Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
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Are you a journalist?
Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
I read that EC ....i used to like Reggie Perrin 
RIP .
Are you a journalist?
No, quite the opposite. 
Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
I read that EC ....i used to like Reggie Perrin RIP .
Me too Baz, I also enjoyed "A bit of a do" as light entertainment.
Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
I read that EC ....i used to like Reggie Perrin RIP .
Me too Baz, I also enjoyed "A bit of a do" as light entertainment.
Yes, I liked that too ....Gwen somebody
Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
I read that EC ....i used to like Reggie Perrin RIP .
Me too Baz, I also enjoyed "A bit of a do" as light entertainment.
Yes, I liked that too ....Gwen somebody
Gwen Taylor
Some may know him from his work on Reginald Perrin he also wrote for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd along with Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson and on the show That Was The Week That Was. He also wrote A Bit of a Do.
Interestingly for me he worked as a journalist on the Sheffield Star newspaper.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33846030
I read that EC ....i used to like Reggie Perrin RIP .
Me too Baz, I also enjoyed "A bit of a do" as light entertainment.
Yes, I liked that too ....Gwen somebody
Gwen Taylor
Thats her ....quite a line up too 
Are you a journalist?
No, quite the opposite.
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Are you a journalist?
No, quite the opposite.
I aint gonna beg you to tell me, yer great eejit
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You're a . . .
Behind the scenes McDonalds Operative
Rent boy
Erm . . .
I hide in plain site.
I'm the long shadow cast by the sun.
I move like the breeze - felt but never seen.
I'm the creak in the house.
I'm definitely NOT a rent boy.
Inevitably, Perrinâs been mourned too as an avatar for suburbia, typified by his daily commute from Coleridge Close via Norbiton station to catch the 8.16 to Waterloo, a train forever delayed by increasingly improbable calamities (âTwenty-two minutes late, badger ate a junction box at New Malden&rdquo
Guardian article - worth a look
