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ha, i've been thinking for years that it was odd brucie's name never came up in relation to yewtree

― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 17:49 (eight years ago)

be careful there, Tarby might challenge you to a duel.

― calzino, Friday, 18 August 2017 17:49 (eight years ago)

well, tarbuck [REDACTED COMMENT]

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:01 (eight years ago)

holy shit bbc one is showing a new bruce forsyth documentary right now, they've clearly been cued up for this like a fucking military operation for months

― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:11 (eight years ago)

god help us when brenda finally carks it

― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 18 August 2017 18:11 (eight years ago)

Yeah, there's a danger with these pre-built ones.

Who was it recently who died, and amongst the tributes and sad-eyes was someone who you'd expect to have outlived the subject, but didn't?

― Mark G, Friday, 18 August 2017 18:58 (eight years ago)

Sonny Landham

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 18 August 2017 23:53 (eight years ago)

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/arts/music/paul-oliver-authority-on-the-blues-dies-at-90.html?emc=edit_ms_20170818&nl=louder&nlid=37355772&te=1&_r=0&referer=

Blues and architecture historian

― curmudgeon, Saturday, 19 August 2017 01:09 (eight years ago)

Sonny Burgess

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 August 2017 00:39 (eight years ago)

Shit. Thought he died years ago. He made a great album with Dave Alvin in 1992 called Tennessee Border; it's on Spotify.

― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 20 August 2017 00:59 (eight years ago)

Twitter is saying Dick Gregory. Nothing official yet, but he was hospitalized Friday.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 August 2017 02:04 (eight years ago)

(hospitalized several days ago, actually)

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 August 2017 02:06 (eight years ago)

Dick Gregory, 84.

― flappy bird, Sunday, 20 August 2017 04:02 (eight years ago)

RIP Dick

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 07:22 (eight years ago)

He was great :( RIP

― Οὖτις, Sunday, 20 August 2017 16:18 (eight years ago)

https://movies.mxdwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KingofComedy2.jpg

― mark s, Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:48 (eight years ago)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/advance-obit-jerry-lewis-dead-721408

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:52 (eight years ago)

lol at that url

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 20 August 2017 17:52 (eight years ago)

RIP Jerry ;_;

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:05 (eight years ago)

Is it wrong to be excited that this might lead to a release for The Day The Clown Cried?

RIP Jerry.

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:11 (eight years ago)

yes it is, aldo, and fuck you

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:12 (eight years ago)

Oh no! And just days after Morbs reminded me he was among the greatest living directors. Which without question he was.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:12 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsgHyRGA88

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:13 (eight years ago)

URL fixed btw, and "Nonpareil Genius of Comedy" wd've been unthinkable in America 30 years ago

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jerry-lewis-dead-nutty-professor-bellboy-star-was-91-721408

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:15 (eight years ago)

His 1972 film The Day the Clown Cried — a drama set inside a Nazi concentration camp — was never released. He donated a copy to the Library of Congress in August 2015, with the agreement the film not be shown for a decade.

― new noise, Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:22 (eight years ago)

RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 August 2017 18:28 (eight years ago)

Never understood why his work deserved any more respect than, say, Adam Sandler's

― Dan I., Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:01 (eight years ago)

But money for MD is good!

― Dan I., Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

many watch, few understand

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 20 August 2017 19:27 (eight years ago)

i loved Jerry so much as a kid, he was up there with the Marx Bros and Looney Tunes cartoons for happy tv-watching memories

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 August 2017 21:32 (eight years ago)

... and Laurel and Hardy. OTM.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Sunday, 20 August 2017 21:39 (eight years ago)

https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1306754173l/3422338.jpg

always had half a plan to interview him in a special ep, to kick off a third series of slug of time, re the craft of writing and editing SF short stories -- life and time got in the way, as they do :(

― mark s, Monday, 21 August 2017 12:10 (eight years ago)

A New Wave icon. I probably need to dig out some appropriate reading tonight. See you in the stars.

― Thomas Gabriel Fischer does not endorse (aldo), Monday, 21 August 2017 12:20 (eight years ago)

RIP (great Bruce Pennington cover, too)

― Gulley Jimson (Ward Fowler), Monday, 21 August 2017 12:29 (eight years ago)

RIP Mr. Aldiss.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 21 August 2017 12:33 (eight years ago)

Was just thinking of the Helliconia books the other day for some reason.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 August 2017 12:43 (eight years ago)

I haven't read much sci-fi, and I've enjoyed even less, but I really enjoyed his stuff. RIP.

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Monday, 21 August 2017 13:56 (eight years ago)

RIP. Barefoot in the Head is so classic

― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 August 2017 15:54 (eight years ago)

RIP. Greybeard is one of my favorite SF novels.

― new noise, Monday, 21 August 2017 15:55 (eight years ago)

RIP. Re-reading his books as a middle-aged adult has been so rewarding.

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 06:56 (eight years ago)

Jazz guitarist John Abercrombie. Listening to his 1975 album Timeless now (Jan Hammer on keyboards, Jack DeJohnette on drums) and it's amazing. Some really delicate stuff, then some wild prog-fusion explosions like a cross between Tony Williams Lifetime and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:21 (eight years ago)

Actor Jay Thomas (Cheers, Murphy Brown, David Letterman, etc.) - http://www.nydailynews.com/amp/entertainment/gossip/confidential/comic-actor-jay-thomas-dead-69-article-1.3439508

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:05 (eight years ago)

aw man :(

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 24 August 2017 19:07 (eight years ago)

he wasn't Carla's best husband but he was still funny. RIP

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:38 (eight years ago)

i seem to remember him as a DJ in the '70s, then he started popping up on sitcoms

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 August 2017 21:41 (eight years ago)

Yes. Believe he was the morning man on 99X.

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:43 (eight years ago)

Maybe that explains why he did the narration on all those "Best of Ed Sullivan" music specials on VH1.

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:48 (eight years ago)

http://www.nyradionews.com/wxlo/

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 August 2017 00:43 (eight years ago)

my dorm's radio station used the wxlo call letters because someone found a bunch of old carts from it. they had to eventually change the call letters because the company who now owns the station got wind of the brand infringement by a carrier current am station that barely reached the third floor of the building that housed it. but i guess it was a learning experience about trademarks for the students who had to deal with it.

― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:29 (eight years ago)

Aw damn, Jay Thomas. Though he got kicked off Cheers for some very unkind comments about Rhea Perlman irrc

― not not not not yr academy (stevie), Friday, 25 August 2017 12:31 (eight years ago)

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