Rest in eternal peace to legendary Mustafa Fahmy. Egypt’s finest in Egypt and Arab world cinema. Ameen!
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The Scottish comedian Janey Godley died last night:
I’m not sure how well she is known outside of Scotland but she has appeared on programmes like Have I Got News For You as a panellist.
I actually knew her socially from the Scottish comedy circuit. A very funny woman who will be much missed.
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I think i first became aware of her from her tweets on Brexit.
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What legend. RIP Quincy Jones, thank you for the wonderful music you gave us.
I bought my first ever vinyl single record with my weekly pocket money and it was Quincy Jone’s Ai No Corrida song. I still have it somewhere.
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RIP Janey Godley, you were comedy genius. Brave lady to the end.
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Former Red Christian Ziege is mourning the death of his wife Pia (52) after a long battle with illness. They’ve been married since 1997.
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Rest in peace Pia.
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RIP Pia
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The actor Tony Todd has died. Probably best known from the Candyman and Final Destination horror franchises but appearing often as a voice actor, and what a voice he had.
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RIP to the oldest man in the world:
"The former accountant was born on 26 August 1912…20 years after the founding of the football team he followed all his life, Liverpool FC, meaning he lived through all eight of his club’s FA Cup wins and 17 of their 19 league title wins.
Does this mean @cynicaloldgit is now our oldest fan?
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No. He’s been our oldest fan all this time.
You have no idea how ancient he is.
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Terry Griffiths, the Welsh former World Snooker champion has died.
He seemed to burst on to the scene when Snooker became a huge thing in the late 70s and early 80s. Always seemed a likeable chap on the telly.
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Comedian Duncan “Chase Me” Norvelle had died:
It’s a bit of a blast from the past, this one. There seemed to be a period in the early-1980s when he appeared on every variety and game show going and then disappeared without trace.
He was very much of his time, with a faux-gay act (he was straight but performing as a parody of a gay man). It appears that he kept going on the club scene long after his brush with mainstream fame.
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I was thinking back to The Comedians show just the other day. It’s extraordinary how many of them seemed to build an entire career around a single catchphrase , without ever being genuinely funny.
Edit: A reminder of just how shit they were ; who were the acts on The Comedians show ITV - Google Suche
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Seen him on stage in a social club once… He was ruthlessly getting heckled by this woman and her pal, who were both obviously a bit drunk, taking the proverbial out of his act/manner - Anyway, he put up with it for a little while, but then stopped his act, and said to one of the women…
“You might not think me to be funny, but what are you going to do for a face, when King Kong wants his arse back” :0)
They shut-up after that…
RIP Duncan Norvelle
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I suppose it is debatable about how much of a club act is transferable to TV, but there was a time when every comedian needed a catchphrase. The problem was, that the audience needed to be in on the joke. Alexei Sayle used to do a parody of a club warm-up man (loosely based on Stan Boardman) who would introduce himself with the catchphrase “How you diddling?”, which when met with silence, would be followed by, “Bloody sod yer, then…” The odd thing was, that became a catchphrase after the sketch had been repeated a couple of times.
Looking at that list of Comedians, there were some clunkers there. A few managed to make it as decent variety acts. Tom O’Connor was a brilliant story teller; just amusing stories of working class life in Liverpool. Bernhard Manning was a master joke teller but probably summed up by Barry Cryer who said, “The thing about Bernard was that he looked funny, he sounded funny and he had excellent timing. It was just what he actually said that could be worrying.”
I’m just wondering if there are any videos of Duncan Norvelle’s actual stand up act? Often decent club comedians don’t make great TV acts.
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Just harmless fun with him… Jokes, singing, impressions, the audience of the day lapped it up though, and some stuff can still bring a chuckle…
“I’ve just gotten back from India, they have Tigers there that can kill ya…(waits for the laughs), they have salads too…(waits for an even bigger/longer laugh)” :0)
Like I mentioned, he was inoffensive enough
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