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Willie Rushton ( August 18 1937 - December 11 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer.

As well as co-founding Private Eye (along with Christopher Booker, Paul Foot, and Richard Ingrams), originally acting as its layout artist and serving as one of its cartoonists until his death, he found fame in That Was The Week That Was and other television programmes with David Frost. Towards the end of his life he appeared as a guest on countless TV shows of varying quality, including Through the Keyhole.

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He is honoured by a blue plaqueGreater London Council blue plaque at Alexandra Palace, commemorating the launch of BBC Television there in 1936. A blue plaque is a sign attached to a house where someone famous once lived (or sometimes where a notable event took place) to commemorate th at Mornington Crescent tube stationMornington Crescent is a station in Camden Town in north London, named after the road it is on. The station is on London Underground's Northern Line Charing Cross branch, between Euston and Camden Town. It is in zone 2. The station was opened as part of t.



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