http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7368356.stm
Oh so sad.
The phrase 'a national treasure' is overused, but Radio 4 is the most common accompaniment to my life and I can't think of any voice I welcomed more than his. 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' was/is quintessential Radio 4, and has been a fixture on my radio for as long as I can remember, right back to sitting listening with my family over dinner as a child. To be in the audience was one of my lifelong ambitions. As any Radio 4 aficionado will tell you, no comedy show was ever more lustily cheered, or more fondly remembered - and at the centre of it all, the unchanging institution, was Humph.
It was a long time before I discovered that Humph was more celebrated as a legendary jazz trumpeter than as a merely brilliant comedy presenter, but when I did I was blown away. What a guy.
He will be missed.
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I agree with all your comments as a Radio 4 listener-I remember Willy Rushton dying too.
I met him once,along with Wally Fawkes(Jazz trumpet and cartoonist) at an event at The Cartoon Art Trust.A nice guy.
Yes, very sad news indeed.
Hitting super-C's with Gabriel's mob.
Yup.We have lost a great entertainer and, I fear, the best radio show ever.
They're talking about Rob Brydon taking over as host. I like RB, but he's no Humph.
He would be a good choice-although I like him as a panellist-he has a good singing voice.
The format could go on-look at "Have I got news for you"
Although it has to be said Deayton did not have the class of Humph.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7374912.stm
"she was pleased to see his tender won, but was startled when it suddenly grew to twice its size".
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