Anonymous ID: d7b69e Nov. 3, 2020, 7:45 a.m. No.11428477   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8527

John Sessions, actor and comedian, dies aged 67

 

The actor and comedian John Sessions has died at the age of 67, his agent has confirmed.

 

Sessions, who was best known for his appearances on TV panel-shows such as Whose Line is it Anyway?, passed away from a heart attack on Monday.

 

In a statement issued at midday on Tuesday, his agent Alex Irwin said that Sessions had “died at his home in South London from a heart condition”.

 

His friend and collaborator Ronni Ancona paid tribute to him, telling The Telegraph that he was “that rare commodity, a towering intellect who was able to translate his vast intelligence into highly accessible unadulterated comedy”.

 

His improvisatory performances, she said, were “like watching a high wire act without a net – the equivalent of chomping into a dangerous Japanese fish”.

 

Sessions was born in Ayrshire in 1953, and studied alongside Kenneth Branagh at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in the late 1970s.

 

He rose to prominence at the end of the 1980s through his televised one-man comedy shows, which took objects and stories volunteered by the public and spun from them improvisational routines.

 

In the 1990s, he became a familiar presence on British TV. He appeared in the cult surreal comedy Stella Street, and was a frequent panellist on QI and Have I Got News for You.

 

He also appeared in a number of films, and specialised in Shakespeare adaptations, most notably Branagh’s Henry V (1989), as the comic Irish officer Macmorris, and Michael Radford’s 2004 Merchant of Venice, as Salerio, friend to Jeremy Irons’s Antonio.

 

Sessions was openly gay, having been outed in 1994 by the Evening Standard while appearing in My Night with Reg, a comedy about gay life in London, at the Royal Court Theatre.

 

Unusually in the comedy world, he also expressed conservative views, becoming a frequent critic of the BBC, its management and its move to new headquarters in Salford.

 

In recent years, he also expressed his opposition to Scottish independence, and was vocally opposed to the European Union, telling The Independent in 2013 that he was “so bored with people going, ‘Ukip are a bunch of racists.’

 

“They're nothing of the kind. Nigel Farage talks more sense than the rest of the politicians put together.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/john-sessions-actor-comedian-dies-122547512.html

Anonymous ID: d7b69e Nov. 3, 2020, 8:10 a.m. No.11429050   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Local Police Say Biden Staffer May Have Been ‘At Fault’ in ‘Trump Train’ Highway Incident

 

Local police in Texas said over the weekend that the vehicle of a Joe Biden staffer may be “at fault” in a minor collision that occurred during an incident where Trump supporters in trucks surrounded and followed a Biden campaign bus.

 

The incident occurred on I-35 in Hays County and involved a Biden staffer’s white SUV making contact with a Trump supporter’s black truck.

 

The San Marcos Police Department, which is handling any potential police reports on the crash, said it has researched the collision and watched footage of the incident online.

 

“The at-fault vehicle may be the white SUV and the victim appears to be the black truck,” the police department said in a statement.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/local-police-biden-staffer-may-221437081.html