Swanee Kazoo

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Swanee Kazoo is a recurring comedic music game on the BBC radio panel show "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue," in which panellists play well-known tunes badly on kazoos and similar instruments for others to guess.

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Label Occurrences
Swanee Kazoo canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf comedy music game
radio panel game
recurring game
appearsIn episodes of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
associatedWith Barry Cryer NERFINISHED
Colin Sell NERFINISHED
Graeme Garden NERFINISHED
Humphrey Lyttelton NERFINISHED
Jack Dee NERFINISHED
Tim Brooke-Taylor NERFINISHED
basedOn guessing tunes
broadcastOn BBC Radio 4 NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
culturalContext British radio comedy tradition
format panel show game
genre comedy
music game
hasAudience listeners of BBC Radio 4
hasCharacteristic audience recognition of tunes
deliberately poor musical performance
running joke on the programme
hasGameElement host sets up the joke
team-based guessing
hasReception cult following among fans of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
hasRule other panellists must guess the tune
panellists play well-known tunes badly
hasTitleOrigin combination of swanee whistle and kazoo
humourStyle deadpan presentation
musical parody
inspiredBy parody of music quizzes
medium radio
notableFor comic mangling of popular songs
use of kazoos on British radio
originalLanguage English
partOf I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue NERFINISHED
games segment of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
productionCompany BBC
recurrence irregular recurring feature
relatedTo other musical games on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
targetAudience adult radio comedy audience
usesInstrument kazoo
novelty instruments
swanee whistle

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I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue typicalSegment Swanee Kazoo
subject surface form: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue