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3 minutes ago, The Quim Reaper said:


Haven’t watched this for years. BBC should upload it to iPlayer.

 

I saw him at the Birmingham Hippodrome on his Purple Van Man tour. I laughed myself a hernia. Best stand up ever IMO.

 

And amazing on panel shows too. He mastered all corners of comedy, and the outpouring of tributes from the comedy world today show how revered he was.

 

This news today has pissed me off. Big time. I feel like Iain.


“Cecilia” has been paying her tributes to both Sean Lock and Austin Mitchell on Twitter. One more death today may push her over the edge.

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57 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


I disagree. With the exception of Lock, all of their deaths were avoidable.

eh ?

 

I was just commenting on how they were all not that old except Joan Rivers

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5 minutes ago, RIP Wee Jum said:

eh ?

 

I was just commenting on how they were all not that old except Joan Rivers


You said it was "scary". I don't think most people <60 have much to fear if they look after themselves.

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1 hour ago, time said:

I thought I'd waxed lyrical previously but apparently not; any way I recommend 15 Storeys High if you've never seen it (or even if you have) and like your comedy slightly surreal.

 

I remember thinking that was pretty good for a modern (or any era, I suppose) sitcom, probably because Lock's character seemed worryingly close to mine. I must re-watch sometime.

 

Michael McIntyre he was not. RIP.

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Great article about him by Harry Hill.

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3 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Seeing as Never Mind the Buzzcocks will be returning later this year for a new series, and given that Sean Lock just died, here's a list of the goners from the original 1996–2015 run.

Guest hosts:
Cilla Black
Dale Winton (also a guest)
Terry Wogan (also a guest)

Team captains:
Sean Hughes

Guests:
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
Keith Chegwin
Ian Dury
John Entwistle (The Who)
David Gest
Gordon Haskell (King Crimson)
Geoffrey Hayes
Vic Henley
Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave)
Neil Innes
Jon Lee (Feeder)
Lemmy (Motorhead)
Lil' Chris
Sean Lock
Kenny Lynch
Kirsty MacColl
Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers)
Ian McLagan (Small Faces)
Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy)
Bernie Nolan
Nicholas Parsons
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
Alvin Stardust
Steve Strange (Visage)
Peter Stringfellow
Tommy Vane
Tony Wilson
Amy Winehouse

I think that's everyone.

I take it you mean Tommy Vance. 

 

There's a lot of people listed there that I had forgotten were dead. Dale Winton and Chegwin in particular. 

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3 hours ago, markb4 said:

 

Same. Checking the episodes today, I didn't realize that his last appearance was 10 years ago in the I series! Really gonna miss him.

Did not think it was 10 years either. But then again, I binge watch all the QI series so often he is bound to be in at least one. Probably the only goatherd/comedian there will ever be. 

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3 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Seeing as Never Mind the Buzzcocks will be returning later this year for a new series, and given that Sean Lock just died, here's a list of the goners from the original 1996–2015 run.

Guest hosts:
Cilla Black
Dale Winton (also a guest)
Terry Wogan (also a guest)

Team captains:
Sean Hughes

Guests:
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
Keith Chegwin
Ian Dury
John Entwistle (The Who)
David Gest
Gordon Haskell (King Crimson)
Geoffrey Hayes
Vic Henley
Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave)
Neil Innes
Jon Lee (Feeder)
Lemmy (Motorhead)
Lil' Chris
Sean Lock
Kenny Lynch
Kirsty MacColl
Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers)
Ian McLagan (Small Faces)
Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy)
Bernie Nolan
Nicholas Parsons
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
Alvin Stardust
Steve Strange (Visage)
Peter Stringfellow
Tommy Vane
Tony Wilson
Amy Winehouse

I think that's everyone.

 

I've seen Never Mind the Buzzcocks being recorded when television centre was still around and I remember Stacey Solomon being a guest. Dumbest person i've ever seen in real life I think.

 

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39 minutes ago, ladyfiona said:

 

I've seen Never Mind the Buzzcocks being recorded when television centre was still around and I remember Stacey Solomon being a guest. Dumbest person i've ever seen in real life I think.

 

Maybe not that dumb.  She's made a fortune out of it.  Can't stand the bitch. 

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7 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Seeing as Never Mind the Buzzcocks will be returning later this year for a new series, and given that Sean Lock just died, here's a list of the goners from the original 1996–2015 run.

