I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue-The Complete Lionel Blair (1993-2007)
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- A compilation of every single Lionel Blair joke (as well as a few with Una Stubbs and Christopher Biggins) from the BBC Radio 4 panel game "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" delivered by the late great Humphrey Lyttelton...
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The pulling off of 'Twelve Angry Men' in under two minutes is the alltime undisputed champion of Lionel Blairs.
RIP Lionel and Humph.
I’ve always thought the pinnacle of any bit of comedy is being able to make Barry Cryer laugh- the man who has seen it all and written for everyone.
Amazing comment. 👍
And today sadly Barry is no more. A wonderful comic talent who was hilarious in all he did. Rest in peace sir.
I had the pleasure of meeting Barry many times, and he was as generous with his laughter at other peoples jokes, as he was with giving lines to other people. A fine man and a great writer.
@@KBJ58 if as I suspect, you are the writer of the utter filth that permeated the radio 2 airwaves via Mr. Wogan then I for one would put you on a comedy pedestal with Barry. Your writing of Janet and John and Terry's timing and often breaking down when he saw what was coming next are a pure joy to the ears of every dirty minded listener. The fact that loads of people come onto TH-cam and seek it out proves how much he is missed and how funny your material is. I hope you despair as much as I do about the pc brigade and their attitude to comedy. Britain was built on smut, innuendo and a saucy postcard type of humour and it's getting lost. Probably the only films I saw on telly over Christmas were the carry on films. I've seen them countless times but they're still funny. Anyway, a lovely tribute to Barry who's laugh was extremely infectious, especially on I'm sorry I haven't a clue. Keep up the good work if you're still working in the writing game - for fucks sake we need a laugh more than ever. All the best, Neil.
@@neilcurran1589 Thank you for those kind words. I couldn't bring myself to write the J&J stories for anyone else, so the smut was curtailed when Terry died. I think I'd used up the few remaining shreds of innuendo left over from ISIHAC. But I have some great memories of those golden days. I do however, tip my hat to the great Ian Pattinson who wrote much of Humph's lines. Slightly bizarrely, he used to work in the Lloyds building too. Must be something in the water...
I think it was Jim Broadbent who said he would get out of a warm bath to switch off The Archers but stay in a cold one to listen to the end of an ISIHAC episode. Never have I agreed with someone so completely.
sewob147 yeah me too. Jim has nailed it there. Just the sounds of Barry Cryer laughing are enough to make me laugh
@@alexday5892 Monday 4th May chaps. ISIHAC tribute to Tim, Radio4, 6.30.
It was Stephen Fry. I recall him saying this, not least because it encompassed a shared antipathy towards The Archers.
as someone said of the archers theme... "it manages to combine jauntiness and menace"... "oooh Tony whom i always address by name, why are you filling the kettle so audibly?" "Well, Pat whom i also always address by name, you'll need warming up after all those leather bags of cornstarch you've been trudging through."
Dee
RIP Lionel Blair, the mime master himself.
I do enjoy how easy it is to pick out Sandi Toksvig's laughter.
The Nevile Shute joke is without doubt one of the most perfect comedy moments in radio history.
It’s form, delivery and reaction are just perfect. Everything comes together in millisecond timing.
Also, the fact that this comedy moment would be almost impossible and too complicated to explain to , say, an American and yet, it’s genius is it’s simplicity.
You cannot predict the punchline till it lands.
I confess to never have heard of Mr Shute, but will never forget him now.
The genius of Iain Pattison, the masterly delivery of Lyttleton, everything falls into place.
100% agree. It's astonishingly puerile, brilliantly orchestrated, perfectly delivered and jaw-droppingly filthy. The waves of audience laughter, as the double meaning (no! surely not!) sinks in is almost as funny as the joke itself.
I genuinely have no idea how Humph kept a straight face. You _occasionally_ hear him stifle a giggle (there's a couple in this video) but it's pretty rare.
I keep finding new things on this ... in the whole of 1996 ( Pattinson's first season as writer I believe) there are no sexual innuendo jokes about Lionel .....
