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''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' is a BBC radio comedy panel game. Introduced as "the antidote to panel games", it consists of two teams of two comedians "given silly things to do" by a chairman. The show launched in April 1972 as a parody of radio and TV panel games, and has been broadcast since on BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, with repeats aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The 50th series was broadcast in November and December 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue )〕 After a period of split chairmanship in the first series,〔 ("Barry Cryer, a regular panellist, who shared the chairman’s duties with Lyttleton in the first series...")〕 Humphrey Lyttelton ("Humph") served in this role from the programme's inception until his death in 2008.〔"It was either David Hatch or Humphrey Barclay, the two producers involved in the planning of the first series, who decided it would be a good idea to put Humph in the role of chairman." 〕 In April 2008, following the hospitalisation and subsequent death of Lyttelton, recording of the 51st series was postponed. The show recommenced on 15 June 2009 with Lyttelton being replaced by a trio of hosts: Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon. Dee went on to host all episodes of the 52nd series later that year. He continues in that role for forthcoming series. The chairman's script is written by Iain Pattinson, who has worked on the show since 1992. ==History== ''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue'' developed from the long-running radio sketch show ''I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again'', the writers of which were John Cleese, Jo Kendall, David Hatch, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and especially Graeme Garden who suggested the idea of an unscripted show〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue — A History )〕 which, it was decided, would take the form of a parody panel game. A panel game with no competition was not itself a new idea: the BBC had a history of successful quiz shows designed to allow witty celebrities to entertain where winning was not important. Examples include ''Ignorance is Bliss'', ''Just a Minute'', ''My Word!'' and ''My Music'' on the radio and ''Call My Bluff'' on television. The pilot episode (where it was originally called ''I'm Sorry, They're At It Again'') opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of "Three Blind Mice" to the tune of "Ol' Man River" followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of "Sing a Song of Sixpence" to the melody of "These Foolish Things". Dave Lee, who was bandleader on ''I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again'', was at the piano and a number of rounds were introduced by a short phrase of music. Other rounds included "Dialogue Read in a Specific Accent" and "Songs Sung as Animals".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Games Info )〕 In 1974 Bill Oddie was replaced by Willie Rushton, with Barry Cryer as Graeme Garden's teammate, and Humphrey Lyttelton as chairman, and the personnel remained constant from this point until Rushton's death in 1996. Since then the fourth seat on the panel has featured a variety of guest comedians.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=People )〕 The show has over two million listeners on Radio 4 and its recording sessions typically fill 1500-seat theatres within a week of being advertised.〔 At least one recording for the spring 2006 series filled all its seats within three hours of the free tickets being made available, and the London recording of the autumn series in that year sold out in ten minutes. Although there are twelve ''Clue'' shows broadcast per year these are the result of just six recording sessions, with two programmes being recorded back-to-back. The show was recently voted the second funniest radio programme ever, after ''The Goon Show''. It has a large following among professional comedians such as Armando Iannucci, who turned down opportunities to work on it, preferring to remain a listener. The official, authorised history of the show and ISIRTA, ''The Clue Bible'' by Jem Roberts, was published by Preface Publishing in October 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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