John Fortune, the British comedian and satirist who found fame through his TV collaborations with John Bird and Rory Bremner, has died aged 74.
He died peacefully on Tuesday with his wife Emma and dog Grizelle at his bedside, his agent Vivienne Clore said.
"I'm so sorry to let you know that my friend John Fortune died this morning," Bremner tweeted.
Fortune died after treatment for leukaemia, which he was diagnosed with several years ago.
Bremner remembered him as a "lovely man, dear friend" and a "brilliant and fearless satirist".
Born in 1939, he was educated in Bristol before going on to Cambridge where he met fellow satirist Bird.
A founding member of Peter Cook's Establishment Club, Fortune shared a Bafta with Bird in 1997.
RIP John Fortune
RIP John Fortune
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”