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"Lee Gordon"

10/12/2005 5:40 PM

OT - Richard Pryor - RIP

Died today, age 65.

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"foggytown"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 3:34 AM

I don't get into discussions about who is the funniest comic bvecause
it is so personal and so subjective. For every Bill Cosby fan there's
a Woody Woodbury (remember him?) fan as well.

FoggyTown

w

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 4:28 PM


Doug Payne wrote:
> Wherever he is, I betcha' he's still low-runnin'.

Cap backwards, yessir.

KC

Kevin Craig

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

12/12/2005 2:10 AM

In article <[email protected]>, Buddy Matlosz
<[email protected]> wrote:

> But to this day, nobody can reduce me to tears like Sam Kinison
> when he got on a roll.

"Don't send 'em food. Send 'em U-Hauls! Send 'em luggage! TAKE 'EM
WHERE THE F*#@ing FOOD IS!"

<G>

LD

Lobby Dosser

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 4:13 AM

Robatoy <[email protected]> wrote:

> But don't pay any attention to me...I'm the guy who thinks Nathan Lane
> is one of the funniest people alive...no wait.. Charlie Callus is the
> funniest....Carson?? Or was it Jonathan Winters? Richard Jeni... yes
> Jeni cracks me up... did I mention Carlin? I meant to say Lee Evans..
> (Mouse Hunt is VERY funny.. in spots..) I just KNOW I'm missing a few
> hundred...
>

Wanda Sykes!

Ld

LRod

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 12:48 AM

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Died today, age 65.

A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
heard. Followed the too-much-money-too-soon path common to celebrity
and fried his body while trying to fry his brain.

The ultimate irony was survinving that only to fall victim to a slow
acting debilitating disease.

Another candidate for the John Belushi memorial "you could have made
us laugh for years, but, n-o-o-o-o" award.


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LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Proud participant of rec.woodworking since February, 1997

cb

charlie b

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

10/12/2005 10:51 PM

Eugene McCarthy also died today - at 82.

Both men tried to change things - for the better - and did.

Not a bad obit for my money.

charlie b

Nw

Noons

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 11:29 PM

Lee Gordon apparently said,on my timestamp of 11/12/2005 9:40 AM:

> Died today, age 65.
>

and sorely missed.


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Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
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TW

Tom Watson

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 7:26 AM

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Died today, age 65.


"Mizz Rudolph could you please do somethin' 'bout dis monkey"

"I don't have ta do nuttin' 'bout da monkey. Da monkey live here.

You just visitin'"


(Is It Something I Said, 1975)


Tom Watson - WoodDorker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (email)
http://home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1/ (website)

oG

[email protected] (George G)

in reply to Tom Watson on 11/12/2005 7:26 AM

11/12/2005 10:40 PM

Years ago he almost died when that cigarette lighter accidently lit in
his pants pocket. Remember?

BM

"Buddy Matlosz"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 3:19 AM


"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:45:02 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >Oh... then there is Ron James who got a slice of ham so thin once, that
> >the pig didn't even know it was missing from his arse.
>
> My favorite line about thin meat has always been, "...it was so thin
> it only had one side."
>
Better yet, the Seinfeld episode where Kramer got the deli meat slicer -
"It's all surface area, Jerry, there's no place for the flavor to hide!"

B.

LG

"Lee Gordon"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

12/12/2005 1:18 AM

<<I personally never found Pryor all that funny - seemed like he just cussed
for the sake of cussing.
[snip]
But to this day, nobody can reduce me to tears like Sam Kinison
when he got on a roll.>>

I find this combination of sentiments somewhat odd. There is hardly a
better example of cussing for the sake of cussing than Kinison. Pryor was
the guy who cleared the path for Kinison and so many others like him.
I thought they were both pretty damn funny.

Lee

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BM

"Buddy Matlosz"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 3:29 AM


"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Died today, age 65.
>
> A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
> heard.

I personally never found Pryor all that funny - seemed like he just cussed
for the sake of cussing.

>Followed the too-much-money-too-soon path common to celebrity
> and fried his body while trying to fry his brain.
>
> The ultimate irony was survinving that only to fall victim to a slow
> acting debilitating disease.
>
> Another candidate for the John Belushi memorial "you could have made
> us laugh for years, but, n-o-o-o-o" award.
>
Now HE was funny. Great physical comedian. He could draw laughs with a joke,
body language, or just a facial expression. The SNL show where he did the
Joe Cocker impersonation side-by-side with Cocker is still one of my
favorites. But to this day, nobody can reduce me to tears like Sam Kinison
when he got on a roll.

B.

Rd

Robatoy

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 9:29 AM

In article <[email protected]>,
LRod <[email protected]> wrote:

> My favorite line about thin meat has always been, "...it was so thin
> it only had one side."

I'll be using this...<G>

Rd

Robatoy

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

10/12/2005 10:45 PM

In article <[email protected]>,
LRod <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Died today, age 65.
>
> A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
> heard.

