CRAIG BROWN: Alan Bennett at 90 has tickled all our funnybones
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I like to think of the ten-year-old Alan with his school homework in the Leeds Reference Library, sitting alongside Barry Cryer, who was a year younger.
They remained good friends, right up to Barry's death in 2022. Barry would regularly phone Alan with a joke like this: 'A man takes liquid Viagra but swallows Tippex by mistake. There were no ill effects except the next morning he woke up with a massive correction.'
The Oldie magazine recently reprinted a memory of Barry's: Alan Bennett once called on five friends to gather overheard remarks. 'My absolute favourite was this. One of them was in a garden centre and he heard a man saying: 'That sundial I bought last year has paid for itself already.
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