Chuckle Brothers had wanted to perform for as long as possible. His funeral was held on 17 August at the Rotherham United stadium and was attended by a number of show business friends; a large number of fans waited outside to pay their respects. Chuckle Brothers The Chuckle Brothers were an English children's comedy double act comprising Barry David Elliott (24 December 1944 – 5 August 2018) and Paul Harman Elliott (born 18 October 1947). They were known for their BBC children's programme "ChuckleVision", which celebrated its twenty-first series with a 2010 stage tour entitled "An Audience with the Chuckle Brothers". The
The World Is What It Is in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in