A major London show is planned to celebrate the life of Barry Cryer, who passed away earlier this year.

Stephen Fry, Harry Hill, Barry Humphries, Bill Bailey, Stewart Lee, Gyles Brandreth and many more will be at the Lyric Theatre in the West End, London on June 13. Michael McIntyre, John Cleese and Eddie Izzard will be there on film according to The Times.

When Cryer died his family issued a statement which said, among other things, that "Baz" never really liked the term "comedy writer" or "comedian" and preferred the description "hack" or "entertainer" and thought the term "national treasure meant that he'd just been dug up".

Writing in an article paying tribute to Cryer and announcing the gig, broadcaster Paddy O’Connell quoted some of Cryer's timeless jokes that he was telling right up to the end.

He would famously phone friends on a daily basis and deliver jokes down the line. O’Connell says: " He even called me every week to critique my Sunday BBC Radio 4 programme Broadcasting House. I’d be walking my dog in the hour or so after each edition and my phone would ring. 'Cryer here . . .' If, by bad luck or bad judgment, I’d helmed a mediocre hour, he’d always pick on the one thing that had gone well.In fact I knew something was wrong when these calls stopped coming.

O’Connell offered one more Cryer classic:

A man and his wife are at a café. “That’s the Archbishop of Canterbury isn’t it?” says the husband. “Go over and ask him.” So the woman hops across the road and says: “Excuse me, but are you the Archbishop of Canterbury?” “F*** off,” replies the stranger.

The wife returns to her husband, who asks: “Well, what did he say?” “He told me to f*** off,” she says. “Oh dear,” he says. “Now we’ll never know.”

Update - the full line-up has now been announced and is:

Tickets for Barry Cryer: A Celebration on June 13 at the Lyric Theatre go on sale on Friday 6th May from nimaxtheatres.com. Profits go to the Royal Variety Charity