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Bruce Forsyth has died

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    #32
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    callaway92 wrote: »
    A Little Pony wrote: »
    Maybe keep the praise back just in case as you never know.. but RIP anyway.

    Something you know that we don't?
    Nope. But just remember when everyone praised that other guy. But Bruce sounds like a lovely guy.


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    #33
    Sparks43
    Registered Users Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    Every time a celebrity dies Bruce Forsyth takes a Viagra and has a wa............


    Oh wait......

    RIP Bruce. Good game good game


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    #34
    Venom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    One of the all time greats.


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    #35
    Yamanoto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,489 ✭✭✭Yamanoto


    A giant of variety entertainment TV & an almost Vaudevillian type of old-school song and dance man. He had a reputation for being a spiky enough character though & wasn't universally loved within the industry.

    RIP


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    #36
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,324 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #37
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    One of the quickest people I have ever seen on a TV. He moved so slick, stylish and quick. Crack jokes as he moved.

    RIP.


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    #38
    Your Face
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

    Edgy


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    #39
    Winterlong
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    Someone asked him recently what he had been up to this last while.
    "I've been very, very busy... being ill" he replied

    Sad to see him go, he was born for TV.


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    #40
    DellyBelly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,901 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    I am genuinely shocked with this news. I was a great fan. What's a hotspot not :)


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    #41
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    Very sad. Enjoyed Bruce on Strictly.


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    #42
    [Deleted User]
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    Hermy wrote: »
    Another champion of mediocrity shuffles off this mortal coil.

    You're so cool, Edgelord.


    My gran loved him, he was the last great 'Mr Saturday Night'.


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    #43
    [Deleted User]
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    vicwatson wrote: »
    My Favourite was "ok Dollies, do your dealing" !!!

    • Nice to see you, to see you ... nice - The Generation Game 1971
    • Didn't he/she/they do well? - The Generation Game 1971
    • Good game, good game! - The Generation Game 1980s
    • I'm in charge! - The Generation Game 1980s
    • You're such a lovely audience, so much better than last week's - The Generation Game 1980s
    • What do points make? - Various TV 1980s
    • It's a bit Mother Goose, isn't it? - The Generation Game 1980s
    • Oh, wasn't that a shame! - The Price is Right 1980s
    • Print it, print it - The Generation Game 1980s
    • Cuddly toy, cuddly toy! - The Generation Game 1980s
    • You get nothing for a pair! (not in this game) - The Generation Game 1980s
    • Didn't he do well? - The Generation Game 1980s
    • Nice to see you, to see you - The Generation Game 1980s
    • All right, my loves? - The Generation Game 1980s
    • Give us a twirl! - The Generation Game 1980s
    • A chance to go for the car - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • OK dollies do your dealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • Do you wanna bet on it? - You Bet 1990s
    • We asked a hundred people - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • Higher! Lower! Bruce Forsyth - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • I'm the leader of the pack which makes me such a lucky jack - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • And here they are, they're so appealing - Play Your Cards Right 1990s
    • Nice to twirl you... Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • I've made up my mind - you're the best - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • And from everyone here - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • And from everyone here – and I do mean everyone - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • You're my favourites - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • Keeeeeep dancin'! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • Not like that! - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • Let's meet the stars of our show - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s
    • It's the moment of truth - Strictly Come Dancing 2000s

    You missed one, so no Brucie Bonus for you then :D


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    #44
    Stonedpilot
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Stonedpilot


    Hardly a surprise, he's been going since God was a child.


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    #45
    cml387
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    TallGlass wrote: »
    One of the quickest people I have ever seen on a TV. He moved so slick, stylish and quick. Crack jokes as he moved.

    RIP.

    A television natural, but he had the best team working with him.

    The BBC crew who worked in light entertainment were the best in the business, and Bruce worked them hard.

    There was a thing he used to do, when talking to the contestants on The Generation Game, where he'd make a sidelong glance at a point where he knew the camera was waiting for that exact shot.

    Truly a legend.

    And I'm old enough to remember him presenting Sunday Night At The London Palladium.

    RIP Brucie.


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    #46
    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    I am genuinely shocked with this news. I was a great fan. What's a hotspot not :)

    Was that not Michael Barrymore ?


