Clive James gone

[ron obvious 1,495]

RIP Clive. Witty & funny beyond belief. 

Edited November 27, 2019 by ron obvious
Perils of two Chritian names!

[PurpleCanary 5,553]

9 minutes ago, ron obvious said:

RIP Clive. Witty & funny beyond belief. 

And Jonathon Miller.

[Van wink 2,994]

Both great talents and always worth listening too. Grew up loving Dr Miller, poor guy had a degenerative brian condition by the sounds of, cruel for a great mind.

[ron obvious 1,495]

4 minutes ago, PurpleCanary said:

And Jonathon Miller.

God yes! The Body In Question was a terrific series, & I loved Oh Whistle & I'll Come - & Alice in Wonderland. Those Beyond The Fringers were amazing.

Alan Bennett next? It's so sad getting old & knowing all the heroes of your youth are disappearing.

[ron obvious 1,495]

4 minutes ago, Van wink said:

Both great talents and always worth listening too. Grew up loving Dr Miller, poor guy had a degenerative brian condition by the sounds of, cruel for a great mind.

I always thought Iris Murdoch's fate was proof of God's malicious sense of humour.

 

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

And Gary Rhodes

[Rock The Boat 1,324]

Well this is indeed all too sad

[keelansgrandad 6,679]

Clive James: ‘It's Boris Johnson's personality that makes him look as if he's been rolled on by a horse’

[Mello Yello 2,273]

Clive James very witty man.....RIP Clive, loved your shows......

[Jools 584]

Catastrophe

The imminent catastrophe goes on
Not showing many signs of happening.
The ice at the North Pole that should be gone
By now, is awkwardly still lingering,
And though sometimes the weather is extreme
It seems no more so than when we were young
Who soon will hear no more of this grim theme
Reiterated in the special tongue
Of manufactured fright. Sea Level Rise
Will be here soon and could do such-and-such,
Say tenured pundits with unblinking eyes.
Continuing to not go up by much,
The sea supports the sceptics, but they, too,
Lapse into oratory when they predict
The sure collapse of the alarmist view
Like a house of cards, for they could not have picked
A metaphor less suited to their wish.
A house of cards subsides with just a sigh
And all the cards are still there.
Feverish Talk of apocalypse might, by and by,
Die down, but the deep anguish will persist.
His death, and not the Earth’s, is the true fear
That motivates the doomsday fantasist:
There can be no world if he is not here.

Clive James

[ron obvious 1,495]

Seeing him on BBC2 earlier I was reminded me just how much he influenced me. The answer lies in everything.

His tv reviews were hilarious. Favourite quote: Arnold Schwartzenegger looks like a condom full of walnuts

Also just what a bloke he could be. Here he is in full vigour:

 

[Rock The Boat 1,324]

The quote was actually a brown condom full of walnuts. 

[ron obvious 1,495]

21 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:

And Jonathon Miller.

 

[PurpleCanary 5,553]

2 hours ago, ron obvious said:

 

Thanks, Ron. I will look out for some more. 'With science things are true or they are untrue'.  Tell that to some climate-change deniers.