The first course was The Complete Limericks Collection which sold over 30,000 copies in the trade last Autumn. Now the team is ready to expose every bit of their talent assisted by Sven, Samantha and Mrs Trellis. Profoundly illustrated we revisit: the Late Arrives at the Ball, Celebrity Lonely Hearts, Famous Unsuccessful Chat Up Lines, Famous First Words, Hitler's Diaries (ideas for fraudulent diaries from other famous folk), Unhelpful Advice (the team supplies unhelpful advice to among many a sex education class and new parliamentarians), Mrs Trellis' Letters, Name That Barcode, National Anthems (suggestions for unusual anthems for countries around the world), Humphrey's Opening Links, Proverbs in Translation, Through the Keyhole, Topical Nursery Rhymes, Low budget Remakes of Famous Films... and much more. I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the most listened-to comedy programme on British radio, an institution with regular panellists Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and until 1996 Willie Rushton, being given silly things to do by jazz supremo Humphrey Lyttelton. Listener figures are now over 2 million each week and is now aired also on Radio Two the only radio comedy show to do so. Tickets are so keenly sought after shows are now held in two thousand seat theatres around the country. THIS IS THE BIG HUMOUR TITLE FOR CHRISTMAS
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is Radio 4's best loved comedy show. Whether the teams are singing the words of one song to the tune of another, making up serial rhymes or entering the mythic maze of Mornington Crescent, they have now become the National Theatre of fun. -- Gillian Reynolds, Daily Telegraph
Humphrey Lyttelton is the best panel game host there has ever been. -- Victoria Wood, Radio Times
It's trying not to laugh which hurts. -- Laurie Taylor, The Times
Many thanks Auntie for the truly and consistently hilarious I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. -- Marcella Evaristi, Glasgow Herald
One day people will envy us for living through the years when this magnificent half-hour enlivened every Sunday lunchtime. Ours will be known as the Golden Days of Radio. -- Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
The funniest quiz show of them all. -- Sue Arnold, The Observer
The funniest show on the wireless. -- Sid Smith, Time Out
The most genuinely and infallibly cheering programme on radio. -- Nigel Andrew, Daily Mail
Without doubt I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the best panel game on radio or TV. It has an unrivalled team and the silliest of games. -- Terry Ramsey, Evening Standard
Humphrey Lyttelton is the best panel game host there has ever been. -- Victoria Wood, Radio Times
It's trying not to laugh which hurts. -- Laurie Taylor, The Times
Many thanks Auntie for the truly and consistently hilarious I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. -- Marcella Evaristi, Glasgow Herald
One day people will envy us for living through the years when this magnificent half-hour enlivened every Sunday lunchtime. Ours will be known as the Golden Days of Radio. -- Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
The funniest quiz show of them all. -- Sue Arnold, The Observer
The funniest show on the wireless. -- Sid Smith, Time Out
The most genuinely and infallibly cheering programme on radio. -- Nigel Andrew, Daily Mail
Without doubt I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is the best panel game on radio or TV. It has an unrivalled team and the silliest of games. -- Terry Ramsey, Evening Standard
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Willie Rushton, Humphrey Lyttelton. Barry Cryer's writing credits include material for Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Bruce Forsyth, Rory Bremner and Jasper Carrott, to name but a few. As if this was not enough, he has also collaboratively penned series like Hello Cheeky! and appears regularly on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, and Just a Minute. He delighted audience with his one-man show The First Farewell Tour. He was made an OBE for services to comedy in 2001. Doctor Graeme's Aberdonian roots are dyed a pleasing flesh colour. In 1968, while waiting in a queue for treatment at King's College Hospital, London, Graeme carelessly qualified as a doctor. Fame eluded him with The Goodies and the original idea for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue was Graeme's, but he generously refuses to take all the blame.
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This might just be a book about five old blokes messing about making bad jokes and school boy innuendo on the radio, BUT, well, you either love them or don't get it. Anyone who rushes home from work to hear ISIHAC will adore this and will attempt (between giggles) to read you some of the more atrocious puns. Of course the book can't truly get over the machieavellian jockeying for position that goes on during 'Mornington Crescent' or display the fragrant charms of Samantha, and on a more poignant note, we all do miss the great lamented Willie Rushton, but when you read this you will enter the classic comedy world of R4
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