The Times edition from September 12th includes a review of the "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue" tour date in Northampton (giving it 4 out of 5 stars).  The review is available on their website at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/comedy/article2431738.ece.  Please note that THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS.

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The Times
September 12, 2007

I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue Live
Dominic Maxwell at Royal and Derngate, Northampton


As theatrical spectacles go, it’s spectacularly untheatrical. Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor have taken this “antidote to panel games” on the road for the first time in its 35 years as Radio 4’s flagship comedy show. They sit behind tables, flanking their gloomy 86-year-old chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. Nobody moves much.

But the crowd, most of them younger than the Goodies but older than the fourth panellist, Jeremy Hardy, greet these grizzled veterans as if they were rock stars. And laughs flow like water for the next two hours in a peculiar but effective greatest-hits set of games and routines from the past ten years.

The radio show is less spontaneous than it sometimes sounds. But this show doesn’t just feature familiar joke-butts – Quote/Unquote, Bill Oddie, the Post Office, Lionel Blair – but also familiar jokes. It’s a format that merrily mocks the spurious seriousness of quizzes. But with so many old gags – and even feigned ignorance, such as when the teams guess each other’s Sound Charades – the spark of the radio show is dampened.

Still, even in a partisan crowd, most people won’t remember much of this stuff. And the games are perfectly chosen. The tone-deaf Hardy sings an a capella Thank You for the Music. Garden and Cryer act out a scene from The Importance of Being Earnest as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader. Brooke-Taylor performs the orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally on swanee whistle. Mornington Crescent is greeted like a beloved Number One single. And they end with one of their best-ever set-pieces, Quiz of Quizzes, which parodies every TV quiz going. Glorious.

Chairman Humph, peering at his cue cards, is not what you’d call dynamic. But there’s no finer reader of a line. “If I’d ever known, 86 years ago, that I was going to be sitting here reading this codswallop,” he tells us, “then I’d have climbed right back in.” He brings out his trumpet at the end to play We’ll Meet Again. A standing ovation ensues.

There are some efforts to make it a live event, but not many. They could reinstate some risk, communicate more to the crowd. But finally the sheer quantity of good jokes here trounces all other concerns. There’s something about these wise-cracking old blokes that can overcome all defences.

Next show Monday, Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall (01892 530613).
Tour details www.isihac.co.uk