Barry Cryer
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"Barry Charles Cryer" Order of the British Empire/OBE is a British writer and comedian. Cryer has written for many noted performers, including Dave Allen (comedian)/Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, Bob Hope, Frankie Howerd, Richard Pryor, Spike Milligan, Mike Yarwood, The Two Ronnies and Morecambe and Wise.

Cryer also wrote episodes for the Doctor in the House (TV series)/Doctor in the House British television comedy series.

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Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?

It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind at the time. It had me really shaken up. I didn't know where half of my family was some days. I was scared that I was going to lose someone really important to me.

Everything's a competition, no matter what we do. We could go outside and walk and see who walks the fastest. I don't like losing, and he don't like losing.

I seriously put him in the same league as Alec Guinness or Peter Sellers. If he had gone into film he would have been enormous in films as well.

If you watch him in Porridge and Open All Hours you can't believe it's the same person.

He was like a chameleon, an amazing character comedian.

It was like an Agatha Christie thriller, trying to work out who this man was.

She was gorgeous and very, very funny - not just joke funny. She was a genuine eccentric.