# "And it's goodnight from him", RIP Ronnie Corbett **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734 "2016-03-31T12:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/1 "2016-03-31T12:46:55Z")
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ) he is, at the top of his game. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/2 "2016-03-31T14:12:20Z")
Loved On The Buses and The Two Ronnies when I was a kid. RIP Ronnie ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/3 "2016-03-31T14:34:04Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ) he is, at the top of his game. I knew that would be the link. Great stuff, RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/4 "2016-03-31T15:30:12Z")
As an American, I didn’t recognize the name, so I Googled to see a photo. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him on The Graham Norton Show, as one of the guests less familiar to Americans. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/5 "2016-03-31T17:04:53Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > Loved On The Buses and The Two Ronnies when I was a kid. RIP Ronnie I guess you’re just lumping together two UK shows, as I couldn’t place Ronnie Corbett as being in “On The Buses”. PBS on NY Tri-State area in the 1970s/1980 would play many different “Brit-Coms”, including “The Two Ronnies”. Shows would come and go as licensing agreements changed, but I caught a lot of them - and nowadays many others that didn’t get aired around here at the time (like On The Buses, Fools and Horses, and so on) can be found on-line. That said, I under the choice of Fork Handles, but to me Ronnie Corbrett on the Two Ronnies means Mr. Corbrett in his comfy chair relating a “humorous” story, with the hilarity actually provided by his many digressions, observations, and non-sequiturs on his journey to the punch-line… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/6 "2016-03-31T18:45:57Z")
Sad to hear he’s gone. [Here he is on Would I Lie To You not too long ago.](https://youtu.be/Ipb8dXlJqO4?t=11m1s) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/7 "2016-03-31T18:57:47Z")
Another USA-er who didn’t recognize the name, but knew who you were talking about when the shows were mentioned. I had lots of laughs watching him on PBS. RIP, sir. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/8 "2016-03-31T19:21:45Z")
He also did some very good [monologues](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94MHFI-Cztg). ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/9 "2016-04-01T00:27:42Z")
Oh, this is sad news. God bless the little fella. So now there are no Ronnies left. The Telegraph is reporting that he would have been knighted in the Queen’s birthday honours. > **[Ronnie Corbett would have been knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours list](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/31/ronnie-corbett-would-have-been-knighted-in-queens-birthday-honou/)** > > Ronnie Corbett, one of the nation’s best-loved entertainers, was to have been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, after a discreet campaign led by fellow comedian David Walliams, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. ---
**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-its-goodnight-from-him-rip-ronnie-corbett/750734/10 "2016-04-01T01:48:39Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Sad to hear he’s gone. > > [Here he is on Would I Lie To You not too long ago.](https://youtu.be/Ipb8dXlJqO4?t=11m1s) That’s a super link, **Mahaloth**. Now that Ronnie is gone, will Rob Brydon have to stop doing his imitation of him?