Clive James RIP 16:07 - Nov 27 with 3188 views | factual_blue | Another sad loss from the Footlights. | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:08 - Nov 27 with 2480 views | homer_123 | Been ill for a while hadn't he? | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:09 - Nov 27 with 2474 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 16:08 - Nov 27 by homer_123 | Been ill for a while hadn't he? |
Leukaemia | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:13 - Nov 27 with 2460 views | Ewan_Oozami | Clive James on Television - the very definition of must-watch prime-time viewing. He'd be lucky to get a 15 minute slot on Sky Arts or BBC4 nowadays... | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:14 - Nov 27 with 2453 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 16:13 - Nov 27 by Ewan_Oozami | Clive James on Television - the very definition of must-watch prime-time viewing. He'd be lucky to get a 15 minute slot on Sky Arts or BBC4 nowadays... |
His TV reviews in The Observer were wonderful. And a decent lyricist and poet. | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:14 - Nov 27 with 2451 views | gainsboroughblue | Grim reaper is on fire today. RIP. | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:16 - Nov 27 with 2448 views | hoppy |
Clive James RIP on 16:14 - Nov 27 by gainsboroughblue | Grim reaper is on fire today. RIP. |
Better keep an eye on Factual being online or not... | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:44 - Nov 27 with 2400 views | Darth_Koont | Sad to hear but at least he had a decent innings. Unreliable Memoirs is one of the best autobiographies ever, certainly one of the funniest, and a fantastic study of growing up. | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:46 - Nov 27 with 2392 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Clive James RIP on 16:44 - Nov 27 by Darth_Koont | Sad to hear but at least he had a decent innings. Unreliable Memoirs is one of the best autobiographies ever, certainly one of the funniest, and a fantastic study of growing up. |
Indeed. Very well said, was about to post along these lines. | |
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Clive James RIP on 16:50 - Nov 27 with 2380 views | EatonBlue | Sad news. I attended a lecture of his in Oxford - he was brilliant. RIP | | | |
Clive James RIP on 17:08 - Nov 27 with 2338 views | Darth_Koont |
Clive James RIP on 16:46 - Nov 27 by StochesStotasBlewe | Indeed. Very well said, was about to post along these lines. |
I think it should be on the syllabus it's that good. Not sure if you're the same but it's one of those books that you can read 4 or 5 times and enjoy it more each time. | |
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Clive James RIP on 17:14 - Nov 27 with 2328 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 16:50 - Nov 27 by EatonBlue | Sad news. I attended a lecture of his in Oxford - he was brilliant. RIP |
i saw him give a poetry reading a couple of times. On the second occasion (in about 1975) his performance was interrupted by a young John Cooper Clarke shouting 'Nixon is a crook'. Clive's reply? 'Sonny, some of us have known that for twenty years'. [Post edited 27 Nov 2019 17:43]
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Clive James RIP on 17:14 - Nov 27 with 2323 views | Chondzoresk | My late father used to roll around laughing at Clive James. As I do. I still run through his “Postcards from......” The Tokyo and Berlin episodes are just masterpieces of dry sarcastic wit. They are available on YouTube. He has been ill for years I believe. Great loss indeed. RIP Clive. | | | |
Clive James RIP on 17:20 - Nov 27 with 2315 views | jontysnut |
Clive James RIP on 16:14 - Nov 27 by factual_blue | His TV reviews in The Observer were wonderful. And a decent lyricist and poet. |
Yes I saw him with Pete Atkins. Lovely stuff. | | | |
Clive James RIP on 17:46 - Nov 27 with 2286 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 17:20 - Nov 27 by jontysnut | Yes I saw him with Pete Atkins. Lovely stuff. |
'He didn't know a wah-wah From Akira Kurosawa' Great couple of lines. And Little Sammy Speedball is good stuff too. Driving Through Mythical America is the best song about the Kent State University shootings. Far better than Neil Young's Ohio. | |
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Clive James RIP on 17:49 - Nov 27 with 2285 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 17:14 - Nov 27 by Chondzoresk | My late father used to roll around laughing at Clive James. As I do. I still run through his “Postcards from......” The Tokyo and Berlin episodes are just masterpieces of dry sarcastic wit. They are available on YouTube. He has been ill for years I believe. Great loss indeed. RIP Clive. |
And who can forget his one and only review of Poldark (the original 1970s series): 'Poldark is an anagram of old krap.' | |
