Baby Boomer commits suicide? Where's the Hero tag?

We're told cops recovered a bottle of antifreeze and Gatorade in the hotel room ... and it's likely his death was due to consumption of the toxic chemical.

Hell. i knew Gatorade was little more than sugar water, but to call it a toxic chemical really puts it out there.

Who? And, the what again?

Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

You mean, as like opposed to all the 'real' curses?

Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

Everyone who has ever worked on SNL has died or will die! OMG!

Arkanaut: Everyone who has ever worked on SNL has died or will die! OMG!

Most SNL cast members are either dead, or their careers are.

If only someone had told him that it gets better.

SNL curse, seriously?

He wrote for SNL 30 years ago.

AverageAmericanGuy: If only someone had told him that it gets better.

Boredom never goes away.

I first read that as the "Saturday Night Live Cruise."

Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

No curse? Need I remind you of Charlie Rocket.

Crewmannumber6 Who? And, the what again?

he was an SNL redshirt
http://www.hulu.com/watch/97833/saturday-night-live-dont-look-back-in - anger

Is this like the Joker Curse after Heath Ledger died? You know Cesar Romero played the joker and HE DIED TOO!

Comedians and comedic writers have higher than average suicide rates. All good comedy is born of pain.

T.rex: Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

You mean, as like opposed to all the 'real' curses?

You know them real curses like breaking a mirror walking under a ladder with a black cat

I always thought the SNL curse was making lame movies based on SNL skits that are marginally funny in 5-10 minute doses.

On that note, does anyone remember that old Belushi SNL bit where he played an older version of himself, sitting in a cemetery with headstones of his SNL colleagues, saying he outlived them all - yet ironically, he was the first of them to die?

He wins for Smartest and Funniest of the thread.

/Because all this is is a popularity contest.
//Anti-freeze and Gatorade, yum.

No way?!

StrikitRich: Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

No curse? Need I remind you of Charlie Rocket.

And Victoria Jackson. And Dennis Miller. The dead are the lucky ones.

Scurvy Dog On that note, does anyone remember that old Belushi SNL bit where he played an older version of himself, sitting in a cemetery with headstones of his SNL colleagues, saying he outlived them all - yet ironically, he was the first of them to die?

I posted it 12 minutes before you asked, Marty McFly

proteon: ...the booze will kill you, soul first.

No kidding. I know I'm mostly preaching to the choir by saying this, but weed doesn't seem to inflict a fraction of the damage that alcohol does. Not to say that smoking too much weed can't screw up your life - it certainly can - but the damage from weed isn't nearly as tragic as the damage from alcohol as far as I've seen. I'm not advocating making alcohol illegal or anything, but if weed were legal and widely available, perhaps it would be a less harmful substitute for people who like to get high.

I also heard that a guy who worked at the grocery store where a retired stagehand who used to work for SNL in the 80's shopped died of a drug overdose recently! Damn SNL curse!

/I thought that the SNL curse was that people started to believe that a funny comedy sketch was just a weird character talking fast and repeating themselves with no ending.

T.rex: We're told cops recovered a bottle of antifreeze and Gatorade in the hotel room ... and it's likely his death was due to consumption of the toxic chemical.

Hell. i knew Gatorade was little more than sugar water, but to call it a toxic chemical really puts it out there.

Depends on which flavor they're talking about.

Tmz made my ipad commit suicide.

"In the note, Bodolai writes about "Stuff I Would Like to Have Seen In My Life" -- including the Browns winning the Super Bowl and the "truth" about the JFK murder."

Case closed.

He killed himself. Not exactly a curse.

There have been over a hundred cast members since 1975. Of them, these are the dead ones

John Belushi
Gilda Radner
Chris Farley
Danitra Vance
Phil Hartman
Michael O'Donoghue
Charles Rocket

With respect, Subby, that's not a curse. That's actually a pretty good batting average.

Dead CAREERS on the other hand, would include:

Victoria Jackson
Garrett Morris
Larraine Newman
Jane Curtin
Terry Sweeney
Joe Piscopo
Victoria Jackson
Jenny Slate
Cheri Oteri
Gail Matthius
Gary Kroeger
Chris Kattan
Ellen Kleghorne
Denny Dillon
Victoria Jackson

...and dozens more

/Mike Myers doesn't count - that guy's sitting on enough bank that he doesn't need to work - and The Love Guru shows why
//Jon Lovitz doesn't count - he's a pretty successful businessman and club owner
///Nancy Walls has all of Steve Carell's money
////Seriously, screw Victoria Jackson in her unfunny anus

Oh, and Tony Rosato went nuts and spent a few years in the booby hatch.

