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Wonderful grasp of dry and deadpan humour. Is Mr. Death on commission or something?All the good ones going while scum and animals languishing fettered and alive at the taxpayers' expense.
Blankety Blank was one of the most basic, cheapest programmes that the BBC probably ever made, but Wogan with his driest of wit made it a programme where the tears would run down your face, your stomach would cramp up and you laughed for the whole 30 minutes. A real legend and by all accounts a real decent bloke.
The thing that stands out to me is that he never had a bad word said against anyone RIP
And Bowles is onside, Swinburne has come rushing out of his goal , what can Bowles do here , onto the left foot no, on to the right foot
That’s there that’s two, and that’s Bowles
Brian Moore
I used to hate seeing him on his nightly interview show on the telly,but his radio programmes were brilliant and very funny.The Janet and John stories were so hilarious. RIP Terry.
Extraordinarily gifted presenter. Genuinely one of the greats in the industry.
I disagreed strongly at the time with his acceptance of a knighthood from Britain , which he accepted on the grounds that he was both British and Irish. He claimed this as he was born in 1938 when Ireland was still part of Britain. Most Irish, including myself, considered this nonsense as Ireland had declared its independence many times down the centuries and in the century he was born had done so in 1916, 1922 and again in 1937. He lost a lot of respect in Ireland for this stance as it was seen as disloyal and commercially expedient. To many, I'm afraid, he was simply a turncoat.
Recently I found myself listening again to him on Desert Island Discs and marveling how quickly we've all moved on from such extreme views. There's no doubt that his relationship with his home city and country was severely strained for a long, long time. I hope he found peace before he passed.
RIP. Ar dheis Dé.
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"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
I don't see why he needed to have let the politics of ancient history and that of a bygone era that not one living person in the world can be blamed for, get in the way of the honour he was bestowed, but that's just me.
Sir Terry was a good man and he will be genuinely sorely missed by many generations of people.
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