Saturday, April 26, 2008

Goodbye Humph

A while back, I did a post about a British Institution, Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz trumpeter and comedy presenter.

At the age of 86, he had been the compere of the BBC Radio 4 comedy programme "I'm Sorry, I haven't A Clue" since its inception in 1972. He could make the filthiest double-entendres sound even dirtier because of his old age and his innocence of delivery.

Humph died yesterday following surgery on an aortic aneurism.

I thought he was immortal.

This is an extract from the radio show, with Humph asking the team to finish off George W. Bush quotes.

4 comments:

  1. this afternoon somebody said to me, that humphrey lyttelton died. i asked: who is lyttelton???
    the answer was: "jazzman". so i got it. still can't believe he is gone forever!

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  2. I'm sorry, I've never heard of him...But I enjoyed the clip, very funny stuff! (We'll never recover from George Bush!)

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  3. Anonymous11:42 pm

    Oh, George Bush, you're an idiot! ANYBODY is better than him. Future generations will look back on this and say, "What the fuck were you thinking??"

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  4. A good man dies while a lying slimeball continues his reign of terror in the White House . . .

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