{"id":35449,"date":"2021-08-21T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/sean-lock-death-sean-locks-cause-of-death-was-lung-cancer-bill-bailey-confirms\/"},"modified":"2021-08-21T18:37:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T13:07:36","slug":"sean-lock-death-sean-locks-cause-of-death-was-lung-cancer-bill-bailey-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/sean-lock-death-sean-locks-cause-of-death-was-lung-cancer-bill-bailey-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Lock death &#8211; Sean Lock&#8217;s cause of death was lung cancer, Bill Bailey confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>EDDIE IZZARD REMEMBERS \u2018BEAUTIFULLY SURREAL\u2019 COMEDY OF SEAN LOCK<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Izzard has paid tribute to the \u201cbeautifully surreal\u201d comedy of Sean Lock, following his death at 58, saying: \u201cHis legacy lives on forever.\u201d The 8 Out Of 10 Cats star died surrounded by his family after a battle with cancer and tributes from the world of comedy have flooded in.<\/p>\n<p>Comedian Izzard told the PA news agency: \u201cI think Sean Lock started in comedy at almost exactly the same time as me, so we were contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do this weird, surreal stuff, but his stuff was beautifully surreal and I was kind of jealous of what Sean could do, because his mind jumped around. I don\u2019t know if he wrote but he must have sat down and written some stuff, but it would flash across and come up with such crazy imagery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe does beautiful, surreal imagery, but he also goes to a dark or impish place, which you wouldn\u2019t expect or most audiences are not expecting, and I encourage people to go online \u2013 \u2018Sean Lock\u2019, put that into Google and look up his best bits on YouTube and you will see his work and especially on the panel games, you can see that he\u2019s just riffing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s riffing, and he\u2019s going to this place and people are just falling out and other comedians are falling about. That is the thing. you\u2019re trying to get other comedians laughing and that\u2019s what he could do. He could go to places we weren\u2019t expecting anyone to go to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n      !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n      fbq('init', '752905198150451');\n      fbq('track', \"PageView\");\n    <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDDIE IZZARD REMEMBERS \u2018BEAUTIFULLY SURREAL\u2019 COMEDY OF SEAN LOCK Eddie Izzard has paid tribute to the \u201cbeautifully surreal\u201d comedy of Sean Lock, following his death &#8230; <a title=\"Sean Lock death &#8211; Sean Lock&#8217;s cause of death was lung cancer, Bill Bailey confirms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/sean-lock-death-sean-locks-cause-of-death-was-lung-cancer-bill-bailey-confirms\/\" aria-label=\"More on Sean Lock death &#8211; Sean Lock&#8217;s cause of death was lung cancer, Bill Bailey confirms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":35450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}