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Greg Giraldo, comedian and actor
It seems that, this time, it’s real. It is a tremendous loss for the comedy world.
The Wikipedia entry hasn’t been updated. But it was edited last week when the rumor of Giraldo’s demise swept through the comedy community. Giraldo had been hospitalized early Sunday morning. There was speculation that it was from an overdose.
Now, however, we hear that, after four days in the critical care unit of a north Jersey hospital, he has passed. There are many Tweets. It’s like a digital memorial service.
December 10 would have been his 45th birthday.
He was extremely nice to us whenever we had contact with him. Of the two of us, only the Male Half worked with him– once, back in 1994 or so, at Catch in Philly. But we both were the recipient of his kind words when he judged us on Last Comic Standing. And he seemed genuinely pleased to see us backstage at the Nasty Show in Montreal this past July.
We’ll keep you posted on any developments.
A pic we snapped at the Vos/McFarlane reception at Caroline’s a few years back. Jessica Kirson is on the right.
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Very, very upsetting and sad news indeed. Greg’s been a favourite of mine for some time and I was hoping that LCS would be something to get him even more exposure.
He’ll be sorely missed.
Here is an interesting interview with Greg Giraldo from Psychology Today. They often interview comedians.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200905/greg-giraldo-failure
Great article John…..so sad.
Damn.
What I found shocking was that, after a couple days after the initial accidental OD story, and his condition being called ‘stable’, I figured he was out of the woods and only going to improve day to day and get back to full health. His passing five days after was a shocking- and horrible- twist. I think Giraldo’s half hour special from several years ago is absolute classic, genius straight-up standup comedy, and what I mean by that is it’s totally understandable by the mainstream middle but it’s always smart and has a clever edge. While he seemed to be a performer who wanted to be relatable by “the masses,” in this 1/2 hr special he never sacraficed his intelligence or sensibility, never “sold out” his brains to get the easiest laughs. Yet he killed. And his voices (Colombian father, Civil War soldier, chihuahua, etc) are hilarious. But it was environments like Tough Crowd and the Comedy Central Roasts, I thought, where a lot of his comedic genius came out- spontaneous, edgy, intelligent yet not coming across as a detached elitist that regular folks would be alienated by. And when I attended the LCS taping, to see Mr. McKim (onstage) and Ms. Skene (in the audience), I found Greg’s judging to be so fair and balanced- he was so kind to the comedians, while still being funny at times. It seemed that he felt his # 1 job was to bolster these comedians up there on stage and be as positive as possible, not to cut them down for an easy laugh. He always struck me as a good guy and a class act. His death is equals parts weird and very sad.