Obviously you will have heard of the death of Ronnie Barker. It was announced yesterday. Cue the BBC endlessly repeating the same bite-size clips of him being funny, while voices droned on about his acting talent and writing skills, only pausing momentarily at the first "fork 'andles" punchline, never the second and no, no possibility of the whole glorious eight minute variation-on-a-theme joke. Instead they dug up Christopher Biggins to tell us what a joy he was to work with, and so generous.
Perhaps I should be working in television. It just seems obvious to me: this was a great actor, so don't just tell us how good he was - show us. Take a few minutes out and show a whole sketch. And shut up.
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