R.I.P.

Norman Collier - famously labelled by Jimmy Tarbuck "the comedian's comedian".  I suppose you have to be getting on for 50 years old now to remember "The Wheeltappers' and Shunters' Club"  which made him a household name, but he had already made his mark with a very individual, and very funny, act involving a microphone which appeared to be intermittently cutting out - you can catch it on YouTube.  From a very different era, but a funny, funny man.