Anglo-Saxons produce almost as many great comics - but they are often not appreciated till they're dead. Look at Spike Milligan: the nation wept when he died, but could he get the BBC to repeat his shows?
I am delighted that one living hero of comedy is receiving the adulation he deserves: Eric Sykes, who has written more great jokes than anyone alive, seems to be in every magazine I pick up.
Eric is nearly 80, cheerfully coping with deafnes and blindness, and still capable of stealing every scene on stage or on camera. He has the true wisdom of age, too, that lets him always speak his mind, regardless of ridicule. He believes in intelligent life beyond Earth, and he says so. He thinks Jesus might have been an alien, and he isn't afraid to speak up. Just when you

think he's cracking another daft joke, you realise he means it. He's smiling, but he means it.
God bless you, Eric Sykes. You're teaching us the most important rule: the human mind is the most powerful tool, when we have the courage to speak it.

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