One star was painfully absent from this year’s Still Laugh-In tribute on Netflix, and that’s because Arte Johnson was in too much pain and sickness to attend. Johnson died today. He was 90. He had previously beaten back non-Hodgkin’s …
Continue ReadingSammy Shore, the stand-up comedian who founded The Comedy Store in West Hollywood with his wife Mitzi in 1972 before giving her complete ownership in their divorce two years later, has died. Shore was 92. He was surrounded by his current wife and famil…
Continue ReadingTim Conway, simply one of the funniest individuals to perform on television, has died after a long illness. Conway was 85. Born in 1933 outside of Cleveland, Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway began his career as a radio disc jockey at Bowling Gree…
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English stand-up comedian Ian Cognito died Thursday night while performing a gig onstage in the town of Bicester, suffering a fatal heart attack. Cognito was 60. In this clip of Cognito from 2012, when he was 53, he joked about his declining health, ag…
Continue ReadingBrody Stevens was bombing, but all of the comedians were howling. I could’ve been talking about a show last week, or last year, but this was also the case the first time I saw Steven Brody Stevens perform live, onstage at the weekly open mics at …
Continue Reading“818 Til I Die” Comedian Brody Stevens has left us. The comedian and all-around ball of energy is dead at… MORE
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Comedic actress and director Penny Marshall has died. Marshall was 75. She died peacefully Monday night in her Hollywood Hills home, from complications due to diabetes. You might not have guessed the kid sister of Garry Marshall would grow up to be an …
Continue ReadingThe comedian Coolaide, a Detroit native who performed on BET’s ComicView and Bill Bellamy’s Who’s Got Jokes? and was touring with Lil Duval, died earlier this month after living with cancer for the past five years. As Coolaide himself…
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