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LONDON, England (AP) -- Jazz trumpeter and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton, host of the surreal British radio game show "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue," died Friday at the age of 86.
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In this photo from 2001, jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton performs in Oxford, England.

The performer's Web site said Lyttelton died peacefully at a London hospital after surgery.

Born into a prominent British family and educated at the elite Eton College, Lyttelton was a lifelong jazz fanatic who taught himself to play the trumpet as a teenager. He became an accomplished musician -- Louis Armstrong once called him Britain's best trumpeter -- and made a series of records for the EMI label with his Lyttelton Band.

He toured with the band well into his 80s and made an appearance on Radiohead's track "Life In A Glass House" in 2000.

Lyttelton's varied career took in World War II service in the Grenadier Guards and a stint as a cartoonist for the Daily Mail newspaper. He also wrote several books about music.

But for many he was best known as the host of British Broadcasting Corp.'s "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue," launched in 1972.

A self-styled "antidote" to ordinary game shows, the program built up a passionate following with its mix of silliness, wordplay and innuendo. Lyttelton was a master at delivering ribald double entendres, usually involving the show's fictitious scorekeeper, "the lovely Samantha."

He was also famous for his imaginative sign-off lines, which would begin, "As the delicate mayfly of time collides with the speeding windscreen of fate" or with some equally fanciful metaphor.

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Originally by: CCP Mitnal

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Originally by: Patch86

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