From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire editor Brian Harrod: NEW YORK POST: Tony Hendra, British humorist who shrunk 'Spinal Tap's' Stonehenge, dead at 79.

 

From The Desk Of Yonkers Newswire editor Brian Harrod..... NEW YORK POST: Tony Hendra, British humorist who shrunk 'Spinal Tap's' Stonehenge, dead at 79 Tony Hendra — the British humorist best known as the "This is Spinal Tap" manager who blunderingly shrunk Stonehenge — died Thursday of Lou Gehrig's disease in Yonkers, NY. He was 79, and had battled the illness, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, since 2019. “A brilliant satirist,” the iconic 1984 mockumentary’s director, Rob Reiner, tweeted in memorializing Hendra’s death. Hendra got his start in the early 1960s as a member of the Cambridge University Footlights review, appearing on stage with future Monty Python stars John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He moved to the U.S. in 1964 and — with his comedy partner Nick Ullett — opened for the legendary Lenny Bruce in Greenwich Village.... https://www.facebook.com/groups/YonkersNewswire/permalink/2910730012517891/