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Gascoigne was also intensely telegenic, if in a slightly eccentric way. His repertoire of encouraging or consolatory smiles or grimaces, nods and head anglings were relished by Griff Rhys Jones – who played ‘Bambi’ Gascoigne in a 1984 episode of The Young Ones – and Mark Gatiss, whose portrayal in the 2006 college comedy movie Starter For Ten introduced Bamber to generations for whom the surname was most associated with the footballer, Paul. The presenter’s unassuming charisma was a good fit for a quiz show that was visual in multiple ways, with its trompe-l’œil (a word which was more than once a starter round answer) effect of the teams sitting on top of each other (in reality, they were side by side on the studio floor). The appearances of the competitors allowed younger viewers (at least white and middle-class ones) to see people on TV who unusually looked like them – while parents and grandparents could jeer about the need to visit a barber or clothes shop. The earliest occurrences of the phrase that I have found explicitly refer to BBC’s Mastermind and to Magnus Magnusson. The first of these occurrences is from the humoristic column Keith Waterhouse 2 on Thursday, published in the Daily Mirror (London, England) of Thursday 12 th January 1978: If you’d like to get started, here are the links to find out more about our Taster Days and Module One of NLP Practitioner training: What has been the most memorable specialist subject for you across the series so far since you’ve been the host? Magnus Magnusson, KBE (born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to prominence as a BBC television journalist and was the presenter of the BBC television quiz programme Mastermind for 25 years. [1] His catchphrase "I've started, so I'll finish" was said whenever the time for questioning a contestant ran out while he was reading a question on the show.

whenever the bleeper sounded for the end of the round while a question was still in the process of being asked. Spitting Image used the Mastermind format in a sketch where a Magnus Magnusson puppet asked questions of a Jeffrey Archer puppet whose specialist subject was himself. The twist was that Archer's puppet, being incapable of answering questions about himself without exaggeration or evasion, ends the round with zero points. The dynamic doctor, who earned fulsome praise from host John Humphrys, admits he is ‘incredibly competitive’ and spent his evenings and weekends reading up on general knowledge. Oh dear, it is not going well. He doesn’t remember that, in an interview with Spotlight on Alumni of the University of Sussex, where Myrie studied law, he said his favourite record was the Bach cello suites played by Paul Tortelier. But he does know that the Verona opera festival, which he and his wife visit every year (the past two excepted), was started in 1913 to celebrate the centenary of Verdi’s birth.The anonymous author of Magnus Magnusson’s obituary, published in The Telegraph (London, England) of Monday 8 th January 2007, explained that the presenter of Mastermind said I’ve started, so I’ll finish Mastermind (TV series)" redirects here. For international versions and unrelated TV shows of the same or similar names, see Mastermind § Television. Mastermind Champions – BBC One London – 3 May 1982". BBC Genome Project . Retrieved 7 November 2014. You see, the person with the Procedures preference sees chains of events, steps in a process or sequences of activity. They like to know where they are in the process and where it will end. Cup Final Mastermind was an annual playoff between experts and supporters from the FA Cup Finalist teams they are supporting. It ran from 1978 and 1980.

The latest pub craze is the general knowledge quiz, inspired, I shouldn’t wonder, by television’s Mastermind. THEY’RE OFF—the field of 25,000 thunder down the Central Motorway from the start. . . . and some are already thinking of the finish The music (“Approaching Menace” from the BBC mood-tape library) fades, house lights dim, and the most recognisable chair in Britain awaits the first contender. On seventeen autumn and winter evenings during each of the past ten years about 10 million people have settled to watch Mastermind, spurning the muscular counter-attractions of programmes like The Professionals on the commercial channel. On December 27, something like 14 million viewers will take their postprandial pleasure in watching the finalists under interrogation. […] Clive Myrie: Becoming host of Mastermind is a big, big job". BBC News. 19 August 2021 . Retrieved 2 May 2022.On their 2005 Christmas Special, comedy duo French & Saunders parodied the show with Jennifer Saunders playing Abigail Wilson, a pensioner whose special subject is ceramic teapots. She passes on all but one question, which she answers incorrectly. The son of a lieutenant colonel and grandson of a brigadier general, Gascoigne was born in London and educated at Eton and Cambridge (“Magdalene, English Literature” would have been his tag if competing on University Challenge). Through student theatre at Cambridge he met Michael Frayn, a lifelong friend, who went on to become a comic playwright and novelist, although it was Gascoigne who had the earliest success as a writer. He scripted Share My Lettuce, a revue for young actors including Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams, which ran in London from 1957-58, giving Gascoigne a West End success in his early 20s. Switching from vegetable to fruit-related titles, Gascoigne script-edited Dig This Rhubarb, a TV sketch show, but, by then, had already moved from postgraduate comedy to interrogating students.