Jackie Mason, the stand-up comic whose career spanned several decades and became a template and poster child of sorts for Jewish self-deprecation, died Saturday at the age of 93. His friend, lawyer Raoul Felder, confirmed Mason’s death to the New York Times.
“My humor — it’s a man in a conversation, pointing things out to you,” he told the Times in 1988. “He’s not better than you, he’s just another guy. I see life with love — I’m your brother up there — but if I see you make a fool out of yourself, I owe it to you to point that out to you.
THE DRUDGE REPORT SPLASHED THIS ON WEDNESDAY AROUND NOON:
It was the first official “siren” that Drudge has used in months. This time because the death of a conservative radio icon had occurred. Drudge also appeared as a guest host from time to time through the years on the “EIB” network…
The news has broken.. “El Rushbo” had finally succumbed to cancer.
In his final radio broadcast of 2020, Limbaugh thanked his listeners and supporters, revealing at the time that he had outlived his prognosis.
“I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” he said. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
He died Wednesday at the age of 70 after a battle with lung cancer, his family announced.Limbaugh’s wife, Kathryn, made the announcement on his radio show…
Former President Trump honored him with a medal of freedom during the 2020 State of the Union Speech, something that rallied the base but made the rest of America recoil.
Rush Limbaugh had been one of the most controversial figures in media and politics in a generation. His 1990s “AIDS update” featured gags in which he made jokes about gay people catching the virus. Many accused him of hatred .. Hillary Clinton accused him of being the head of the ‘vast right wing conspiracy’ that was trying to take her husband Bill Clinton out of the presidency. (And you thought our current time was divisive!)
The legacy of Rush can be written in two chapters. One would focus on the political rhetoric. The other would focus on his ascension to the great halls of radio.
There was always something magical about the Rush Limbaugh program on radio. He tried the same thing on syndication in the 1990s but it ended up failing, despite having a live audience and trying the same bits he used on his AM show.
We are students and lovers of radio. It is a dying art. The stars of yesterday are quickly leaving, or at least leaving radio. Rush Limabaugh among a very famous pack of people in the 1980s and 1990s keeping AM alive years longer than expected. You can platy it all day and keep every hour occupied. Howard Stern, Rush, Dr. Laura, and Art Bell to round out the night with alien life.. It was a grand heyday for terrestrial talk. Long form radio.
Rush had defenders and those offended. But during his prime, he was the “must listen” to show both the Newt Gingrich-led Congress and the Clinton White House. Rush Limbaugh often set the agenda or at least regurgitated the talking points in a different way that appealed to the “Dittoheads” that listened.
During his lifetime he rose in prominence from just a few stations to hundreds. He wrote two books.. he had a TV show. And he never stopped radio. He made Manheim Steamroller famous at Christmas. He had public bouts with painkillers.. he almost went deaf. And he clearly got a new set of choppers in the mean time. Rush had a life.
The aftermath of his death is predictable. People who love him are venerating him as a saint. While those who opposed are dancing on his body as it assumes room temperature. It is better to wait to comment on something these days than immediately react.. the herd mentality becomes a feeding frenzy of commentary. A tower of babble. Everyone is babbling.
The President himself had a response to the death of Rush Limbaugh that was communicated by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki:
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60 MINUTES did a piece of Rush Limbaugh in 1991.. it is fascinating to go back 30 years to hear of how Rush was proud to be called the most dangerous man in politics…
Larry King, the celebrated television and radio host, has died at the age of 87, weeks after battling COVID-19.
King’s production company announced his death in a statement on Saturday.
‘With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host, and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,’ the company said.
‘Ora Media sends our condolences to his surviving children Larry, Jr., Chance, Cannon and the entire King family.’
No cause of death was given, however, it comes three weeks after King was hospitalized with coronavirus.
Those who aren’t old enough to remember may not realize how important each night of LARRY KING was, how he had the top political players, Hollywood stars, and pop culture icons. Nightly for years.. And he took calls, too..
Larry King was an unlikely TV.. A MASSIVE ego and a huge amount of talent and intelligence..
This year has been tragic.. SO many lost.. so many to mourn. It started quickly after 2020 began and seemingly never stopped since then…
Neil Peart of Rush dead of brain cancer at 67 in Los Angeles …
The actor’s mother, Jane Badler, confirmed Harry Hains died at the age of 27. He was an actor in AMERICAN HORROR STORY and the OA
Jim Lehrer, the retired PBS anchorman who for 36 years gave public television viewers a substantive alternative to network evening news programs with in-depth reporting, interviews and analysis of world and national affairs, died on Thursday at his home in Washington. He was 85.
Dead in a helicopter crash.. RIP Kobe Bryant #RIP
Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday. He was 103.
Mad Mike Hughes was his name. Flat earth was his game. He set out to prove the truth. Hughes, a self-styled daredevil, flat-Earth theorist and limousine stuntman, died when his jury-rigged contraption propelled him on a column of steam, spiraled through the air and cratered into the sagebrush outside Barstow, California. He was 64.
