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Post by daz on Mar 31, 2016 11:05:28 GMT
Passed away today aged 85 RIP Another part of my childhood gone  |
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Post by ace5150 on Mar 31, 2016 11:09:03 GMT
Yes, very sad indeed. Always came across as a decent sort.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Mar 31, 2016 15:42:41 GMT
I heard about this today, from MIAS's Mrs. I always liked RC, he was involved in some great stuff!! Sad news.. RIP.
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Post by Terry on Mar 31, 2016 16:54:21 GMT
RIP. This is my favourite:
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Post by bensonrad on Mar 31, 2016 20:11:23 GMT
Very sad news indeed, another of my heroes gone.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 21:16:35 GMT
BBC was expecting it judging by all the tribute programmes they have rolled out.
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Post by jno on Apr 1, 2016 2:24:05 GMT
RIP - I liked his stories on The Two Ronnies myself.
One programme I never really watched was 'Sorry!'.
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Post by daz on Apr 1, 2016 5:58:09 GMT
RIP - I liked his stories on The Two Ronnies myself. One programme I never really watched was 'Sorry!'. I used to love Sorry! I watched it against a few years ago and thought it held up pretty well. His guest role in 'Extras' was brilliant IMO. He must of been mid 70s and making on he was a coke head, brilliant. I appreciated his style more as I got older than I did when I was younger. |
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Post by ltd on Apr 1, 2016 6:50:04 GMT
Sorry! always a favourite of mine when I was younger. Ronnie Corbett portrayed the quiet desperation of Timothy really well.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 9:14:42 GMT
Quite possibly the smallest man I have ever seen. Mrs MIAS & I saw Ronnie shopping in Harrods in 1990. He looked very dapper in his blue pin-striped whistle.
Very sad to hear of his passing.
RIP Ronnie.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Apr 1, 2016 19:40:09 GMT
He was actually a very funny bloke. Yesterday I was listening to The Bee and they played quite a few soundbites from The Two Ronnies as a tribute. Made me realize he was a comical genius. RIP Ronnie C.
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Post by ace5150 on Apr 1, 2016 21:33:42 GMT
I liked the TV ad with him and Alice Cooper. They spent all day talking golf, which they both adore and actually became friends after filming finished. Nice.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 8:44:23 GMT
I liked the TV ad with him and Alice Cooper. They spent all day talking golf, which they both adore and actually became friends after filming finished. Nice. Yes, that was a good ad.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 9:07:14 GMT
Just read that Ronnie's widow has confirmed he was suffering from motor neurone disease for 18 months or so up to his sad passing.
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Post by ltd on Apr 2, 2016 10:11:52 GMT
Just read that Ronnie's widow has confirmed he was suffering from motor neurone disease for 18 months or so up to his sad passing. Sorry to hear that. Motor Neurones always strikes me as a particularly cruel way to die. |
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Post by daz on Apr 2, 2016 10:16:23 GMT
Just read that Ronnie's widow has confirmed he was suffering from motor neurone disease for 18 months or so up to his sad passing. I saw that. It also said he didn't really suffer from it either in the end which is something. A horrible disease. Saw the repeated showing of the programme with Piers Morgan last night, he had some career did Ronnie C. His scene in Little Britain was shown and though I was not a fan of the show, it showed that he was game for anything well into his life. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 11:50:08 GMT
Ronnie Corbett always struck me as being a real British gentleman.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Apr 2, 2016 14:49:17 GMT
I remember a juvenile quiz show that he presented in the '90s on BBC1 as well as his impression of Stevie Wonder singing I Just Called back in the '80s.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Apr 2, 2016 17:01:18 GMT
I remember a juvenile quiz show that he presented in the '90s on BBC1 as well as his impression of Stevie Wonder singing I Just Called back in the '80s. Small talk? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 17:08:21 GMT
Yes, I remember that now. Good recall dsc and Arch.
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Post by dscarter1975 on Apr 2, 2016 19:26:12 GMT
That was the title. Remember watching an episode of Small Talk with my cousins.
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Post by daz on Apr 2, 2016 19:34:15 GMT
Small Talk, I had forgotten about that.
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Post by barrythebook on Apr 3, 2016 12:49:32 GMT
Just read that Ronnie's widow has confirmed he was suffering from motor neurone disease for 18 months or so up to his sad passing. Ah, that explains a comment I heard on the TV yesterday. I only caught some of the conversation but I heard the words "Ronnie didn't want people to see him like that....."
Very sad news, he was a talented, funny man.
Agree with Daz, RC's appearance in 'Extras' was hilarious - especially when he insinuated that he always got his supply from Moira Stuart  .
RIP.
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Post by Portland Road on Apr 13, 2016 8:37:45 GMT
I never found him as engaging as Ronnie Barker. That said, I couldn't help but like him, and he was good. And 'The Two Ronnies' was just that - it wouldn't have worked without both of them playing off each other (would it Ronnie....?  ). RIP Ronnie Corbett. |
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 16, 2018 0:40:39 GMT
If there was a word to sum this man up"comedy genius" springs to mind.
Rip Ronnie Corbett.
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Post by chopper on Feb 16, 2018 9:10:58 GMT
Genius
I’m currently enjoying the repeats on TV, featuring “The Phantom Raspberry Blower”!.....😆
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Post by thewoodster on Feb 18, 2018 0:50:42 GMT
The phantom raspberry blower...lol barker and Corbett at their best.
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