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09-29-2010, 04:45 PM
| | The only winning move is not to play. | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Gainesville/Ft. Lauderdale, FL | | | RIP Greg Giraldo
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09-29-2010, 04:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Alexandria, VA | | | Wow, that's crazy. I was just looking at the DC Improv website yesterday and was considering going to see him at his scheduled appearance in a few weeks.
RIP Greg, you brought a lot of laughs to the world.
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09-29-2010, 04:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | At first, I thought it was Pat Benatar's husband. |
09-29-2010, 05:15 PM
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RIP dude.
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09-29-2010, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok  At first, I thought it was Pat Benatar's husband. | thats neil
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09-29-2010, 05:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | What happened? If the link spelled that out, I missed it. Damn. RIP
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09-29-2010, 05:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wantagh, New York | | | Apparently he "accidentally" overdosed on prescription medication according to the article I read.
It truly is sad, he was a great and very underrated comic. Future roasts won't be the same without him. I find it to be such a waste when people die from prescription meds like that. |
09-29-2010, 07:11 PM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | Wow - this really sucks. He was a seriously funny dude. RIP. 
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09-29-2010, 10:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: cincinnati | | | he'd gotten clean and tried to get his life under control, and now hes dead. shame. i genuinely liked his comedy. he wasnt just the extra guy at the roast to me.
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09-29-2010, 11:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Switzerland | | | He really made me laugh. What a funny guy. RIP
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09-29-2010, 11:35 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | He was always the funniest roaster and a all around hilarious comedian. I always thought he should've been bigger than he was.
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09-30-2010, 12:06 AM
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09-30-2010, 01:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | Wow...RIP. HE was a frequent in studio guest here on Minnesotas KQRS morning show. I am sure they will be talking about this quite a bit today. |
09-30-2010, 01:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | RIP Greg
He was one of the best 5 comics around. Its a real shame because by all accounts he'd cleaned himself up quite a bit.
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09-30-2010, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Buffalo | | | That sucks, he was really funny. To be honest it confuses me when people pass away in hospitals days after their tramatic events; for instance, his overdose was this weekend... I thought that was something that would could only get better with time, not lead to death days later.
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09-30-2010, 08:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kosko That sucks, he was really funny. To be honest it confuses me when people pass away in hospitals days after their tramatic events; for instance, his overdose was this weekend... I thought that was something that would could only get better with time, not lead to death days later.
I obviously have no medical training or knowledge, and will stick to computers. | I've got no real knowledge on this, but it sounds like he was probably in a coma (it was reported he was breathing on his own) but perhaps he was "brain dead" as they say. They probably kept him on life support until his family could be there with him at which point they turned it off and he passed away without life support. It may well be that he was effectively "dead" without medical intervention on the Saturday.
Its such a shame, he was such a funny guy and a comedian I really like, Jesse Joyce, was a good friend of Gregs and did a lot of writing for him. As Jesse said on Greg's passing: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jesse Joyce I lost one of my best friends today. Greg Giraldo was a mentor and an older brother to me. I have never laughed as hard as with him, and I have never cried as hard as without him. He will truly be missed. To the comedy community he was one of the best there ever was, and I was privileged enough to watch him do it, and honored to help him do it. We spent days wandering malls in Georgia, looking for diners in Texas, and writing jokes in hotels in Los Angeles, and for those memories I will be forever grateful. We created and laughed till it hurt at the expense of Hasselhoff and Gary Busey and Flava Flav. And we talked and debated and wrestled sobriety together. When it was on it was great and when it was off it was hard, but goddamn he was funny. I learned what to do by watching him, and I also learned what not to do the same way. He gave the best advice he couldn’t apply to himself. He was my sounding board when I proposed and he was excited about my wedding. He was there for me when things didn’t go my way and he tried to make them right.
All I ever wanted to be since I was a kid was a stand up comedian. I never wanted to play pro baseball, so comedians were my heroes. Long before I was his friend, I was a fan. And I’m forever honored that I got to step to the plate with one of the greats in our industry. I got to play ball with Greg Giraldo every night for the last four years, and for that I will always feel blessed.
Goodbye buddy, I wish you hadn’t done that. Someday you and I will have a good laugh at your expense about this **** you put us through. I miss you my friend.
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09-30-2010, 08:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Mississippi | | | That sucks...Between him, and Robert Schimmel, that makes 2 of my favorite comics in the past month or so.
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09-30-2010, 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Carver That sucks...Between him, and Robert Schimmel, that makes 2 of my favorite comics in the past month or so. | and the recent passing of mitch hedberg,and richard jeni.....the solitary life on the road seems to really take it's toll.....physically,and mentally
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09-30-2010, 03:33 PM
| | | | In the words of William Shatner, "Greg Geraldo, you don't matter."
But seriously, that sucks. The guy was funny.
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