I did feel for him a bit whenever YouTube promoted clips from his last chat show, where he was frequently interviewing young reality TV stars he clearly knew nothing about and had zero interest in.
Oh. I knew he'd been ill. He's probably best known to me back whenever he was the big name on CNN, I seem to recall him interviewing Dana International no less.
I just remembered how they redubbed his cameo in Shrek 2 with Jonathan Ross, but also redubbed Joan Rivers (voicing a red carpet reporter character that was clearly modelled after her) with... Kate Thornton