It's what he would have wanted

In memory of Maurice Gibb - cremated today - we offer the top five BeeGees pisstakes:

1. The HeebeeGeeBees - 'Meaningless Songs In Very High Voices' Vocal groups featuring TV's Mr. Sex Angus Deayton and the genius of pisstake pop, Phil Pope. Oddly, incredibly popular in Australia

2. Rock Profile - One of the best editions of UK Play's Lucas and Williams series, which suggested that Barry controlled the other two through a series of whistles and commands.

3. Big Train - Sherrif Chaka Khan hunting down the BeeGee boys in the Wild West. Best enjoyed alongside 'The artist formerly known as Prince stalking jockeys' and 'Chairman Mao rises from his deathbed to sing Virginia Plain'

4. Kenny Everett - An odd sketch in which he purchased a Make Yourself A BeeGee kit, slowly mutating into Barry Gibb at the orders on the cassette tape

5. Clive Anderson Talks Back - suddenly, it became very obvious that the BeeGees (or, at least, Barry) had no sense of just how ridiculousl the band could be perceived as being.

Bubbling under: The Legs and Co routine for Tragedy - Pierrot clown being all sad - when it was number one we can only assume was meant to be a gentle pisstake from Top of the Pops.

Oh, and we're no experts, but if the surviving brothers really are going to fight the hospital every inch of the way over Maurice's treatment in hospital, isn't burning the body going to make anything difficult to prove?