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For those of you who remember my TMS fan fiction outline guest-starring Tim Brooke-Taylor here is a very funny true story I've come across in a book I've been reading. Tim is of course one member of a trio of British comedians along with Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden, and here is the story as quoted from the book:
Alexander Mitchell, a fifty-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn in Norfolk literally laughed himself to death. During an episode of the BBC comedy series "The Goodies", Mr. Mitchell laughed solidly for twenty-five minutes at a particular scene in which two men beat each other with large black puddings. He then slumped over, dead from heart failure. Doctors attributed the death to the fact that Mr. Mitchell was laughing strenuosly after a heavy meal. Mr. Mitchell's widow, Nessie, commented: "I can still hear him laughing and it's a lovely rememberance. I shall write to The Goodies to thank them for making his last minutes so happy".
And so she did. When I came across this in the book I remembered hearing about it when two of the Goodies team Tim and Graeme came to Australia and I took my mother to see them live. They mentioned this during their show and everybody laughed when they explained that they knew about it because his widow wrote to say "Thank you".
Alexander Mitchell, a fifty-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn in Norfolk literally laughed himself to death. During an episode of the BBC comedy series "The Goodies", Mr. Mitchell laughed solidly for twenty-five minutes at a particular scene in which two men beat each other with large black puddings. He then slumped over, dead from heart failure. Doctors attributed the death to the fact that Mr. Mitchell was laughing strenuosly after a heavy meal. Mr. Mitchell's widow, Nessie, commented: "I can still hear him laughing and it's a lovely rememberance. I shall write to The Goodies to thank them for making his last minutes so happy".
And so she did. When I came across this in the book I remembered hearing about it when two of the Goodies team Tim and Graeme came to Australia and I took my mother to see them live. They mentioned this during their show and everybody laughed when they explained that they knew about it because his widow wrote to say "Thank you".
