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Originally Posted by QuenGalad  Have you ever heard of Ronnie, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse, who left before they became famous?  (see Terry Pratchett's "Thief of time" for that) |
I've never read anything by Pratchett. (I think Mort Sahl first did that "5th Beatles joke" in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse context back in the 1960s. I seem to recall seeing him deliver it on the Ed Sullivan Show.) I did hear the first episode of a radio play by him involving someone chosen to be death's apprentice, but it was boring, to me--rather like second rate Douglas Adams. Each to their own, though!
My tastes in humor run to Robert Benchley,a great essayist of the 1920s and 1930s, and Bob & Ray, a great radio duo whose work spanned about 40 years, and ended only with the death of Ray about 10 years ago. I also greatly enjoy the contemporary radio work of Andy Hamilton, and especially Jeremy Hardy.