History Radio / ImSorryIHaventAClue

The laser display board shows the title of a work for the audience and one team. The team then performs a small, improvised sketch, typically using a contrived pun or other wordplay. Nowadays, Barry and Graeme make all their sketches about two eccentric Scotsmen, Hamish and Dougal, setting up jokes and puns for each other seamlessly. Still played nowadays.

One team suffers from a delusion or complaint, but don't know what it is. The delusion is broadcast to the audience and the other team via the laser display board, and the team with the delusion have to ask the other team questions. The other team has to respond in a manner appropriate to the first team's delusion, until the first team manage to guess what it is. This has a variation in the ''Doctors'' game, which is basically vice versa -- the team with the problem know what their problem is, and the other team pose as doctors trying to diagnose them. The team with the problem answer in a manner appropriate to their problem. This version is still sometimes played.

The chairman asks a question to one of the panellists. They suggest a possible answer, the chairman gives the real answer, and so on. Usually, after everyone's had a go, the rest of the questions are free-for-all, where anyone may give their answer. Sometimes played under the name ''Household Hints'' or ''What's the Problem?''.

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: At the more ridiculous questions, Humph would insist they were all "out of a real book".

The chairman was Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter (the thinking being that improvisational comedy owed a lot to jazz), who created the persona of a curmudgeonly DeadpanSnarker who would rather be doing something else. ''Anything'' else [[note]]except playing the trumpet[[/note]]. The regular teams for most of the show's history were Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden versus Tim Brooke-Taylor and Creator/WillieRushton (the third Goodie, Bill Oddie, was in the first two series). After Rushton's death in 1996, the fourth panelist became a rotating position[[note]]Jeremy Hardy usually appeared once a series before his death, and some of the more frequent guests have included Rob Brydon, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Tony Hawks, Paul Merton, David Mitchell and Sandi Toksvig[[/note]]. Guests also deputise for Barry, Tim or Graeme if they are unable to make a recording; in recent years there have been many editions where only one of the regulars has been able to make the recording, and all three appear together only once a series at most. Because of the show's pedigree, and the fact that the regulars have the final say in who the guests are, being asked to appear on the show is seen as an honour (and many have turned down the opportunity for fear they might ruin it).

* LowCountGag: In a regular gag, the chairman uses variations of this joke to say the show has been deluged by an unprecedented number of letters, and it's from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales.

** One of the many features of the internet-linked liquid-crystal laser display board is to confuse the listeners at home who haven't been to a recording, and to make them wonder why the audience laugh when the title is displayed.

The chairman was Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter (the thinking being that improvisational comedy owed a lot to jazz), who created the persona of a curmudgeonly DeadpanSnarker who would rather be doing something else. ''Anything'' else [[note]]except playing the trumpet[[/note]]. The regular teams for most of the show's history were Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden versus Tim Brooke-Taylor and Creator/WillieRushton (the third Goodie, Bill Oddie, was in the first two series). After Rushton's death in 1996, the fourth panelist became a rotating position[[note]]Jeremy Hardy usually appeared once a series before his death, and some of the more frequent guests have included Rob Brydon, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Tony Hawks, Paul Merton, David Mitchell and Sandi Toksvig[[/note]]; guests also deputise for Barry, Tim or Graeme if they are unable to make a recording. Because of the show's pedigree, and the fact that the regulars have the final say in who the guests are, being asked to appear on the show is seen as an honour (and many have turned down the opportunity for fear they might ruin it).

The chairman was Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter (the thinking being that improvisational comedy owed a lot to jazz), who created the persona of a curmudgeonly DeadpanSnarker who would rather be doing something else. ''Anything'' else [[note]]except playing the trumpet[[/note]]. The regular panelists for most of the show's history were Barry Cryer, Creator/WillieRushton, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden (the third Goodie, Bill Oddie, was in the first two series). After Rushton's death in 1996, the fourth panelist became a rotating position[[note]]Jeremy Hardy usually appeared once a series before his death, and some of the more frequent guests have included Rob Brydon, Stephen Fry, Andy Hamilton, Tony Hawks, Paul Merton, David Mitchell and Sandi Toksvig[[/note]]; guests also deputise for Barry, Tim or Graeme if they are unable to make a recording. Because of the show's pedigree, and the fact that the regulars have the final say in who the guests are, being asked to appear on the show is seen as an honour (and many have turned down the opportunity for fear they might ruin it).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: A lot of the show's familiar elements weren't present from the start - at first there was no Willie Rushton, no Colin Sell (there was another pianist), no Samantha, no Mornington Crescent and no mention of "the antidote to panel games". And Humph awarded points and actually kept the score (though even then [[ThePointsMeanNothing the points meant nothing]]). Barry Cryer was there from the first series but not as a panellist; instead he alternated with Humph in the chair (Humph was always the first choice for the job but prior commitments kept him from some of those early recordings).

* Pinballgag: Referenced in a round of "Limericks" on a show from Edinburgh:

* DoRightWrong: Word for Word, the disassociation round, in which various obvious connections are ignored in favour of more convoluted examples (often divided by several subsequent answers).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The very first episode is introduced as being "a panel game" rather than an "antidote", and has Humph actually ''attempting to award points'' (after ''One Song to the Tune of Another'', he gives Tim and Bill points because their turn "didn't take as long").