I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Live (DVD)

Advantages: Many and Varied
Disadvantages: Are you kidding??

...For anyone who hasn't listened to Clue I have no hesitation in recommending it highly. Comedy and Radio 4 were not two words I would have put together until a couple of years ago when I started listening to BBC7 and found that shows were funny and then sought them out to hear when 'new'. The show is subtitled as the Antidote to Panel Games despite having two panels of guests. Regulars are Humphrey Lyttelton (Chairman) and panelists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer, special guests include Jeremy Hardy (with voice of an angel), Sandi Toksvig (infectious laugh), Stephen Fry (wit) and Rob Brydon (Tom Jones or what). The show consists of various rounds which are either self explanatory like one song to the tune of another through to the baffling Mornington Crescent. For those who enjoy quick witted programmes then this is... Read review

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Advantages: Side-splittingly funny
Disadvantages: May irritate those who don't appreciate in-jokes / double entendre

...display board" to show the audience a word that the panellists cannot see or hear. In fact, it is a man running accross the stage with it written on a piece of card. Seeing the Show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue tends to tour, recording, generally, one month before the broadcast, though this is not always the case. Unfortunately, due to the popularity of the show, tickets are administered seperately from the rest of BBC tickets, and there is a charge to see the show. However, it is an evening's entertainment, that is then edited down to a half-hour's highlights for the show. To find out where the team are heading next, there is an opportunity to receive emails from the BBC (log on to the "Clue" website) detailing the venues and how to get tickets. But be quick, some shows have been known to sell out in hours. However, fear not if you can't... Read review

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Advantages: You'll piss yourself laughing.
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 Rushton. Since Rushton's death in 1996 his place has been taken by a variety of guests including Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, and Jeremy Hardy. The show begins with Humph extracting the michael from the history of the town in which... Read review

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