Posted on 04/12/2019 3:41:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – "Imagine if I died in front of you lot here," veteran comic Ian Cognito told the crowd during a set Thursday in the English town of Bicester. A few minutes later, the 60-year-old did, in fact, die in front of the crowd, reports the BBC. For a few minutes, everybody thought it was part of the act and laughed along when Cognito sat down on a stool and went silent. After all, he had just joked about what it would be like to have a stroke and wake up speaking Welsh. But eventually, the emcee at the Atic bar went onstage and realized something was seriously wrong.
"Everyone in the crowd, me included, thought he was joking," said the emcee, Andrew Bird. He said Cognito had not been feeling well but decided to go on anyway. "He was like his old self, his voice was loud," said Bird. "I was thinking, 'He's having such a good gig.'" A paramedic who happened to be in the audience began performing CPR, but Cognito was pronounced dead at the scene when an ambulance arrived, reports CNN. "Died with his boots on," tweeted fellow comic Jimmy Carr, adding, "I'll never forget his kindness when I started out."
my favorite is still pinky lee—look it up
Ha, ha!
Hee, hee!
My name is Pinky Lee!
That must been about 50 years ago...
People have NO SENSE OF HUMOR anymore. Geeze.
Redd Foxx collapsed and died on the set of his sitcom "The Royal Family." At first his fellow cast members thought he was clowning around, faking a heart attack like he often did on "Sanford and Son." Dick Shawn died while performing on stage. He, too, made a joke about death a few minutes before it happened. The audience in this case also thought, at first, it was part of the act.
Actually, he went out doing what he loved. If you’re a comic it’s a pretty noble way to.
After all these years that bit still kills me.
You’ve got to admire his commitment to a bit.
Maybe he got the “Two-Minute Warning” that George Carlin talked about.
It used to be fairly common to hear someone say “If I’m not telling the truth, may God take a bolt of lightening and strike me down on this spot!!”
I don’t hear that much anymore. Maybe He started to take people up on their offer.
Yep...right on stage. He had told the support staff they should never come on stage to check on him.
I think that’s how Dick Shawn went!
“Boy ... when you die at the Palace ... you really “die” and the Palace”.
- Mel Brooks.
Like Moliere, who died during a performance, and the audience thought it was part of the act.
yes
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