There's something you said that I agreed with at the time, but has been
bothering me. You were bemoaning that there are no icons left in the
world that you would miss when they died. I thought it couldn't be true,
but I was stumped if I could think of any.
Well, I've thought of a few.
In chronological order (In my head at least. Well, we have to have some
kind of order in the world, even if it's a queue for the bus) - Eric
Sykes, Barry Crier (yes, Barry Crier - look who he's written for), David
Attenborough, Denholm Elliott, Germaine Greer (annoying, but
entertaining, and quite possibly right), Graham Garden, Tim
Brooke-Taylor (possibly even Bill Oddie, the hairy, little bird-loving
dwarf), Ade Edmondson, Eddie Izzard (not sure about this one), Chris
Morris and many more who haven't been so ingrained in my long-term
memory that alcohol couldn't destroy the neurons that are associated
with remembering their names.
I know I've missed a few personal favourites, like Bjork, Simon Pegg,
Nick Frost, Sinead O'Connor, Dan Antopolski, Lucy ****ter, Bill Bailey,
my cat, Kevin Eldon, Nelson Mandela (maybe he should have been above...)
but I thought the universals might have played better.
The point is, there's still lots of personalities out there who aren't
boy-bands or famous for cosmetic surgery or people who do TV shows like
living in a student dorm with cameras.
So there, Mr. Doom 'n' Gloom Pessimist, stick that up yer jumper 8)
p.s. Download "Kill the Humans" from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/hyperdrive/killthehumans.shtml
It gets me through the day.
p.p.s. Oh, and Ken Dodd. The showbiz rumours are true. And if for no
other reason than "Ken Dodd's dad's dog's dead".
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