Wait Wait Don't Klaxon Me!
Dec. 29th, 2011 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogFinally, found it, recorded it, even saw it. NPR's closest cousin to QI, broadcast on BBC America, but from the radio programme's very big-shouldered home base in Chicago, following mostly their home format with just one token Brit in the cast....
Nick Hancock, who, somehow, despite his passable Alan Davies imitation, has never appeared on Le Show of Stephen.
Yes, said Nick, apparently best known for his own Beeb quizzy-wizzy thing called They Think It’s All Over, was the only token Royal subject on the show, along with host Peter, announcer (and voice of God) Carl, and regular panelists Paula Poundstone and Alonzo Bodden. They ditched the regular "Who's Carl," "Bluff the Listener" and "Limerick" segments, in favour of a bunch of year-in-review pieces mainly intended to poke fun at our President, their Royal Family, and their respective enemies. Completing the transcontinental voyage was Wisconsin resident N. Gaiman, who aced his "Not My Job" segment on the subject of assorted 2011 weird news stories (I got them all, too, mostly from my weekly News of the Weird readings).
Commercials?!? What's with that?!? Isn't there a Wait Wait XL version to take up those 15 minutes spent here with my finger on the CM-SKIP button?
All in all, though, fun. It would've been nice for them to have acknowleged Auntie's roots- whether by deducting points for obvious answers, or by putting better graphics behind the set than the tacky fake news stories displayed behind them (ironic, in a way, since apparently it's those fancy QI graphics that keep the show from being cleared for BBCA broadcast).
Even an occasional "Nobody knows!" would've been nice. Still, glad we caught it, even gladder I know we've got the English Channel, once things like Sherlock start showing up over the weekend.
Nick Hancock, who, somehow, despite his passable Alan Davies imitation, has never appeared on Le Show of Stephen.
Yes, said Nick, apparently best known for his own Beeb quizzy-wizzy thing called They Think It’s All Over, was the only token Royal subject on the show, along with host Peter, announcer (and voice of God) Carl, and regular panelists Paula Poundstone and Alonzo Bodden. They ditched the regular "Who's Carl," "Bluff the Listener" and "Limerick" segments, in favour of a bunch of year-in-review pieces mainly intended to poke fun at our President, their Royal Family, and their respective enemies. Completing the transcontinental voyage was Wisconsin resident N. Gaiman, who aced his "Not My Job" segment on the subject of assorted 2011 weird news stories (I got them all, too, mostly from my weekly News of the Weird readings).
Commercials?!? What's with that?!? Isn't there a Wait Wait XL version to take up those 15 minutes spent here with my finger on the CM-SKIP button?
All in all, though, fun. It would've been nice for them to have acknowleged Auntie's roots- whether by deducting points for obvious answers, or by putting better graphics behind the set than the tacky fake news stories displayed behind them (ironic, in a way, since apparently it's those fancy QI graphics that keep the show from being cleared for BBCA broadcast).
Even an occasional "Nobody knows!" would've been nice. Still, glad we caught it, even gladder I know we've got the English Channel, once things like Sherlock start showing up over the weekend.