“There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I’ll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.”
MrOvershoot – I’m guessing most ‘lovey’s’ are a bit like that, but I can forgive him.
TBH they seem to take a dislike to people for some odd reasons. For one they have an aversion to Scottish people just because one Scottish chap who lived in their village spoke his mind!
I always got on with him but I guess if your born and bred South Gloucestershire outsiders seem a bit odd?
Not sure if it’s true but, I read that he was attempting to summit a mountain (possibly Everest) and turned back to help another climber who was in trouble. That, combined with his helping animals, makes him bloody brilliant in my eyes. Also Flash Gordon.
Bloody hell @bunnyhop – please can you edit the title!
@funkmaster I think he had a couple of attempts at Everest with HK/ Jagged Globe, apparently a competent mountaineer and very good company on the hill (as you would expect!)
His much-awaited appearance on Richard Herring’s RHLSTP podcast lives in my memory as being peak Brian Blessed. Minutes of rambling yet fascinating stories veering all over the place and finishing with a mildly concerned ‘did that answer your question’.
Dammit! My heart sank when I saw the thread title! Personally, I think, come the nuclear holocaust, all that will be left are Keef Richards, Brian Blessed and cockroaches!
I organised a big work annual dinner thing and we booked Brian Blessed as the after dinner speaker. I was fortunate enough to host him on our table and he was absolutely fantastic, so warm and engaging and a real raconteur. His passion for science, technology space shone through. He was of course slightly bonkers and his stories were amazing and as others have said only believable because it was Brian Blessed!
The cheer he got when he bellowed GORDON’s ALIVE! was incredible.
I went to see him a good few years back when I was about 12 iirc, he was doing a talk about how he’d climbed the foothills of K2 or something like that. My Mum got tickets as I loved Flash Gordon 🙈
All I remember was that he brought a huge longbow on stage with him, talked for 10 mins and then stormed off, throwing the bow across the stage.
We thought it was part of the show so sat patiently. Turns out it wasn’t part of the show, he’d gone off in a huff as he wasn’t happy with the audience.
He’s a stalwart of the geek con circuit, I’ve seen him ‘live’ a few times. The man’s a glorious maniac. He wanted to become an astronaut but NASA said “piss off you fat bastard” so he’s now a fully-trained Cosmonaut.