Comedy, parody and satire are bedfellows. He mixed 'em up brilliantly and did no harm. If you like your funny stuff cosy, there are plenty others to avoid if Barry got under your skin and was too edgy for you. That Was The Week That Was, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Little Britain, Frankie Boyle, Jimmy Carr, Joe Lycett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Stewart Lee...Even the sainted Big Yin! We can recognise and admire them for what they are but there's no law that sez we have to love 'em. In my list, some I love and some I dislike. So what! That's just me... but this guy has just died at a good age, and it's a damn good bet that he'd want us us to be cheery about him without any of that, fusty, mournful stuff. He wasn't the Queen, you know!