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By Telegraph Obituaries 7 March 2021 • 1:21pm
Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase.
In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, Hendra plays the band’s clueless manager Ian Faith who carries a cricket bat which he uses to immobilise troublesome bystanders and (in one of the film’s most memorable scenes) to trash a television set. (“In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.”)
Hendra (2004): ‘extraordinary; a truly great satirist’
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Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase.
In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, Hendra plays the band’s clueless manager Ian Faith who carries a cricket bat which he uses to immobilise troublesome bystanders and (in one of the film’s most memorable scenes) to trash a television set. (“In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.”)
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Emergency Response After Car Ends Up In Ryde Ditch
By Charlotte Baker
Police said they were called to the incident on Quarr Hill at around 11am.
No injuries were reported.
Owing to a vehicle leaving the road at Quarr Abbey, routes 4 and 9 will suffer delays when recovery vehicles arrive to clear the scene WN Southern Vectis (@SouthernVectis) March 6, 2021
Marco Longhi (Dudley North) asked the Government to review allocations by the Culture Recovery Fund
Cultural projects run by people who hate our history and seek to rewrite it should be barred from receiving taxpayers support, a Tory MP said today.
Marco Longhi, MP for Dudley North, asked the Government to review allocations by the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, which will give money to heritage groups, museums and other venues to help them recover from coronavirus.
Mr Longhi told MailOnline he was concerned about recent attempts to re-evaluate history - such as the National Maritime Museum s bid to challenge Lord Horatio Nelson s hero status and the National Trust s colonial countryside project.