And your Bird has flown

[Guy Profumo]

Actor, writer, performer, satirist has died at the age of 86


RIP
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64108691

[Satchmo Distel]

He'd been performing since the 50s so had a long career.

[Etienne]

I've discovered today that John Bird is the one I thought John Fortune was (and vice versa obviously)

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Was it Avian Flu?

[Amor de Cosmos]

Is he the last of the original That Was The Week That Was team to go?

[elguapo4]

Millicent Martin is still going at 88 years old.

[caja-dglh]

Thought this was going to be Pauline Quirke.

[tee rex]

Or Nerys Hughes.

[Nefertiti2]

Guardian obituary

[Amor de Cosmos]

Millicent Martin is still going at 88 years old.

Is she now. I had a bit of a pash for her when I was 15.

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

RIP. Bloody brilliant dialogues with John F. His comedy stood for all the values I believe in. I see he had a troubled life with depression and alcohol issues at one stage, thank god he came through that to produce his best work with John F on the B B and F programme.

[diggedy derek]

The dialogues with Fortune were remarkable. I didn’t know they were improvised and that puts them on a very high level indeed

[Sits]

RIP a good one.

It was my honour once to find myself standing next to him in M&S on Oxford Street as we perused underpants.

[kokamoa]

It has been funny to see the sheer number of tweets which acknowledge his status as one of the great comic satirists of the last 60 years, yet which all sign off by saying....

"However, he'll always be Marmalade Atkins's dad to me."