I hope ITV make a tribute programme to him. It'll be nice to look back on the great work he did, and the man deserves it after coping with ITV for such a long time .
I'm starting to get a bit annoyed by the BBC's coverage. I understand there is only so much you can say about the man but seeing them report on a Thriller-related Youtube video with "Jeremy Beadle has died" underneath is a bit insulting IMO.
This is my last moan because whilst he isn't a member of the Royal Family, I respect the man. Hence the BBC are really annoying me with their coverage compared to Sky News...
You've either just been studying the Holocaust during your year-nine school project, or you're some sort of racist skinhead that likes to make strange paralells with fascist Germany. Please stop. Thank you.
Good to see your sense of humour hasn't deserted you in your sorrow.
In my opinion his best broadcasting work was on LBC Radio in the 1980s. A superbly entertaining Saturday and Sunday night show.
Where, if you had the misfortune to be his technical operator you would have been showered with abuse every time you reminded him that it was now the time that the management required you to insert a commercial break.
Jeremy Beadle was a 'prankster' but also an entertainer and also did work and raise monies for charities.
He also presented the factual series "Eureka" for BBC2 in the early 1980s, plus a daily "on this day in history" slot on TV-am around the same time. So there was more to him than just being a practical joker.
Jeremy Beadle will forever be known as "the bloke off 'Beadle's About'".
Such is testament to a successful format in "Beadle's About" (and what was effectively its predecessor, "Game For A Laugh") that Noel Edmonds did exactly the same thing on his House Party.
Until the Internet came about to the masses, not a lot of people would have known that Mr Beadle did charity work to the extent that he has done. I have great respect for celebrities and other well-known people who give up their own time (and in some cases money) for good causes. I am pleased that he managed to raise in excess of £13m for the Foundation for Children with Leukaemia.
Whether you liked Mr Beadle or not, whether you liked his shows or not, you cannot argue that he was popular - everybody recognised him when he took his hat off on "Beadle's About" after the end of a prank. There will never be another Jeremy Beadle, just like there will never be another Eric Morecambe.
What is it about both the BBC and ITN being unable to get broadcast quality clips of Beadles About and Game For A Laugh? Everything I've seen tonight (barring him on that oddball rotating set on YBF!) looked like it came off YouTube.
There will never be another Jeremy Beadle, just like there will never be another Eric Morecambe.
With respect, they are hardly comparable.
So what's it to be, folks? Are threads like these only for members to show praise?
I was no fan of Beadle, but I might have stopped short of dancing a jig as others feel like doing.
However, I can't say I approve of the arbitrary editing of members posts and an enforced reverence to the recently passed. I think a certain amount of freedom should be enjoyed by those who post here regularly. Their opinions are apparently valid on other subject matters, so why the squeamishness from the admin now?
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