Why did Sean Lock's passing hit so many people so hard?
Posted by ancapailldorcha@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 15 comments
I never really got into his comedy. It was just something I missed out on. I used to live with a lad who religiously watched 8 out of Ten Cats but I was more interested in my strategy games.
I regularly see comments from people saying how much they miss him and what he meant to them.
joehpr@reddit
To be honest, he just had no filter - and I think he was just just so out of nowhere with everything he said, too.
Mr_Bumcrest@reddit
People like people on tv
DameKumquat@reddit
Partly he seemed to have just got to being as famous as he deserved, when he died. I knew who he was and was pleased to see him on a panel, but I'd never watched 8 out of 10 Cats or many other shows that he'd been on.
Luckily this means I still get to watch new stuff with him in.
Healthy-Meaning468@reddit
He was a very real man and a type of timeless guy who wasn't in a rush to keep up with the times and changes in humour. He could be brutal or warm depending when it was warranted, kind of like a traditional grumpy Dad figure that was really happy to be there. Also, he was a champion Carrot in the Box player.
Striking_Smile6594@reddit
He was one of the good ones, funny, slightly cynical, but that cynicism never tipped over into full on misanthropy. He genuinely seemed to be popular with his fellow comedians as well, Bill Bailey and Harry Hill where proper friends with him and any who gets the nod from Bill has got to be good one.
scrotalsac69@reddit
He seemed to be a really nice bloke, plus the number of comedians that came out and said just how much he meant was unusual. He was just really really funny and gone too soon.
Markies_Myth@reddit
Because he was a lovely man, was very kind and funny and he died of a horrible aggressive cancer far too early.
No_Promotion_65@reddit
He’d also worked so solidly in live touring since the 90s both at clubs and theatres if you were a fan of his you’d probably met him.
Markies_Myth@reddit
Yep. I know people in comedy and Sean was one of the few were everyone loved him. He looked out for everyone like your funniest uncle.
Lammtarra95@reddit
I always thought him a second rate comic lucky to have found a sweet gig on a panel show. Or two panel shows.
It was only after he died that I saw the huge, Sean Lock-shaped hole in Catsdown.
But people's sense of humour is different. As Jimmy Carr said, if you think someone is funny, you're right. And if you don't think they're funny, you're also right. Clearly the production company thought Sean was funny. I can still take or leave his stand-up though.
Flonkerton_Scranton@reddit
Funny, likeable and very intelligently aware of society and people. A loss indeed.
nsthj@reddit
they prob make a big deal of it on those shows and people go along with things
ColsterG@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDL2mp0z4UA
Says it all really, to have come up with and have it all play out. The fact he wrote you old tossers in the Xmas card just ends me.
topher2604@reddit
He seemed like a genuinely nice guy with a sharp, dry sense of humour, and by far the funniest one on Cats Does Countdown.
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