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• Keith Sansum1

  • Location: london
  • Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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  21 July 2013     07:00238151
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  R.I.P. Mel Smith fantastic comedian died just 60
  R.I.P. Mel
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• Andy B

  • Location: dover
  • Registered: 10 Nov 2012
  • Posts: 1,818
  21 July 2013     08:13238153
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  Thats tragic,used to love watching him in Not the nine o clock news back in the early eighties.He was a brilliant comedian.
• Guest 937

  • Registered: 12 May 2013
  • Posts: 145
  21 July 2013     08:23238156
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  My favourite skit was Mel and Rhys Griff Jones attending the funeral of a mate whom wanted to be scattered. Literally chucked arms and legs as they stood around the grave. Macabre but so funny.
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
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  21 July 2013     09:04238168
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  The Gorilla sketch from Not the nine o clock news was a classic.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  21 July 2013     09:20238173
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  great comedy actor, died in his sleep which must be the best way to go.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,888
  21 July 2013     09:20238174
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  Apparently he had not been well for a while, such a shame. RIP.
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10192523/Comic-Mel-Smith-dies-aged-60.html
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• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
  • Posts: 6,950
  21 July 2013     10:04238180
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  Mel Smith remembered: 'A gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit'
  Griff Rhys Jones talks about his shock at the news of his former comedy partner's death from a heart attack at home
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/jul/20/mel-smith-death-griff-rhys-jones
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• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 23 Sep 2008
  • Posts: 23,940
  21 July 2013     10:13238182
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  I liked the advert that he and griff done,a carlberg black label one.really took the Michal out the dambuster thing.
  
  the image that sticks out,the 2 as pilot and co pilot in a Lancaster bomber dropping a bouncing bomb and the german guard catching them and throwing over the top of the dam.rip mel.
• Guest 904

  • Registered: 21 Mar 2013
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  22 July 2013     09:02238258
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   Brian Dixon wrote:

  I liked the advert that he and griff done,a carlberg black label one.really took the Michal out the dambuster thing.
  
  the image that sticks out,the 2 as pilot and co pilot in a Lancaster bomber dropping a bouncing bomb and the german guard catching them and throwing over the top of the dam.rip mel.

  
  
  Don't go registering for "Who wants to be a Millionaire" anytime soon Brian - you've got the wrong comedians, the Carling advert was Steve Frost with Mark Arden.
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• Terry Nunn

  • Location: London Road, Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 4,316
  22 July 2013     11:30238275
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  My favourite sketch was the one with the railway buffet car. Mel comes out and distributes sou'westers before serving the soup.
  
  Sadly not on DVD.
  
  
  Terry
  Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  22 July 2013     12:08238281
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  No luck with that Terry, but there is all this...
  
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