12:02
Excuse me? -'this comedy moment would be almost impossible and too complicated to explain to, say, an American'
You fucking what? - 'say, an american'?
Shute in his face? Who wouldn't get that?
You fucking nonce.
Fucking stupid little prick.
Always come back to this when I need a laugh. Nevil Shute gets me every time.
Humph delivered these lines so coldly and innocently whilst the rest of us peed ourselves and had to call the St. Johns ambulance to assist with pains in the sides from continual laughter........bless them and RIP Dear Tim B-T 😢
The word "genius" is bandied around too often, but Humph was one.
@@markcampbell8950 where is the software
Hard to pick a favourite, but One Man and His Dog started the tears rolling so I'll go with that. Neville Shute kept them coming.
He managed to get away with those on BBC Radio 4 purely by looking completely innocent as he delivered those lines. He even looked puzzled at the audience's reactions. Genius. Sadly missed.
I second that!
Great musician too.
Yes ,and he was a touring jazz man all his life so he had seen it all and yet he played the curmudgeonly befuddled chairman brilliantly.
9:12 Two Gentlemen of Verona
12:02 Nevil Shute
13:27 Howard’s End
22:25 Snow White😂
The Dirty Dozen and The Sting has to be close up behind the Gentlemen of Verona......
Neville Shute in Lionel's face!!! - you owe me for a new laptop
That joke is the acme of pre-watershed double entendre. Genius.
One of the greatest lines ever.
Darlington 2003, I was there! You can hear audience momentarily shocked then collapsed into hysterical laughter
12:03 - you’re welcome
Whoever came up with that one can rest easy knowing they’ve done their duty on this earth.
I'm sure I heard Barry Cryer exclaim "oh dear" at least twice. If you can make dirt this clever then you have a claim to a seat at the hight table. R.I.P. Mr Lyttleton, there is still a hole where you were, and one that Lionel could never fill, despite trying his hardest
And Barry wrote the immortal "Sorry about the F in fog" line for Kenny Everett!
7:04 I think that’s one of ‘em 7:36 that might be another 8:55 30 years of this
Lionel Blair, RIP
Humphrey Littleton, RIP
Tim Brooke-Taylor, RIP
Noŵ sadly Barry Cryer
Thank you Mark for taking the trouble of making this compilation for all us Blairites! RIP LB Nov 4th 2021.
The "A Town Like Alice" one is just incredible 🤣
Neville Schute on Lionels face . That's when I fell on the floor laughing.
It's a perfectly written and executed joke. The acme of ISIHAC, if you will.
@@markcampbell8950 Good old Humph. He got the timing from being a great musician.
Poor old Lionel, RIP. To his credit he took it without complaint from the whole team for more than thirty years.
You're right. Humph was very hard on him, but he took it like a man.
@@markcampbell8950 I don't think so. He is quoted as saying "He [Humph] is no longer with us, so you know... You should always speak good of the dead. He’s dead. Good.’"
I can understand his frustration, but that is not the comment from somebody who took it well.
@@johnorourke6869 My reply was supposed to be a joke, in the same vein as one of Humph's jokes. He's on record as saying he didn't like it. But it was hardly Humph's fault - blame the producer or writers. In other words, don't shoot the messenger.
@@markcampbell8950 My apologies, sometimes nuance can be lost online.
@@johnorourke6869 Indeed! No need to apologise - did you enjoy the compilation?
Thank you so much for putting this together. I have not laughed so much in years. Humph reading them with a straight face was a hell of a feat.
Happy to have made you laugh!
I heard a showbiz joke about Lionel Blair. Apparently he was on his way to a performance one day and his care broke down. As he was by a canal and there was no traffic he hitched a lift on a passing barge. Grateful for the lift he gets talking to the barge owner who explained that he was on his way carrying ten tons of household waste. Approaching a lock, the lock keeper shouts to the barge captain as to what he was carrying. The reply was "Ten tons of shit and Lionel Blair!". This happened through several locks, when finally Lionel says to the barge captain "Is there any chance I could have top billing for a change......"
