- #COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE HOW TO#
- #COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE CRACKED#
- #COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE CRACK#
Like Jack Benny in the US, Hancock was the most beloved comedian of his time. irony? Shit, I don't think English has a word for what that is.Forty-four years ago in June, British comedian Tony Hancock committed suicide. So, I lived on to wind up with a job where one of my tasks is to ban people who follow him from one comment section to another telling him he's not funny and should kill himself. If they come to you wanting to have a boring-ass conversation about their problems, don't drop hints that you wish they'd "lighten up." It's really easy to hear that as "Man, what happened to the clown? I liked him better."Īs for me, I haven't thought about suicide in a long time, not since high school, when a guy talked me out of it, though to this day I doubt he realizes it. They're afraid that the moment the laughter stops, all that's left is that gross, awkward kid everyone hated on the playground, the one they've been hiding behind bricks all their adult life. Every time they make a joke around you, they're doing it because they instinctively and reflexively think that's what they need to do to make you like them. How about this:īe there when they need you, and keep being there even when they stop being funny.
#COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE HOW TO#
"But I don't know how to do a suicide intervention!" Nobody is asking you to. "Well, I tried to help him, but he was kind of a dick about it." Right, that's what it looks like. They don't know how to ask for help because they don't know how to relate, because when you've lived behind that wall long enough, you completely lose the ability. But I guess my larger point is that if you know somebody who might be at risk but you've been denying it because they're always smiling and joking around, for the love of God, wake the fuck up. I've been told it's great, by the numerous people I know who've called it. So, yeah, if you're out there and are feeling down, here's the national suicide hotline. Back behind the wall, the real person was a scared, lonely, awkward fat kid who couldn't even pay someone to hold his hand when he died. In this case, the clown was a hilarious fat guy playing a Beverly Hills Ninja. His final words were 'Don't leave me.' She took pictures of him, stole his watch, wrote a note saying she'd had a lot of fun, and left. He tried to follow but collapsed on the living room floor, struggling to breathe. When they argued about money, she got up to leave.
#COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE CRACK#
"Farley partied for four straight days, smoked crack and snorted heroin with a call girl, then took her back to his apartment. Find a comedian, and you'll usually find somebody who had a shitty childhood.
I'm not saying anything science doesn't already know, by the way. If you know a really funny person who isn't tortured and broken inside, I'd say A) they've just successfully hidden it from you, B) their fucked-uppedness is buried so deep down that even they're in denial about it, or C) they're just some kind of a mystical creature I can't begin to understand. The medium has nothing to do with it - comedy, of any sort, is usually a byproduct of a tumor that grows on the human soul.
Yeah, and Chris Farley just made wacky slapstick movies about a fat guy who falls down a lot, right up until he stopped his own heart with a drug cocktail.
#COMEDIANS WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE CRACKED#
"What, you're saying Cracked writers are a bunch of tortured literary geniuses? You write boner jokes in list form, for Christ's sake!" Now do you want me to tell you how many messages/comments/emails we get from fans telling a writer to "kill yourself" because said writer wrote a joke they didn't like? When I ban them, they always act confused as to why.
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