Barry Cryer dies aged 86

[Cycleops]

I think we ought to have a reprise of at least one episode with Barry kicking off the round:

View: https://youtu.be/Hft0fhZ6jeo

 

[Chris S]

Cyclops beat you to it.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/barry-crier-dies-aged-86.282941/

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Great comedian. There are very few of his ilk left I am afraid.

As Barry may have said (actually he wouldn't have, he'd have said something funny)

Name me another ilk?

 

[Milkfloat]

@Cycleops Is it possible to edit the thread title to spell his name correctly? It might help if people search in the future and to prevent duplicate threads.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Incredibly talented and funny man. RIP

 

[raleighnut]

Sad news RIP.

 

[Beebo]

Very sad news, one of the most underrated comedians and comedy writers. Go and meet up with Humph, Willie and Tim.

He may be underrated by the general public, but he was revered in comedy circles and by many of the modern comedians.
he has traversed generations of the changing comedy scene when so many of his contemporaries fell away as being out of fashion.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Such a funny man and responsible for material on many of the shows that brightened my childhood. What a great legacy of gags and performances to leave behind.

 

[Blue Hills]

Not Barry!


PS... has anyone ever seen @cyclops and the Grim Reaper in the same room together?

These items are the only reason my mum still buys the local rag - which has sod all in it these days (when I was younger at least it featured chip pan fires) - when her generation go the paper will as well. She complained recently after searching the small ads that no-one had died. I told her to ask for her money back (it costs significantly more than a full paper with lots of reading)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

View: https://youtu.be/Y2ab4EpqmmY

 

[Cycleops]

Very sad news, one of the most underrated comedians and comedy writers. Go and meet up with Humph, Willie and Tim.

....

and Jeremy Hardy too sadly.

 

[Blue Hills]

....

and Jeremy Hardy too sadly.

well remember seeing him perform in a pub just off the caledonian road in london - was being recorded by the beeb before he became well known, and when "alternative comedy" still meant something. Before he went on he was nervously chewing on white pills of some sort - indigestion tablets I hope.
He was good that night.
RIP Cryer.

 

[rualexander]

Surprised he was only 86, I'd have thought he was well into his 90s by now.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

One of his one liners

“Picasso was burgled and did a drawing of the robbers. Police arrested a horse and two sardines.”

 

[glasgowcyclist]

"I met my wife and Ronnie Corbett on the same day," he once quipped. "I tossed a coin and married her."