History Radio / ImSorryIllReadThatAgain

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: There were only six performers (and very occasional contributions from early series producer Humphrey Barclay), but the spoof radio dramas that took up the second half of most episodes always featured many more than six characters, requiring frequent doubling, tripling, or quadrupling up of roles (often resulting in performers - most often Tim Brooke-Taylor - holding conversations with themselves).

!!Tropes:

* IncrediblyLamePun: By the bushel.
* InherentlyFunnyWords: Favorite frequently-used funny words on the show included "ferret", "rhubarb tart", "gibbon", and "terrapin".

* CampStraight: Sir Prancelot, in the Myth/KingArthur sketch, is Tim Brooke-Taylor at his most camp -- and madly in love with the King's daughter.

[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: Bill Oddie, Creator/JohnCleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jo Kendall, Graeme Garden and David Hatch]]]]

* ShowWithinAShow: All the time, since the setting of the show was a radio station. Most notable is the weekly ''Prune Play Of The Week'' and the two serials, ''Curse Of The Flying Wombat'' and ''Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers''.
* ShowWithinAShow: ISIRTA had a long-running serial called ''Professor Prune And His Electric Time Trousers'', which featured an eccentric old buffer and his intrepid young assistants, travelling through space and time in the aforementioned Time Trousers.

* CampStraight: Sir Prancelot, in the KingArthur sketch, is Tim Brooke-Taylor at his most camp -- and madly in love with the King's daughter.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Many, many times, the most notable being the numerous jokes about masochism and other sexual deviance.

* TakeThat: Radio/TonyBlackburn, Creator/DavidFrost and many others.

* TakeThat: Creator/TonyBlackburn, Creator/DavidFrost and many others.

* TakeThat: Tony Blackburn, David Frost and many others.

* SoundToScreenAdaptation: As with so many other BBC radio comedy shows before and since, sketches which first aired on this show, depending on who wrote them, migrated to television and took on a visual dimension. ISIRTA sketches went to TV shows as diverse as ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'', ''Series/TheGoodies'' and ''series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.

-->'''David:''' London is home to many people.\\
'''John:''' ...London is home to many people. Oh, well done. David Hatch, the boy genius.

* WeirdTradeUnion: In one episode a parody of "Film/SongOfTheSouth" is held up by the representative of the division of Animals' Equity representing spiny anteaters, marsupials and other lower mammals, who demands that some of the parts should go to members of that division. Leading choruses of "B'rer Rabbit out! [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi B'rer Platypus in!]]", he is successful, and when the production continues, not only does B'rer Platypus take the leading part, there's also one for B'rer Bandicoot.

** One episode featured Bill attempting to turn "Terrapins!" into a catch phrase, only for the rest of the cast to keep telling him there was nothing funny about terrapins.