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Lmfao these comments. What a rollercoaster
Nothing beats this. Nothing. Laughter solves evrerything.
If only it did! Thanks for the nice comment. :-)
RIP Lionel Blair. A great entertainer, and the undisputed master of the game.
Just pure class! I'm pretty sure I know all these by heart, I've heard them so often 🤣
Neville Shute will always be my favourite!
Just HOW did they get away with that?! :-)
I know right! XD
And 'went down with both hands on Dec(k)' too... 🤣🤣
12:17 The Neville Shute one was truly astonishing!
The Neville Shute line is simply the best double entendre ever. A cleverly constructed line with filthy undertones.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
LMFAO. Huge fan of ISIHAC and stumbled on this.
Circulated to many 😂😂😂
RIP Humph, sooooo missed.
Martin Pickard That's a lovely thing to say - thankyou! :-)
I watched part of this today - having never really heard of any of these people - with the remarkable coincidence that Lyttleton was one of the answers in the Financial Times Crowssword today.
Lionel was always enthusiastic in embracing the latest gritty film genres and was clearly delighted on the show on discovering a two minute Shaft was on the cards.
Thank you for this. Had me in tears. The best one has to be the Two Gentlemen of Verona where Sandi just totally loses it!
Derek Horne Indeed! The audience and contestants' reaction (often shocked) that follows the outrageous punchlines is a huge part of the comedy.
Absolutely agree! The reactions can often make me laugh harder than the actual joke itself
The link is at 9:12
I must have replayed that section about 15 times with tears rolling. Hearing Tim laughing at Sandi because she is in hysterics is just as funny as the joke if not funnier. What I would give to have been in the audience for that recording.
Come back to this after hearing the news
9:12 might be the longest laugh in Clue history. The joke finishes at 9.24 and the laughing continues for a full minute, helped in no small part by Sandi losing it completely.
12:03 is probably the most riotous laughter
Oh, to bottle those laughs!
There's no mistaking the laughter of Sandy Toksvig.
Wonderful work, thank you.
Reminds me of one of the great 'Give Us a Clue' controversies when Lionel was accused of flagrant showboating and playing to the gallery. Few that were there at one particular recording will ever forget the look on Una Stubbs' face when she saw Lionel making a meal of John Wayne's 'Chisum'.
Thank you so much for putting these on TH-cam. Brilliant, and some much needed humour in these challenging times
You're very welcome!
Sandi Totsvig losing it over and over again - brilliant
Just her laugh cracks me up.
‘Pulled off into a Little Chef ‘ got me. Such great gags.
This has been my high point of 2019, Sandy's uncontrollable fits made me cry with laughter. :)
Aw that's brilliant!
Thank you so very much for this. Blimey I miss Humph.
Happy to oblige. He was an absolute leg end.
Along with the 'Samantha' jokes and Hamish and Dougal this represents a brilliant and definitive radio comedy show
Morag brought a crate of booze for the party.
Hard liquor?
You know her better than I do.
RIP Iain Pattinson, the ISIHAC writer responsible for most of these (no, it wasn't Graeme Garden).
Agree wholeheartedly!
How many people were admitted to hospital with hysterical laughter related injuries after this? Genius.
2022 and this still holds . Thank you uploader , the laughter this brings is immeasurable.
Really glad you enjoyed this. It will never grow old. Just funnier.
Thank you, thank you for this hilarious compendium. I was weeping with laughter!
Glad you enjoyed it!
'...when Lionel went down with both hands on Dec' !! Such a cheering compilation.
Absolutely epic compilation! Thank you so much- I laughed the whole way through this! 👍🏻
Aw shucks, thankyou; that's great to hear!
If I were lionel I'd have wanted this played at my funeral.
He was , in terms of jokes, the finest butt in British entertainment .
It wasnt until 2003 that the audience started cheering the moment Lionel was mentioned .
Thank you so much I still have tears running down my face an hour later
So good to hear! Thankyou for listening,
Thanks Mark for posting this; not laughed so much in years. Humph was peerless!
