Dave Allen - One of the last remaining comedy giants - and largely forgotten in the recent (hundreds of) polls to find the best comic.
I called a phone in on LBC just 2 weeks ago, and named him as MY favourite living comedian, only for the presenter and guests to say, "Oh yeah! Of course!".
Shame it's taken his untimely death for people to be reminded of the great man.
A master of his craft, who many of today's "funsters" should sit down and examine.
He was one of few comedians who were never subject to overexposure on the box, and for that reason, he was always hilariously funny.
Let's indeed hope we get some long overdue replays of some of his classic shows. Some of the so-called "comics" on Comic Relief tonight could do well to take a leaf out of Allen's book.
Was so, so sad to hear this today. His irreverential comedy was fantastic, real life observation at it's best. All the good ones seem to be leaving us. Such a shame that he hadn't been around on tv for a while.