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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Swanee Kazoo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10462507 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swanee Kazoo Context triple: [I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, typicalSegment, Swanee Kazoo]
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A.
Kazoo
Kazoo is the colorful, costumed mascot of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics during games.
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B.
Banjo
Banjo is a 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay that explores Black diasporic life and identity through the experiences of Black seamen and drifters in the port city of Marseille.
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C.
Pan flute
The Pan flute is a traditional wind instrument made of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length, producing different musical pitches when blown across their open tops.
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D.
Oboe
Oboe was a World War II British radio navigation system that enabled highly accurate target marking and bombing by Allied aircraft.
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E.
Black Trombone
"Black Trombone" is a jazz-influenced chanson by French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, noted for its sultry atmosphere, playful lyrics, and prominent trombone arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Swanee Kazoo Target entity description: 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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A.
Kazoo
Kazoo is the colorful, costumed mascot of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos minor league baseball team, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics during games.
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B.
Banjo
Banjo is a 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay that explores Black diasporic life and identity through the experiences of Black seamen and drifters in the port city of Marseille.
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C.
Pan flute
The Pan flute is a traditional wind instrument made of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length, producing different musical pitches when blown across their open tops.
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D.
Oboe
Oboe was a World War II British radio navigation system that enabled highly accurate target marking and bombing by Allied aircraft.
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E.
Black Trombone
"Black Trombone" is a jazz-influenced chanson by French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, noted for its sultry atmosphere, playful lyrics, and prominent trombone arrangements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy music game
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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
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music game ⓘ |
| hasAudience | listeners of BBC Radio 4 ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
audience recognition of tunes
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deliberately poor musical performance ⓘ running joke on the programme ⓘ |
| hasGameElement |
host sets up the joke
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team-based guessing ⓘ |
| hasReception | cult following among fans of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ⓘ |
| hasRule |
other panellists must guess the tune
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panellists play well-known tunes badly ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | combination of swanee whistle and kazoo ⓘ |
| humourStyle |
deadpan presentation
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musical parody ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | parody of music quizzes ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic mangling of popular songs
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use of kazoos on British radio ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
NERFINISHED
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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
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novelty instruments ⓘ swanee whistle ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Swanee Kazoo Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue