Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Mitzi Shore, owner of The Comedy Store

...and mother of Pauly!

yes

Oh wow. I don't know anything about her first-hand, but she was a constant non diegetic presence in Maron's podcast.

J.D. McClatchy, poet and partner to book designer / novelist Chip Kidd.

J.D. McClatchy's martini recipe is as... particular as J.D. McClatchy was, may he rest in lemon-spritzed, Lucky Pierre peace pic.twitter.com/AHh3TXYBgL

— Matthew Schneier (@MatthewSchneier) April 11, 2018

x-post-- aww RIP Yvonne Staples. She was comfortable singing in the background.

Art Bell. No other details atm

Mr Veg said “He didnt die. (Solemnly) They came and got him.”

Some of my best road trip memories from my first visits here were the late nights listening to Coast To Coast with Mr Veg. A true piece of Americana imo

aw damn RIP

Miloš Forman.

Wtf no

Nooooooooo!

he was old

Sorry to see him go, but he did have a respectable run.

And, before that, a more interesting and cutting-edge one.

(Tho tbh, I love Amadeus as much as Soto, so.)

THEY finally silenced Art Bell. (And by "THEY," I mean old age.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/nyregion/david-buckel-dead-fire.html

David Buckel via self immolation.

Vittorio Taviani of the Taviani Brothers (directors of The Night of the Shooting Stars and Padre Padrone.

Also, R. Lee Ermey, though I don't have a source for that one.

Ermey's passing was confirmed via his Facebook/Twitter accounts. 72 years old, pneumonia -- unfortunate and by all accounts totally unexpected, but a hell of a run.

ah damn

i was a fan of his reality show Mail Call on the history channel (the other ones not so much)

Sadly remembering how he will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you.

Also unscrew your head and shit down your neck

FIVE FOOT NINE? I DIDNT KNOW THEY STACKED SHIT THAT HIGH!

giving a reacharound in his honor

lol

ronald chesney

Mostly for local Cleveland interest, but if you saw the documentary you know him: Maurice Reedus Jr., Cleveland's "Sax Man"

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2018/04/16/the-sax-man-maurice-reedus-jr-has-passed-away

Ah man, Harry Anderson:

http://www.wspa.com/news/night-court-actor-harry-anderson-dies-in-asheville/1126241637

Wow, we never did have a Night Court thread.

I don't think night court got screened much in the UK but i always loved his cameos in cheers

Well... NIGHT CORUT

Probably not the time, huh.

Still works!

Never watched NC, but I remember Anderson doing magic tricks on SNL.

;_; i loved night court, one of the random reruns we got in Australia

RIP Harry. He was a delight.
Also grownup Richie Tozier in the It miniseries. Beep beep :(

I love it.

When Harry Anderson used to shop at Zanadu Comics' university district store location in Seattle, he liked to attempt the same cash pranks that his "Harry the Hat" used on CHEERS. He did it often enough that the owner warned all his cashiers! Truly a character, on and off stage.

— John Jackson Miller (@jjmfaraway) April 17, 2018

lol

The social media reactions of his Night Court colleagues are unusually raw and heartfelt. They loved this guy.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/528656453/npr-newscaster-carl-kasell-dies-at-84-after-a-lifelong-career-on-air

;_;

crosses “Karl Cassell voicemail message” off my bucket list

Barbara Bush

Willow
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/17/queen-devastated-loss-last-remaining-corgi/amp/

Where does this fascination with British royal family come from, Stan?

I know that the queen, like many other people, loves her dogs, but fucked if I know why anyone else would care about them.

I don't actually know - maybe it's because some belgian newspapers and magazines want the number of visitors and controversial/stupid commenters that the daily mail has (because of the clicks), so they shamelessly steal a lot of those stories. There's a disproportionately large number of meghan and harry stories in there as well, for instance, even though even less people care about them over here than in the uk.

Relieved that the above, contrary to my initial reaction, was not in fact a flip notice of Warwick Davis's premature demise.

The British care about their royalty so that the French can continue making fun of them.

And to piss off Quebec.

Who says we care? Anyway, Stan is from Belgium!