Fans are descending onto social media to pay their respects to the late comedian Kelly Monteith, who passed away tragically on January 1 at the age of 80.
He was the host of his own self-titled show on the BBC from 1979 to 1984. The terrible news of his passing has been confirmed by The Anglophile Channel, a Los Angeles-based production company that closely collaborated with him.
He experienced two severe strokes in February 2021, which left him with a significant loss of speech. His ex-wife Caroline visited him for two months while he was recovering some speech at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She later moved him into their home to take care of him.
The Kelly Monteith Show, a brief-lived variety program on CBS, debuted in 1976 after Monteith made his name on the US stand-up circuit in the 1970s, where he appeared 40 times on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
But he established his mark in Britain, where he eventually landed his own show following successful cameos on chat shows, most notably Des O’Connor Tonight. Kelly Monteith, a stand-up and sketch comedy show that broke the fourth wall by having Monteith address the audience about the scenes he performed, was a good example of this. Concerns about how he would perform for a British audience were expressed in his opening monologue.
Where will Kelly Monteith be buried? Burial site and Find a Grave details
The venue for his burial has not been disclosed.
