This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

His family moved to Oakland, California, when he was eight. Initially, they shared a home in Oakland with his cousins, four of whom became members of the rhythm & blues group The Pointer Sisters.

Frankenstein was an unpaid project, Wrightson describing it as a "labor of love" he worked on over seven years.[24]

In the summer of 2010, Stuke was featured on Celebrity MasterChef, where it was discovered that he was not a very good chef, despite his claim that he was.

Ugh

When ingested, the fruit is reportedly "pleasantly sweet" at first, with a subsequent "strange peppery feeling ... gradually progressing to a burning, tearing sensation and tightness of the throat." Symptoms continue to worsen until the patient can "barely swallow solid food because of the excruciating pain and the feeling of a huge obstructing pharyngeal lump."

(bernie) "Taupin was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to music"

The lyrical content includes many references to nature conservation, politics and feces.

Einstein was carried backstage, where five physicians worked to revive him. One surgeon used his pen knife[18] to make an incision for open heart massage; another used the ends of an electric cord as a makeshift defibrillator. With the remaining comedians on the bill reluctant to continue under the circumstances, Art Linkletter asked Tony Martin to sing a song; Martin's unfortunate choice was "There's No Tomorrow".[22]

Albert Brook’s dad?

Brooks’s

A whole new year for dumbass typos!

Yup, Parkyakarkus

Still kills me that Albert's birth name was Albert Einstein

That whole section reads like a comedy routine

Einstein turned to Milton Berle, who was seated next to him on the dais, and said, "Yeah, how come?" — then slumped into his lap. Berle's shout of "Is there a doctor in the house?" was initially thought to be a humorous ad lib (the event was a charity benefit for local hospitals and several physicians were in attendance), but the gravity of the situation quickly became clear.[18]

All the vaudeville comedians probably died premature deaths because everyone thought they were doing a bit

One time I took my cat to the the Emergency Animal Hospital for surgery and the waiting room was full of NYers in a way reminiscent of a Barney Miiler episode. At one point some older lady fainted, presumably stressed out about the expense in my cynical mind, but it could of course have just been about the possiblilty of losing the loved one, and one of the white coated vets immediately shouted "Is there a doctor in the house?"

Also, DIck Shawn to thread! (xpost)

One of the other pet lovers in that waiting room was a rock-and-roll-looking dude who turned out to be a very high level soundman who has worked with everybody and anybody and is also known for being discrete and keeping the secrets of the stars.

And told me how he once put a cat through chemo and the expense was nothing compared to the love the cat had given him.

But I digress. What do you call a cat like that?

Thank you Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance

Longevity expert J. I. Rodale's death on the Dick Cavett Show:

On June 8, 1971, Rodale was a guest on an early-evening taping of The Dick Cavett Show in New York City. The episode was slated to air later that evening. During his interview, Rodale said that he had "never felt better in his life!", and made quips like "I'm in such good health that I fell down a long flight of stairs yesterday and I laughed all the way" and "I've decided to live to be a hundred".[19] He had previously said, "I'm going to live to be 100, unless I'm run down by some sugar-crazed taxi driver."[12][13] Rodale's last interaction with Cavett before dying was "offering the host his special asparagus boiled in urine".[20]

After his interview, Rodale remained onstage and was seated on a couch beside the next interviewee, New York Post columnist Pete Hamill. Rodale suddenly made a "snoring sound" and slumped over.[19] According to Dick Cavett, Hamill leaned over to Cavett and said, "This looks bad." Cavett initially believed that Rodale was feigning disinterest for comedic effect; some in the studio recalled him joking, "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?", though he denied any memory of saying this.[19] Upon realizing the severity of the situation, he asked if there were any doctors in the audience. An internist and orthopedic surgeon, both in residency, rushed onto the stage and tried to revive Rodale with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

That one is the most legendary.

Comedian Frank Fontaine died of a heart attack immediately after performing at a benefit show where he had just raised $25,000 for heart research.[27]

Oh, come on.

The most eerie death on stage is the dude who played Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar in Australia and accidentally hung himself for real during a show.

This one's eerie too

Actress Edith Webster died onstage from a heart attack while performing her death scene in the play The Drunkard, in a lodge in Baltimore. The role called for her to sing "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" and then slump to the floor, which she did.[35]

That Wikipedia article is grimly fascinating.

