Another splendid human gone. RIP Clive
I used to enjoy his weekend shows especially those that included the bonkers Japanese game show that seemed to be pure torture - can't remember what it was called, but the contestants were complete nuts.
I liked his laid back presentational style.
RIP Clive
Edit: Endurance
Last edited by Wallasey Runner; 27th November 2019 at 17:44.
What is going on today? That's Clive James, Gary Rhodes and Jonathan Miller? Good eggs, all of them!
Clive was absolutely brilliant and a class act.
A real, genuine, one-off.
He really will be missed.
So clever my foot fell off.
RIP Clive
I will remember Maria Pracatan with fondness
Clive James on Marilyn Monroe......"She was as good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short".
Razor sharp, the worlds a poorer place.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Absolutely! In our dumbed down times he was great at making everyone think with wit and class. RIP Clive..Originally Posted by TheFlyingBanana
Oh that really saddens me.
One of the funniest wits ever, both on screen and on the page. RIP.
Seemed like a really nice bloke.RIP
He sure was and sadly I think he was much better known and loved in the UK than Oz. I only really become a fan about 20yrs ago when he was on Oz TV, I think it was a UK show but can't recall its name. He was a class act, an intelligent and interesting man. RIP Clive.
Very sad news , RIP .
As sharp, witty and funny (if not funnier) with the written word as he was with the spoken one.
A sad day.
RIP Clive also.
Well put. His writing is first class. I can quite see how he socialised with Hitchens.
Him here with Pete Atkin, who put some of his words to music, do explore further .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB7YvX1ou5Y
Genuinely upset to hear this today. He has been ill for a long time (10 years since his first terminal diagnosis), so I've been waiting for the news to happen, but it's still a sad thing.
Dave E
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day
Yes sad day today. RIP Clive.
As a younger man, in the 1980s, I underestimated Clive James - he was the man who presented Endurance, he was a chat show host.
About 10 years ago, I picked up Cultural Amnesia, his "notes in the margin of my time" And fell for it, hook, line... It's my now my desert island book.
Since then I've eaten up his writing - his poetry, his literary criticism. I'm sad that he's gone. He wrote Japanese Maple, about his own death, five years ago.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-...-poem/11745902
A cherished man and the world will be slightly dimmed in his absence- RIP
… and ironically a brilliantly self-effacing Q&A with him in this week's New Statesman.
Noticed his contemporary Johnathan Miller died yesterday as well
Very moving, thanks for posting.
RIP Clive James.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Thanks for the link.
I was hugely disheartened to hear of the passing of Clive James. My parents, who I lost 2 years ago, brought me up on Clive's hilarious CJOTV show and his passing brings happy yet melancholy memories.
I will be searching out his writings, RIP Clive, you brought a huge amount of humour, wit and sharp intelligence to my early years.
Such a gifted and intelligent man, full of life and zest to the end.
One of his many classics:
Arnold Schwarzenegger was “a brown condom full of walnuts”
On Barbara Cartland: “Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.”
On Las Vegas: "The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas."
On the NHS: "One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it."
On Murray Walker: “Even in moments of tranquillity, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire”
“Stop worrying… nobody gets out of this world alive”
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