Faaaaaark! Gray-Gray's dead

The world has got a lot less funny in 2005, with the deaths of Dave Allen, John Paul Junior and Graham Kennedy (yesterday). After his In Melbourne Tonight reign over Australian TV, he apparently vowed never to be funny again, but broke his vow just once, big time, by getting sacked from TV for loudly imitating a crow (see headline above) on prime time.

Gray-Gray's best work was on IMT in the early days of TV, mainly because of the commercials he did live -- he persistently ridiculed the product and the sponsor. Of course, it didn't bring down the temples of capitalism, but it did deliver a few laughs to a 1960s society being conditioned to believe that consumerism was the way forward.

Gray-Gray, or Gra-Gra as Melbourne newspapers inexplicably called him, has gone to that special place in the sky for old people of indeterminate sexuality who never had a relationship with another human being. Unlike Dave Allen (who toured with the Beatles in 1961 before they were famous -- just thought I'd chuck that in). As for John Paul Jr, I have no opinion on the matter, but he didn't tour with the Fab Four as far as I know.