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    #47
    King of Kings
    Registered Users Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭King of Kings


    back in the 1980s shell petrol had a promotion called "Bruces Lucky Deal"
    which was a scratch card - you scratched 3 or 4 panels and if they matched you won something.

    I was about 8 and my granny let me scratch one.
    we won a tenner , which she took...

    but i've loved gambling since that day


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    #48
    ...And Justice
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    He must have had a serious hefty langer on him. The women he pulled were absolute crackers.


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    #49
    mikeybrennan
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    Supposedly a horrible man

    Rip Anyway


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    #50
    Erik Shin
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    Probably the greatest entertainer of our generation....he will be missed


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    #51
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,389 ✭✭✭cml387


    mikeybrennan wrote: »
    Supposedly a horrible man

    Rip Anyway

    After he left the Generation Game Larry Grayson took over.

    It was widely known the contestants were well treated with Larry and he liked to talk to them before and after the show whereas Brucie tended to ignore them at best.

    But the programme never had the edge that Bruce brought to it and it did not long survive his departure.


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    #52
    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    ...And Justice wrote: »
    He must have had a serious hefty langer on him. The women he pulled were absolute crackers.

    Yes I wonder what it was about millionaire Bruce Foresyth that attracted them.


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    #53
    Odyssey 2005
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    ...And Justice wrote: »
    He must have had a serious hefty langer on him. The women he pulled were absolute crackers.

    He gave them a Brucie Bonus 🀀


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    #54
    LordSutch
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    Hermy wrote: »
    I suppose if Forsyth is your idea of greatness then you could be forgiven for thinking that, but I'm not really.

    What's your beef with our Brucie?


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    #55
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,324 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    LordSutch wrote: »
    What's your beef with our Brucie?

    I just don't get the adulation for someone from the world of light entertainment.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #56
    [Deleted User]
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    Like a lot of things like this, it's not really about greatness. In a world of uncertainty and conflict, Forysth was a familiar and never changing figure. People like that.

    The world might be looking at Guam nervously and worrying about walking in cities in case of attack, or hearing about ISIS planning attacks or listening to Trump avoiding condemning Nazis, but in among all that is Bruce telling the familiar jokes in the familiar way and people feel the world isn't such an uncertain or scary place after all. A constant and predictable figure in peoples lives, he was easy to watch and easy to understand and there was no sleaze or scandal attached to him. He was liked, the viewing figures tell us that.


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    #57
    LordSutch
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    It might also be a generational thing? I (like many) grew up with Brucie & his brand of light entertainment from the 1970s right up until just four years ago. He was always there giving us a laugh on a Saturday night in one way or another :)


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    #58
    [Deleted User]
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    It might also be a generational thing? I like many others, I (like many) grew up with Brucie & his brand of light entertainment from the 1970s right up until just four years ago. He was always there giving us a laugh on a Saturday night in one way or another :)

    My gran was a big fan and only a few years younger so you're probably right, I think it was just his constant presence. He makes me think of nights on the sofa as a little child being spoilt by my grandparents, watching quiz shows. I think British people generally will have fonder memories of him.


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    #59
    Hermy
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    I also grew up with Saturday night family entertainment - Game for a Laugh, Price is Right, Bullseye etc - but after a time it all became so boring to me and - before there was the internet, before there was netflix - the lack of an alternative drove me round the bend.

    On the one hand I do understand the appeal of someone like Forsyth but on the other I'm baffled by it.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #60
    [Deleted User]
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    Hermy wrote: »
    I also grew up with Saturday night family entertainment - Game for a Laugh, Price is Right, Bullseye etc - but after a time it all became so boring to me and - before there was the internet, before there was netflix - the lack of an alternative drove me round the bend.

    On the one hand I do understand the appeal of someone like Forsyth but on the other I'm baffled by it.

    I suppose it depends on how old you were. If you were under 12 and associate him with home and family and good times then your memories will be warmer and fonder than if you're a teenager, forced into watching dull quiz shows of your parents choice!

    My gran is the same-ish age, so I suppose she just feels he was always in the background of her life.


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    #61
    Yamanoto
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    Brucie would have come as welcome light relief in my house, after Mum & my sisters commandeered the TV & forced the men to endure Howards Way, Hotel or the bloody Thorn Birds.


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