Fry, Brydon and Dee have no clue

Since the sad passing of Humphrey Lyttelton, trumpet player and presenter of the ever increasingly brilliant I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue last year – there has been talk and speculation over what will happen to the show.

Humph really made it his own with an amazing ability to say or suggest things that others might have got a six month suspension for – and come away looking innocent and like butter wouldn’t melt.

So there were big questions over what would happen – would this Radio 4 institution be left to die with its headline act or would it get a new person in the middle and carry on with a slightly new format.

Well the answer was clearly that it would carry on – Humph was VERY important to the show, he almost was the show – but not quiet the whole show. Barry Cryer, Tim Brooke-Taylor et al make up just as much of this show.

So a new host would be needed – but who? Well the decision was taken last year to follow Have I Got News for You and have a rotating host chair with a different host each week.

What’s actually happened is that there will be three hosts, all of them have been guests before and so know the format well. They are Stephen Fry (@stephenfry), Rob Brydon (@realrobbrydon) and Jack Dee.

It won’t be the same show as before, ok so things like Mornington Crescent will probably still be in place, the singing will probably still happen and everything else will be the same – but hopefully we won’t see the three hosts try to copy Humphs jokes – I can’t imagine Samantha will survive under Jack Dee or Stephen Fry – Rob I’m not so sure about.

Rob Brydon told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: “You’re not filling Humphs shoes, you’re filling the role of the person that overseas and initiates it.”

The new series starts airing in June but recording starts in April.

Two episodes are recorded at each session with the first on Sunday 26 April with Stephen Fry in the chair, the second with Jack Dee on 17 May and the third on 4 June with Rob Brydon.

I can’t wait until the new series starts but have one concern – a concern that stems from the same reason I seem to have missed all of the last series of Just a Minute.

I listen to my iPod, I listen to everything on my iPod – I listen to radio on my iPod in podcast form and, unless I remember to use the iPlayer Downloader App miss almost all radio that isn’t podcasted.

I very much doubt I’m Sorry I haven’t a Clue will be avaialble as a podcast (please let it happen though!) so will probably still miss everything but the first episode.

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