One of the disadvantages of living in the United States is that British celebrities are often unknown here, and so the death of Mike Yarwood last September totally got by me. I only just noticed.

He was an enormous part of my adolescence, with his impressions of Harold Wilson and Ted Heath and Dennis Healey and so very many more. When I think back on those happy days I rank him with Eric and Ernie. He made me laugh.

RIP Mr. Yarwood.