Judy Carne

[Cliftonite]

I have just learned that Judy Carne, the vivacious "Sock it to me!" actress from Rowan & Martin's Laugh In programme died in Northampton General Hospital on Thursday.

Can anyone confirm this? It seems not to be on the news yet!

She was born 27 April 1939, making her 76 years old.

[jbudgie]

Drugs ?

[R6VED]

Who?

[Eric Mc]

I think the OP more or less covered her short acting career in his post. "The Rowan and Martin Laughter Show" was a major TV programme in the US in the late 1960s - being very irreverent and at times almost incomprehensible. In some ways, it was America's response to the wacky humour that was coming out of the UK from people like The Goons, The Beatle films and precursor programmes of Monty Python ("At Last the 1948 Show" - for example).

At the time, having an English accent in a show was considered "cool" (Davy Jones in The Monkees, Jack Wild in "HR Pufnstuff") so Judy Carrne became the token English character in "Rowan and Martin".

I understood that she did have drink and drugs problems as a result of her short period of "fame" and more or less drifted out of the limelight.

[Eric Mc]

Looks like it's a hoax. I was a bit suspicious when I could find no references to her death anywhere.

http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/deathhoa...

[DickyC]

Maybe she's chosen an unusual way of launching a come back.

I would round off with another of her famous quotes but "sock it to me" appears to be it.

[Cliftonite]

Eric Mc said:

Looks like it's a hoax. I was a bit suspicious when I could find no references to her death anywhere.

http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/deathhoa...

Is not everything on that site (en.mediamass.net) a hoax?

Joking about the death of anyone is the lowest of bad taste.

[Einion Yrth]

Cliftonite said:

Eric Mc said:

Looks like it's a hoax. I was a bit suspicious when I could find no references to her death anywhere.

http://en.mediamass.net/people/judy-carne/deathhoa...

Is not everything on that site (en.mediamass.net) a hoax?

Joking about the death of anyone is the lowest of bad taste.

Isn't there a small part of all of us that would like to know what others will say about us after we're gone?

[Cliftonite]

Seems I gave Haymarket a 'scoop' last week:

http://www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk/8203-Judy-Car...

The news, sadly for those that knew of her and her work, is true.

[Eric Mc]

How did you find out originally?

[Cliftonite]

TV actress Judy Carne dies aged 76

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34184...

[Cliftonite]

Eric Mc said:

How did you find out originally?

From the same Facebook source (based in Northampton, near where she resided) later used by the local paper (presumably after verification), it would seem.

[99Chimaera]

I'm sorry to hear about Judy Carne. I remember seeing her walking her two dogs in my village on many occasions. She was nice. RIP.