I was in the audience for the recording of this at the BBC Television Centre. On the same night, there an episode of Miranda was recording in another studio. Miranda Hart had pre-recorded a sketch for the One Ronnie, but she passed by me in a queue to go in, half an hour before it started.
In the recording of the game show, Ronnie Corbett was supposed to skip down a flight of stairs and onto a podium. On one take, he tripped up and ended up flat on his face. There was a moment's silence when it wasn't clear if this was a stunt, followed by gasps when it became clear that it was an accident. Thankfully he was OK and carried on after a few minutes.
Ben Elton watched most of the show from the sound gallery, but came down to the stage at the end. I was sat near June Whitfield. I was there on my own, which meant that I got to sit on the end of a row near the front, in the middle of the audience shots during RC's monologue.
Ronnie Corbett was a fine comic actor. He was able to read from an autocue, but make it sound like a natural conversation. He was also funny enough to be able to keep going off script, so you wouldn't notice a big difference, between the two. I went to a similar recording a few months later, with another comic actor, who was fine speaking from the autocue, but changed completely off camera.
In the recording of the game show, Ronnie Corbett was supposed to skip down a flight of stairs and onto a podium. On one take, he tripped up and ended up flat on his face. There was a moment's silence when it wasn't clear if this was a stunt, followed by gasps when it became clear that it was an accident. Thankfully he was OK and carried on after a few minutes.
Ben Elton watched most of the show from the sound gallery, but came down to the stage at the end. I was sat near June Whitfield. I was there on my own, which meant that I got to sit on the end of a row near the front, in the middle of the audience shots during RC's monologue.
Ronnie Corbett was a fine comic actor. He was able to read from an autocue, but make it sound like a natural conversation. He was also funny enough to be able to keep going off script, so you wouldn't notice a big difference, between the two. I went to a similar recording a few months later, with another comic actor, who was fine speaking from the autocue, but changed completely off camera.
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