Let's all drink to the death of a clown.....

[macliam]

Barry Cryer has left the stage, aged 86.

He seems to have been there all my life, always funny in a clever/silly way that defied categorization. He was still funny in his old age.

He loved comedy, but didn't want to delve into it - he once said "Analysing comedy is like disecting a duck. Nobody laughs and the duck dies."

RIP Barry - go to join the other greats in the revue in the sky.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60154371

[blythburgh]

I really cannot believe I will never here him chuckling on the radio again in person. I suppose like Ronnie Corbett the knighthood would have come if he had only lived longer. But Ronnie and Barry were only comedians not a ballet dancer few had heard of or a Shakespearean actor most had never seen on stage. And certainly not a civil servant who got a knighthood for being in the job long enough.