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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Gonnagle on March 31, 2016, 12:12:45 PM

Title: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Gonnagle on March 31, 2016, 12:12:45 PM

Good bye wee man and thank you for the Laughter and the fact that Argyll jumpers were okay, well okay in a certain sense of okay. ;)

Gonnagle.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Shaker on March 31, 2016, 12:13:14 PM

Aw  :( 

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Leonard James on March 31, 2016, 12:24:08 PM

The Two Ronnies was one of the great sitcoms of yesteryear.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 31, 2016, 12:29:44 PM

Quote from: Leonard James on March 31, 2016, 12:24:08 PM

The Two Ronnies was one of the great sitcoms of yesteryear.

There was also a sketch show of the same name.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Gonnagle on March 31, 2016, 12:34:47 PM

A chance to revisit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

Fork handles ;D ;D

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on March 31, 2016, 12:42:23 PM

Four candles, F.U.N.E.X.N.M......A man from Edinburgh has just lost his luggage at King's Cross station......The cork fell out......classics all.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Rhiannon on March 31, 2016, 01:45:25 PM

Lovely man. Great taste in golf wear.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: SweetPea on March 31, 2016, 02:27:58 PM

Quote from: Leonard James on March 31, 2016, 12:24:08 PM

The Two Ronnies was one of the great sitcoms of yesteryear.

We agree on something, Len. ;)

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Hope on March 31, 2016, 03:03:20 PM

So sad, but I suppose the best has to come to an end at some point. :-(

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Khatru on March 31, 2016, 04:02:57 PM

Sorry to see him go.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Brownie on March 31, 2016, 04:52:27 PM

It's goodnight from him.   Lovely man, he will be missed by us all - most of all by his lovely (big) wife whom he looked after so well following her illness, and his children.  He had a long life and a good one by all accounts.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Rhiannon on April 01, 2016, 08:01:34 AM

Newsthump doing it nicely again.

http://newsthump.com/2016/03/31/ronnie-corbett-bids-final-goodnight-from-him/

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Hope on April 01, 2016, 09:34:49 AM

Someone has posted the whole 2 and half minute 'Fork Handles' sketch on facebook.  Can't for the life of me remember when I last saw the whole thing - so often its just been the 'fork handles' bit that is played.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: torridon on April 01, 2016, 07:20:38 PM

Radio 4 PM played one of his to-camera armchair monologues in full yesterday evening and the man's talent shone.  Not that the text of his monologue was remarkable, but it was his delivery, the effortless impeccable timing and nuanced inflections of voice that could turn average material into something hilarious and engaging wherein his genius lay. In a comedy world where outrageous and controversial makes the running, we still need gentle talents such as his.

Title: Re: R.I.P Mr Corbett.
Post by: Shaker on April 02, 2016, 09:40:44 AM

Sadly it turns out that Ronnie had motor neurone disease, a fact known only to family and a few close friends until now: http://goo.gl/Tk4Mhl