RIPs

[shaolin_monkey]

This is one of the most incredible obituaries I have ever read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

[Colin YNWA]

Yeah that is quite a tale. A life well lived.

[Frank]

This is one of the most incredible obituaries I have ever read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

"When detectives arrived to question La Rochefoucauld, his wife told them: "Don't try to lock him up. He escapes, you know."

[Roger Godpleton]

Italian Football.

[Bat King]

This is one of the most incredible obituaries I have ever read:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9365640/Count-Robert-de-La-Rochefoucauld.html

Don't say the French did nothing in WWII... This guy was not a surrender-monkey.

[Goaty]

Aww no, Eric Sykes

[Dandontdare]

Ah that's a shame, I grew up watching Sykes. I used to live next door to his brother (or maybe brother in law), but I only found this out when the chap died and Eric came up for the funeral.

[rog]

^ ^^ Oh, very sad to hear that he's gone - one of the last of a generation

[Daveycandlish]

It's a word that is bandied about a lot, but he was a comedy genius.
I saw him on stage a few years back in a farce with Chris Biggins and he brought the house down

[Spikes]

This is a real shame, a very funny comic indeed.

[Goaty]

Aw someone post that on Twitter, I totally forgot about that brilliant silent film,

The Plank with Eric Sykes and Tommy Cooper.

Enjoy it. Kids of this generations will loves this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2RoudtrVv8

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Lee Grice shared this on Twitter and it's a blinder - !



The rest is here R.I.P. Mr Sykes!

http://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/tv-express-scrapbook-eric-sykes-part-1.html

[Something Fishy]

That's a shame.  Another of the greats gone.  RIP.

[judgefloyd]

I remember Sykes' tv show as a kid - with Hatti Jaques and the supercilious neighbour guy.  I also remember him in a flick with Peter Sellers, in 'Theatre of Blood' with Diana Rigg and Vincen Price, as an old bloke in the Sherlock Holmes series  and much later as a voice in the Tellytubbies - in the last two I thought 'is he still alive?' and decided he must be immortal.  Much missed.

[Heath C Ackley]

A sad day for comedy. He was a great man and somewhat underrated in my opinion. He wrote for and with some of the biggest names in comedy such as Hancock and the Goons.