John Bird dead: Rory Bremner leads tributes to legendary actor
Comedian Rory Bremner has paid tribute to “one of the greatest satirists”, John Bird, who has died at the age of 86.
“John Bird was, to the end, never pleased with himself, always feeling he should have done better, been less lazy, had a late period like Brahms, ‘where everything was spare and abstract’. Rory said it was “striking” John Bird had died on Christmas Eve “nine years, almost to the day” after John Fortune, who died aged 74 on New Year’s Eve in 2013.“John may not have felt he got his life right, but by God he got it written.”
Bremner added that seeing Bird and Fortune work was the “highlight” of his life and he would “marvel at the genius of it all”. Bremner added that watching the sketch with the comedians, playing an investment banker and an interviewer, was a way to “understand the madness behind the 2008 financial crash” as it “ridicules the city culture that led to the crash with astonishing perspicacity”.
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