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This is Spinal Tap s Tony Hendra has died at 79
March 5, 2021 by:
THIS IS SPINAL TAP, died yesterday at the age of 79 after battling Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Tony Hendra started writing and performing comedy while attending Cambridge University and soon formed a comedy act with Nick Ullett. After traveling to the United States, the pair performed stand-up on the comedy circuit, even appearing on
The Merv Griffin Show and
The Ed Sullivan Show, but Hendra decided to pursue a career writing for television and broke up the act. After several years writing for
Playboy After Dark and
Music Scene, Hendra got himself into trouble when he wrote an open letter to the chairman of General Motors to scold him on the company s record on pollution. Unfortunately, his manager had just gotten him a major gig writing a special that was to be sponsored by Chevrolet. I was flooded with supportive calls from Hollywood’s nascent left, Hendra wrote in Harpers in 2002, ....

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