David Frost Dead

[Sprocket.]

just imagine the thread when parkie pops his clogs

Yes but at least he has cover and a pen to save his family the anguish of a burial or throwing him up a tree.

 

[gosub]

This really was class Frostie

RIP[/quote]


Granted I shouldn't have been Frost,(he had lost his edge decades ago), but somebody should have done a similar number on Joseph Cassano which doesn't say much for modern journalism that they didnt

 

[audiotech]

Thing is, he was derided in life for a) buying interviews b) allowing the people he paid to be interviewed off the hook and c) settling for and seeking out any old shit that would make him money - even after he was beyond being financially secure.

Derided really?

It was while working on The Frost Report, that the future Pythons developed their writing styles that would make their collaboration significant. Frost at this time also met and befriended influential British comedian Peter Cook. Frost found working with Palin on The Frost Report an enjoyable experience and invited him to join the series. It was as an actual performance on the Frost Report that Cleese achieved his breakthrough on British television as a comedy actor, appearing as the tall, patrician figure on the classic class sketch, contrasting comically in a line-up with the shorter, middle class Ronnie Barker and the even-shorter, working class Ronnie Corbett.

When Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1989, whose death occurred a day before the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus, 'with Jones commenting, "the worst case of party-pooping in all history." Cleese's eulogy at Chapman's memorial service—in which he "became the first person ever at a British memorial service to say 'fuck'"

Cleese did join the Silly party though.

 

[butchersapron]

Yes derided. Thanks for the wikipedia stuff without noting it was a quote.

 

[Zabo]

Is it post satire or post irony that a satirist from the Establishment* should re-join the Establishment with a Knighthood?

Who else from the 'glorious days' of satire has accepted some form of bowing and scraping award? I know M. Palin CBE has.

*establishment - Oxbridge or similar.

 

[Sprocket.]

Edit: Larry King next candidate?

Rantzen no, David Jacobs well well.