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Eric Myers a regular stand up performer at the Comedy Store and Laugh Factory has died at age 40. No cause of death has been given yet,though googling his name another person of the same name and age was killed by a van as a pedestrian Wednesday.

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7 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Tony Hendra (wiki), British satirist who starred in This is Spinal Tap as the band's manager, and the co-producer of Spitting Image in the early days, dead at 79 from motor neurone disease (or ALS for our cousins across the pond).

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While on the topic of ALS, should be noted that he was classmates with Stephen Hawking at St Albans.

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2 minutes ago, Drewsky1211 said:

While on the topic of ALS, should be noted that he was classmates with Stephen Hawking at St Albans.


Well that must be how he caught it then.

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6 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Tony Hendra (wiki), British satirist who starred in This is Spinal Tap as the band's manager, and the co-producer of Spitting Image in the early days, dead at 79 from motor neurone disease (or ALS for our cousins across the pond).

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Damn :(
They’ll probably bury him 6”

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1 hour ago, Nick said:

Anne Beatts, one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, has died at 74.

Square Pegs was a slightly underrated show, but notable in that the theme song iirc was by The Waitresses, and sounded typical of their oeuvre.

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British character actor and co-creator and writer of the sitcom All Gas And Gaiters, Edwin Apps reportedly dead: https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/deux-sevres/marais-peintre-et-scenariste-de-chapeau-melon-et-bottes-de-cuir-edwin-apps-est-decede

 

(Can't translate due to bloody accept terms of use pop up which kills Google Translate).

 

Many comedy roles particularly Whack-O in the late 1950s and Harry Worth shows, Steptoe And Son, but also the odd "serious role" (The Avengers). One of those you'd know if he popped up on your small screen. He was 89.

 

Church doings on the small screen

 

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14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

British character actor and co-creator and writer of the sitcom All Gas And Gaiters, Edwin Apps reportedly dead: https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/deux-sevres/marais-peintre-et-scenariste-de-chapeau-melon-et-bottes-de-cuir-edwin-apps-est-decede

 

(Can't translate due to bloody accept terms of use pop up which kills Google Translate).

 

Many comedy roles particularly Whack-O in the late 1950s and Harry Worth shows, Steptoe And Son, but also the odd "serious role" (The Avengers). One of those you'd know if he popped up on your small screen. He was 89.

 

Church doings on the small screen

 

 

Gist: Died in his home in Liez, a small town north of Paris, where he lived as a full time painter/artist since the 1970s. Credits him as a writer of great skill, and light touch. He remained a regular actor on French TV, apparently, and wrote books on art and religious art. Had had several exhibitions of his artwork just before the pandemic and seems to have been a popular local figure in that part of France. Died on the 16th April, no cause of death given.

 

In The Avengers episode The Correct Way to Kill, he runs the gentlemans outfitters shop the conspiracy is using. 

 

 

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Rusty Warren, one of the leading "party" (ie, blue) comedians of the 1960s, has died at the age of 91. Pretty much forgotten today, she had four top 100 Billboard albums, a fan club that had 70,000 members at its peak, and Catherine O'Hara got her break doing impressions of her.

 

 

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On 03/11/2020 at 12:59, YoungWillz said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655681/Actor-John-Sessions-left-1-4million-estate-siblings.html

 

John Sessions left vast majority of his estate of £1.4 million to his siblings

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After an evening watching BBC 4 two names that might be worth putting on the long tracking radar are Peter Spence (b.1944) who wrote To The Manor Born and Raymond Allan (b.1940/1) who wrote Some Mothers Do Ave Em

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Poor old Tom O'Connor dead as reported on the Dead of 2021 thread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57879765

 

I went for an audition for Crosswits - my first attempt at a game show. Though I didn't get on, the production company sent me for another game show Chain Letters with the great Jeremy Beadle - which I won.

 

This close to meeting Tom though never did.

 

 

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Back in the office I've not seen in over a year there's a massive blown-up photo of an episode of "Cross Wits" solely because there's a guy in our New York headquarters called Tom O'Connor.

