That’s a real loss, loved him on Just a Minute, hard to imagine that it would have lasted for over 50 years without him.
I did a job with him once, he was great but a total nightmare for following the script. He was hosting a quiz on a conference but he was all over the place with the questions and I was back set trying to work out rapidly which section of questions we were now meant to be showing.
To make it worse instead of just pressing the button to cue the next slide he decides to tell the whole audience that there is someone called Dave back there controlling everything and every cue was next slide please Dave, that wouldn’t have been too bad but he’d already told them that the next question was about one thing when the next in the deck was something completely different. I’m thinking not only is this bound to go horribly wrong but everyone is going to know who’s messed up! I had the VT tech with me and we were both scanning the back up trying to work out which slide he actually wants next. Somehow we actually managed it but it was probably the most stressful live event I’ve ever done. A lovely man though and that’s one show I’ve done I’ll not forget