Barry Cryer - RIP

[a_chap]

Barry Cryer: Tributes paid to veteran comedian and writer

John Cleese, Esther Rantzen and Stephen Fry are among the stars to have paid tribute to the comedian.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[editor]

He was working right until his death too. The stories he must have had!

 

[seeformiles]

Oh no! A comedy genius

Comedian and writer Barry Cryer dies aged 86

Tributes pour in for comic who worked with Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper and the Two Ronnies

www.theguardian.com

 

[existentialist]

Stuart Goldsmith did an interview with him a few years back - he sounded like a thoroughly lovely bloke, if a bit shameless with the name-dropping

211 – Barry Cryer | The Comedian's Comedian

www.comedianscomedian.com

 

[billy_bob]

Almost cross-posted this with you.

Comedy legend and a lovely fella too. RIP.

This is fucking funny:



I never could stand I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, though. Seemed more about amusing themselves than anyone else...

 

[Pickman's model]

Surprised he was so young, I thought he was well into his 90s. RIP

 

[Pickman's model]

He was working right until his death too. The stories he must have had!

it's often at this point the knives come out but he does seem to have been a really widely loved man

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I never could stand I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, though.

That was his finest work!

 

[xenon]

"So you'll have had your tea."

I was also gonna start this thread as just heard on radio.

Barry was great.

RIP

 

[xenon]

editor

Can you merge the threads?

Barry Cryer RIP

Oh no! A comedy genius https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jan/27/comedian-and-writer-barry-cryer-dies-aged-86

www.urban75.net

Cheers editor

 

[WouldBe]

Rip Barry.

 

[marty21]

RIP , a comedy genius.

 

[existentialist]

it's often at this point the knives come out but he does seem to have been a really widely loved man

I think he outlived pretty much anyone who might have any beef with him

 

[ruffneck23]

ah sad news RIP

 

[dessiato]

RIP Barry. I loved his humour.

 

[sojourner]

if a bit shameless with the name-dropping

I suppose if those people are your life and world though, surrounded constantly by 'names', then that's kind of inevitable.

I liked this line from his family, in the Guardian today:

"Baz was, firstly, a loving husband to Terry for nearly 60 years and a gentle father to Tony, David, Jack, Bob."

That's the mark of a man, that is. A gentle father. How lovely.

RIP to a comedy legend.

 

[A380]

A really funny guy. And it seems a nice one too. I’ll miss listening to him.

 

[Gerry1time]

I'm pretty sure I saw him in the comedy tent at Glastonbury one time. A brilliant but poignant show if I remember. A comedy great, with a million stories to tell, but clearly reflecting back on his life. He sang various songs as well, one of which was called "I want to be unplugged', which was a play on unplugged musical performances and also ending up on a life support machine. One of those shows where you feel like you're watching a true comedy great, reflecting on a long career from towards its end.

 

[dessiato]

I shall listen to some old ISIHAC podcasts in memoriam this afternoon.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Aw. RIP Barry.

 

[billy_bob]

I suppose if those people are your life and world though, surrounded constantly by 'names', then that's kind of inevitable.

I think it was also, in his case, that he often genuinely believed the people whose names he was dropping were true geniuses and he was 'just' their backroom joke-writing hack. He was always humble about his incredible list of collaborations.

 

[surreybrowncap]

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

“Legend” gets overused these days, but I think for him it’s a well deserved title.

RIP.

 

[Cloo]

For some reason when I first saw a post on social media about this, my immediate thought was 'Didn't he die a year or two back?'

 

[littlebabyjesus]

For some reason when I first saw a post on social media about this, my immediate thought was 'Didn't he die a year or two back?'

Tim Brooke-Taylor died of covid in 2020. Maybe that.

Only Graeme Garden left now.

 

[planetgeli]

I actually thought Barry Cryer would never die. Prolific. Absolutely prolific.

RIP great man.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I may be wrong, but I suspect that most of the Chairman's Script for ISIHAC was written by Barry.

 

[Aladdin]

He had a laugh in his voice all the time.

Nice guy.

Rip.

Eta

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[surreybrowncap]

I may be wrong, but I suspect that most of the Chairman's Script for ISIHAC was written by Barry.

I believe this was Iain Pattinson who worked on the show for well over twenty years or so.
He passed away in February 2021.