Veteran comedy writer Denis Norden has died. He was 96.

Norden was most famous as the original host of the long-running TV bloopers show It'll Be Alright on the Night from 1977 to 2006. But before then he had had an important career as a pioneering writer of television and radio comedy.

With his writing partner Frank Muir he wrote Take It From Here which starred Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. They went on to write the Richard Briers sitcom Brothers in Law and appeared regularly on panel shows before It'll Be Alright on the Night made him a major TV star in his own right. 

Buy It'll Be Alright n The Night here.