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Comedian John Pinette dead

Comedian John Pinette dead

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John Pinette

He was found in a Pittsburgh hotel room and determined to have died of natural causes.

John Pinette, a stand-up Comedian whose career included a turn in the Seinfeldfinale, has died, his manager Larry Schapiro confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 50.
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He was found in a Pittsburgh hotel room and determined to have died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s office in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania told THR. Schapiro stated that the cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.
The Comedian was currently on a live tour that had set dates from April to June across venues in the U.S. and Canada.
Pinette’s film credits include roles in Junior (1994), The Punisher (2004) and The Last Godfather (2010). He starred in several comedy specials including Still Hungry (2011) and I’m Starvin (2006) and was a staple at Canada’s Just for Laughs festival.
On television, he appeared in the series Vinnie & Bobby, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose and High Tidebefore his role in the last Seinfeld episode in 1998.

This is heartbreaking. I loved him.

Comedian Hannibal Buress Called Out Bill Cosby’s Rape History on Stage

Comedian Hannibal Buress Called Out Bill Cosby’s Rape History on Stage

Thanks to The Cosby Show, Fat Albert and standup, Bill Cosby has become one of today’s most beloved public figures. Of course, mixed up in his celebrated entertainment career are over a dozen instances where Cosby allegedly drugged and raped various women — but that’s the part that most people would rather not talk about. Too bad for them, though, because Hannibal Buress is talking about it anyway.

Buress ( 30 Rock, Broad City) was recorded dropping this bold and beautiful bit during a set at the Trocadero in Philadelphia late last week:

"And it’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches. I don’t curse on stage. Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist. …I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. …I’ve done this bit on stage, and people don’t believe. People think I’m making it up. …That shit is upsetting. If you didn’t know about it, trust me. You leave here and google ‘Bill Cosby rape.’ It’s not funny. That shit has more results than Hannibal Buress."

The bit’s not only a solid call-out of Cosby’s hypocrisy, it’s also brave. Buress is a Comedian with a sitcom in the works and fans (like Chris Rock and Louis CK) in high places, but nothing gets people quite as angry and defensive as going after their entertainment heroes and exposing — or reminding us of — their gross and sometimes criminal pasts (see Woody Allen and Michael Jackson for more examples).

Buress takes his job as a Comedian seriously and nothing is more important to the profession than being outspoken and honest to yourself — two qualities he managed to perfectly em**** in his fearless (and, more importantly, accurate) Cosby musings.

Comedian Hannibal Buress Called Out Bill Cosby’s Rape History on Stage

Comedian Sid Caesar dead at Age 91

Comedian Sid Caesar dead at Age 91

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Comedian Sid Caesar dead At Age 91

February 12, 2024 3:36 PM

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خليجيةSid Caesar (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) –– Sid Caesar, a giant of the Golden Age of Television, has died.
He was 91.
Family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld says Caesar died early Wednesday.
Born Isaac Sidney Caesar in Yonkers, N.Y. on Sept. 8, 1922, the innovative, influential comedy genius’s sketches lit up 1950s television with zany humor.
Caesar’s two most important programs were “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour.” He used them to display his incredible skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy.
He paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became comedy classics.
He attracted a stable of young writers who went on to highly successful careers of their own including Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.
Caesar also appeared on Broadway and on the big screen in the 1963 comedy epic “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.”

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