He's way up there, that's for sure. There are many funny comics and
comedians. (The difference being that a comic says things funny, and a
comedian says funny things.)

In my eyes Pryors a giant, a view not shared by everybody. It is such a
personal call. The top is very wide in that category. Even Jerry Lewis
is funny when he's not trying to be.

But don't pay any attention to me...I'm the guy who thinks Nathan Lane
is one of the funniest people alive...no wait.. Charlie Callus is the
funniest....Carson?? Or was it Jonathan Winters? Richard Jeni... yes
Jeni cracks me up... did I mention Carlin? I meant to say Lee Evans..
(Mouse Hunt is VERY funny.. in spots..) I just KNOW I'm missing a few
hundred...

Anyway.. we lost a very talented guy. He will be missed.

Oh... then there is Ron James who got a slice of ham so thin once, that
the pig didn't even know it was missing from his arse.

DP

Doug Payne

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 8:20 AM

On 10/12/2005 5:40 PM, Lee Gordon wrote:

> Died today, age 65.

Wherever he is, I betcha' he's still low-runnin'.

Ld

LRod

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 7:21 AM

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:45:02 -0500, Robatoy <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Oh... then there is Ron James who got a slice of ham so thin once, that
>the pig didn't even know it was missing from his arse.

My favorite line about thin meat has always been, "...it was so thin
it only had one side."

I've used that for so long, I don't even remember now if I heard it
from someone else or if I made it up myself...I wish...


--
LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net

Proud participant of rec.woodworking since February, 1997

BM

"Buddy Matlosz"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 10:11 AM


"foggytown" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I don't get into discussions about who is the funniest comic .....

Don't look now, but I think you just did.

B.

md

mac davis

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 1:43 PM

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:02:38 -0700, Mark & Juanita <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:48:27 +0000, LRod <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Died today, age 65.
>>
>>A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
>>heard. Followed the too-much-money-too-soon path common to celebrity
>>and fried his body while trying to fry his brain.
>>
>>The ultimate irony was survinving that only to fall victim to a slow
>>acting debilitating disease.
>>
>>Another candidate for the John Belushi memorial "you could have made
>>us laugh for years, but, n-o-o-o-o" award.
>
> Yep, definitely funny. Certainly more funny than some of his successors,
>such as Eddie Murphy. Murphy always struck me as this kid, looking at the
>audience like he was looking at his parents or other superiors, just trying
>to find out how much he could get away with saying. Watching some of his
>concerts on HBO and others in the 80's, he would tell a joke, then look at
>the audience with that "gee, I wonder if I'll get slapped for this one"
>look.
>
>
my kids were REALLY into Eddie Murphy during his standup days... thought his
material was "so good"...
One night, I played them the "This nigger's crazy" album (sorry, but that's the
title) and they were shocked... the little one (35 now) said "he stole Eddies
lines".. rofl

I had to tell him that Eddie wasn't putting sentences together yet when Pryor
wrote that stuff...

I'll miss Pryor, but have been missing him for years... IMO, it all went down
hill after he set himself on fire..

>
>
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> If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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mac

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TT

"Toller"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 4:37 AM


"LRod" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Died today, age 65.
>
> A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
> heard. Followed the too-much-money-too-soon path common to celebrity
> and fried his body while trying to fry his brain.
>
Much of his stuff was just reworked trash, but he could be funny. Did you
see his network show, both episodes? It was the best TV I have seen, so I
guess it didn't stand a chance.

MJ

Mark & Juanita

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

10/12/2005 7:02 PM

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:48:27 +0000, LRod <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:40:28 -0500, "Lee Gordon"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Died today, age 65.
>
>A sad story. Immensely talented--possibly the funniest comic I ever
>heard. Followed the too-much-money-too-soon path common to celebrity
>and fried his body while trying to fry his brain.
>
>The ultimate irony was survinving that only to fall victim to a slow
>acting debilitating disease.
>
>Another candidate for the John Belushi memorial "you could have made
>us laugh for years, but, n-o-o-o-o" award.

Yep, definitely funny. Certainly more funny than some of his successors,
such as Eddie Murphy. Murphy always struck me as this kid, looking at the
audience like he was looking at his parents or other superiors, just trying
to find out how much he could get away with saying. Watching some of his
concerts on HBO and others in the 80's, he would tell a joke, then look at
the audience with that "gee, I wonder if I'll get slapped for this one"
look.




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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough

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Cs

"CW"

in reply to "Lee Gordon" on 10/12/2005 5:40 PM

11/12/2005 9:34 AM


"Buddy Matlosz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> >
> > Another candidate for the John Belushi memorial "you could have made
> > us laugh for years, but, n-o-o-o-o" award.
> >
> Now HE was funny. Great physical comedian. He could draw laughs with a
joke,
> body language, or just a facial expression. The SNL show where he did the
> Joe Cocker impersonation side-by-side with Cocker is still one of my
> favorites.

Remember the samurai chef? :)


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