Guest hosts:
Cilla Black
Dale Winton (also a guest)
Terry Wogan (also a guest)

Team captains:
Sean Hughes

Guests:
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
Keith Chegwin
Ian Dury
John Entwistle (The Who)
David Gest
Gordon Haskell (King Crimson)
Geoffrey Hayes
Vic Henley
Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave)
Neil Innes
Jon Lee (Feeder)
Lemmy (Motorhead)
Lil' Chris
Sean Lock
Kenny Lynch
Kirsty MacColl
Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers)
Ian McLagan (Small Faces)
Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy)
Bernie Nolan
Nicholas Parsons
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
Alvin Stardust
Steve Strange (Visage)
Peter Stringfellow
Tommy Vance
Tony Wilson
Amy Winehouse

I think that's everyone.

Could be one of these panel games could  be a good subject for a future round of Scavenger Hunt Bingo

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9 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Seeing as Never Mind the Buzzcocks will be returning later this year for a new series, and given that Sean Lock just died, here's a list of the goners from the original 1996–2015 run.

Guest hosts:
Cilla Black
Dale Winton (also a guest)
Terry Wogan (also a guest)

Team captains:
Sean Hughes

Guests:
Stuart Adamson (Big Country)
Pete Burns (Dead or Alive)
Keith Chegwin
Ian Dury
John Entwistle (The Who)
David Gest
Gordon Haskell (King Crimson)
Geoffrey Hayes
Vic Henley
Chas Hodges (Chas & Dave)
Neil Innes
Jon Lee (Feeder)
Lemmy (Motorhead)
Lil' Chris
Sean Lock
Kenny Lynch
Kirsty MacColl
Les McKeown (Bay City Rollers)
Ian McLagan (Small Faces)
Gary Moore (Thin Lizzy)
Bernie Nolan
Nicholas Parsons
Pete Shelley (Buzzcocks)
Alvin Stardust
Steve Strange (Visage)
Peter Stringfellow
Tommy Vance
Tony Wilson
Amy Winehouse

I think that's everyone.


Caroline Flack was also a panellist

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Always on fire in QI. What a loss of talent.

 

 

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Another Locky compilation, this time of a series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats (not the Countdown one). A perfect example of his inimitable brilliance is at 4:40 where he does a bit about Julian Assange. Properly made me LOL again this morning.
 

 

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Sean Lock did actually once joke about what he wants his obituary to sound like, which is in this clip between 0:27 and 0:53:

 

 

Huge loss nonetheless

 

 

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Re Sean Lock, 15 Stories High is now available on BBC iPlayer. 
As I previously said , it’s well worth a viewing. (Obviously, if that’s your sort of thing. I’m aware there are people with no sense of humour )

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On 07/08/2021 at 19:21, TomTomTelekom said:

Comedian and actor Trevor Moore,  best known as a founding member of the comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know, died at 41 years:

https://deadline.com/2021/08/trevor-moore-the-whitest-kids-u-know-41-obituary-1234811024/

Cause of death revealed, fell from an upstairs balcony. No word on whether it was accidental or a suicide, but empty alcohol bottles were found in the house. 

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5 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Tori McCarthy, a comedienne, singer, actress and director, whose IMDB credits include a cross-section of roles, notably producer of 10 projects over the past decade, has died. McCarthy had been battling leukemia.

 

https://insideeko.com/tori-mccarthy-death-obituary/

 


Insideeko isn’t a legit website. It’s a bot that scrubs info from elsewhere, including off of social media platforms, and dozens of times it’s declared ppl dead who are the victim of hoaxes.

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Hadn't seen a photo of Bob Mills in ages, looks like he's been in bed with his dinner, lunch, breakfast and elevenses.

 

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6 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

Vic Reeves has an inoperable but benign brain tumour that leaves him unable to appreciate Jimi Hendrix's 'If Six Was Nine' amongst other stereophonic treats. And it probably makes him Dizzy, his head is spinning etc.

A "vestibular schwannoma"... never heard of that before.

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16 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

A "vestibular schwannoma"... never heard of that before.

 

A schwannoma is the most common type of benign tumour of the peripheral nerves.

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4 hours ago, gcreptile said:

A "vestibular schwannoma"... never heard of that before.

 

Mark Ruffalo had one, deaf in one ear

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Video here from June commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Comedians:
 


Only Mike Goddard and Pauline Daniels from the original show are interviewed. Both look good, but more interestingly there's a clip in there of the show's producer Johnnie Hamp (wiki) just before his 90th birthday (which was in the first half of this year). He's credited with giving The Beatles and Cilla Black some of their earliest TV spots. Will definitely QO everywhere.

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