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« on: July 04, 2012, 10:48:16 am » |
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A great writer and comedy actor.
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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 10:57:45 am » |
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Very funny man. RIP
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A knocked-kneed camel and a bow-legged hen...
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« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 11:29:09 am » |
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...isn't it strange, a week or so ago someone mentioned the British film 'The Plank' and Eric Sykes, and I wondered if he was still alive as I couldn't remember his passing.
My sympathy to his family, he was a fantastic writer and was at the forefront of much of the British comedy in my youth, and he influenced so may with his works and was of course the 'invisible' Goon, from The Goon Show.
RIP Eric and thanks for the many laughs - needle, nardle noo...
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« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2012, 06:29:25 pm » |
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Always came across as a really nice man. Up there with Tommy Cooper in my eyes.
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« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2012, 07:14:43 pm » |
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My Dad always told me he was a Fulham supporter .......?
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A knocked-kneed camel and a bow-legged hen...
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« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2012, 07:31:15 pm » |
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My Dad always told me he was a Fulham supporter .......?
...Eric Sykes was from Oldham, but as Hattie Jacques father was meant to have played for Fulham (*) it is possible he came along because of her and as so many actors used to watch Fulham through Tommy Trinder's connection, not sure he was a fan but may have been to a few Fulham games... * I can find no records of this, but I have a photograph of a Fulham team from 1919 where there are at least four players who are listed as 'Unknown' such was the haphazard nature of records so early post war. So Robin Jacques may well have played for us..? |
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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2012, 08:51:55 pm » |
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He was a good actor as well
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2012, 02:49:47 am » |
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Sorry to rain on his parade but I played golf with him on a couple of occasions and he was an absolute p****. As I said, sorry but RIP nevertheless>  |
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2012, 03:56:56 am » |
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Nothing like a good old bit of British honesty to kill the dinner party. Get Coat gif
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« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2012, 04:06:07 am » |
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Perhaps he was only a pr!ck on the golf course ? That silly game'll do that to ya !
RIP Eric.
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« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2012, 09:15:52 am » |
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Nothing like a good old bit of British honesty to kill the dinner party. Get Coat gif
Should I lie just to keep you happy? |
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« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2012, 09:40:50 am » |
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Sorry to rain on his parade but I played golf with him on a couple of occasions and he was an absolute p****. As I said, sorry but RIP nevertheless> Careful Mr Rich – this is not the forum where you can afford to be iconoclastic. When he fell off the perch, I had the temerity to say that I thought that Norman Wisdom was about as funny as a wife swapping party with a couple of lepers. The result was that I was bombarded with hate mail that is usually reserved for a serial killer. But here I go again. To compare Eric Sykes with Tommy Cooper is like comparing John Watson with Johnny Haynes. Nonetheless, RIP Eric. |
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« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2012, 09:44:25 am » |
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And of course Tommy Cooper was in many ways not a particularly nice man. Funny as hell of course.
I met Eric Sykes in circumstances where, to be fair, he could not have been expected to be cheerful, amusing or particularly pleasant and he wasn't.
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« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2012, 10:15:03 am » |
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To change the tone somewhat...I sadly watched Teletubbies yesterday (for the sake of my 18 month old son) in the realisation that his small voiceover part in it was probably his last great work.
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« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2012, 10:19:04 am » |
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People can post what they like within reason. Jarv I thought has a funny response to Gozrich post. A lot of people are very funny and may have an off day or be a right so and so. Many of us grew up with Eric Sykes and his comedy. His off duty moments may not have been perfect and it is fair to comment. However it doesn't change his wonderful work. Except the teletubbies (?)
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