After it was revealed this week that Ronnie Barker had altered the limericks in Edward Lear's Nonsense Verse, the Daily Mail takes further liberties with some topical rhymes of its own. full story ![]()

Beyoncé's PR machine has been in overdrive this month - ensuring her three major waves of publicity around everything she does - the same number of laughs Ronnie Barker could get out of a good joke, muses Katy Brand, in her weekly Paper Tiger column.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 12 days ago)

Comedian Ronnie Barker's son has been freed to collect his £1.4million inheritance, just 13 weeks after being jailed for child pornography.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)
An hour of comic sketches recorded by Ronnie Barker but never broadcast have been recovered thanks to the “most boring...
thetimes.co.uk (2 months and 26 days ago)

Adam Barker, 44, was jailed in October for 12 months for child porn offences, but was released on January 22 after time on remand was deducted.
dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)
As Lear rages into the storm in director Bill Rauch's stripped-down "King Lear," flashlights cast about in a struggle to pierce a darkness that's both literal and metaphorical.
mailtribune.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
msn.com (3 months and 6 days ago)
It’s not that hard, really, to write a limerick, even to adhere to the strict rhyme and meter that mark the five-line comic form. But the Loser Limericists turn the genre into art: After reading the more than 10,000 verses submitted to our 14 limerick contests so far (not counting one for bad limericks), we’re convinced that the Invite bards are the best limericists in the...
washingtonpost.com (2 months and 22 days ago)

Two striking images of defiance leapt out of the pages of yesterday’s Daily Mail. The first was that of banker Rich Ricci, the second was that of Ronnie Biggs giving a pathetic V-sign. But are they really all that different? Writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)
Ronnie O’Sullivan has touched on the issue that will be vexing the authorities looking ahead to next season and beyond...
thetimes.co.uk (15 days ago)
If the Frost Report sketch on the British class system were to be restaged today then John Cleese, Ronnie Barker...
thetimes.co.uk (1 month and 16 days ago)
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