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".
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