http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8251985.stm

Larry Gelbart, former co-worker of Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Overseer of the excellent Frank Burns years of Mash, Co-writer of the Tony-winning "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" and the man behind the fantastioc Tootsie has died of cancer aged 81.

A true writing genius, responsible for some of the funniest and cleverest work I've ever seen, and really a case of someone whose like just isn't found any more. Whedon and maybe JMS are capable of mixing serious and comic at times - "once more with feeling", "Hush" and the whole character of Londo Mollari in B5 being their best examples, but there are very few others - even Moffatt has tended to do one at a time, but Gelbart would mix the horrors of war and the old cliche of the "human condition" with comedy, both subtle and slapstick as often as possible.

Garibaldi wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8251985.stm

Larry Gelbart, former co-worker of Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Overseer of the excellent Frank Burns years of Mash, Co-writer of the Tony-winning "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" and the man behind the fantastioc Tootsie has died of cancer aged 81.

A true writing genius, responsible for some of the funniest and cleverest work I've ever seen, and really a case of someone whose like just isn't found any more. Whedon and maybe JMS are capable of mixing serious and comic at times - "once more with feeling", "Hush" and the whole character of Londo Mollari in B5 being their best examples, but there are very few others - even Moffatt has tended to do one at a time, but Gelbart would mix the horrors of war and the old cliche of the "human condition" with comedy, both subtle and slapstick as often as possible.

Not sure who the guy is, but, is it just me or has this year been full of death? Maybe not though.