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Skub wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 5:54 pm Una Stubbs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58190446
I liked her. And she was sort of totty to those our age.
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Yorick wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:00 pm I liked her. And she was sort of totty to those our age.
I met her a few times in the 80's. My mate played the gay, black, home help in "In Sickness And In Health", I went to watch it being filmed a few times and met her in the bar afterwards. A genuinely nice person.
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You must be keeping a close eye on the obits at your age ;)
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slowsider wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 10:53 pm You must be keeping a close eye on the obits at your age ;)
I read them every morning. If my names not there I know I can get up and have breakfast.
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Sean Lock from 8 out of 10 cats, aged 58 from Cancer :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254859
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Silly Car wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:15 am Sean Lock from 8 out of 10 cats, aged 58 from Cancer :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254859
Gutted. Brilliant stand up and fantastic life observer.
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Sad to read Sean Lock has passed. Brilliantly funny acerbic humour and just so off the cuff funny.
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the_priest wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:32 am Sad to read Sean Lock has passed. Brilliantly funny acerbic humour and just so off the cuff funny.
Fvck, 58!
Funny guy - infectious, odd and sometimes macabre sense of humour.

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Gutted
True loss to comedy. His bizarre sit com '15 storeys high' was comedy genius.

One of his monologues on 8 out of 10 about 'We buy any canal boat.com' had me in tears.

Bugger it all
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gremlin wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:46 am True loss to comedy. His bizarre sit com '15 storeys high' was comedy genius.
It really was. I managed to track down and rent the DVDs from Lovefilm years ago... still hard to find now I think.
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Silly Car wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:15 am Sean Lock from 8 out of 10 cats, aged 58 from Cancer :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254859
This sucks :(

Sean lock and the rest of 8 out 10 cats does countdown got me through the first few very tough weeks of lockdown !
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Slenver wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:59 am
gremlin wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:46 am True loss to comedy. His bizarre sit com '15 storeys high' was comedy genius.
It really was. I managed to track down and rent the DVDs from Lovefilm years ago... still hard to find now I think.
All episodes;
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Could have picked from thousands of fantastic moments, whether it's Nazi Island, the Challenging Wank or many others. But this is still one of the absolute best bits of his TV stuff:

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Austin Mitchell MP A thoroghly nice chap, he was the first main TV anchorman at Yorkshire television along side Richard Whiteley. He decided to run as a labour Mp for Grimsby which he held to this day. i remember the first day I was on the film crews we filmed a documentary about the commissioning of the Selby coalfield, 20 years later he presented another film of the demise of the coal industry, we saw it in and out as he remarked at the time. He always had time for a chat regardless as to your position on the crew. RIP.Image
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Silly Car wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:15 am Sean Lock from 8 out of 10 cats, aged 58 from Cancer :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254859
So sad to see that today. Went to see him locally many years ago when i didnt really know a lot of his stuff. I spent the entire show crying laughing and was a fan ever since. His stuff is so close to the knuckle but the delivery and timing was just perfection. He will be hugely missed :(
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Silly Car wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 11:15 am Sean Lock from 8 out of 10 cats, aged 58 from Cancer :(

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58254859

Bugger. :(
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I just saw that too...

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