Some of you who read this, or even if you don’t, will know that I am a somewhat big fan of Mr Finnemore of the John variety.<\/p>\n
He’s written material for many, but especially Mitchell and Webb, he’s crafted his own Souvenir Program<\/a> which is a series of sketches, recently started on some Double Acts but best of all, in my opinion, he wrote Cabin Pressure<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now Cabin Pressure is an all time favourite and one that I have managed to convert friends and colleagues alike to listen and laugh along with. Its a great taster of how well he writes.<\/p>\n His Souvenir Program<\/a> stars some regular folk, well regular participants. Having seen them in action tonight as part of JF’s entourage, they’re anything but normal – though that’s in the good way.<\/p>\n Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawny Lewin and Carrie Quinlan aid him magnificently in his sketch series which has run for seven series, so far.<\/p>\n Tonight the five of them did magnificently in a variety of guises and, most especially, Carrie reprised her role of Patsy Straightwoman interviewing Arthur, yes that Arthur, Shappey Esq. Hearing what happened to the crew of MJN\/OJS Air after the two Zurich episodes was great, and to know that they had just returned from San Salvador and on their way to Trinidad & Tobago will give people in the know hope that perhaps a new run may yet still be possible.<\/p>\n There were a lot of other closet fans at the show as I heard many gave knowing sniggers, grunts or other similar indications that when certain names, phrases or similar keywords were uttered, meant we all knew what would happen next.<\/p>\n And whilst the secret of comedy is sometimes in the timing.<\/p>\n Tonight the secret of comedy was repetition.<\/p>\n Especially the phrases “yellow car”, “the lemon is in play” and utterances involving Pavlov’s dogs.<\/p>\n If you get the chance to see it in its flying visit to a town near you – go and enjoy.<\/p>\n (And don’t forget to keep the secret secret!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of you who read this, or even if you don’t, will know that I am a somewhat big fan of Mr Finnemore of the John variety. He’s written material for many, but especially Mitchell and Webb, he’s crafted his own Souvenir Program which is a series of sketches, recently started on some Double Acts … Continue reading “John Finnemore’s Flying Visit to High Wycombe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabin-pressure","category-favourites","category-john-finnemore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}