RIP Bobby Ball

[MOBB]

Taken by Covid.

RIP

[AJL308]

Ah, man :-(

Don't think he was that old?

[bristolracer]

Rock on Tommy

[towser44]

AJL308 said:

Ah, man :-(

Don't think he was that old?

76

[Shaw Tarse]

Rock on Tommy

[JuniorD]

It's near impossible to find a man of Bobby's calibre

[V8covin]

I grew up with Cannon and Ball.
Bobby used to have me in stitches with his antics and was great in Not going out.
RIP Bobby lad

[FA57 VWT]

RIP Bobby.

[Pieman68]

Saw them in panto in Bradford when I was young and fondly remember my Rock on Tommy braces

RIP Bobby

[Lotobear]

JuniorD said:

It's near impossible to find a man of Bobby's calibre

Boom, boom

[Johnnybee]

Pieman68 said:

Saw them in panto in Bradford when I was young

RIP Bobby

Me too! It was absolutely hilarious to a nine year old me (and to my mum who I thought was going to need oxygen)

RIP

[rjfp1962]

R.I.P Bobby - Taken too soon by this terrible virus.. These guys were a legendary double-act.

[J4CKO]

Covid is taking half of all the eighties comedy duos !

Really liked Bobby Ball, came across as a genuine sort of bloke.

[sinbaddio]

I saw them in panto last December and they still had it - so funny. My kids had never heard of them but were soon crying with laughter!

RIP Bobby - thanks for the laughs.

[Murph7355]

FA57 VWT said:

RIP Bobby.

That's Tommy.

[poo at Paul's]

Sad news. Pretty harmless comedy in the days where more "edgy" stuff was about, but these guys were just MASSIVE in their day. So a sad loss...

Makes me so angry i could..................;)

[Wacky Racer]

[MOBB]

^

[Genuine Barn Find]

Firstly, RIP.... Cannon & Ball were mainstays of television when i was a young boy in the 80’s. We all did impressions of Bobby... they were massive during that era.

Found the documentary on double acts that didn’t get on very interesting. Apparently, Cannon & Ball couldn’t stand the sight of each other (let alone speak to each other off stage) for years. They were eventually reconciled, but it’s testament to the professionalism of acts like these that still interacted so well ‘in costume’

[Digga]

Saw them when I was a kid, on holiday with cousins in Scarborough. They were ace.

RIP indeed.