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Time to get out the porridge and open all hours DVDs....
ronny barker
My thoughts go to the family, friends and admirers of Ronny Barker. He seems to have been entertaining me since I was little - young!
He seemed to have the ability to tread easily between music hall innuendo and sublime pathos- most notably in Porridge - and back, stopping off at anything in between. The thrifty, cunning but often helplessly prurient shopkeeper, the old lag, he was perhaps one of the earliest exponents of the Stoppardian conceit of smoothly and eloquently making a bold statement, often with moralistic fervour, and then following it with an equally forthright denial or reversal of the previous statement. Later episodes of Friends and Will and Grace seem to survive almost solely on this device.
A true gentleman, scholar, wit, actor, writer and producer whose like we shall see little of again. I think I'll watch the Porridge episode where Mr. Barraclough quells a riot. It's goodnight from me.... Cheers Ronny x x x
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