When I heard that Gilbert Gottfried passed away, my immediate thought was “damn, Bob Saget & Gilbert in the same year. Two of the funniest guys from The Aristocrats.” Do you know that movie? It was a documentary about this famous joke among comedians. The entire movie is comedians talking about the joke and giving their rendition of it. As I started thinking about it, I realized there were a few other comedians from that movie that passed away too. I thought it would be funny to make up a fake curse about the movie. But then I started going through the comedians who performed in the movie…23 out of 87 have passed away! That is 26%. That seems a bit crazy. The movie came out in 2005.
I mean, I do not believe in curses or anything like that. There is a more logical conclusion: many of those performers were old. It is not that shocking that people die in the course of seventeen years.
-Shelley Berman
-David Brenner
-George Carlin
-Tim Conway
-Phyllis Diller
-Carrie Fisher
-Joe Franklin
-Gilbert Gottfried
-Richard Jeni
-John Szeles
-Alan Kirschenbaum
-Paul Krassner
-Jay Marshall
-Chuck McCann
-Taylor Negron
-Otto Petersen
-Gary Owens
-Don Rickles
-Bob Saget
-Rip Taylor
-Johnny Thompson
-Fred Willard
-Robin Williams
I guess what started out as a weird observation/joke ended up turning into me being sad over the crazy amount of talented comedians we have lost over the years.
