YoungWillz

According to this Toni Smith, who co-wrote and sang vocals on Tom Browne's 1980 UK #10 hit Funkin' For Jamaica (N.Y.), has died: https://www.soultracks.com/story-toni-smith-dies

Stand up US comedian, bit part actor on The Andy Griffith Show and writer for the Muppets, Jack Burns, being reported dead on Twitter:

We all missed Nicholas Parsons it seems....

Looks like April 2019 according to the episode guide. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003jt6

Don't forget panto: https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10132081.mr-parsons-panto-star/

Maybe not wait that long, Nicholas Parsons makes it #2. Gonna be a long year waiting for #3.

Nicholas Parsons - 21 Straight BBC Obits.

Nicholas Parsons becomes my first Doctor Who alumnus to cark it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

Nicholas Parsons a hit for me here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

Nicholas Parsons allows me to take a lead over the Committee: YW - 2; DL - 1

Let's not forget how he bravely kept Haemovores away with a sturdy Church door.

And may I add, a fucking legend. Straight man in comedy, host of game show, mainstream comedy and proper actor. And bloody should have been on this year without question. RIP.

BBC QO: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

Still looking for that DDP QO to turn up. Guardian, eventually?

The most famous Indians in the UK are the guy and lassie who call me up 7 times a day claiming to represent UK Broadcast, Sky, Microsoft, traffic accident information...I could go on. Shame they don't use their real names, instead deciding to run their finger down a list of names they use for that day.

Twitter starting to report that sole original member of the Kingston Trio, Bob Shane, has died. Awaiting the usual.

Neville Buswell who most famously played Ray Langton in Corrie, dead at 76: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-coronation-street-star-neville-21370181 IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124628/ Edit: Died on Christmas Day last year, so Deathray misses out on one of his Cobbles Theme Team.

Well this is an old post. deserving of a new death. New Faces winner Johnny Carroll has died aged 78: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/tributes-mr-showbiz-johnny-carroll-17630913 For example:

Apt though. Too soon? It was either that or this: What sounds were heard just as the helicopter crashed? Kobe (into the windshield): SLAM! Daughter (into the rear of Kobe's seat): dunk!

Time to break out the Earl Scruggs:

Flipped to CNN, watching the coverage, somebody check in on Jack Nicholson.....

But he'll never throw Shada….. Quite what I wank over seems to be of surprising interest to our Deathray. If it matters, gingers are more type, maybe I should check my old dead dad's house for cuttings of Turlough? And who would need cuttings anyway? It's a digital age.....

(A) I'm younger than Matthew Waterhouse by some years. (B) I had noticed. And I've never found it anything but amusing.

Get your lips off LFN's plunger, you are catching his troll attitude....

Missing my point, you scamp. British coverage of British deaths actually died a long time ago. Takes a while for it to filter through it seems, sometimes ages. It's a long term sore with me that's all. Any opportunity to scratch the scab on the knee of the Forum....