The Pie and Bovril Dead Pool 2023

[scottsdad]

Bury Humphries

[Eednud]

There is nothin’ like a dame

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Week 16 update

One death this week, Australian funnyman Barry Humphries: Barry Humphries obituary | Stage | The Guardian

 

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In a spoof obituary written while he was still in his 40s, Barry Humphries, who has died aged 89, described himself as “an ancient comic” who had long since become “a self-indulgent and inaudible has-been” with no sense of progressive social relevance.

The Republic of Australia’s Art Squad had, he said, banned Humphries’ work in his native land. He had endured his last years of “exile and obloquy” in the tarnished splendour of “a Lusitanian spa”, where he occasionally gave clandestine performances to his dwindling, reactionary and hard-of-hearing followers. He was survived, the obituary concluded, “by innumerable wives, great-grandchildren and creditors”. It was a generally appropriate death notice of a satirist who delighted in guying both himself and his critics.

Never a genial humorist, there was always a whiff of sulphur in his comedy. “What is there to say about me?” he would gull his interviewers. “I don’t smoke. I don’t drink. I am Church of England – I wash my car on Sundays. There must be some way you can jazz me up.” This was Humphries disguised as a candid interviewee. Being oneself, he would add, is a form of disguise.

There were many other disguises. One minute he would be a monocled Edwardian dandy or a mad scientist or a sad, sexless suburbanite. The next he would assume the mask of a beach bum or a shady art dealer or an embittered intellectual. But the most famous masks of all were his hellcat, the housewife megastar Dame Edna Everage, and his alcoholic political freeloader, professional adulterer and family man Sir Les Patterson.

I'm only sort of vaguely aware of Dame Edna Everage. As a character or media figure she was a bit before my time. Reading about Humphries here though, there's little doubt his life left an indelible cultural mark on the world. I don't really have anything to add myself. He just had a long, interesting life. I do like the idea of owning 25,000 books though.

Humphries died at 89, so he's worth 36 Base Points for @ParsJake, with a Solo Shot taking that to 86 points.

As a result, the standings look like this:

1. JustOneCornetto 309
2. The Naitch 208
3. Arbroathlegend36-0 198
4. buddiepaul 194
5. LoonsYouthTeam 187
6. psv_killie 185
7. peasy23 165
8. The DA 153
9. Desp, Ned Nederlander 151
11. Karpaty Lviv 145
12. Sweaty Morph 140
13. get_the_subbies_on 138
14. Arabdownunder, Bully Wee Villa, cdhafc1874, D.V.T., Frosty, HK Hibee, Mark Connolly, microdave, qos_75, throbber, weirdcal 134
25. Donathan 121
26. tamthebam 111
27. Arch Stanton, Ludo*1, mozam76 101
30. Aim Here 97
31. Miguel Sanchez 87
32. ParsJake 86
33. George Cowley, Billy Jean King, Indale Winton, sparky88 84
37. ICTJohnboy 69
38. paulathame 68
39. atfccfc, chomp my root, DG.Roma, Fuctifano, gkneil, HI HAT, lichtgilphead, Lofarl, lolls, Michael W, pub car king, The_Craig, thistledo 67
52. Oystercatcher 65
53. sleazy 55
54. Savage Henry 54
55. HTG 34
56. Bodie, Melanius Mullarkay, Suspect Device 32
59. amnarab, choirbairn, Derry Alli, expatowner, stanton 31
64. Everyone else 0

The spreadsheet has also been updated with these scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RxCIfczRUmrRrW79tUQ0vJ5KaHZpYENsTKmDqW4X3W4/edit?usp=sharing

[Sergeant Wilson]

I hope Sir Les Patterson is ok.

[alta-pete]

That’s a notable way to break one’s duck @ParsJake  

[get_the_subbies_on]

Len Goodman now about to be Se-Ven feet under. 
Ex-Strictly head judge Len Goodman dies at 78 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65373373

[deegee]

No more 10s from Len, as he is now a solid 6 (feet under).

Former Strictly judge, Len Goodman won’t be foxtrotting any more. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Strictly  Come Roasting

[Lurkst]

18 minutes ago, get_the_subbies_on said:

Len Goodman now about to be Se-Ven feet under. 
Ex-Strictly head judge Len Goodman dies at 78 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65373373

"HeaVEN!"

 

[superbigal]

Someone who used to be in Byker Grove & Emmerdale   Dale Meeks brown bread at 48

[peasy23]

10 minutes ago, superbigal said:

Someone who used to be in Byker Grove & Emmerdale   Dale Meeks brown bread at 48

Byker Grave

Edited April 24, 2023 by peasy23

[Billy Jean King]

5 hours ago, get_the_subbies_on said:

Len Goodman now about to be Se-Ven feet under. 
Ex-Strictly head judge Len Goodman dies at 78 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65373373

Last Tango in Essex for Len. Time of death recorded as 7 hopefully.

[GordonD]

3 hours ago, superbigal said:

Someone who used to be in Byker Grove & Emmerdale   Dale Meeks brown bread at 48

Star of Byker Grove dies and it's neither Ant nor Dec. It's an unfair world.

[DeeTillEhDeh]

On 22/04/2023 at 22:43, scottsdad said:

My team have clearly chosen to hold back for Deadly December. Almost May and zero points. 

Ditto.

[Oystercatcher]

Len notsogoodman

[GordonD]

3 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

Ditto.

Wordle thread for this pish

[D.V.T.]

Harry Belafonte is deaaaaaaad-o

[thistledo]

Harry Belagonte

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Harry’s Belafoosty

[pawpar]

27 minutes ago, D.V.T. said:

Harry Belafonte is deaaaaaaad-o

Sea burial in a banana boat I assume.