Tom Sharpe Is Dead

[mikey4444]

Just seen this on the BBC news website :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507

One of the funniest writers that I have read for a long time...right up there with Wodehouse.

What a loss to us all.

[LazyGun]

Agreed. Big loss and a wonderfully funny author. A savage wit. Provided me with hours of laughter.

[Baldric]

RIP Tom,
and thanks for the laughs.

[mccfluff]

i just say that, vintage stuff is one of my faves

[ladybirder]

RIP Tom. Loved his books. First one I ever read was the Wilt Alternative and I thought it was the funniest thing I ever read. Got all his books sitting on the shelf now.

[mikey4444]

Many years ago I was reading Riotous Assembly on a long train journey and I was laughing so much, that I thought I might be in danger of being ejected at the next station. Porterhouse Blue was even funnier when it was done on the TV with David Jason and Ian Richardson...must try to get that on DVD sometime.

[rockyracoon]

Mikey, many years ago I was on the tube reading Riotous Assembly, I tried so hard not to laugh out loud, the more I tried the more I laughed, in the end tears were streaming down my face, other passengers must have thought I was a nutter, I think it was the scene with the novocaine. God I'm starting to snigger.

RIP Tom, you are indeed a legend.

[Mamyalynne]

Brilliant author. RIP

[rockyracoon]

Ladybird, have you read the other Wilts from the beginning, the first one is the best I think, you're in for a treat ;)

[ladybirder]

Yes I have rocky thanks. Read 'em all. In The Wilt Alternative I remember Not laughing until I got a few pages in and then I couldn't stop. From memory I think it started where he was desperate for a pee on the way home from the pub and ripped his willy on a thorn in his neighbour's rose bush ... and then he's at home washing the blood from it under the tap and his wife catches him and thinks he's been with another woman. Hilarious.

[emmie]

love Tom Sharpe, one of the funniest writers on the planet. very sad.

[emmie]

read Porterhouse Blue, then watched the TV series with David Jason, a total riot. Especially the bit where John Sessions blows up the condoms and sticks them up the chimney, brilliant.