RIP dear Dick
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:00 (five years ago) link
Aww. RIP.
Anyone see the recent-ish doc about him?
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
noticed him in chopping mall last october, thought "i know that guy, who is he?" and imdb'd him. saw him again in gremlins a few weeks later.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
a face created by a caricaturist
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2019 02:14 (five years ago) link
RIP :(
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 31 January 2019 06:09 (five years ago) link
Aw, Dick Miller.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
Watched Gremlins 2 last night as a memorial. Still delightful.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 31 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
Jeremy Hardy RIP. Didn't know he was ill.
#Breaking Comedian Jeremy Hardy died of cancer early on Friday, his publicist Amanda Emery says pic.twitter.com/IqvpEEo8FR— PA Showbiz (@PAshowbiz) February 1, 2019
― Alba, Friday, 1 February 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
I saw this earlier this year
Please someone tell me Jeremy Hardy has been hacked :( pic.twitter.com/t8mar6eNnJ— Emmack (@emmackwrites) January 3, 2019
then he deleted it and posted this
Dear All, I am fine. Sent dopey shit out. Was half asleep watching NHS cancer drama with Alison Steadman called Care. Was waking and tweeting. My brain is now as sharp as it will ever be. The Prime Minister is Clement Atlee.— Jeremy Hardy (@JeremyJHardy) January 5, 2019
I hate the fucking News Quiz guffawing bubble but I still liked him.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
oh shit
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2019 09:57 (five years ago) link
Aw man he was v funny and frequently otm for a tankie
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:01 (five years ago) link
A man so bad at singing even Danny Macnamara could laugh at him. Still the highlight of song rounds in modern day ISIHAC. RIP.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:05 (five years ago) link
"Frankly, I do not see my job as keeping our rulers on their toes; I’d rather see them hanging by their feet."
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/apr/04/politicalcolumnists.comment
― Alba, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:05 (five years ago) link
His opinions didn't always prove popular with his audience. In 2000, he was booed by members of the Just A Minute audience when he used the subject "parasites" to begin a rant against the royal family.In 2004, Burnley Council cancelled one of Hardy's performances after saying in an episode of his Speaks to the Nation show that members and supporters of the British National Party (BNP) should be shot.
In 2004, Burnley Council cancelled one of Hardy's performances after saying in an episode of his Speaks to the Nation show that members and supporters of the British National Party (BNP) should be shot.
Hero
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
A quote from JH I still use on the reg, re bombing former Yugoslavia:
"When I say 'this will only make things worse', critics ask me 'well what would you do then?' To which my reply is: 'not make things worse'."
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
aww. will always remind me of sitting in the back of my parents car being forced to listen to radio 4 and laughing at him despite myself
― ogmor, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link
one of the very few good ones on r4 :(
RIP
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:40 (five years ago) link
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:10 (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm, closing two parts of that BBC obit is back to back bangers
the only actual joke of his I can remember is about white Britons trying to make curry in the 70s, trying to make it more palatable by adding fruit and ending up making a trifle
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:41 (five years ago) link
Sad day, RIP JH.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 1 February 2019 10:43 (five years ago) link
Yes. 57 years old.
― Tim, Friday, 1 February 2019 10:48 (five years ago) link
I'm just remembering last time I heard him on r4, he was briefly talking about the pitfalls of being an ageing lefty in a torycentric UK, in such a charming, self-effacing sort of way. I still think comedy is bad, but he was an exceptionally nice guy.
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 11:12 (five years ago) link
um. listening to Jeremy Hardy Feels It from 2017 and it's all about death and Linda Smith... (and so very dense, a joke per sentence, over hundreds of sentences)
my carbon footprint is mostly my odor-eaters...
― koogs, Friday, 1 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/01/keeping-appearances-star-clive-swift-dies-aged-82-8426217/
Clive Swift, immensely talented British actor of yore.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 1 February 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
Doctor Who Magazine contributor Benjamin Cook interviewed Swift about Mr Copper and Voyage of the Damned for DWM 391. During the course of the interview Swift questioned Cook's journalism credentials, dismissed questions, and commented on not being paid to participate. Swift cut off Cook's final question with the remark that "I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business. But it isn't. There are much bigger things than this." When Cook replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview.
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Clive_Swift
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Lol classic
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
His version of A Warning To The Curious with Peter Vaughan is essential.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Friday, 1 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
Aw, good actor, RIP Clive.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 1 February 2019 17:34 (five years ago) link
... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 1 February 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 1, 2019 2:01 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was a trot not a tankie.
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
I would accuse you Brits of making up celebrities again, but i see Clive Swift was in Frenzy and Death Line.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
...and Excalibur!
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
i like to think he's at last free to disregard the cow in the field if he so chooses
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
xp
oh I'd forgotten he was Arthur's dad in Excalibur, and that Dr Who anecdote - lol!
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
which makes me think if I'd have been in a more ruthless mood I'd have deffo put John Boorman on my dead pool list this year.
― calzino, Friday, 1 February 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Can't remember the show but Charlie Boorman and Jason Connery were on the same one last year (2017? Surely not 2016?) and the former said to the latter "haha my dad made your dad wear a happy".
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
^ Celebrity Masterchef.
― ailsa, Saturday, 2 February 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
Gorilla Biscuits guitarist Alex Brown, 52, of an aneurysm.
― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
Yikes
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project and other work in film preservation.
https://www.facebook.com/ron.hutchinson.908
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 3 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
Their son presents Gardeners' World (?? Gardening Today?? Garden Time, whatever) and looks exactly like his dad.
― fetter, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
Oh my goodness, he does, doesn't he? I never realised he was their son but I know *exactly* who you are talking about. He's one of the ones who presents some of the packages and also does a lot of broadcasting from Chelsea each year.
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
Wow, the Swift/Drabble clan get around as much as the Corens and the Freuds, don't they?
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link
'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dies at 92
https://comicbook.com/horror/2019/02/04/julie-adams-dies-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-star/?fbclid=IwAR0ec62ZkwkBDGma3IrD0RBWs0VDVvl9e7H6HiGWplY6hjNKnjJj8WiwqaA
― nickn, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2019/02/04/young-restless-star-kristoff-st-john-dies-aged-52-8440198/
Kristoff St John, 52
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072A biopic seems inevitable.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Gazza comparison seems apt.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link