Comedian’s agent says Lock died at home from cancer, surrounded by his family
Tributes have been paid to the comedian Sean Lock who has died of cancer at the age of 58.
Bill Bailey told the Guardian that Lock, his friend for more than 30 years, was as “brilliantly funny” off the stage as on and that their daft conversations would leave him “helpless with laughter”. Bailey described him as a kind and generous man who was methodical and rigorous in his approach to writing comedy. In a writers’ room, said Bailey, Lock “spurred you on to find a better joke, a new line, the sweet spot of a perfect gag”. When the results worked, Lock would let out a “great gale of laughter” Bailey recalled.
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