In one last laugh for the late legendary comic Barry Cryer, his son has revealed he had no need of his trademark black-rimmed glasses.
According to his son, Bob, Barry first needed to wear specs in his 30s â but as time went on his low-level prescription corrected itself.
Bob laughs: âFor a man who was considered authentic, and a man of no frills, with no glossy persona, it was funny that he felt naked without them.
âPeople were so used to the white hair and glasses that he was loathe to get rid of them when his eyesight got better.â At home, Barry was more of a âcasual glasses wearerâ, continues Bob, and his frames would often be found âstuffed down the V-neck of whatever he was wearingâ.
The writer and iconic game show panellist died in January last year aged 86.
Now the Iâm Sorry I Havenât A Clue star has been immortalised in a biography by Bob titled Same Time Tomorrow? The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend.
In the book, Bob, an actor and one of Barryâs four children, reveals the much-loved comic carried on cracking his favourite one-liners until his final days.
He told a famously naughty joke about the Archbishop of Canterbury to NHS nurses caring for him at Northwick Park Hospital, in north-west London.
Bob says of his dadâs final days of joking: âWithout question, when he had people around him he would want them to feel comfortable, and even when they were treating him in a serious moment, it made him feel good to do that for people. It was his survival instinct kicking in â he wanted to entertain because he knew it made him feel good as well.â
Proud Yorkshireman Barry, who was born in Leeds in 1935, had his ashes scattered where he had previously scattered his late mother Jennyâs, in Airedale, Yorkshire.
- Same Time Tomorrow? The Life and Laughs of a Comedy Legend, ÂŁ20, is published tomorrow by Bloomsbury
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