Deaths in 2022

[Ithoriel]

"But I can still recall the sting of all the tears when he was gone
They said he crashed and burned, I know I'll never learn
Why any boy should die so young"

[Orcs]

Barry Cryer Comedian and writer, at 86. Good innings, but will be missed

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Indeed so.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Gawd, he was only on the phone to my mate last week! 

[Steve J]

Such a great comedy writer, he will be sadly missed .

[Phil2]

He certainly will.

Thanks for all the times you've made me laugh, Barry.

[fsn]

[Steve J]

Hamish & Dougal were just so funny and sad to think we will have no more from them .

[Ithoriel]

"You'll have had your tea" - regularly quoted in our house

[fsn]

There's another of his phrases that I sometimes think when browsing this forum - "we talked about that at my 'Get a Life' Club".   

[steve_holmes_11]

It's a credit to Cryer's volume and quality that as we move from obituaries to retrospectives, there's barely been a repeat.

Google his extensive repertoire of parrot jokes, for example.

Parrot Joke

[steve_holmes_11]

Podcast of Parrot Jokes

[Last Hussar]

Richard Leakey, who, with his parents Mary and Louis, 

Says something about Cryer that I read this in his voice and wondered what the joke was!

[Steve J]

Bamber Gascoigne, 87 .

[Elliesdad]

Bamber Gascoigne, 87 .

I still think of University Challenge with Bamber as THE questionmaster.
Jeremy Paxman is just "the new chap". I suspect I'm showing my age now...   

[Gwydion]

Me too. And when the announcer at the beginning says '...and asking the questions...' I still hear 'Bamber Gascoigne' afterwards no matter what he actually says. All those years watching it as a kid have conditioned me as effectively as the bell conditioned Pavlov's dogs.

[FierceKitty]

Douglas Trumbull (worked with Kubrick to good effect).

[Raider4]

Rodney Marsh, legend of Australian - well, world - cricket. Aussie wicket keeper throughout the 70's and into the 80's.

Famously bet on England to win the 1981 Headingley test at 500-1 (No suggestion at all of match-fixing!).

Also famously sporting - can be seen to be shouting "NO!" at Ian Chappell when he ordered the Aussie bowler to bowl the last ball underhanded in a match to ensure an Aussie victory.

Seems to have been a great bloke all around.

[John Cook]

Gary Brooker, 19 February 2022, founder and lead singer of Procol Harum. 

[steve_holmes_11]

Rodney Marsh, legend of Australian - well, world - cricket. Aussie wicket keeper throughout the 70's and into the 80's.

Famously bet on England to win the 1981 Headingley test at 500-1 (No suggestion at all of match-fixing!).

Also famously sporting - can be seen to be shouting "NO!" at Ian Chappell when he ordered the Aussie bowler to bowl the last ball underhanded in a match to ensure an Aussie victory.

Seems to have been a great bloke all around.

I'd echo that.
As a youngster watching and hoping for an England win he was a perennial thorn in the side.
Reliable with the gloves, not a great bat, but competent enough to anchor an innings, partner a centurion or stabilise a collapse.

Was part of that Aussie generation who launched the wiseguy larrakin with a mullet image.
Occasionally abrasive on the pitch, but (unlike a couple of generations later) never forgot that Cricket's a game where you end up having a party with your opponents.