Sheila Bernette, 1931 – 2026

Lots of British people dying lately! Today it’s comic actress and singer Sheila Bernette, who died on Jan. 12, age 94. Bernette was a regular on the comedy/sketch shows The Black and White Minstrel Show (which ran till 1978 and was just as horrifying as you think it was), The Saturday Crowd, the British version of Candid Camera (never liked that show, it just struck me as mean), and The Good Old Days; she also had continuing roles in the shows Coronation Street and Hotel Trubble (as the delightfully named Mrs. Poshington), as well as appearing in numerous other shows and movies. Onstage, she was a regular with the Players' Theatre in Covent Garden.

Hamming it up in a mint commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na_CxPz1xIc