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Tony Hendra, many-sided satirist best known as the rock manager in This is Spinal Tap – obituary


Hendra (2004): ‘extraordinary; a truly great satirist’
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Tony Hendra, who has died aged 79, was one of the most brilliant satirists of the post-war period. He formed the link between the Cambridge Footlights team, in which he collaborated with John Cleese and Graham Chapman, and American institutions such as the satirical magazine National Lampoon and the NBC show Saturday Night Live where he was instrumental in launching the careers of John Belushi and Chevy Chase. 
In Rob Reiner’s classic 1984 “mockumentary” This is Spinal Tap, Hendra plays the band’s clueless manager Ian Faith who carries a cricket bat which he uses to immobilise troublesome bystanders and (in one of the film’s most memorable scenes) to trash a television set. (“In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.”) ....

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This is Spinal Tap's Tony Hendra has died at 79


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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