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Post by medibot on Apr 25, 2008 23:22:45 GMT
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Croc
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Post by Croc on Apr 26, 2008 1:17:58 GMT
The world is slightly poorer tonight for his passing
i knew this day would eventually come - but still - I'm still gutted at hearing the news.
May I venture one last cry of "Mornington Crescent"?
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 26, 2008 9:38:59 GMT
Indeed. We all know an old man can't live forever, but Humph was still young inside  I found out last night (thank you Martello for letting me know, and as you said, at least we got to see him in action a year ago) and tried not to be sad because he had a good long life, but it didn't work... it's still sad! OK Croc, you win |
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Post by malxscfc on Apr 26, 2008 10:36:59 GMT
Second all the above. I had no idea he was 86, I must admit. They don't make 'em like they used to!  RIP old pal. |
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Post by amberaleman on Apr 26, 2008 11:52:18 GMT
Heard some of his trumpet-playing on the radio this morning, a recording from 1962. Great stuff!
The BBC now have to decide whether ISIHAC (the radio panel game, not the forum administrator!) can continue without him. He was such an important element of the comic mix, I'm not sure that it can.
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Post by Croc on Apr 27, 2008 12:21:52 GMT
Maybe the only person who could possibly fill this massive void now is probably Stephen Fry
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 27, 2008 14:26:03 GMT
I love Stephen to bits, but I don't think he would be quite right. He's been on there a few times as a guest, and has been great, but I don't know. His humour isn't quite the same.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Apr 28, 2008 12:33:47 GMT
"Well, as the smouldering embers of time fade peacefully in the brazierre (sic) of eternity"... In principle, we should allow the embers to fade in full and simply rejoice in the memories and archives left behind. He cannot be replaced; but then, nor could Willie Rushton! IF there is to be a tribute or continuation, then I am with Croc. Stephen Fry is the one real candidate - and given some of the interjections on QI; I would suggest that his humour comes from a similar place. Humph, perhaps the musical skill got lost in the cult fervour of ISIHAC; but an all rounder and gent - who will be most sorely missed. And knowing that this day would arrive doesn't prepare you for it actually getting here.  |
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Post by Croc on Apr 28, 2008 17:27:34 GMT
apparently I heard that Rob Brydon stood in for the Great Chairman in a couple of recordings recently...
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Post by amberaleman on Apr 28, 2008 21:44:10 GMT
I was reading the Guardian obituaries for Humph today, and my erstwhile schoolmate Jeremy Hardy noted that he had a fascination with the backward spelling of certain words. One of his favourites (and I think Sal will like this) was "stratagem", which when reversed reads "megatarts". |
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Post by ambersalamander on Apr 29, 2008 17:36:25 GMT
I like those |
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on May 5, 2008 5:03:10 GMT
MORNINGTON CRESCENT! I've listened to ISIHAC on and off since it's beginning in 1972. Back then, starting the programme with the first few bars of Deutschland Uber Alles signalled that something anarchic was about to happen. The regular teams, Barry Cryer & Graham Garden against Willie Rushden & Tim Brooke-Taylor rarely disappointed. Although tame in comparison with today's f-word littered broadcasts, Humph's wit and double-entendres pushed it to the limit with a BBC that regularly banned records such as St Cecilia's Leap up and Down Wave Your Knickers in the Air, all the stuff by Judge Dread and agonized over playing Chuck Berry's My Ding-a-Ling. (apparently they felt that Berry was exhorting us to undulge in mutual masturbation   ) For me, ISIHAC is a bridge back to a "golden age of radio'. After finally getting home from another day of being knocked from pillar-to-post at Wednesfield Bloody High School (being able to spell your own name and walking without your knuckles dragging on the ground equated to being homosexual and i got "puff-bashed" despite not now, then or ever being gay) there was refuge in tuning in our old radiogramme first to Radio Soapbox with Charlie Chester on 1500mtrs LW then, after the news, Radio 4, 285mtrs on the medium wave and a light entertainment slot featuring some of my favourites such as The Men From The Ministry, The Clitheroe Kid, Many a Slip, What-Ho Jeeves!, Lord Peter Whimsey, Dr Finlay's Casebook, The Burkiss Way, Round the Horn, I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, etc.Humph and ISIHAC stood as colossi as everything else has disappeared over the years. From the responses here from folk half my age the programme has bridged several generation gaps. RIP Humph and many thanks. |
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Post by ojiveojive on May 5, 2008 11:14:32 GMT
That just about sums up my feelings at the loss of Humph, too, although we didn't have puff-bashing at my grammar school in the early sixties, just innuendo, as it was accepted that in a single sex school some of the boys (and some of the masters, too) would naturally have crushes on some of the other boys, remembering that homosexuality was illegal until 1967 (bizarrely, lesbianism wasn't illegal). I'd spent over a week coming on here, wanting to write something weird, witty or lewd but i just couldn't find the words. Goodbye, Humph, thanks for being there.
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Post by ambersalamander on May 5, 2008 17:33:06 GMT
Lesbianism was only legal because Queen Victoria didn't believe it could possibly exist.
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on May 8, 2008 14:24:35 GMT
apparently I heard that Rob Brydon stood in for the Great Chairman in a couple of recordings recently... Hmmm. Not sure. Mind you, if we are widening the scope here & there; the rather eccentric Alexander Armstrong might be worth hearing? |
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