![]() Being a celebrity brings with it extra challenges. People often post quite twee little poems and cliches, but it's absolutely their choice and their expression of their own grief. Social media is probably the equivalent for most people nowadays. ![]() Traditionally, newspaper announcements were the way that we ordinary folk would pay public tribute to our loved ones. Celebrities are people, just like the rest of us - imagine if you'd just lost one of your very close friends and the TV cameras wanted to record your reaction and your thoughts as you paid tribute to your much-missed dear friend. He wasn't playing it for self-aggrandisement or virtue signalling in the least. I gathered that Sean and Bill Bailey were very close indeed and I think Bill's grief came across as honest and genuine. To be fair, I don't think there was anything necessarily wrong with JM mentioning having been in touch per se - it was just ultra-cringe to actually screen-shot his own text, especially as it was quite a generic one in the first place. Just a 'sad tragic news, he will be missed' will suffice. We don't need to know you texted him JM, or that you went on holidays together Bill Bailey. Mark also said on twitter that when writing the Vince character for FSH they always thought of him as a young Prince Philip and would ask what would young Prince Philip do? Lamarr speaking about Sean with Carolyn Quinn (link on youtube below.). ''What would you like your obituary to say? (0.51 Cyril The Screw and 9.24 The tiger who went for a pint) Not sure if others have posted but for those who haven't seen them here are three Sean clips that many have spoken of this week. I loved Fifteen Storeys High and agree it should have been promoted more and given more of an audience by the Beeb (although I understood it to be considered a cult classic now). That was worth a listen to as Mark was highly complimentary about his friend and co-writer but also very honest that he hadn't mellowed as such as he got older - he was a born curmudgeon and a born contrarian. (From 3.25 Jeremy Vine Listen Again Thursday. The irony is of course that all the panel shows are to a large extent scripted anyway but certainly, there were some comedians - Rhys Thomas in particular - who was put off panel shows for life and Vanessa Feltz mentioned how hard being a panelist can be in her conversation with Mark on Radio 2. Welcome to the game, and don't you dare come on here and try to fucking take over.'' This links to Mark Lamarr's insight that Lock felt himself and other older comedians were red squirrels being subsumed by grey squirrels, when it came to the art and craft of comedy. I'm the team captain, and if I feel that somebody's not playing the game properly, maybe lacking some grace and proper manners, then I give them a really nasty tackle in the first five minutes. ![]() Sean allegedly said panel shows ''can be quite an aggressive, competitive scenario, and some weeks on 8 out of 10 Cats I have to be Graeme Souness. ![]() That's why I quite liked Harry Hill's because he very lightly alluded to the fact that SL was not always easy. The other thing of course is that we have the tendency to make those who passed into saints. Grief is grief and people react differently. Give a tribute and it's looked at and judged by randos like us Say nothing because social media commentary is uncouth or tawdry and people will wonder where your tribute is. Not going to decry people for it, with social media, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. Meh, it might be virtue-signalling, it might be a reverse virtue-signalling (we were friends, honest, look! I'm not jumping on the grieving bandwagon, I knew him) or it might be guilt - they texted but had not seen them in person. ![]()
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