Grim Reaper

The Simon MacCorkindale thread

The Erich Priebke thread

The Anna Wing thread

This is the place to discuss Susan Atkins

I am not even going to try improving on that - nice work.

This is the place to discuss Caspar Weinberger

Nice work - I'll have that - hurrah! And I was thinking Ronnie Biggs was packing his bag ready for the next success..

Surely Jacko is about as popular as six foot of mud at Glasto? A muted reaction at Glasto seems to be what this report says - I'll give myself half a point

Nicely done

Don't forget Goody. Jackson's death certainly puts Goody's into perspective. Because of the level of coverage/hysteria surrounding Goody, there was no corresponding difference in actual coverage to Jackson. I mean the coverage of Jacko's demise has been predictably huge, but not significantly bigger in proportion terms of pitch than Goody, considering the level of fame which Jackson had compared to Goody... Media outlets ought to consider this... Hold on - I don't remember rolling breaking news coverage on CNN for Goody - on second thoughts, I didn't check though

Maybe so, but would any of them have made any significant further contributions to recorded music had they survived longer?

Oh those thoughts of "if only"... Not sure on the picture - the stretcher action one would have been tempting I was thinking of "King has Popped" headline anyway

Surely Jacko is about as popular as six foot of mud at Glasto? Hilarious, now get back to your fekin venture capitalism, you corporate worm. So that's why they don't let me in anymore

Surely Jacko is about as popular as six foot of mud at Glasto?

Hopefully Sky News are trying to get hold of Jarvis Cocker for a few words of tribute Edit: Damnit they got Uri Geller instead

Tragic that he only had a career lasting 49 or so years...

Now LA Times says was in a coma and now dead - its like Sharon but on super fast forward

Oh! Now he's back but in a coma source: LA Times

Death now starting to be reported - impressive pick Windsor! And already the suicide rumour wagon is on the road ...

Yet another business sector is going need government intervention now The ticket tout/scalpers industry will be brought to its knees by this

Just reported on BBC Radio 5 that Jacko has been rushed to hospital - no other details there at the moment - interesting... Surely not another big death missed by DL 2009?

Having read numerous reviews in the newspapers of the TV show and also now of a live stage show, I have finally had a chance to check out some of the show in question myself. The "Horne and Corden" TV show only seems to beg one question. Are comedians now allowed to voluntarily terminate their comedy careers in public? This can be the only explanation for what is going on here. I thought there were laws against this in the UK. Presumably Jack Kevorkian has prepared some of these lethals scripts they are using? Or has he provided minimal assistance, recognising that these apparently talentless bastards will be able to destroy whatever careers they might have had with little external intervention? Obviously there are moral issues here. Clearly these boys must be suffering greatly from the celebrity status they have received from Gavin and Stacey, but should they be using TV license money to carry out this shocking act? Or am i overreacting

Conchords is a glorious show - not often laugh-out-loud funny but always very pleasing. Second (and likely to be the last) season has just finished in the US and was quite possibly better than the first season. S2Ep5 is not to be missed (although perhaps Aussies might not agree).

In my book, The Office was pretty revolutionary in its style of humour - it pretty much introduced a style of "uncomfortable to watch" humour which maybe some people didn't like. The fact that this has become a frequently used style now probably takes away from it these days. Curb Your Enthusiasm very much picks up on its idea but is done from a more sympathetic viewpoint. There was an Aussie comedy "Summer Heights High" which used a similar style and I thought was pretty amusing. Anyway none of this discussion should take away from Horne and Corden - I had even forgotten about their movie which also got horrific reviews. I had to chuckle when in my newspaper this morning there was an article almost picking up on this thread Horne and Corden: is this the end?