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[albitz]

The reason that I remember "Dont laugh at me cause Im a fool" so well has a funny little story behind it.
There is a live in centre for the seriously disabled near here and about 20 years ago Norman was the star guest at the annual fete there.
Later in the evening, after the fete, a friend of my father in law was in the local pub and he spotted Norman in there. The chap concerned was a northerner and a bit of a character, not backward in coming forward. He went over to where Norman was sat and started singing the song. Norman stood up beside him and joined in, and they gave the pub full of astonished onlookers a full rendition of the song. Priceless.

[Mr Skrunts]

How sad, I used to ache with laughter watching his films and himself on stage, hope they show a lot of his stuff on TV.

RIP

[tidla]

his style copied i feel by a certain mr evans.
however norman managed a laugh without such profanity.

[Nickbat]

Sad news, indeed.

[scimmy_man]

his style copied i feel by a certain mr evans.
however norman managed a laugh without such profanity.

yup his act lives on,

[jerry]

his style copied i feel by a certain mr evans.
however norman managed a laugh without such profanity.

Yep, but whilst both seem to have that love them or hate them "marmite effect", dont think Lee Evans  comes even close to Norman Wisdom. Some of his stuff I found just irritating after a while but I have fond memories of watching him as a kid and ,undoubtedly, some of his routines are classics. Still, a good innings as  others have said, and a man who made a lot of people laugh so another sad passing.

[Banjax]

one of the true great physical comedians of the last century - Charlie Chaplins' favourite clown - you can't say more than that 

[robbo2345]

i am really gutted to hear this news i think he was a true british comic  ''LEGEND'' pure genius 

[Sixstring]

Charlie Chaplins comment was "I like Norman Wisdom, he makes my belly laugh"

He did mine, too.

RIP old friend, cos you were everymans friend and funnyman.

[Chris_H]

I always enjoyed him.  It's strange how some people can make you laugh over such simple things.

RIP Norman.

[bob.dent]

Very sad indeed. At 95 he didn't have a bad innings.
Loved his films and slapstick humour and surprisingly, his biggest fans were in Albania!! Apparently, his films were the only films the communist government allowed to be shown from the West and he had something of a superstar status there.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

his style copied i feel by a certain mr evans.
however norman managed a laugh without such profanity.

Never did like that ginger bas*ard much...

[Terbs]

I was taken to see one of his films when I was a kid...I saw it again not so long ago....it looks so dated now, and special effects were nowhere like today....but it is still vivid in my mind when he was in the Navy and was put in a divers suit, which expanded and finally went off like a baloon, the audience in the Odeon went ballistic with laughter

Sad to see him pass on

[jereboam]

It's very sad to hear that he has gone - he was more or less the last survivor of his generation of entertainers.  He was always on the radio and television in the fiftes and sixties, and he bought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. 

Sad to say, I never found him remotely funny then, but he was in a television documentary about old age a couple of years back, and, to my great surprise, I was very impressed with him as a person.

[redelitev6]

He was also a decent straight actor, saw him in an old episode of "Dalziel and pascoe" recently, where he played an old soldier , gave a good performance .