I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue pause in the middle of speaking, a reference to Radio 4's other long-running panel show "Just a Minute". (Likewise, occasionally on "Just a Minute", a panellist will make a challenge of "Mornington Crescent".) Chairman Jack Dee frequently pokes fun at "Just a Minute", particularly its chairman Nicholas Parsons, whom he mimics in constantly emphasising the long experience of some panellists, and the fact that the programme can be heard all over the world. The programme has won the Gold Sony Radio Comedy Award three times: Other awards: "Clue" has been broadcast since 11 April 1972 on BBC Radio 4 with
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue 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 (at that time titled "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