Ronnie Barker.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:22 am

Has apparently passed away
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 307216.stm

A lot of his stuff was very good. As much as the programme gets repeated, I never tire of Fletcher.
Loved that special he did not too long ago returning to the character.

Sad news.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:26 am

Just the One Ronnie now.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:34 am

Least he went peacefully.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:52 am

oh man, that sucks.

Ronnie was cool.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:27 am

Damm, I liked Ronnie - the two ronnies was genuinly funny and Ronnie was a righting genius.

"4 candles..." - doesnt work in type for obvious reasons..

Post by **Kaylee** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:03 am

Now that *is* a shame

last time I felt genuinely sad in a similar circumstance was when Spike Milligan died.

Laserwave · Post by **Laserwave** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:42 pm

Milligan and Barker were great writers, and it`s sad to see them go. It`s a curse of growing up, that your heroes tend to die before you.

The Pythons will be next, I`m dreading the rest of them joining Chapman in Grail heaven.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:05 pm

Laserwave wrote:The Pythons will be next, I`m dreading the rest of them joining Chapman in Grail heaven.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand lightyears thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand lightyears wide.
We're thirty thousand lightyears from galactic central point,
We go round every two hundred million years.
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know;
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space
Cause there's bugger-all down here on earth!

Jetfire · Post by **Jetfire** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:05 pm

Laserwave wrote:
The Pythons will be next, I`m dreading the rest of them joining Chapman in Grail heaven.

I'll be sad but I'm not dreading it because none of them, excepting Palin's travel journals, have done anything that's been funny or any good this century. Clease's big and now humilating exit from the UK (Stated nobody in the British isles appreciates humour

) undermined by the fact he simply isn't funny anymore.

Oh, I'm Gillingham might have another good film insides of him but I doubt it will be made. The rest should have retired.

I say that because one of the things that mark Ronnie Barker's brilliant career was the fact he stopped when he saw the quality wouldn't have been as good and retired. I wish more people had the wisdom to do so.
Also the fact most of the stuff he wrote was under another name and didn't feel the need to take all the glory for it or bask in cheep celeb glory like so many others.