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Comedy Legend Spike Milligan dies, aged 83. This man was of great influence to Monty Python and pushed the boundaries of comedy. Comedian Stephen Fry paid fulsome tribute to his talent: “Spike was entirely his own mad Irish self. He came out of nowhere. If there is a definition of genius it is that whatever province you are in, you leave it different. He left comedy different and it was never the same after him.”
And this only a couple of days after Chuck Jones, Mister Loony Tunes Himself, bit the big one. Sad days for comedy…

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