Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Mel Smith RIP

2»

Comments

  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,824
    Sad and a shock. RIP Mel
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Very sad indeed. Grew up with his comedy, NTNON and Alas Smith and Jones. So many favourites. Taken so young. RIP
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    Omg so sad loved Colin sandwich RIP Mel be sadly missed
  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,904
    rikofold said:

    Very sad indeed. Grew up with his comedy, NTNON and Alas Smith and Jones. So many favourites. Taken so young. RIP

    ditto, RIP.

  • addick1965
    addick1965 Posts: 5,092
    Very Sad ,RIP
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,759
    Yes, very talented and funny man. R.I.P.
  • TelMc32
    TelMc32 Posts: 9,064
    Was out yesterday when news broke of this. Just shock amongst everyone who was with me.

    Grew up looking forward to seeing NTNOCN every week & then Alas Smith & Jones. Brilliant comedian & actor, truly made me laugh out loud so many times.

    Rest in Peace Mel
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,040
    edited July 2013
    I saw Mel on the TV about a year ago, probably some charity programme like red nose day.
    He was reprising the act ewehere he sits across the desk, opposite Griff Rhys Jones.
    I remarked at the time, how seriously unwell he looked.
    No great surprise to me I'm afraid.

    Very sad. RIP Mel.

  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,348
    I used to see him at Catford dogs when he was a youngster. His Dad was a Bookmaker in the cheap ring.

    RIP Mel.

  • Sponsored links:



  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Really shocked when I heard this. Really made me think - he was not much older than me.

    RIP Mel - loved your stuff, sorry there will be no more.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Only just heard this news from this thread.

    Terrible shame.

    Interesting to see how the careers (and lives) of him and GRJ took different paths.

  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 918
    Great comic. RIP big man
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    By coincidence I ran into a contact today who knows Mel Smith - they both worked at the BBC together and she said it was a miracle he lived that long. Apparently back in the day going out on a bender at the BBC was known as getting "Smithed".
  • maybe_baby
    maybe_baby Posts: 2,609
    SaySomething said:

    RIP

    Does anyone remember that sitcom he did back in the late-80s, called Colin's Sandwich?

    Absolutely brilliant.

  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News.
    Tonight on BBC1 at 10-45pm. Story behind the series.
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,915
    Miserableoldgit said:

    Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News.
    Tonight on BBC1 at 10-45pm. Story behind the series.

    Yeap, have it on and bringing back a lot of memories of going to school the nextday and laughing all over again as we re-enatced it all over again.

  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    The Alas Smith & Jones episode shown in the Mel Smith tribute was bloody awful. So Dated . Shame really.

    But funnily enough the Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News was as funny as i remember when i watched it as a kid. Brilliant.
  • rikofold
    rikofold Posts: 4,051
    Bedsaddick said:

    The Alas Smith & Jones episode shown in the Mel Smith tribute was bloody awful. So Dated . Shame really.

    But funnily enough the Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News was as funny as i remember when i watched it as a kid. Brilliant.

    It was a compilation apparently - thought it was still quite funny myself.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    I was looking for this for a while - hilarious:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFVkNQtyqRc

    RIP Mel

Categories

“Marketplace”