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Clive James RIP on 17:52 - Nov 27 with 2267 views | WD19 |
Clive James RIP on 16:14 - Nov 27 by gainsboroughblue | Grim reaper is on fire today. RIP. |
God clearly doesn't want the Lib Dem manifesto getting any airtime. Or maybe the BBC just bumped off some of its former employees to spite Jo Swinson. | | | |
Clive James RIP on 17:53 - Nov 27 with 2270 views | Pendejo |
Clive James RIP on 16:44 - Nov 27 by Darth_Koont | Sad to hear but at least he had a decent innings. Unreliable Memoirs is one of the best autobiographies ever, certainly one of the funniest, and a fantastic study of growing up. |
My unreliable memory of his "Unreliable Memoirs" seems to focus in on him describing how he'd poo in class at school shuffle to turn them into balls allow them to slip out of his shorts then kick them across the room. Please someone verify this for me! | |
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Clive James RIP on 17:53 - Nov 27 with 2270 views | BlueBadger |
Clive James RIP on 17:14 - Nov 27 by factual_blue | i saw him give a poetry reading a couple of times. On the second occasion (in about 1975) his performance was interrupted by a young John Cooper Clarke shouting 'Nixon is a crook'. Clive's reply? 'Sonny, some of us have known that for twenty years'. [Post edited 27 Nov 2019 17:43]
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I saw JCC playing the Quay in Sudbury last week. He didn't look in teh best of health, even for him. Turned out he'd got a very nasty leg cellulitis, sustained from stepping on a carrier bag full of broken glass. He was VERY talkative afterwards when signing books and took quite the shine to Mrs Badger. | |
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Clive James RIP on 17:58 - Nov 27 with 2256 views | Radlett_blue |
Clive James RIP on 17:14 - Nov 27 by Chondzoresk | My late father used to roll around laughing at Clive James. As I do. I still run through his “Postcards from......” The Tokyo and Berlin episodes are just masterpieces of dry sarcastic wit. They are available on YouTube. He has been ill for years I believe. Great loss indeed. RIP Clive. |
My late mum used to love Clive James so I began reading his newspaper pieces & later read most of his books. I also remember watching him in the (for the time) anarchic TV show "Up Sunday" in 1972-73. Rather ironic that James made a TV career out of poking fun at Japanese game shows and some of us are now "enjoying" shows that don't seem much better. He came to Radlett some years ago do to a talk and was entertaining, while I did get him to sign a copy of his memoirs which he dedicated to my late mother. | |
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Clive James RIP on 18:09 - Nov 27 with 2238 views | Darth_Koont |
Clive James RIP on 17:53 - Nov 27 by Pendejo | My unreliable memory of his "Unreliable Memoirs" seems to focus in on him describing how he'd poo in class at school shuffle to turn them into balls allow them to slip out of his shorts then kick them across the room. Please someone verify this for me! |
That was one. Not saying we've all got those stories but it was brutally honest and unflattering. he was the villain of his own autobiography which is quite an achievement. I loved the story about the soap box cars too. | |
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Clive James RIP on 18:21 - Nov 27 with 2214 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 17:53 - Nov 27 by BlueBadger | I saw JCC playing the Quay in Sudbury last week. He didn't look in teh best of health, even for him. Turned out he'd got a very nasty leg cellulitis, sustained from stepping on a carrier bag full of broken glass. He was VERY talkative afterwards when signing books and took quite the shine to Mrs Badger. |
I would imagine he spoke of little apart from the 'Nixon is a crook' incident. | |
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Clive James RIP on 18:25 - Nov 27 with 2210 views | baxterbasics | I used to enjoy his end-of-year review shows. | |
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Clive James RIP on 18:25 - Nov 27 with 2209 views | factual_blue |
Clive James RIP on 16:16 - Nov 27 by hoppy | Better keep an eye on Factual being online or not... |
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Clive James RIP on 18:43 - Nov 27 with 2189 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Clive James RIP on 17:08 - Nov 27 by Darth_Koont | I think it should be on the syllabus it's that good. Not sure if you're the same but it's one of those books that you can read 4 or 5 times and enjoy it more each time. |
I dusted it down from the bookcase for another re-read when a poster was waxing lyrical about it on a book thread here last year. Took it to read on holiday, had a good old chuckle on the beach. | |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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