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Ronnie Barker has died :-(

ETA: Surfing around, there are various links to best lines and memories, but this made me cry laughing: "Still remember my father's horrified face as Ronnie Barker and Corbett, dressed as Mandarins, sang "Over China, over China, over China - Town". I was JUST old enough to realised that this was very naughty indeed."

Date: 2005-10-04 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
He was a wonderful actor. I feel genuinely saddened by this. I am glad they got that last season of the Two Ronnies.

Date: 2005-10-04 09:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
That's sad and unexpected news. I didn't think that he was all that old.

Date: 2005-10-04 09:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sallymn.livejournal.com
So sad... he was so wonderful in Porridge especially, one of the great comedies.

Date: 2005-10-04 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
That's sad news. He figures large in my TV memories from when I was growing up, and I think he would figure large in any history of British comedy. I'm sad that we've lost him.

Date: 2005-10-04 12:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hafren.livejournal.com
My pet favourite was Open All Hours but frankly he did so much good work, both as writer and performer. Not to mention, as too many don't, that he was one of the greatest character actors of his time, straight or comic.

Date: 2005-10-04 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com
I hadn't realised that he wrote so much material himself. "I look up to him ...." ;-)

Date: 2005-10-04 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] temeres.livejournal.com
I particularly remember one item on The Two Ronnies where he was blacked up playing some boogie-woogie number on the piano. It was one of those occasions where the audience fell dead silent throughout, and then unleashed an avalanche of applause at the end. Rather like the One Minute's Noise for John Peel on the Now Show last year. Just stops you dead in your tracks.

Date: 2005-10-04 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glitterboy1.livejournal.com
I love the ETA. I don't remember that one, but I remember a similar experience with their line, "A Pu, A Pu, A Pu, A Puritan am I", and trying not to laugh in front of my parents, because I probably wasn't supposed to understand it.

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