Warren Zevon
Gene Siskel
John Ritter
Bruno Kirby
Sid Newman (Sid the cue card guy)
Phil Leeds (Sid, Hank's elderly agent)
Fred De Cordova
who am I missing?
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I know, the list is ridiculous - just TOO many for how young they were.
Off the top of my head:
Phil Hartman
Chris Farley
Ray Combs
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Tom Snyder
Tommy Newsom
Ed McMahon
Herve Villechaize
Farrah Fawcett
Charles Nelson Reilly
Tom Poston
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Recap:
Warren Zevon
Gene Siskel
John Ritter
Bruno Kirby
Sid Newman (Sid the cue card guy)
Phil Leeds (Sid, Hank's elderly agent)
Fred De Cordova
Herve Villechaize
Farrah Fawcett
Charles Nelson Reilly
Tom Poston
Tom Snyder
Tommy Newsom
Ed McMahon
Phil Hartman
Chris Farley
Ray Combs
Is there a Larry Sanders curse, or is this normal attrition?
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I don't think it's a Larry Sanders curse, I think it's (sadly) just 'Hollywood'.
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Is Howard stern still alive, I haven't heard anything about him since he quit (retired) from radio
I am broke, I spent my money on fast cars, guns, and ammo, they rest my money was wasted
Howard Stern did not retire from radio. He just recently signed a new 5 year contract at Sirius satellite and will be on until 2015. Trust me, as an avid listener, Howard Stern is very much still alive.
shareThanks for the info I bought a Dodge truck last May with one year free Sirius radio and I never bothered listing to it because the slide in truck camper I bought for the truck blocks the signal and I never bothered putting in another antenna to move it to a location that wasn't blocked, I have been listening to MP3 old time radio shows burned into a CD.
The camper is off the truck and stored in the garage for the winter so I can pick up a signal, I am going to see if I can find the show
I am broke, I spent my money on fast cars, guns, and ammo, they rest my money was wasted
"Just Hollywood" ? I think this is a very casual statement the implications of which are incorrect. How about just life. Dying from old age, cancer, heart problems and leukemia happen to people every day, even outside Hollywood. Yes there were a couple of suicides, a murder and a drug overdose, and maybe you can chalk these things up to "Hollywood", but they happen out in the real world too. Your statement is implying that they all died Chris Farley style, partying and drugging it up, but obviously this is not true. The show started almost 20 years ago and guess what - people die.
John Ritter - heart defect
Warren Zevon - cancer
Gene Siskel - cancer
Farrah Fawcett - cancer
Tom Snyder - leukemia
Tom Poston - 85 years old
Charles Nelson Reilly - 76 years old
Tommy Newsom - cancer 78 years old
Ed McMahon - 86 years old
Herve Villechaize - Suicide
Phil Hartmen - murdered
Ray Combs - suicide
Chris Farley - drug overdose
I meant it's a 'hard life', probably a lot harder than we think.
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He was awesome on Sanders.
“I said DON'T EVER ASK ME TO BE ON THIS FÚCKIN' SHOW AGAIN!!!”
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Gene Siskel and John Ritter get into a fist fight backstage in one episode. I for one hope they buried the hatchet.
They didn't get into a fight. Ritter tripped over a dog that was loose in the studio. Ritter's agent thought it was Siskel's dog, but it was a stray.
Funny scene. Siskel has some good lines there. Of course, he is still a complete and total prick (R.I.P., of course), but I'm just sayin'...
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Really? I mean, surely he had bad days but I've never heard any of these "Gene Siskel was a huge prick" stories. I've seen the video of Ebert and Siskel sniping at each other during commercial breaks, it's mean but again, we have bad days.
When I think *beep* I think Lou Reed.
Anton Chigurh is dead and Spider-Man 3 is superior in every way to Funny Games.
Well the wierdest thing is (HOW IT WASNT MENTIONED ON THIS LIST, NO IDEA?) Ritter, Siskel and Zevon? ALL SAME SHOW! Whats the odds of that? Thats creepy! And i hope you were joking about the Siskel/Ritter fight? Was a joke! Dude you seriously thoguht that was real? Hope your joking, why they call it a comedy. And Ritter triiped on dog, didnt fight? But the argument was a joke, they were good friends. (JOEYGLADSTONEIV)
shareThe episode with all three of them - Off Camera - (Ritter, Siskel, Zevon) was on IFC last night. It was great to see them all, but also sad to think of what is ahead for them.
There is no spoon.
Ya i saw it that night too. I saw every episode when it was out. And no doubt one of the GREATEST shows ever! (Hank and Artie! Greatest characters EVER!!) But ya, when i saw that the other night. I had already in the past relized Ritter and Siskel died in that same episode and was thinking how weird? Then I saw Zevon, I didnt really know him at the time. 41 and more into R&B and Rap. But after Funny People i relized how good that guy was and how sad it was that he died also. Actually creeped me out! Was telling GF how bizarre both died and then saw him? Was really creped out then! Name me a series that had all 3 "guest stars" die before 55? So ya i saw that too. And when i saw this thread and NOT 1 PERSON MENTIONED THAT 3 WERE ON SAME SHOW. I figured the person that started this thread would have mentioned or 1 of the others? BUT NO? I thought for sure someone would have mentioned, you bring up deaths and fail too mention that 3 of the guest stars on the list, were all on 1 show!Obvisoully not real fans of the show, if they fail too mention this. But ya i saw also, and yes I was creeped out! Haa. Take care.
shareYes, I was joking. 'Buried the hatchet' was supposed to be a pun. And I guess I just misremembered the incident, but it seemed to me like the got into at least a verbal argument about a review Siskel gave one of Ritter's movies. I don't know, I have to rewatch the whole show again soon.
shareWhat's really odd about this list is that John Ritter, Gene Siskel, and Warren Zevon all appeared in the same episode.
shareWell... the Butthole Surfers (episode "The Prank") died in early 2002, but they've since been reborn as a touring-only act featuring their classic late-80s lineup of Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey, and sometimes Teresa Taylor. Gibby's side project "P", with Johnny Depp, Sal Jenco and Stevie Ray Vaughan's chief songwriter Bill Carter, seems to have permanently gone to the big 64-track studio in the sky, though. Requiscat Im Pax.
On a tangent, how many of Larry's guests have actually killed another person? THE NOSE magazine (sort of the West Coast's answer to SPY) once stated IN PRINT that it was Gibby who snuffed River Phoenix at Johnny's club the Viper Room way back when. IIRC, the basic accusation was that he had shot River up with some of Al Jourgensen's ultra-pure sh*t while knowing darn well that the little dude wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm pretty sure that stuff was what took out Loco Gringos front man Pepe Lopez and several other complacent users back here in Texas who were used to heavily cut Mexican "junk" (in every sense of the word). I won't go into the deal about how Gibby had been sharing a room in rehab with Kurt Cobain immediately prior to Kurt... well, you know what Kurt did.
Anyway, you know how the media is -- Rush Limbaugh said some patently false things about Gibby on his old TV show (Rush's producer Kit Carson freely admitted as much to me), and Bill Carter has told me that more than once he himself had actually committed the offenses (attacking paparazzi and that sort of thing) that the tabloids attributed to Johnny, simply because Depp's name was the one that would sell papers. So you gotta take what you read with a 30-lb. block of deer salt -- I'm sure you all knew that without me telling you, though!
- mnw
PS: Damn, this IS some strong stuff... (Just kidding!)
Robin Williams
shareWayne Rogers & a couple members of the Wu Tang Clan
Peter Falk
Andy Williams