Daft Limmy said this about Barry Chuckle and the BBC didn’t get the joke
Anyone who knows Daft Limmy – or goes on Twitter whenever anyone famous dies – will know that he has a habit of tweeting something like this.
https://twitter.com/DaftLimmy/status/1026016484689170432
Except it turns out whoever wrote the BBC’s news story about the late, great Barry Chuckle, who has died aged 73, isn’t a Daft Limmy fan.
Oh my word. The BBC pic.twitter.com/5yNwM8jfD5
— Mags (@deadbloke) August 5, 2018
It’s not the first time someone’s taken a Daft Limmy tribute seriously. Sky News did this when Peter Stringfellow died.
https://twitter.com/le_murt/status/1004636263608213506
Still, it could have been worse. It could have been the Daily Mail.
RIP: These are the perils of having work experience kids write articles for you.#RIPBarryChuckle #WelcomeBackTerryPratchett pic.twitter.com/wb19J8lomO
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) August 5, 2018
Terry Pratchett died in 2015.