RIP Norman Wisdom.
Mister Grimsdial!!
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 22:30, 28 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Pitkin!

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 22:37, Reply)

Oh noes!

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:05, Reply)

oh yeses

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:12, Reply)

I hope he didn't take an unfortunate fall before he died
The comedy value might have stopped his carers from helping him.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:13, Reply)

he had a series of strokes over the past 6 months
And didn't recognise himself in films anymore.
You insensitive bastard
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:19, Reply)

Its the best way to go
Not knowing what the fuck is going on. Hopefully I will have 6 months of dementia & morphine before shuffling off this mortal coil. Or maybe just the morphine.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:21, Reply)

on qotw jimbob is getting slated over it
And i am very glad to see his website is still up
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:23, Reply)

Apologies TGB for my flippant comment above.
I had no idea as to his state of health prior to his death.

I won't delete or edit my comment as it'll make you calling me insensitive weird if I change it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:36, Reply)

I thought it was funny.
Unless someone on a website is in some way related/knew the person who died I fail to see what's wrong with joking about that sort of thing. Unless a comment is way out of line. What I don't understand is on some boards I go on when someone dies and they're all posting condolences. What's that all about?
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:50, Reply)

"He was a great comedian
and a tender and compassionate lover."
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:13, Reply)

He was a clumsy dwarf

( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Tue 5 Oct 2010, 6:50, Reply)

if you delete your comment it will take all the replies wuth it!
I was joshin as well.
I like seeing how often I can get people to apologise to me. It's quite an evil game really....
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:59, Reply)

I'm not that sorry either.
1-1
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:02, Reply)

whatevs

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:06, Reply)

I'm trying to save face.
Throw me a bone!

:-)
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:12, Reply)

That's how I hope to go
Cheers
(Cosa Nostril, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 4:40, Reply)

This saddens me
I love a man who can make me laugh and in his heyday I deffo would have, given half the chance.
Mr Grimsdale xx
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:58, Reply)

I've had this on my MP3 player for years :(
So long, Norman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-zeRxITHxY
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:07, Reply)

The /ot anthem

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:14, Reply)

Spot on there Lighty

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:14, Reply)

This means nothing to me
unless he had nice tits
( broadsword, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 0:59, Reply)

no, he didn't have nice tits
as far as I know. But still, RIP Norman
(Cosa Nostril, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 6:52, Reply)

Ooooooooh Viennaaaaaaa

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)

What is all this moping about.
I challenge anyone here to sit through a Norman Wisdom film, of their choice, and say they enjoyed it at the end.

I'd rather have a soldering iron pushed through my eyeballs. His humour has not kept well, like many comedians. Fine when we were kids, but now? Come on people.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 7:29, Reply)

He was terminally unfunny
and he copied his act from Lee Evans.

The only thing he ever did of note was a (shit) mid-60s film called 'What's Good for the Goose' (or similar) which features one of my favourite all time bands, The Pretty Things.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 9:04, Reply)

I liked his tender moments

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 9:32, Reply)

OK, so it's quite hard to watch any of his films right through
but the man himself was both a comedy natural and a true gent.

Not much comedy outlives its era, but Norman's was right for its time and captures much of what was both good and bad about Britain in the 1960s.

My daughter got me a box set of his films for my christmas last year. Might watch one tonight.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)

You have to wear Clockwork Orange type eye openers, or it doesn't count.
Mr Grimsdale.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 14:49, Reply)