I checked out this NY Post piece about a man dressed as a clown during the Macy’s parade who was making balloon animals and dropped dead from a heart attack, and the very first comment was so damned wrong, but it still made me laugh:
I saw that, he was acting a little funny before he died..
I told mom about it and she reminded me of the Chuckles the Clown episode on the Mary Tyler Moore show.
Eljai
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.
RIP.
The Conster
And yet, according to a link in that article, the real tragedy is Matt Lauer making 21.5 mil/yr while being universally hated.
Spankyslappybottom
God I hate Matt Lauer. I would love to sentence him to shoving his bristled head up Ann Coulter’s rectum, but then I realize that would punish neither.
Ben Franklin
Clowns used to scare the crap out of me.
http://www.writerscafe.org/uploads/stories/986224711d6cb6075c202180a1f2d599.jpg
Ben Franklin
Lauer had some good lines.
Back in 2000 after Katie Couric asked him what his Christmas wish was, he looked at her
and said, “Oh! You’re still here”
Leeds man
@Ben Franklin: Tim Curry doesn’t need makeup to scare crap out.
Leeds man
Let “what are you laughing at, motherfucker?” be my epitaph.
WereBear
Gee, it’s sad, but it was also during something he must have loved.
Not a bad way to go, all things considered.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
One of the best of the series. FSM only knows how they survived taping it.
J. Michael Neal
@Leeds man: My epitaph is going to be, “If you’d asked me first, I would have told you that was a bad idea.”
SiubhanDuinne
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
Agreed. MTM nearly weeping while trying to keep a serious face and hold back her guffaws — well, I think we’ve all been there at one time or another, but damn, that was a fine bit of acting.
Raven
And then there is Les Nessman’s Turkey drop!
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
As God is my witness, your link is all befucked.
Raven
@SiubhanDuinne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST01bZJPuE0
Raven
Decided not to have another day at the beach!
Tractarian
I don’t get it.
Raven
@Tractarian: He was a clown, he was acting funny. One might say that about someone that was ill.
Mike
Absolutely obligatory Simpsons quote:
J. Michael Neal
I’m mostly scoreboard watching tonight and hoping to get some writing done. Wisconsin beat St. Cloud 6-0 this afternoon; maybe the Badgers have finally figured out that they’re supposed to be a really good team. The big game tonight is Duluth @ North Dakota; it’s pretty much the only conference matchup where I’ll root for the ‘Dogs. As a Gopher fan, either one of these teams losing is a good thing. Ohio State @ Princeton is the other game I’m paying attention to.
The men playing at Vermont is on the TV, reminding me why I don’t miss full checking at all. The pituitaryball team beat a ranked opponent this afternoon, which I guess is a good thing.
Violet
Did they have to include the photo of the dead clown on the stretcher being loaded into the ambulance, with his poor wife, also in clown costume, right next to him? Death p0rn. Ugh.
Raven
And then there is the wonderful Cortero
Soonergrunt
That’s fucked up. Funny, but fucked up.
Raven
@Soonergrunt: You read “The Things They Carried”? The story of the grunts whistling “Lemon Tree Very Pretty” as they pick pieces of their buddy “Lemon” out of a tree after he steps on a mine is similar. (A mine is what guys call IED’s!)
Bill T.
It is my solemn wish that, at the poor man’s funeral, someone would whisper to just one other person, “Whatever you do, don’t laugh.”
Schlemizel
Cannibal one to cannibal two:
Does this clown taste funny to you?
Schlemizel
@J. Michael Neal:
Hey Mike! When UMD plays UND there is really one thing to cheer for – a meteor!
wasabi gasp
The last thing that guy twisted is a little kid’s mind.
Mike in NC
A great Far Side cartoon showed an angry clown looking at a case of handguns and saying “Laugh at me, will they?”.
YellowJournalism
So wrong and oh so right at the same time…
J. Michael Neal
@Schlemizel: One of those two teams wears green.
Rosie Outlook
How about some new Tunch, Lily, and Rosie pictures?
J. Michael Neal
The Buckeyes are in the middle of really damaging their prospects to earn an at-large NCAA berth come March. It won’t help anyone else in the WCHA, either, if they can’t come back to win this game.
Narcissus
Laughing at dead clowns is bad karma
gbear
@Mike in NC: My favorite clown cartoon shows a clown holding a cream pie in his hand while the shapely female acrobat standing in front of him says: “It’s been a wonderful evening Bobo, let’s not spoil it.”
It describes my dating life perfectly.
General Stuck
Dying is easy
Comedy is hard
Doing both at once will get you on Letterman.
opie_jeanne
@efgoldman: I’m so old that I remember when someone stole his mailbox in front of his house; it was painted in the same pattern as the checkered jacket he wore.
Tata
@Bill T.:
Ah, the curse of Jack Benny. You can’t go wrong with the classics.
Bart
Full episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLJrcS8lsg