John Inman dies

a sad loss for comedy but the original camp it up star of are you being served? has died today aged 71

sky news story here

RIP

Sad indeed. This show was one of the few BBC/ITV exports to the states that I liked. He and it was much funnier than Benny Hill. RIP.

Well, he's free now.

A sad loss. RIP

Mr Humphries



Still funny...

that's cos you're a faggot dude!

That would be news to my wife.

Who?

He probably means the woman he's married to.

As for John Inman, did he ever do any television work other than AYBS?

Yes he did Take a Letter Mr Jones with Rula Lenska. I am sad enough to remember that. I used to turn over to BBC when iot came on.

"Take a letter Mr Jones,
Ignore the telephone"

Pity my poor brain for holding such crap in it.

I think he did a lot of stage work. Does it matter though? Even if he did only do that, he brought a lot of joy and laughter in to a lot of peoples lives.

Hell, you have to wonder how AYBS ever got on to TV with its scripts? It was comedy gold, I would even say better than Fawlty Towers.

Timing: they had it stagecrafted to perfection before DV and multiple takes and asides that could be self-indulgently archived for the DVD. Look at any classic Beeb comedy, all long takes, rare pans and the comedy was generated from them from being stage savvy and consummate pros, with command of their lines bet into them from experience on stage in front of a live audience without the indulgence of multiple takes.

Twas a little thing called the Olympics, Munich and some people getting shot.

Jeremy I do pity your brain, especially in the early hours of a Sunday morning.

I'm aware that JI did stage work, I just wondered about other TV stuff, 'tis all. AYBS used to be mandatory viewing in our house. Happy days.

Well no offence to the deceased but I'm glad his era is more or less over. It was that kind of comedy that made British comedy 'travel' badly and it was pretty base and unoriginal...same goes for carry ons and all that, they may have ahd a place at the time, but that time is over..thank Morris!

Going down!

AYBS was a product of its times sure.
I'd rather than comedy was less travelled but with quality performances and raised a belly laugh.
Contrast and compare with f***ing "Friends" for example.

RIP John.

But also compare with The Office, Green wing, Jam, Brasseye, Father Ted, and the rest, I think we've moved on pretty well. With the exception of FAther Ted I think all these have been succesfully exported. Let the world domination begin!

I saw Father Ted and Vicar of Dibley in California a few years ago

Don't you mean imported? Seriously, you don't think all this stuff wasn't done before Hollywoodland did it now do you?

I think Pirulero means exported, as written. Other countries besides the US have "imported" these shows.

Sad to hear it. AYBS was great, but, sorry, not better than Fawlty Towers.
"I´m free!" - I suppose now he really is...

Father Ted was allegedly to be remade for US television, with Steve Martin as Father Ted, Graham Norton as Dougal and Ted Danson as Father Jack. Personally, if ever Father Ted, were God forfeckin'bid, to be remade in the States that Burt Reynolds should play Father Jack. Father Ted is on BBC America and Australian television afaik. Father Ted is ripe for German, a Bavarian for Father Jack, a Hanoverian or Berliner for Ted and a Schwab for Dougal might work pretty well.

Not quite sure what that has to do with John Inman :}

It fucks me off when something is successful outside the US and then someone in the US thinks they can do it better by investing more money etc and then completely ruin it!!

I really hope they leave Father Ted alone!

Now I know why my Bo Selecta Thread was deleted, a lot of Americans who cannot even start to comprehend what was going there.

I´m Tax Free!!

his mr. Humpfries inspired me to answer the phone at work with a deep butch voice "Mens wear!"
That confuses the Germans!