Nicholas Parsons
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"Christopher Nicholas Parsons", is an English people/English radio and television presenter and actor. His long career in television, radio and theatre has made him a household name and he has been described as "the ultimate quiz show host" because of "(his) geniality, clarity of diction and the speed with which he rattled through questions."

Best known today for his long-standing position as host of the comedy radio game show Just a Minute, Parsons is also famous as the long-term host of Sale of the Century (UK game show)/Sale of the Century, a show whose audience peaked at over 21 million viewers (a record for an ITV Network/ITV game show).

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There's no doubt he was in his own way a comic genius.

If anybody could have been called a comic genius it was Ronnie, ... Ronnie Barker was a true icon of situation comedy and character comedy and there was nobody to my mind to touch him.