2012: 23 December: American guitarist Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis, Ministry, Revolting Cocks) collapsed on stage during a specialRigor Mortisperformance in Fort Worth, Texas. Scaccia was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Cause of death was listed as a heart attack.

Shocking there was another nightclub fire involving pyrotechnics and flammable acoustic tiles just a few years after the Station nightclub disaster.

All the vaudeville comedians probably died premature deaths because everyone thought they were doing a bit

See Tommy Cooper in that listicle.

That Scaccia death really sucked. Hard to believe it's already been 12 years

Actor and comedian Joe E. Ross suffered a heart attack and died while performing on stage on the evening of 13 August. His wife reportedly collected just half of Ross's fee because he had failed to do a full show.

My God that's cold

Actor Renato Di Paolo was portraying Judas in a passion play outside of Rome on the day before Easter. During the hanging scene he accidentally hanged himself, and died soon after

Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

I've been compulsively reading the list of unusual deaths as well.

A poodle named Cachy, in Caballito, Buenos Aires, fell 13 floors and hit 75-year-old Marta Espina, killing both instantly. In the course of events, 46-year-old Edith Solá came to see the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. An unidentified man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital.[254][255]

This one is haunting me

1861: The four Gale sisters were a team of British ballerinas who were appearing at Philadelphia's Continental Theater. They were among eight dancers who died when Zelia Gale's gauze dress caught on fire from a gas tube. The deadly flames spread to the other three sisters Hannah, Ruth, and Adeline when they tried to rescue their sibling.

*gulp*

The Aristocrats

I wouldn't mind going out like this

On March 24, 1975, Alex Mitchell, from King's Lynn, England, died laughing while watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, featuring a kilt-clad Scotsman with his bagpipes battling a master of the Lancastrian martial art "Eckythump", who was armed with a black pudding. After 25 minutes of continuous laughter, Mitchell then slumped on the sofa and died from heart failure. His widow later sent The Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments of life so pleasant.

Jesus how many Judases accidentally hung themselves

It's the "Omen/Theater of Blood" crossover I never knew I needed!

xxxp to Matt #2 also horrifying is that most people did not know that the best way to react is to "stop, drop, and roll" if you are on fire until very recently

https://www.aarbf.org/the-origins-of-stop-drop-and-roll/

According to Vincenzoni, Richard Harris had begun to drink heavily on set after reading a tabloid magazine and seeing a photograph of his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He reportedly intended to stop performing and fly to Malibu in order to kill them, relenting only after getting into a brawl which resulted in Vincenzoni getting a black eye.[9] The 46-year-old Harris insisted on performing his own stunts in the polar sequences and was nearly killed on several occasions.[3]

the young men are described as "short, and blond, and full of creme",[10] with creme being a euphemism for semen.

That's one fancy Twinkie.

Might skip crème brûlée for my dessert.

In 2018 the Elevator Repair Service premiered a sequel written by Kate Scelsa, titled Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf. This play introduces new plot elements such as vampirism.[36]

Horrible story and very sad but this detail caught my eye:

Detmar Blow went on to have an affair with Stephanie Theobald, the society editor of British Harper's Bazaar,[19] while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a gondolier she met in Venice.

From the wiki page of Neil Buchanan, presenter of Art Attack et al:

Buchanan was in a heavy metal band called Marseille which formed in 1976: they were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene, releasing four albums and six singles, touring America and performing with Judas Priest, Nazareth and Whitesnake.

It was either this or the 'shockingly old" thread.

In November 1933, Donenfeld drafted Armer to form a company called Super Magazines which ended up specializing in the mixed girlie/genre pulps, Spicy Adventure, Spicy Detective, Spicy Mystery and Spicy Western. After getting charged with obscenity, and narrowly escaping jail, Donenfeld changed the name of Super Magazines to Culture Publications.

This was the first album by the Raspberries to feature songs with profanity. Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once, and the song "Party’s Over", which featured the word "shit" twice.

Those songs were "Starting Over", which featured the word "fucking" once,

Have I been listening to a different song all these years?

Same

It's in the first line. Tho he kind of mumbles it.

Wow, there goes it's chances of being used as the theme tune for a 70s sitcom about a recently divorced couple slowly falling back in love.