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

Podcast of Parrot Jokes

Quote from: Ithoriel on 03 January 2022, 10:01:07 AMRichard 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!

Bamber Gascoigne, 87 .

Quote from: Steve J on 08 February 2022, 02:17:30 PMBamber 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...   

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.

Douglas Trumbull (worked with Kubrick to good effect).

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.

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

QuoteRodney 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.

 Shame about both of those.

And Shane Warne! 

Paul

That's awful!
Rod Marsh dying was bad enough but Warne was only 52.
Really sad.

QuoteAnd Shane Warne! 

Paul

I'm shocked.

I'm as shocked as the day when an ashes Rookie castled Gatting with his first delivery.

Truly shocked to hear of Shane Warne's passing     . A brilliant, brilliant cricketer. His ball to bowl Gatting was called the 'Ball of the Century' and rightly so:

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