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Joe Restivo not dead! Joe Restivo dead!

Editors note: See this posting, from Dec. 1, 2007 on the death of Joe Restivo, the comedian.

What are the odds? Two Joe Restivo‘s, both did/do standup comedy.

Well, according to the obit in the LA Times, Joe Restivo, 54-year-old restarateur and onetime standup comic is dead.

Joe Restivo, a onetime stand-up comic and the former longtime co-owner of Vitello’s restaurant in Studio City, where actor Robert Blake and his wife dined the night she was killed, has died. He was 54.

Of course the real Joe Restivo (the one working with The Male Half of the Staff in Reno at the beginning of next month) is still alive and well and spent most of yesterday fielding phone calls assuring people that he was still drawing breath.

We haven’t heard from him yet, but we’ve emailed a request for a quote.