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35 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

I went for an audition for Crosswits - my first attempt at a game show. Though I didn't get on, the production company sent me for another game show Chain Letters with the great Jeremy Beadle - which I won.

 

Please say it's on Youtube  :evil2:

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On 28/01/2020 at 19:57, Ulitzer95 said:

The Comedians (1971–1993)

Russ Abbot b. 1947
Lennie Bennett 1938–2009
Stan Boardman b. 1937
Jim Bowen 1937–2018
Alan Brady NO INFO
Jimmy Bright b. 1971/ note: youngest comedian to star on the show
Duggie Brown b. 1940
Les Bryan b. c. 1941
Mike Burton NO INFO
Dave Butler 1936–1996
Kenny Cantor 1938–2019

Jackie Carlton 1923–1995
Brian Carroll 1930–2014
Johnny Carroll 1941–2020
Frank Carson 1926–2012

Paddy Cassidy NO INFO
Johnnie Casson b. 1943
Eddie Colinton 1936–2002
Mike Coyne b. 1939
Jimmy Cricket b. 1945

Colin Crompton 1931–1985
Bob Curtiss b. 1938
Pauline Daniels b. 1955 / note: only comedienne to star on the show
Charlie Daze b. 1938
Les Dennis b. 1953
Vince Earl b. 1944
Stevie Faye b. 1927
Ray Fell 1939–2016
Eddie Flanagan 1936–2002
Alan Fox 1936–2014
Stu Francis b. 1951
Syd Francis 1940–2006
Mike Goddard b. c. 1943
Ken Goodwin 1933–2012
Mike Goodwin NO INFO
Jackie Hamilton 1937–2003
Jerry Harris NO INFO
Dennis Jones NO INFO
Jimmy Jones b. 1938

Mike Kelly 1943–2018
George King NO INFO
Bobby Knoxall MBE 1933–2009
Bobby Knutt 1945–2017

Brian Lewis NO INFO
Bernard Manning 1930–2007
Jimmy Marshall 1933–1996
Paul Melba 1936–2020

Mick Miller b. 1950
Pat Mooney 1931–2008
Johnny More 1934–2015
Hector Nicol 1920–1985
Hal Nolan 1932–2014
Chris O'Dell 1939–2016

Tom O'Connor 1939–2021
Tom Pepper NO INFO
Bryn Phillips 1934–2014
Colin Price NO INFO
Don Reid b. 1943
Mike Reid 1940–2007
George Roper 1934–2003

Harry Scott NO INFO
Mike Scott NO INFO
Tony Stewart b. c. 1958

Sammy Thomas 1932–2010
Johnnie "Goon" Tweed 1928–2006

Johnnie Wager 1930–2019
Roy Walker b. 1940
Jos White 1923–2019
Charlie Williams MBE 1927–2006
Stu Williams 19??–????
Lee Wilson 1938–2013

Lenny Windsor b. c. 1946


Updated for the death of Tom O'Connor.

Also just uncovered the deaths of Johnnie Wager in 2019, aged 89 and of Jackie Carlton in 1995, aged 72 (using a newspaper archive).

Also added a rough year of birth for Lenny Windsor based on the fact that he was 71 in October 2017 when he was still touring Vegas circuits.

I reckon out of the 34 names who are not marked deceased, another 5-10 will be dead already. Still quite a few of them about though.

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5 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Poor old Tom O'Connor dead as reported on the Dead of 2021 thread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57879765

I went for an audition for Crosswits - my first attempt at a game show. Though I didn't get on, the production company sent me for another game show Chain Letters with the great Jeremy Beadle - which I won.

This close to meeting Tom though never did.

 

Honestly Cross Wits is the only thing I really know Tom O'Connor for. I used to watch the re-runs on Challenge in much younger days. Seemed a lovely bloke and such a gentle but brilliant kind of humour. Just checking out what else I know him from on wiki, and the thing I think I've seen in him more recently is an episode of Pointless Celebs (back in 2011...), where he appeared alongside, I've just discovered, his daughter-in-law, gold medal-winning Olympian Denise Lewis!

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