Wonderful, wonderful man. Hailing from Cricklewood, as I do, he was our local hero.
He was also responsible for those Idi Amin spoofs in the '70s, which he later said he regretted doing as he was making fun of such a terrible situation. However, my parents were from East Africa, and to find people able to make a joke out of Amin in this country when they got here was just great - they knew that they had come somewhere safe and it cheered them up to find that such an awful man as Amin could be lampooned for what who he was and what he was doing, as it gave such a great profile to what was happening in that part of the world.