R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

[hepcat]

Roku has a channel for an archive of many of the late night shows he hosted.. And Internet Archive has a bunch too.

[Hipolito]

Roku has a channel for an archive of many of the late night shows he hosted.. And Internet Archive has a bunch too.

I randomly selected this video, jumped around in it, and at 2:05:15.

I see there are Best of Big Chuck & Lil John videos on YouTube. Here's another great moment:


I guess Big Chuck is like Chicago's Son of Svengoolie.

[hepcat]

Fun trivia: one of the first "whacky" late night horror hosts in America was Cleveland's Ernie Anderson. Up to that point, most late night horror/sci fi hosts were vampires and other horror creatures who didn't dabble in comedy so much as play it straight. But Anderson's Ghoulardi was a hippie mad scientist who injected comedy into everything. That's where Big Chuck started off (as did comedic legend Tim Conway).

The trivia part of this is: Ernie Anderson was the father of Hollywood director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, etc.).

[McNutt]

Garth Hudson of The Band, dead at 87.

[Isgrimnur]

[AWS260]

Rest in peace, Cecile Richards. A huge champion of reproductive rights - it's a shame that her last years saw those rights being stripped from American women.

[RM2]

[Daehawk]

RIP to her. She got out before it all goes to shit.
As for that video I laughed. Good twist on Abbott & Costello.

[Isgrimnur]

Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull dies at 78

The singer had previously suffered multiple health problems, including bulimia, breast cancer and emphysema caused by decades of smoking.

In 2020, she contracted Covid-19 and was hospitalised for 22 days.

Doctors said they did not expect her to survive - but she pulled through, releasing her 21st album, She Walks in Beauty, a year later.

[Blackhawk]

I didn't realize that this was her with Metallica (time queued.)