/heh heh heh
//Booby

nakedcritic: There have been over a hundred cast members since 1975. Of them, these are the dead ones

John Belushi
Gilda Radner
Chris Farley
Danitra Vance
Phil Hartman
Michael O'Donoghue
Charles Rocket

With respect, Subby, that's not a curse. That's actually a pretty good batting average.

Dead CAREERS on the other hand, would include:

Victoria Jackson
Garrett Morris
Larraine Newman
Jane Curtin
Terry Sweeney
Joe Piscopo
Victoria Jackson
Jenny Slate
Cheri Oteri
Gail Matthius
Gary Kroeger
Chris Kattan
Ellen Kleghorne
Denny Dillon
Victoria Jackson

...and dozens more

/Mike Myers doesn't count - that guy's sitting on enough bank that he doesn't need to work - and The Love Guru shows why
//Jon Lovitz doesn't count - he's a pretty successful businessman and club owner
///Nancy Walls has all of Steve Carell's money
////Seriously, screw Victoria Jackson in her unfunny anus

You said Victoria Jackson twice.
/he really likes Victoria Jackson.

nakedcritic

while, by and large, I can't disagree with most of your posting, I don't know that Jane Curtin belongs on the "dead career" list...after SNL, she had a couple of decent sitcoms (Kate and Allie - 5 seasons, 3rd Rock - 5 seasons) plus at least moderate "working actor" jobs in movies and TV.....

/not sure why I'm white knighting her, the ignorant slut

plus at least moderate "working actor" jobs in movies and TV..... plus at least some moderately successful "working actor" jobs in movies and TV...FTFM

FlyingJ: Scurvy Dog On that note, does anyone remember that old Belushi SNL bit where he played an older version of himself, sitting in a cemetery with headstones of his SNL colleagues, saying he outlived them all - yet ironically, he was the first of them to die?

I posted it 12 minutes before you asked, Marty McFly

YouTube is blocked here at work, so I hadn't checked out the link. But thanks, now I remember what that skit was called.

On that note, it wasn't exactly a link, since all you did was copy and paste it into your post, genius. See those buttons above the comment box that look like figure eights lying on their side? You can use those to make posted links active so the rest of us don't have to copy and paste them into a browser window.

What? He can't end his life like that! Let's try the mega happy ending.

nakedcritic: There have been over a hundred cast members since 1975. Of them, these are the dead ones

I'm surprised to see that Garret Morris is still alive, given that he got shot in the chest a decade ago, but he is.

/Lorne Michaels will live forever; the Devil's scared of having him in Hell.

chevydeuce: nakedcritic

while, by and large, I can't disagree with most of your posting, I don't know that Jane Curtin belongs on the "dead career" list...after SNL, she had a couple of decent sitcoms (Kate and Allie - 5 seasons, 3rd Rock - 5 seasons) plus at least moderate "working actor" jobs in movies and TV.....

/not sure why I'm white knighting her, the ignorant slut

I don;t recall seeing her in anything after that godawful Coneheads movie

Scurvy Dog On that note, it wasn't exactly a link, since all you did was copy and paste it into your post, genius.

That's some beautiful trolling, but since I don't run your IT Dept. i'm not responsible for what you can't see @ work

Very sad news. He helped so many comedians get working in the industry. Sorry to hear he felt he needed to go. He will be missed.

To say there is such a thing as a curse is its own level of retarded. To flag a suicide in as part of a curse is double retarded. In the HuffPo article, the guy had mentioned the pain of life and his perpetual battle with alcohol in recent online posts. Neither of which are part of some vague curse some idiots like subby try to put forward.

Link to his last blog post (new window)

Essentially his suicide note.

nakedcritic: Dead CAREERS on the other hand, would include:

Victoria Jackson
Garrett Morris
Larraine Newman
Jane Curtin
Terry Sweeney
Joe Piscopo
Victoria Jackson
Jenny Slate
Cheri Oteri
Gail Matthius
Gary Kroeger
Chris Kattan
Ellen Kleghorne
Denny Dillon
Victoria Jackson

I wouldn't say all of these people have dead careers. Jenny Slate is young and I think I know her more for Marcel the Shell than SNL. I've heard her interviewed and I get the impression she's as interested in writing as she is in performing. Garrett Morris always seems to pop up on tv somewhere, usually on sit-coms I don't like, but at least he's worked pretty steadily for well over 30 years now. Same with Chris Kattan although he is younger. Jane Curtain has done a lot of television since she left SNL and I would assume she's reached an age where retirement is an option.

People get older and closer to retirement. Some performers gravitate toward things that don't get as many headlines.

Apos: There's no farking SNL 'curse',subby. Stop it.

There absolutely is. The curse normally manifests itself as career suicide rather than regular suicide.

Ethylene glycol poisoning, not a peaceful, painless way to go.

/Though, the treatment is Fark-approved: keeping the patient drunk with intravenous alcohol for days.