Humph was unique.
I soon as I heard the death of Lionel Blair I thought of ISIHAC. What a brilliant idea for a compilation!
Thankyou!
Genius Mark, very many thanks for putting this together.
Couldn’t resist, had to listen again. I am in bits. 😂😂😂😂😂 thank you so much.
You are welcome. A pleasure to be the purveyor of some innocent laughter!
So so funny. Two gentlemen from Verona - the longest audience laugh
Just one wonderful part of a show that has been wonderful for decades. Thank you for posting this.
ISIHAC survived the losses of Willie Rushdon and Humphrey Lyttelton - I hope it can also survive the loss of Tim Brooke-Taylor. I still miss the first two, and know I will miss poor old Tim. It can't go on forever, but I really hope it can last as long as I do.
So sad about TBT.
A latecomer but it's also lost Jeremy Hardy who, but for the fickle hand of fate, could have pursued an alternative career in music! Jack Dee a poor replacement in my view but even then the content is still outstanding.
For me the show won't ever be the same again. It might continue but, for me, the magic is gone 😥 Hearing Tim, Graeme, Willie n Barry having jokes with Humph was like being allowed to join a secret club for cool funny guys. Losing Willie was tough, Humph going was a massive loss even if Jack did his best to replace, it wasn't the same and I just can't listen anymore now that Tim has gone. I can only be thankful to those who post the old recordings 😍
I’m still very sad about TBT’s passing - I always thought he was delightful. ISIHAC isn’t the same without Greame Garden either - his recent absences have been very noticeable, although I very much enjoy Jack Dee hosting the show.
There is always one of these that will always stick in my mind. Lionel Blair not being able to use his mouth, to finish off The two gentlemen of Verona.
Brilliant stuff. Thanks OP! Love the times when Humph struggles not to laugh himself :)
Yes, they are great moments aren't they? Humph was a comedy God.
Excellent collection!
Thanks!
Thank you for posting these. I had no idea and this is fantastic listening.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was going to add a comment on the 'Complete Samantha' that we needed a 'Complete Lionel', but you beat me to it! Brilliant, and thank you! I will *never* forget the intro that left Sandi Toksvig in helpless hysterics for one full minute... it did me too!
A Complete Colin Sell and Mrs Trellis will be COMING SOON!
Can't believe I've only just found this on 'ere! Thanks for the upload, might play it again very soon.
***Update: I replayed it again about 20 seconds after writing my original comment!***
Thankyou, glad you enjoyed it so much!
I have just been crying with laughter at this. Thanks for uploading x
Happy to oblige!
Oh this is wonderful and just what I needed.
To have these complete collections - Lionel Blair, Biggins, Samantha, etc etc is just wonderful; a project I’ve thought of several times, but simply never had the dedication, patience, attention to detail, and pure self discipline to even start..... so, an Thank You so much, this means a lot, and I will now relive many happy memories, and discover some new surprises, as I was too young during the early days to ‘get it’. Again, THANK YOU so much!!!!
Thankyou so much Mark, that is a lovely thing to say!
Mark Campbell
No, thank YOU Sir!
You will undoubtedly go straight to heaven for uploading this..... or any nirvana of your choice
You're very kind. Thankyou.
Brilliant!!
Thanks for this, it's truly wonderful
I'm really glad you like it!
Mark Campbell can you do a “Humph’s tour of Britain” one aswell?
Thought about doing this compilation myself, glad I found someone else has done it! Great stuff!
Thankyou for your kind comments. The only reason I did it was because no-one else had!
@@markcampbell8950 Came here because of Lionel's recent passing, saw your comments, so glad you did, but I think I have one or two I don't think I heard, i'll have to have another listen,. But anyway, good job and RIP Lionel.
Superb wit!
Rest in peace Lionel. You thrilled a lot of people
Mark Campbell, it must have been a lot of effort. Thanks for posting, I'm an old cynic, but I laughed my tits off.
Thanks Mark, this is pure bliss. Viva Humph.
Thankyou for your kind comment, rusty2222!
