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Austin Mitchell, former British Labour MP, Historian, TV presenter, writer and all-round good bloke. Strong connection to NZ, and wrote a book on his experiences in NZ and invented the phrase The Half-Gallon Quarter-Acre Pavlova Paradise
Loved the story he used to tell of a Grimsby tourist who bumped into George W Bush at Ground Zero. “Where are you from?” asked Bush. “Grimsby,” said the visitor. “What state is it in?” asks the president. “Much the same as this,” came the reply
Def one of the good guys.
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i have been watching the best 8o10CDC bits all morning. Fuck Sean Lock was funny. Laugh out loud, make you cry funny.
His greatest achievements was fucking classic
Carrot in a Box
"I won't spit on you" -
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I watched a few clips yesterday.
Honestly feels like somebody I know passed on. I guess with other entertainers (musicians etc) you don't really feel like you know them. With comedy / show panellists though, those that you thoroughly enjoy, is partially because they are so good at coming across like they are at the end of your own table cracking the jokes / one liners.
Sean was undoubtedly everybody's favourite Grumpy Old Man, abeilt one with a huge grin and cheeky glint in his eye. I genuinely 100% will miss him.
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@majorrage said in RIP 2021:
The to and fro with Jupp is so good. The whelk competition has me in tears
Miles is the perfect foil for him. Most of that had me in tears - laughter, but man I'm going to miss Seanie (got to say that it seems that Rachel had quite a soft spot for him).
Jimmy pissing himself at the "I promise not to spit on you when we have sex tonight" was brilliant. How did he get away with that stuff? Miles, "on the fence about Hitler" also hilarious.
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@stargazer one of the great NZ politicians, especially as finance minister. He and Sir Bill English deserve a lot of credit for our current ability to weather Covid-19 fiscally.
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@majorrage said in RIP 2021:
The to and fro with Jupp is so good. The whelk competition has me in tears
Miles is the perfect foil for him. Most of that had me in tears - laughter, but man I'm going to miss Seanie (got to say that it seems that Rachel had quite a soft spot for him).
Jimmy pissing himself at the "I promise not to spit on you when we have sex tonight" was brilliant. How did he get away with that stuff? Miles, "on the fence about Hitler" also hilarious.
Yeah - I've been re-re-watching every "Sean Lock best of..." over the last couple of days. Some fucking classics, but sadly... the two Hitler references that I remember - haven't come up... I was worried they've been "cancelled".
I don't think I would have ever thought of him as one of my favourites, until he was gone... and now... yeah, he was almost always good, and a crucial part of the formula that made the 8-out-of-10-cats ensemble work.Some favourites:
- "That's a difficult wank" - fuck... you can almost tell that he realised he'd said it out loud genuinely without thinking through the implications
- "Okay, fine - I won't spit on you when we have sex tonight"... such a good ante offering
- Carrot-in-a-box - fuck he was good at that, straight off the bat.
- Nazi Island - "If you could bring anybody back from dead, who would it be?" - "The Nazi party. Because..." - "Nah, let's just leave it there... the end of Sean Lock's career, everybody!"
Actually - re-re-re-watching all these... there's been several references by him to his own death... it's been.. poignant.
- The reference above - about his ashes to be spread in Morgan's eyes - I'd never heard, but... excellent
- Today, I listened to him describe his preferred funeral as - being fly-tipped. Just drooped over a hedge somewhere, so that he could continue to annoy people after his death.
- There was at least 2 other references that I can't remember. I had a zoom meeting at 2pm, that required (slightly suggested) the wines be started.
RIP 2021
