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So. Farewell then... Eye legend
Scottish Daily Express
|June 07, 2025
"A BRILLIANT multi-talented writer, artist and musician" is how Ian Hislop, Private Eye editor and star of Have I Got News For You described Barry Fantoni.
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Fantoni became a member of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine in 1963 and was behind some of the publication’s most famous characters.
He appeared in all but 31 of its 1,278 issues until his retirement in 2010 and was the creator and writer of poems supposedly penned by E. J. Thribb - the fictitious poet-in-residence at Private Eye.
His poems about recently deceased famous people always began “So. Farewell then...”.
This story is from the June 07, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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