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May 9, 2019 21:39:01 GMT
Post by voice on May 9, 2019 21:39:01 GMT
Freddy Star just popped off apparently
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Post by flatandy on May 9, 2019 21:44:19 GMT
Probably from the plague after eating raw hamster kidneys.
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May 10, 2019 5:58:40 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 5:58:40 GMT
You might have thought that Freddie Starr's death would merit a noticeable article on the BBC. Ah, but I had forgotten his relationship with Jimmy Saville.
And Max Clifford.
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May 10, 2019 5:59:54 GMT
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Post by mids on May 10, 2019 5:59:54 GMT
I felt a bit sorry for him. He always seemed a bit of a sad figure.
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May 10, 2019 6:07:35 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 6:07:35 GMT
Jewish apparently. I didn't know that.
He packed in a fair bit of living, that's fo sho.
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May 10, 2019 6:08:35 GMT
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Post by mids on May 10, 2019 6:08:35 GMT
Never very funny.
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May 10, 2019 6:12:00 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 6:12:00 GMT
True. Man of his time perhaps. People used to laugh at anything back then. It's quite excruciating watching old "comedy" shows. He was too old for the alternative comedy thing and just went for end of the pier/gangshow zaniness. Which was, as you say, unfunny.
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May 10, 2019 6:14:51 GMT
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May 10, 2019 6:41:08 GMT
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Post by mids on May 10, 2019 6:41:08 GMT
A BBC man through and through.
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May 10, 2019 7:32:54 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 7:32:54 GMT
Great slapstick humorist. Easy for smart arses to knock him now.
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May 10, 2019 7:44:14 GMT
Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 7:44:14 GMT
Be fair. I thought he was an unfunny cunt back then too.
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May 10, 2019 8:06:00 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 8:06:00 GMT
But you somehow managed to sidestep youth, went straight from infancy to 'adulthood'. You said so yourself a couple of weeks ago.
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May 10, 2019 13:34:23 GMT
Post by flatandy on May 10, 2019 13:34:23 GMT
Hahaha! Look at the BBC, damning the man after his death...
The "Tributes" are from
Bobby Davro
Alan Sugar
Jim Davidson
a half hearted one from Amanda Holden
Les Dennis
Russ Abbott
Some bird they have to say was "A bird off 'Allo 'Allo".
We're damning with the faintest of praise here.
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May 10, 2019 13:55:07 GMT
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Post by mids on May 10, 2019 13:55:07 GMT
It's not a great lineup is it?
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May 10, 2019 14:14:57 GMT
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Post by flatandy on May 10, 2019 14:14:57 GMT
We have a star studded line up for this year's panto in Fleetwood...
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May 10, 2019 15:20:39 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 15:20:39 GMT
But you somehow managed to sidestep youth, went straight from infancy to 'adulthood'. You said so yourself a couple of weeks ago. True dat. But I have to admit that I was being too harsh: that thing he did when he mimed to a faulty recording was funny a couple of times but, like the bloke with the faulty microphone, you couldn't really hang a career on it. |
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May 10, 2019 15:44:47 GMT
Post by voice on May 10, 2019 15:44:47 GMT
He appealed to certain crowd for sure, it just wan't one I was in.
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May 10, 2019 15:47:47 GMT
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Post by perrykneeham on May 10, 2019 15:47:47 GMT
Not racist enough, I suppose.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2019 15:53:29 GMT
His earlier stuff (imho) was funnier. But Starry starry night made me laugh - is that the one you mean? And of course his Hitler in wellies always gets me. I say always, but what I mean is when I youtubed it last week here, it made me smile again.
You know what? - nothing makes me laugh much any more, except maybe a bit of sharp conversation with friends. Few modern day comics make me laugh, and frankly I'd rather watch Starr while sitting with a splif in one hand and a glass of red in the other than listen to most of the new breed of (over-rated) comedians. Although I quite liked Bill Hicks, but he's dead.
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May 10, 2019 19:27:20 GMT
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Post by mids on May 10, 2019 19:27:20 GMT
I never saw the appeal of Bill Hicks. George Carlin on the other hand was a bit of a genius.
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