# Sir Terry Wogan has died aged 77 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737 "2016-01-31T09:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [January 31, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/1 "2016-01-31T09:12:10Z")
Sir Michael Terence “Terry” Wogan, KBE DL, RIP, sir. Cancer, you’re a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/2 "2016-01-31T13:07:55Z")
The Reaper has been particularly Grim in the first month of 2016, and that’s a fact. I remember Terry Wogan from, oh, probably forty-five years ago at least - he’s been a fixture for at least that long and a national treasure for a couple of decades, easy. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/3 "2016-01-31T13:15:48Z")
Awww, that’s a shame, he seemed like a lovely man. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/4 "2016-01-31T14:43:58Z")
By coincidence, I was watching _The Commitments_ this morning–which Terry Wogan is not actually in, but he is the “Terry” that Jimmy Rabbitt is always having imaginary interviews with. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/5 "2016-01-31T18:46:27Z")
The Hulk died? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/6 "2016-01-31T21:07:52Z")
Here is on Would I Lie To You. [Did he really set fire to the other news-readers’ scripts?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-h1lU4JJMA) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/7 "2016-01-31T21:11:45Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > The Hulk died? That’s Terry Bollea. (An individual unlikely to receive a knighthood, to say the least.) ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/8 "2016-02-01T16:46:22Z")
My family lived in England from 1983-1985 (I was a young teen) and Wogan was simply an accepted part of entertainment culture. Not everyone loved him – I still remember a joke I heard that his fan club should be called the Terry Wogan Is Tops Society (TWITS) – but the man was an institution. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/9 "2016-02-01T20:14:30Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > I still remember a joke I heard that his fan club should be called the Terry Wogan Is Tops Society (TWITS) That’s… not a joke. That’s what they were called. Or, rather, it was a joke, I suppose, but it was one shared between Terry and his listeners. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sir-terry-wogan-has-died-aged-77/744737/10 "2016-02-03T16:26:37Z")
THAT IS EVEN FUNNIER. 🙂 Thank you – all of these years I thought it was just a joke suggestion!