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Part of the comedy sound-track of my laugh - Made me laugh, especially in the little watched Colin's Sandwich.
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Shocked!
Will be greatly missed. I have been watching some repeats of NTNOCN recently, made me laugh out loud!
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Loved the face-to-face discussions with Gryff Rhys-Jones, particularly the one about the sperm bank. Making deposits and getting overdrawn! Hilarious
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The ultimate tribute from the kind of web site like C4P I think
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo
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>> The ultimate tribute from the kind of web site like C4P I think
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>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9lmCpIzhFo
I'd forgotten how good that sketch was, and topical even today (the 'bikers killed" score)
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A funny man, still quite young I think. Had that sulky spud-faced look, adaptable in all directions, which is a godsend to many comics. I love adult (not 'adult') comic sketches and always tried to watch Alas S & J... Can't remember much now but I seem to remember a very good number he used to do as an outrageously incompetent, slobbish and venial garage man.
Of course Not the Nine O'clock News was a trend-setter, like The Day Today.
It seems quite a lot of funny men die fairly young. I suspect it's much harder work than it looks, and humour often comes from early heartbreak... but I know nothing of Mel Smith's history or personal life.
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A great comedian and a refreshing change from the left wing (funny as toothache) comedians such as Ben Elton who sprung up around the same time.
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It was always said that the production company Griff & Mel started (Talkback) was sold in the early 80s for £62 million. If so he had a nice draw from that. Otherwise I think he's been pretty low key in his work since those early days.
Addicted to over the counter medicines for a period too I recall.
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>> over the counter medicines for a period too
And under the counter ones I shouldn't wonder, an occupational risk for many successful performers.
So watch out Perro with all those rural chemicals, tut tut and at your age too... stick to natural vegetable products comrade...
:o}
Speaking of vegetable products, herself came in a while back with a bowl of huge, blushing, slightly hairy and totally delicious gosseberries. She makes a terrific fool, very unselfishly because she can't eat cream.
Our gooseberry bushes are the thorny variety she tells me.
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>>So watch out Perro with all those rural chemicals
What, like Glyphosate.
:-((
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>> Glyphosate.
Actually there's no mention so far of any illicit substances, although that wouldn't necessarily mean there weren't any. But ill-health - gout - seems to have been a problem.
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>>But ill-health - gout - seems to have been a problem.
He suffered from depression and battled an addiction to painkillers (like so many of his ilk) ending up in hospital in 1999 with severe stomach ulcers.
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>>Shocked!
I'm with this^ Giza ... he was the same age as me :(
RIP.
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I remember a sketch with Mel & Griff where they carried out a DIY vasectomy - hilarious !
RIP Mel
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I thought the Swedish Chemist was a classic !!!
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Mel Smith dies. - zippy