Eddie Van Halen.. dead in ’20
Jeremy Bulloch, who played the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, died Dec. 17 at age 75 following health complications, including several years living with Parkinson’s disease.
Longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek died Nov. 8 at age 80 following a battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer
Sean Connery, the Scotland-born actor who was the first star to play James Bond and became one of the franchise’s most iconic stars, died at the age of 90 on Oct. 31
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Sept. 18 at the age of 87 from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer.
On July 24, icon TV talk show host, singer, and media personality, Regis Philbin, died from a heart attack in his home
WWE is saddened to learn that Jon Huber, known to WWE fans as Luke Harper, died at the age of 41..
In 2020, so many deaths.. so much COVID. The New York TIMES did a front page story when the death toll hit 100,000.. since then the number dramatically soared above..
Tommy “Tiny” Lister, who appeared in “Friday” and “The Fifth Element” and was also a professional wrestler, died Thursday, his manager Cindy Cowan confirmed.
Cowan said he was found unresponsive in his apartment in Marina del Rey, Calif. after displaying symptoms of COVID-19 in recent days.
He had been working on a film and had to cancel shooting after falling ill, Cowan said…
WWE is saddened to learn that Tom “Tiny” Lister, known as Zeus to the WWE Universe, passed away today at age 62. Zeus first entered the squared circle opposite Hulk Hogan in the 1989 film “No Holds Barred.” The rivalry extended beyond the big screen, as The Human Wrecking Machine quickly formed a common bond with “Macho Man” Randy Savage in their shared quest to take down The Immortal One. Zeus & Savage battled Hogan & Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake in the main event of SummerSlam 1989. One of Zeus’ most memorable moments came at Survivor Series 1989 as part of Ted DiBiase’s Million Dollar Team, when The Human Wrecking Machine got the better of The Hulkster in an impressive display of strength. Lister famously portrayed the daunting Deebo in the classic “Friday” and “Next Friday” movies, as well as roles in “The Fifth Element,” “The Dark Knight,” and “Zootopia.” WWE extends its condolences to Lister’s family, friends and fans.
this video from May 1989 is when Zeus showed up in the WWE, then WWF, world..
The Entertainment world in shock! .. BLACK PANTHER star dies surrounded by wife and family at home… Has been battling colon cancer..
MARVEL releases a statement: Our hearts are broken and our thoughts are with Chadwick Boseman’s family. Your legacy will live on forever. Rest In Peace.
Chris Evans remembers Chadwick Boseman: “I’m absolutely devastated. This is beyond heartbreaking… He was a deeply committed and constantly curious artist. He had so much amazing work still left to create. I’m endlessly grateful for our friendship”
HARRY KNOWLES: Just wow. At some point the year CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR, he had to have learned he had Colon Cancer. Chadwick never ceased being an amazing hero. What a final four years he led. Just amazing. Watching BLACK PANTHER, I’m in awe of the man.
VP Candidate Kamala Harris, who Boseman recently endorsed on his Twitter page: “Heartbroken. My friend and fellow Bison Chadwick Boseman was brilliant, kind, learned, and humble. He left too early but his life made a difference.”
Mark Ruffalo: “It was the highest honor getting to work with you and getting to know you. What a generous and sincere human being.”
Clint Smith, writer at the ATLANTIC: I keep thinking about my 3-year-old in his Black Panther costume. How he wore it almost every day when he got it, refused to take it off. The way he walked around saying “I’m the Black Panther.” How happy it made him. What Chadwick gave us was immeasurable. What an enormous loss.
Martin Luther King III: Chadwick Boseman brought history to life on the silver screen, from Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall. As Black Panther, he was also a superhero to many. And despite his 4 year long battle with cancer, he kept fighting and he kept inspiring. He will be missed.
“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman has died at 43. His Twitter account reported that he had been battling colon cancer.
Boseman also appeared in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” “Get on Up,” “42” and “Draft Day.”
“It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman,” the statement read. “It was the honor of his life to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.”
Brian Austin Green texted “Beverly Hills, 90210” co-star Luke Perry‘s phone after his death, knowing he wouldn’t get a response.
“I texted him after he passed, knowing obviously that he can’t text me back but on some level, hoping that he would text me back, or that he was out there somewhere,” Green, who starred as David Silver alongside Perry’s Dylan McKay on “90210,” explained recently on his podcast.
“And I know he is. I know he’s looking down and I know he’s smiling.”
Tributes from stars like Kristin Chenoweth and Bette Midler poured in to honor the life and career of Carol Channing, the three-time Tony Award-winning musical comedy star who delighted American audiences over 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” on Broadway and beyond. She died Tuesday at 97.
Publicist B. Harlan Boll said Channing died of natural causes at 12:31 a.m. Tuesday in Rancho Mirage, California. Boll says she had twice suffered strokes in the last year.
Legendary wrestling announcer “Mean” Gene Okerlund died at the age of 76, WWE announced Wednesday.
Okerlund was one of the more recognizable names in sports entertainment with his career spanning the American Wrestling Association, World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment.
We did know something MeanJean.. you were the voice of countless childhood backgrounds and will hold a special place in millions of people’s hearts ..
