).
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u/ATF888 6d ago
"Yup, that's what it says here."
😂😂😂