- He was made an O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to comedy drama. In 2017 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the University of Leeds.
- Co-author (with Graham Chapman) of "O Happy Day," a "lost" play which was discovered among Chapman's manuscripts and was finally produced nearly eleven years after Chapman's death. "O Happy Day" had its world premiere on September 22, 2000, at Dad's Garage Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
- He never learned to drive a car.
- Noted for his Groucho Marx impersonations.
- Wrote gags for the elite of British comedy, including Morecambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Marty Feldman, and countless others.
- He was a writer for Leeds-based Proscenium Players, the first Jewish amateur stage group, which was founded in 1948.
- Father of Bob Cryer and Tony Cryer.
- Hatch End, Middlesex, England (May 2009)
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