Editing I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (section)

{{Short description|BBC radio comedy panel game (since 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox radio show
| show_name = I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
| image = Current_cast_of_ISIHAC.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = The show's panel (including guest panellist [[Jeremy Hardy]], top middle) with host [[Jack Dee]] (bottom row, left) in 2010.
| alt = I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue panel, including Jeremy Hardy and Jack Dee
| format = [[Radio comedy|Comedy]] [[panel game]]
| runtime = 30 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| home_station = [[BBC Radio 4]]
| syndicates = [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]]
| presenter = {{ubl|class=nowrap|[[Barry Cryer]] (1972 only)|[[Humphrey Lyttelton]] (1972–2007)|[[Jack Dee]] (2009–present)}}
| starring = {{ubl|class=nowrap|[[Tim Brooke-Taylor]] (1972–2020)|[[Barry Cryer]] (1972–2022)|[[Graeme Garden]]|[[Willie Rushton]] (1974–1996)|[[Colin Sell]]|[[Tony Hawks]] (2023–Present)|Various guests ([[#Guests|see list]])}}
| creator = The ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again]]'' team
| writer = 
| producer = Various ([[#Producers|see list]])
| record_location = Various
| first_aired = {{start date|1972|4|11|df=yes}}
| num_series = 81
| num_episodes = 
| audio_format = [[Stereophonic sound|Stereo]]
| opentheme = "[[Monte Carlo or Bust!|The Schickel Shamble]]" by [[Ron Goodwin]]
| endtheme = 
| website = {{url|https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnwb}}
| podcast = 
}}

'''''I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue''''' is a [[BBC]] [[radio comedy]] [[panel game]]. Billed as "the antidote to panel games", it consists of two teams of two [[comedian]]s being given "silly things to do" by the host. The show was 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]] and, in the 1980s and 1990s, on [[BBC Radio 2]]. The 50th series was broadcast in November and December 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue.shtml|title=I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue|publisher=[[BBC Radio 4]]}}</ref>

After a period of split chairmanship in the first series,<ref name="foster2009">{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/im-sorry-i-havent-a-clue-panel-game-to-return-to-radio-4-zd5507rzq28 |title=I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue panel game to return to Radio 4 |date=26 February 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times]] |publisher=[[News International]] |location=London |issn=0140-0460 |url-access=subscription| last=Foster |first=Patrick |quote=Barry Cryer, a regular panellist, who shared the chairman's duties with Lyttleton in the first series...}}</ref> [[Humphrey Lyttelton]] ("Humph") served in this role from the programme's inception until his hospitalisation and subsequent death in 2008,<ref name="Cryer">{{cite book| title=Butterfly Brain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cm2JQZ8NU3QC |last=Cryer |first=Barry |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-2978-5911-6 |publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |location=London |page=100 |access-date=2020-02-09 |quote=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.}}</ref> which led to the cancellation of the 2008 series.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/millions-havent-a-clue-what-theyll-do-without-humph-816216.html | title=Millions haven't a clue what they'll do without Humph |first=David |last=Randall |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |publisher=[[Independent News & Media]] |location=London |issn=0951-9467 |date=2008-04-27 |access-date=2008-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/apr/21/bbc.radio |title=I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue cancelled |first=Jemima |last=Kiss |date=21 April 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref> The show recommenced on 15 June 2009<ref>{{cite mailing list|last=Naismith|first=Jon|mailing-list=The Official I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Mailing List |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/clue_newsletter.shtml|title=I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Mailout 17.10.08}}</ref> with Lyttelton replaced by three hosts: [[Stephen Fry]], [[Jack Dee]] and [[Rob Brydon]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a147836/fry-brydon-dee-to-host-clue-return.html |title=Fry, Brydon, Dee to host 'Clue' return |website=[[Digital Spy]] |date=2009-02-25 |access-date=2009-07-06 |archive-date=27 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227063549/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a147836/fry-brydon-dee-to-host-clue-return.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Dee went on to host all episodes of the 52nd series later that year, and continues in that role.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, the official website of ISIHAC or Clue with Jack Dee, Rob Brydon, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Humphrey Lyttleton |url=https://www.isihac.net/history.php |access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> The chairman's script was most recently written by [[Iain Pattinson]], who worked on the show from 1992 until his death in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amandahowardassociates.co.uk/cv/Pattinson%20Iain.pdf |title=Iain Pattinson at Amanda Howard Associates |access-date=2009-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325122607/http://www.amandahowardassociates.co.uk/cv/Pattinson%20Iain.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="pattinson">{{cite news |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/tributes-paid-to-comedy-writer-iain-pattinson-following-his-death-aged-68-40096329.html |title=Tributes paid to comedy writer Iain Pattinson following his death aged 68 |first=Keiran |last=Southern |newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]] |date=15 February 2021 |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref>