By the beginning of the Seventies, Barry Cryer had established himself as one of many UK’s main comedy writers.
The entertainer, who has died aged 86, was one of many primary writers on the favored comedy present The Two Ronnies and his materials was utilized by a number of the largest acts of the time, together with Kenny Everett, Dave Allen and Les Dawson.
Listed below are a few of his greatest one-liners from all through the years.
– “Fast – the noise made by a dyslexic duck.”
– “I’m 59 and other people name me middle-aged. What number of 118-year-old males are you aware?”
– “I met my spouse and Ronnie Corbett on the identical day. I tossed a coin… and married her.”
– “A spouse is within the lavatory making an attempt on a brand new costume. She comes out and says to her husband: ‘Does my bum look massive on this?’ He says: ‘Oh be truthful, love, it’s fairly a small lavatory.’
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– “Picasso was burgled and did a drawing of the robbers. Police arrested a horse and two sardines.”
– “Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. No person laughs and the frog dies.
– Parrots
Cryer was well-known for his jokes about parrots, and The Oldie journal, the place he was a contributor, revealed what it claimed was his “final” one in 2020.
It describes a lady who purchases a parrot for under £5.
“Properly, I have to confess, it was introduced up in a brothel,” says the shopkeeper. “And, to place it politely, it has fairly an in depth vocabulary.”
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“By no means thoughts,” says the lady. “At that worth, I’ll take it.”
So she takes the parrot dwelling, places its cage in the lounge and takes the duvet off.
“New place – very good,” says the parrot.
Then the lady’s two daughters stroll in.
“New place, new ladies – very good,” says the parrot.
Then the lady’s husband walks in, and the parrot says, “Oh hi there, Keith!”
In 2016, Cryer and his son Bob revealed a set of parrot jokes titled Hercule Parrot’s Cagebook.
– Cockerels
One in every of Cryer’s first jokes instructed on-stage was a few man driving down a rustic lane who runs over a cockerel.
He goes to the farmhouse and knocks on the door.
A girl opens it and he says: “I seem to have killed your cockerel. I’d like to switch him.’
She replies: “Please your self, the hens are around the again.”’
– Moths
One other joke Cryer instructed all through his profession instructed the story of an untrue spouse who hides her lover within the bed room when her husband returns early from a enterprise journey.
When the person is found bare, he claims to have been despatched by the council to cope with a moth drawback, suggesting they’ve eaten his garments.
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