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Sad loss..... 😥
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9375149/Eric-Sykes-dies-at-the-age-of-89.html
The Plank - so funny it hurt
RIP
That is sad news.
That's genuinely made me sad. I used to love his TV show when I was a kid.
He and Spike Milligan shared an office for years. I would have paid good money to just sit in the corner and listen in to their conversations.
He and Spike Milligan shared an office for years. I would have paid good money to just sit in the corner and listen in to their conversations.
So would Eric Sykes!
Sad loss, RIP 🙁
Didn't get it when I was young. But now I do. Fantastic writer and comic actor
RIP Eric
a very sad loss 🙁
RIP
Very sad. A true comic.
Gentle, brilliant humour - sad loss.
Sykes did more than share an office with Milligan. He co-wrote many Goon Shows; and when Milligan was too ill to write he would do them himself or with Larry Stephens.
I saw Sykes in a cameo role in Charlie's Aunt at Newcastle Theatre Royal a couple of years ago. All he had to do was push a tea trolley across the stage. He had the place in tucks.
Very sad day indeed.
If you ever get the chance read his book - UFOs Are Coming Wednesday it's brilliant
(although the follow up - Great Crime of Grapplewick isn't)
i was driving home tuesday night listening to a prog on hattie jaques on the radio when i thought wonder how long eric sykes has got left
couldnt belive it when i heard
Just thought I'd add something to this thread I read in the paper this morning
Eric Sykes, spike Milligan and Harry Secombe all saw some pretty serious action in the war. Normandy landings, Monti Cassino etc. Harry secombes son put it like this;
"when they got back, they couldn't believe they weren't dead, so felt justified in their behaviour. They had earned the right to be silly!"
Amen to that! What a great philosophy!