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Crowd Unaware as Comic Literally Dies Onstage
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| 04/12/2019
| John Johnson
Posted on 04/12/2019 3:41:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: piasa
my favorite is still pinky lee—look it up
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:20:02 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Would you rather face a horse sized duck or 100 duck sized horses on the battlefield?)
To: tanstaafl44
Ha, ha!
Hee, hee!
My name is Pinky Lee!
That must been about 50 years ago...
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:22:04 PM PDT
by
W.
(Natty Light: The beer so nice, you'll taste it twice!)
To: RightGeek
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:23:41 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Responsibility2nd
People have NO SENSE OF HUMOR anymore. Geeze.
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:24:16 PM PDT
by
BobL
("Its hard to find a black cat in a black room, especially if the cat isn't there"Russians to Mueller)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:29:00 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Brains have been washed. Wheels have been greased. Fear has been mongered.)
To: Calvin Locke
Dont remember Foxx dying, but Dick Shawn is the most referenced for it.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.
To: Responsibility2nd
Actually, he went out doing what he loved. If youre a comic its a pretty noble way to.
To: GMMC0987
To: tired&retired
Fred Sanford - This is the big one! Im dying.
After all these years that bit still kills me.
To: Responsibility2nd
You’ve got to admire his commitment to a bit.
To: Responsibility2nd
Maybe he got the “Two-Minute Warning” that George Carlin talked about.
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posted on
04/12/2019 4:43:36 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Responsibility2nd
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.
To: Calvin Locke
Yep...right on stage. He had told the support staff they should never come on stage to check on him.
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:21:14 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Responsibility2nd
I think that’s how Dick Shawn went!
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:32:42 PM PDT
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Reily
To: Reily
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:33:52 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: Responsibility2nd
“Boy ... when you die at the Palace ... you really “die” and the Palace”.
- Mel Brooks.
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:40:45 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
To: Reily
Like Moliere, who died during a performance, and the audience thought it was part of the act.
To: CapnJack
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:42:43 PM PDT
by
CapnJack
To: GMMC0987
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posted on
04/12/2019 5:46:28 PM PDT
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HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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