{"id":768640,"date":"2022-01-27T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/veteran-comedian-barry-cryer-dies-at-86\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T15:28:56","slug":"veteran-comedian-barry-cryer-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/veteran-comedian-barry-cryer-dies-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Comedian, Barry Cryer, Dies At 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-837163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CC3FCB8E-5DE9-41DD-8F47-CC3FBB5467B8-600x340.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Veteran comedian and writer, Barry Cryer, has died at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>The news was made known by his family member confirming through Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>They said the star died in hospital in Harrow, \u201cpeacefully, in good spirits and with his family around him\u201d, on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cDad was a talented comedy writer and comedian in a particularly golden vintage,\u201d they said in a statement paying tribute.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO:\u00a0<\/b>Fans Ask Bobrisky To Stop Living Fake Life As He Postpones Housewarming Party<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncidentally he never really liked the terms \u2018comedy writer\u2019 or \u2018comedian\u2019, instead preferring hack and entertainer, and always thought the term \u2018national treasure\u2019 meant he\u2019d just been dug up. He was, in his words, arrogant in his humility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a gift for friendship (as anyone who still has a landline will testify) and a genius for putting people at their ease. Oh yes, and he made many people laugh. A lot. Over many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran comedian and writer, Barry Cryer, has died at the age of 86. The news was made known by his family member confirming through Twitter. They said the star died in hospital in Harrow, \u201cpeacefully, in good spirits and with his family around him\u201d, on Tuesday afternoon. \u201cDad was a talented comedy writer and comedian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3371,139,3372,862,306],"class_list":["post-768640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood","tag-barry","tag-comedian","tag-cryer","tag-dies","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}