Just discovered this post 3 days ago. I have always been a huge fan of Round the Horne, a staple of my childhood. I now have every episode and at each listening, now I'm in my 60's, me reactions are:1) Hysterical laughter, 2) How the hell did they ever get away with that, especially given the social context of the time. Several decades later, the Lionel jokes provoke exactly the same reactions. I have been replaying this twice a day since and will stop once I stop laughing. Not any time soon I fear.
Fantastic!!!! I think if it was anyone else but dear Humph, they wouldn't (have got away with it, that is). If you subscribe, you'll be notified when The Complete Colin Sell and The Complete Mrs Trellis are uploaded....
@@markcampbell8950 subscribing instantly!!!
@@markcampbell8950 Not so sure. The BBC caved in to pressure from Lionel to stop the gay jokes. Humph often professed he didn't understand them himself, (not sure I actually believe that!), nevertheless, Jack, who would certainly understand them, has a deadpan enough delivery to say them "innocently", as did Humph.
magnificent! well done Mark. ISIHAC is worth the licence fee alone, especially with Humph.
Thanks, and I agree! (Though you don't need one for radio....)
Delivery was everything in these shows. Absolute genius.
Just thank you. Amazing
Lionel is now older and has had to retire from 'give us a clue'. He is living in a well funded care home and is still active, but without any words used he still welcomes visitors entering via the back entrance...
Rest in Peace Lionel, great upload. Imagine this is first time I heard these. On before you could get bbc radio worldwide online. 2 greats on one screen.
Thankyou.
This has made me laugh harder than anything I can remember. I love ISIHAC and thought I'd heard all of these, but haven't. The Lionel Blair Sound Charades were always one of my favourite bits. The One Man and His Dog is a personal favourite, but I'd never heard The Two Gentlemen of Verona, which is astonishing. I'm only 10 mins in and can't wait for more.
Glad you like my labour of love. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
Listened to this and the Samantha ones on headphones in the garden last year and the neighbours on both sides asked me what I’d been laughing out loud to ....brilliant ..
Utter filth. Utter genius
I was driving past junction 12 on the M1 when i heared the one (3:50) about twelve angry men. I genuinely had to pull over to the hard shoulder because i was laughing so much. Have never forgotten that. One of the funniest ISIHAC moments. Along with the one about Samantha going for an ice cream with her italian gentleman friend, nothing she likes more than to lick the nuts off a large neopolitan. Humph's delivery was pure genius.
@@caribstu You're a braver man than I, daring to drive with that programme on. I learnt with Brian Johnston's "Legover Incident" that music in the car is MUCH safer, and daren't think what Humph and Co might have done to me behind the wheel.
Genius, thanks for posting.
Happy to make people smile.
The construction of the gags are marvelous....! If you study them they are backward engineered .... God bless them all..thanks for the memories :)
Yes, and almost all of them have innocent interpretations...although it's sometimes hard to find them!
@@markcampbell8950 oooh matron :)
I think all of these were penned by the fantastic Graeme Garden but so wonderfully delivered with an unfaltering smoothness, whilst the audience cry with laughter. Hearing Barry and Tim laughing hard is enough to make me cry with laughter. RIP Tim. Thank you for putting this up 👍🏻
You are very welcome. It was a labour of love and I'm pleased people are enjoying it so much.
I now live in Sydney, Australia and so these recordings are the things that remind me of 6pm on a Sunday afternoon when I'm at my olds for Sunday roast and a good laugh for 30 mins with 'the delightful Samantha scoring' Thanks Mark 👍🏻
@@alexday5892 I hear she's very good Down Under.
Mark Campbell she says “all this being upside down takes her back to the summer of 69”
@@alexday5892 Ah, I always thought that was her position. Glad to hear she's keeping abreast of things.
Pure genius. Humphrey is a double entendre master
Rest in Peace Iain Pattinson.
Apparently Lionel Blair was most upset and disgusted by these snippets......All I can say is keep up the good work!
I wish Humph had been given an opportunity to present Have I Got News for You. Give him a similar type of script and it would have been magic.
