So sad to hear that John Fortune is no longer with us, after treatment for leukemia. He was 74.
A stalwart of the 60's satire boom, late of the Cambridge Footlights and one of the founder members of the Establishment Club alongside Peter Cook, he will forever be remembered for his comedy partnership with John Bird, with whom he shared a BAFTA in 1997, and uncanny impressionist Rory Bremner.
Among many tweets paying their respects is one from Frankie Boyle, who shared this as his favourite 'Long Johns' sketch. I present it here now in memory of one of the nation's favourite thorns in the side of governments everywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohGiQmOxlc
A stalwart of the 60's satire boom, late of the Cambridge Footlights and one of the founder members of the Establishment Club alongside Peter Cook, he will forever be remembered for his comedy partnership with John Bird, with whom he shared a BAFTA in 1997, and uncanny impressionist Rory Bremner.
Among many tweets paying their respects is one from Frankie Boyle, who shared this as his favourite 'Long Johns' sketch. I present it here now in memory of one of the nation's favourite thorns in the side of governments everywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nohGiQmOxlc
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
