Comedian Sha Wylie has died, aged 81. She passed away peacefully surrounded by her family, on Sunday 5th July in Brighton, following a brief illness that required her to go to the GPs in her crocs and the hospital in her WTF earrings. 

She was a regular at the Brighton Fringe and still gigging to the end, getting to venues using her bus pass and a bright yellow Alinker walking-bike.

Having been brought up in boarding schools, Sha Wylie’s Radio 4 tone belied the fact that she spent time as a sex educator in Siberia, blowing up condoms on Russian TV. From marriage (as a registrar) to divorcee (of Hove), her voice of experience meant she could digress just like her comedy hero, Ronnie Corbett, reflected in her 2012 show, “And It’s Goodnight From Her.”

Sha’s 2012 Brighton Fringe Show was endorsed by Ronnie Corbett, who said: “Sorry I can't be with you or see any of it, but I am elsewhere at that time of year and couldn't be more disappointed. I wish you the very best on your journey.”

Sha once said that if she were to have a headstone, it would say, “Sha was fat and that was that.” Comedy promoter Kerry Herbert, paying tribute to Wylie, added: “Sha was loved, by her three children, her grandchildren, her many foster children, her nieces and nephews, her friends, her penpals, and her whole comedy family.” But that’s too many words, so we’ll just hold her in our hearts and remember her unctuous voice calling us “darling”, her bright pink hair, and her spectacular earrings recent ones being Lego seagulls ready for a chip. She will be terribly missed."