What a great idea. If only...
Just wonderful. Tears rolling down my face. So sadly missed,
Glad you enjoyed this. We need some laughter these days!
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He didn't mention that Lionel Blair suffered from stage fright, to the extent that Una Stubbs found his dressing room door locked while he got himself into a paddy.
Yes, I heard he was due to give a performance at the Albert Hall once, with 30,000 people in the audience. He was sharing a dressing room with West Life and Boyzone and they made him so scared at the prospect that they gave him the willies.
Thanks for the laughs... ☮️💙🙏
I'd love a modern revival of Give Us a Clue. I just want to see if Lionel could finish Inside Amy Schumer in less than two minutes.
Almost certainly not. Unless he's hard up.But I can't see that either,he's 92.
I'd forgotten about these sections of the show!
Truly comic genius, sadly from different times but superb listening all the same.
The subtitles too add a new meaning!😁
Thank you and thank you!!
No, thank YOU!
I have discovered what it is to be British. It is laughing until your sides hurt over the most vulgar and explicit double entendres ever invented for ISIHAC. My eyes are red, I have tears of unadulterated joy welling up in them. How I miss Humph and more recently Tim Brooke Taylor. Sadly Graham Garden is becoming a rare guest. I tuned in just last week and apart from Jack Dee the chairman I was totally unaware of who three of the guests were. Thus I had to change the programme selection. The Humph years were the best, and must be put out for broadcast again in the way that Round the Horne is.
ISIHAC will continue in some form or other, but you are right - it will never, ever be the same.
Thank you for all the work you put into these compilations. May I suggest that your next project be The Complete Introductions --- from "You join us this week...." to "Let's meet the teams".
Writer Iain Pattinson created a series of brilliant short descriptions of each town, some of which ended up as the book compilation "Lyttelton's Britain". Worthy of Wodehouse!
Thankyou for those nice words. My next projects are Mrs Trellis and Colin Sell...
The introduction to Nottingham that references Scunthorpe is an absolute gem amongst that genre.
Is that the one where someone is claimed to have "the Hampton of a Norse"? XD
I seem to recall him also finishing off An Officer and A Gentleman against the clock...
RIP Una Stubbs. I found out about Give Us a Clue through ISIHAC. I looked it up such that the jokes make more sense, it was a fun little show. There’s not much like that on telly anymore.
I used to enjoy watching it on afternoon telly. To be fair, Lionel Blair was very good at it - and very funny.
Thank you so much for this and other compilations. My joy in hearing Humph deliver these line with impeccable insouciance is only tempered by a little sadness that if this were to be introduced today he would be cancelled for hate rather than applauded for joy.
The current presenter, Jack Dee, has continued this right up to the present day. Nobody has 'cancelled' a single thing about him
You are just hijacking a recent death to vomit forth some nonsense about 'cancel culture' because you think recent deaths = people taking any notice of your nonsense.
Shame on you.
@@davidice1 To be fair, Jack Dee didn't make jokes about his sexuality - that's changed, and that's something that would absolutely NOT be allowed today.
@@davidice1 The only person here vomiting bile seems to be you. I stand by my view because for all of Jack Dee's brilliance in the role he does not mention his sexuality in the same tone. Imagine him referring every week to Eddie Izzard's dress or gender or Sam Smith's non-binary identity. Both are as deserving of mockery as every other aspect of life but you know that cancellation would be the inevitable result of such an approach. Now I would love to hear what you think about that without the nastiness that pervaded your first post. Keep it civil or keep it quiet is pretty much what I'm saying.
I would have liked to have seen Una Stubb's Fanny by Gaslight.
Sandi absolutely losing her mind at 9:12 made me absolutely DIE
Came across this today😅 tears streaming, stomach hurts, head hurts 😂couldn't be happier ❤
The look of horror on Ant's face as Lionel went down with both hands on deck
The joke gets funnier the more you think about it.
The best radio comedy ever made .......Humph your so missed !
i never thought humphrey lyttleton was quite so rude and funny huge laughs from me thank you xx