Private Eye cartoonist Barry Fantoni who was the voice of magazine's mock poet E J Thribb dies aged 85. By NOOR QURASHI. Published: 03:25 EDT, 22 May 2025 | Updated: 04:06 EDT, 22 May 2025 ...

Private Eye cartoonist Barry Fantoni who wrote scripts for That Was The Week That Was and voiced the magazine's mock poet E J Thribb has died at the age of 85. The artist, also a jazz musician ...

Private Eye cartoonist Barry Fantoni has died at the age of 85, the publication has announced. The artist, who was also a jazz musician, designer, author and broadcaster, died on Tuesday at his ...

Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye and star of BBC satire show Have I Got News For You, was in the back seat of a black cab in Soho, central London, when the driver heard a bullet strike and ...

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At Private Eye Fantoni also wrote the obituary verse column of “EJ Thribb” and co-wrote, with Ingrams, the mock romantic serials of “Sylvie Krin”.

But it was the stories of his great uncle Ray, a private eye in the 1960s, which really caught Gamble’s interest. “He’d hand out ‘blue slips’ for infidelity, leap through windows to ...

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