Celebrity Casualties

[Jim05]

Pop Quiz … how many episodes of Fawlty Towers were there?

Bonus points … how many episode of the Young Ones?

Just the 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers.
One of my all time favourites.
No idea on the Young Ones as I never really took to it and have probably only ever seen 1 or 2 episodes in full

[Brodlach]

Radio John Laws has passed away

Was one of the talkback kings

[dedja]

Know what I mean? Valvoline

[Booney]

Leon Byner, 77.

Bad week to be an old talk back host.

[Booney]

Former Labor Party power broker, senator and Sky News commentator Graham Richardson, 76.

[Brodlach]

WOW

Met him numerous times through a former business, some of the stories.

He use to see us with his “little orange boy”, before spray tanning became fashionable

Edit Leon Byner

[cracka]

Used to love how Leon Byner was always asked why he never went into politics. His answer was always "because the bureaucracy would not allow me to get as much done as I can on radio"

[Booney]

Motor racing legend Allan Moffat.

RIP you Ford legend.

[Jase]

Mani, the bassist for The Stone Roses


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[locky801]

legendary Skyhooks guitarist Bob 'Bongo' Starkie early this morning after a battle with Leukemia.

[locky801]

Australian actress Rachael Carpani, best known for her role on the drama series McLeod’s Daughters, has died “unexpectedly” at the age of 45

No other information has been released

[mal]

R I P
Chris Rea
Excellent performer
Aged 74

This was my fav song of his

https://youtu.be/S_i6XZPCq_0?si=jM2uuF7y8zcAmjXl

[dedja]

Brigitte Bardot, 91.

[mal]

Beautiful Ozzie actress Candy Raymond
1/1/2026
Aged 76

[Pseudo]

Scott Adams, cartoonist, 68:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/ ... /106227212

Early in my career I worked for government and universities. Some of my coworkers were "in" to Dilbert and would plaster the comic strips up on their walls and doors. I never liked it; I found it inane and poorly drawn.

Then I got an industry job at a small company. The CEO of this company was the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. Now I get it. I've loved Dilbert ever since.

For years I used to buy a Dilbert desk calendar every January. Haven't seen any for the last couple of years and have wondered why. Apparently (according to the linked article) he went a bit loopy over the last decade and expressed a few interesting views, for which he had been "cancelled". First I'd heard of it. Oh well.

[am Bays]

Scott Adams, cartoonist, 68:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/ ... /106227212

Early in my career I worked for government and universities. Some of my coworkers were "in" to Dilbert and would plaster the comic strips up on their walls and doors. I never liked it; I found it inane and poorly drawn.

Then I got an industry job at a small company. The CEO of this company was the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. Now I get it. I've loved Dilbert ever since.

For years I used to buy a Dilbert desk calendar every January. Haven't seen any for the last couple of years and have wondered why. Apparently (according to the linked article) he went a bit loopy over the last decade and expressed a few interesting views, for which he had been "cancelled". First I'd heard of it. Oh well.

Working in Government I've used this one plenty of times in presentations on S&Q

[wenchbarwer]

Yeah, he went proper nutjob in the end, racist, Orange clown loving fool

[Gozu]

Apparently (according to the linked article) he went a bit loopy over the last decade and expressed a few interesting views, for which he had been "cancelled". First I'd heard of it. Oh well.

As someone who has only started getting heavily into comics over the past 10 years I was unaware of Scott Adams' views until just recently. The views were quite reprehensible really but any updates on his deteriorating condition would be met with total derision by the comic book community.

I didn't like that for someone who has given the world so much art, not that I read Dilbert, but I also missed all of the "Comicsgate" blow up which saw very right-wing comic artists direct their followers to harass anyone in the industry deemed to be putting out liberal/left-wing skewing work. Some female writers and artists left the industry due to death threats and harassment of their employers. So the vitirol directed to people like Adams probably needs to be viewed in that context.

[Booney]

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.

[DOC]

Scott Adams, cartoonist, 68:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/ ... /106227212

Early in my career I worked for government and universities. Some of my coworkers were "in" to Dilbert and would plaster the comic strips up on their walls and doors. I never liked it; I found it inane and poorly drawn.

Then I got an industry job at a small company. The CEO of this company was the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. Now I get it. I've loved Dilbert ever since.

For years I used to buy a Dilbert desk calendar every January. Haven't seen any for the last couple of years and have wondered why. Apparently (according to the linked article) he went a bit loopy over the last decade and expressed a few interesting views, for which he had been "cancelled". First I'd heard of it. Oh well.

You could tell a lot about the people you work with by what they stick up. Dilbert was more of an acquired taste per se than say Larson.

Bit like people who bought either Mad or Cracked. Rarely bought both.