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Remembering Rob Buckman
I'll never forget the time Dr.Rob Buckman explained to me, in a televised interview no less, how he defined humour.
Essentially, it was the unexpected punch line coming at the end of a conventional set up. I asked him for an example.
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Donate"Well," he explained, "basic humour would be 'one, two, three, six.' The next level up would be 'one, two, three, cucumber,'" he added. "But the best would be 'one, two, three, sexual perversion.'"
Oh, could Rob Buckman make us laugh. And why not? He used to hang out with the likes of Jonathan Miller and John Cleese.
He was brilliant when it came to dispensing advice on a range of issues: cancer treatment, health care in general, death, religiosity, atheism --- we had him on TVO to discuss all of those things and more, both on The Agenda and on his own program many years ago, Vital Signs.
Last week, "Doctor Rob" as we all called him came to TVO to participate in a program on cancer. That program will air on Thursday. He was in fine form and left the studio to head straight to t
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Rob Buckman
Robert (Rob) Buckman (born August 22, 1948 in London) is a British-Canadian doctor of medicine, comedian and author, and since 1999 has been president of the Humanist Association of Canada. He first appeared in a Cambridge University Footlights Revue in 1969, and went on to present several television and radio programmes about medicine, as well as appearing on comedy programmes such as Just a Minute. He is also the author of many popular books on medicine.
Broadcasting and comedy
Buckman graduated in medicine from Cambridge University in 1972, and continued his medical training at the Royal Marsden Hospital and University College Hospital, London, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Buckman was a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4 during the 1970s and 1980s, both on panel shows, and fronting one-off programmes on scientific topics. He contributed scripts to the Richard Gordon-adapted sitcom Doctor on the Go, and also acted in the spin-off Pink Medicine Show. He also was one of the performers and writers of the first The Secret Policeman's Ball fundraiser in 1979, alongside Billy Connolly, John Cleese and Eleanor Bron.
Rob Buckman was more distinguished as a popular science presenter and appeared on the programme Don't Ask
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