How the hell is Jeremy Beadle dead?

http://www.solarnavigator.net/sponsorship/sponsorship_images/alan_sugar_young_black_white_photograph.jpg

RIP big man

On one hand, it's a big loss.

Up there in heaven, pretending to be a council representative who wants rip up Jesus's patio.

He still managed to be funnier than any ilxor

^^^OTM

Except maybe Luriqua.

Good at quizzes, apparently.

And an expert on erotic fiction.

I await the shit unfunny b3ta gifs marking this moment immensely.

Blimey. Who'd have though it, eh.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/175000/images/_179472_mirror_front_page_24-09-98_150.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_wik3Rum8

http://b.imagehost.org/0033/beadle_9.jpg

Yeah right. Wait until he interrupts the vicar at his funeral wearing shades and carring a clipboard.

In other news: Grim Reaper takes one step closer to James Whale and Noel Edmonds.

What's with the picture of Alan Sugar upthread? Have I missed something?

There's speculation about the exact time he died but apparently it was when the big hand touched the little hand.

When I worked at Rank Video, our team won at one of the charity quiz nights he ran, so we got to meet him and chat, and we all shook him by the hand (yeah, that one)...

Some time later, a band I was in were tasked to write down our 'Claims to fame', and I found our lead singer had put "Met Jeremy beadle and shook him by his withered hand", so I naturally said "oh, same here, where were you?" and he had to confess he had just been to a fete he opened and hadn't actually met him at all. (He also had to strike out the "been in Linda Lusardi's bedroom" one as he had been fixing some pipes and she hadn't been there for three months, etc.

my dad's pathological loathing of him (no, i don't know why either) means i've got a kneejerk "don't like beadle" reaction. that said, i have absolutely no reason for that (although i never found him desperately amusing). still, poor sod. RIP.

spoke to him a couple of times when he had a show on Talk Radio UK ten years or so ago..

I asked him about his beginnings as a music promoter.. He was the first person to book Captain Beefheart in the UK!

RIP Jeremy..

According to the obituary on Teletext, "it's estimated that he raised more than £100m for charity in his lifetime." Wow.

wtf. he's dead. :-(

http://www.chelseapies.tv/fake%20beard.jpg

"Excuse me, Mrs Beadle? It's about your husband..."

is he really dead or are you lot just pranking me?

dead. check bbc.co.uk. he had leukemia in 2005 apparently. and now pneumonia.

Maybe he's pranking you for a pilot on Sky??

Right now Saint Peter's saying "Shit... wrong Jeremy!"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Jeremy_Clarkson.jpg/225px-Jeremy_Clarkson.jpg

Added: Thursday, 31 January, 2008, 10:36 GMT 10:36 UK

They say that it easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven his tv aside mr beadles eye is the size of a barn door and his camel is tiny this man was an usung hero in the world of charitys and will not be easliy replaced

god bless you jeremy you will be missed

jonny, coventry

I fear my dreams will be strange tonight.

He also helped start up Time Out.

And The Sun's frontpage headline is "BEADLE'S NOT ABOUT"

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00428/carousel_one_428010a.jpg

Was that picture a less than subtle blast at COMPLACENT POLICEMEN helpless against the onslaught of so-called YOB BRITAIN Fiona Phillips writes?

NEW TORY PLAN TO STOP GANG WARFARE: HIDDEN CAMERA PRACTICAL JOKES ON BLACK TEENS

And The Sun's frontpage headline is "BEADLE'S NOT ABOUT"

"BEADLE'S NO LONGER ABOUT" would have been better

"YOU'VE BEEN KILLED"

"GRAVE FOR A LAUGH"

Game For A Laugh seems to have proved a curse for everyone who presented it.

"YOU'VE BEEN BURIED" headline on day of funeral?

Gosh, I've only just found out about Sarah Kennedy's racialism.

he's going for a cremation.

you've been flamed innit

xpost

You bastard, ken

Beadle - roundly hated and dispised bearded prankster
Sarah Kennedy - racist
Matthew Kelly - suspected pedo
Henry Kelly - ...is a Henry Kelly (see The Mary Whitehouse Experience, or rather don't, because it's never been released on DVD)

Henry Kelly - presenter of Going for Gold

... about equivalent to being paedo/racist?

"Hu-what am I? I am a criminal persuasion involving the sexual molestation of children"

Henry Kelly - sacked from Classic FM, couldn't find any other work, went b/rupt.

"Beadle's Ablaze"

(xpost)

Sacked for slipping a bit of Stockhausen's "Mikrophonie I" into his afternoon show? (xp)

The court presents Exhibit A - semi-NSFW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhcZa5XAtZI
"Going For Gold" was the kind of thing they used to show on TV to encourage umemployed people to get a job. Warning: This clip may cause you to kill yourself and/or commit multiple homicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHv2GcXVb4Q

apparently he died when his dog tried to have sex with him.

coincidentally he was filming his son's birthday at the time and got it all on camera.

in 2000 she suggested black people could run fast because they were used to being chased by lions

how did i ever miss this?

"BEADLE'S NO LONGER ABOUT" would have been better

-- Tom D., Thursday, 31 January 2008 23:21 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

We did exactly this at work ALL DAY yesterday. It never stopped being funny.

brrr.

(the gag, not necessarily the situation)

Did an autopsy ever sort this out

What, whether or not he was faking?

All of it man, right down to the sick beating heart of it

http://www.metal-rules.com/zine/images/stories/Interviews/CHRIS%20REIFERT/autopsy-promo4.jpg

Yep...pneumonia it was.