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Sep 21, 2019 · Performers who get tepid response from an audience say they died onstage. Those who lay them in the aisles say they killed - killed. A new book takes those words to heart.
1 day ago · PUBLISHED: August 16, 2024 at 6:18 p.m. Comedian Perry Kurtz was reportedly killed in a hit-and-run late Thursday night in Los Angeles. He was 73 years old. The “America’s Got Talent ...
Sep 4, 2019 · American TV and radio comedian Frank Fontaine died just coming off stage (as indeed did Eric Morecambe, just six weeks after Tommy Cooper), In Fontaine's case he was struck by a fatal heart attack on August 4, 1978, just after a show in Spokane, Washington. But with some grim irony, it was at a benefit show, and he had just been given $25,000 ...
Sep 15, 2022 · July 30, 1989: Frank Prinzi performs at Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park. Scott Sommerdorf/The Chronicle. Paula Poundstone was not invited to perform at the first Comedy Day in Golden Gate Park...
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He was 98. Marshall died on Thursday, Aug. 15 of kidney failure at his home in Encino, Calif., his publicist Harlan Boll told The Associated Press, and his wife Laurie said, per Variety. Born ...
1 day ago · 00:00. 00:31. LOS ANGELES — Peter Marshall, the actor and singer turned game show host who played straight man to the stars for 16 years on “The Hollywood Squares,” has died. He was 98. He ...
3 days ago · Mitzi McCall, the comedian and actress who famously shared the 'Ed Sullivan Show' stage with the Beatles and memorably played a dry cleaner's wife with boundary issues on 'Seinfeld,' has died at 93.
