Just a Minute, Nicholas Parsons - Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Stephen Fry & Liza Tarbuck

Mais um dos arquivos antigos que a minha lista consolidada do Windows Media Player me fez o favor de executar. Eu até poderia tentar escrever o post sem hesitar, repetir ou desviar, como mandam as regras do programa, mas aí eu perderia a chance de dizer que a coisa é muito, muito engraçada. 

Encontrei o roteiro transcrito neste site aqui. Já é alguma coisa para quem não conseguir encontrar o mp3 desse programa em particular. Vou colar a apresentação e um trecho do Stephen Fry. Como o Blogger reagirá a isso, em relação à fonte em que os textos colados aparecerão, isso eu nunca posso antecipar. 

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Thank you, thank you, hello, my name is Nicholas Parsons. And as the Minute Waltz fades away once more it is my pleasure to welcome our many listeners not only in this country but throughout the world. But also to welcome the four dynamic and diverse personalities who are going to play Just A Minute this week. With pleasure we welcome back that clever, witty and man who plays the show with such humorous panache, Paul Merton. We also welcome back after a bit of an absence actually, someone who’s equally clever and witty at playing the game, that is Stephen Fry. And someone who plays the game with wonderful feminine charm and verve and that is Liza Tarbuck. And someone who’s been playing the game with incredible skill for more years than we care to remember, that is Clement Freud. Would you please welcome all four of them! As usual I am going to ask them to speak on a subject that I give them and they will try and do that without hesitation, repetition or deviating from the subject. Beside me sits Janet Staplehurst who’s going to help me keep the score, she’ll blow a whistle when the 60 seconds are up. And this particular edition of Just A Minute comes from the Radio Theatre in the heart of Broadcasting House in the West One district of London. And we have a truly cosmopolitan audience in front of us, excited and ready for us to get going. So let us start the show with Paul Merton. And Paul the subject in front of me is crow’s feet. Will you tell us something about crow’s feet in Just A Minute if you can starting now. 

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O tema aleatório sobre o qual ele deveria falar era "that sinking feeling". 

SF: In this game in a way as you start optimistically and youthfully off on a sentence, you develop that sinking feeling as the end approaches and you wonder how on earth you’re going to round it off in some semblance of sense. It doesn’t often happen. Sometimes it does and when that occurs of course, you’re very pleased. But that sinking feeling always tells you that at some point you’re going to collapse in a giggle of words and a fart of nonsense which is just about happening to me now, as I feel that sinking feeling coming upon me and I know that I’m not going to get properly to the end of this assemblage of words... 

BUZZ 

NP: Clement you challenged. 
CF: Deviation. 
NP: Why? 
CF: Yes he was going to get to the end. 
SF: But I didn’t! Because you interrupted! 
NP: That is an impossible challenge on which to make a decision... 
PM: I was waiting for the fart of nonsense! 
NP: I thought he illustrated that quite well actually but er. So he was going to get to the end, that is your challenge, um... 
SF: But I didn’t because he interrupted me! So he proved himself wrong by interrupting me! 
NP: You didn’t because you interrupted me so it’s an impossible decision. The only thing I can do on this occasion is the thing I do about once in every series... 
SF: Oh no! Don’t do that! 
LT: Please! 

LAUGHTER FROM PM AND THE AUDIENCE 

SF: Oh you mean ask the audience? 
NP: Yes. 
SF: Right! All right, do that. Sorry I thought you meant the other thing! Whew! 
NP: Stephen you mustn’t give too much of my private life away. 
SF: Sorry. 
NP: Please. And... especially the way you say it! Leaves all kind of imagination there. But er they’ve gone... what I do... is ask the audience to be the superior judge and with the wisdom that I can see is in this audience at the present moment and the wit and the... Would you all decide whether Clement Freud deserves his challenge. And therefore you either cheer for his correct challenge and you boo for an incorrect challenge. And you all do it together now. 

CHEERS AND BOOS FROM THE AUDIENCE 

NP: I think the boos had it. It was an incorrect challenge so Stephen you have a point... 
SF: Thank you very much! 
NP: And you have that sinking feeling... 
SF: I owe a lot to boos!