Barry Chuckle’s Corpse Exhumed To Confirm Death
Posted on | June 16, 2010
Barry ‘Chuckle’ Elliott OBE shortly before his
passing in 2008.
The body of Barry Chuckle has been exhumed today amid what the Chuckle family have called “horribly upsetting rumours” about the comedian being alive and well.
Rumours surfaced this week in the British Sun, claiming that Barry was in fact refuting claims he had passed away two years ago and was happily living in Rotherham.
Since then the story has gotten widely out of hand, with one Barry impostor even going so far as to set up a fake twitter page, to tweet to gullible young fans of the BBC show saying that he is Barry Chuckle and he is “glad to be alive”.
Barry’s brother Paul has said the media storm has made him feel ill: “I can’t believe any person would find it funny to say that Barry is alive, what’s funny about that? People today just want to make it into the papers, that’s all they care about, controversy! They don’t care who they hurt. Our mother is 115 years old, she doesn‘t need this shit.”
Two years ago Gubuwire broke the news that shook the comedy world – that Barry had died of a heart attack in a brothel in Belfast. Despite this, a recent poll on Sky News showed that a massive 76% of Britons believe Barry is in full health.
This shockingly stupid statistic has caused Paul Chuckle to go the extreme act of exhuming Barry’s body and printing the shocking photos of his badly decomposed body on the cover of today’s Guardian newspaper. Paul was also given full editorial control over the headline, which read in block capitals “LOOK, HE‘S REALLY FUCKING DEAD, YOU IDIOTS!”
Later in the issue, Paul wrote further about his brother’s death and the ordeal which followed:
“Barry died in horribly embarrassing circumstances two years ago, since then our families have had a torrid time with the bastard English press invading every aspect of our private lives. Possibly the lowest moment came last year, after the now infamous Channel Four’s Dispatches programme about Barry’s death Barry Chuckle: To Me, To You, To The Brothel, To The Grave.
“This programme was inaccurate and insensitive so we have started legal proceedings against Channel Four and the production company in question. Lastly, myself and my family, and Barry‘s family would like to extend our thanks and unending gratitude to the Guardian for allowing us this opportunity to tell our side of the story. Barry was a long time Guardian reader, he even contributed a regular theatre review over a period between 1936-39, and we have always acknowledged the support the paper gave our BBC programme Chucklevision.”
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