http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3955511.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1330563,00.html
Most of us in the States only encountered him second-hand (though a local college station syndicated his show for a couple of years and it was unlike anything I've heard before or since) but there aren't many people that you can honestly our culture would be completely different if not for them. And the man worshipped The Fall.