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hukarez
10-17-2005, 11:31 PM
Just saw this flicker on my local station's news ticker, but won't be able to see it until 11pm. I tried the official website for SNL, but apparently, it's exceeded it's bandwidth.

Anyone happen to know who it was? http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif
JeeberD
10-17-2005, 11:33 PM
No one I've ever heard of...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/17/comedian.suicide.ap/index.html
GreenMonster
10-17-2005, 11:34 PM
Charles Rocket..
hukarez
10-17-2005, 11:35 PM
Thanks for the link. Never heard of the guy myself either...
Mustang
10-17-2005, 11:37 PM
Anyone happen to know who it was? http://dynamic.gamespy.com/%7Efof/forums/images/smilies/confused.gif

It's Buckwheat..

Buckwheat has been shot.
Axxon
10-17-2005, 11:54 PM
Thanks for the link. Never heard of the guy myself either...

He's the guy who got fired for cursing on the air. Noted for his "who shot C.R." skits.

Man it sucks that I know that. :(

:)

ps: Specifically he said "who the fuck shot me" to end a show and his SNL career.
molson
10-17-2005, 11:55 PM
Cutting ones own throat is certainly an ambitious way to kill yourself.
Axxon
10-17-2005, 11:55 PM
Of course, if I'd read the link I'd have seen that this was already covered.
JonInMiddleGA
10-18-2005, 01:08 AM
Damn, cutting your own throat is a helluva way to suicide.
cuervo72
10-18-2005, 08:32 AM
Now that I look at his bio, I do remember him as a bad guy on Max Headroom.
gottimd
10-18-2005, 08:34 AM
Didn't know him just by his name, but when I saw who he was on IMDB, I remembered who he was.
Buccaneer
10-18-2005, 08:52 AM
As someone who watch SNL in the late 70s and early 80s, I don't recall this guy.
GrantDawg
10-18-2005, 09:11 AM
As someone who watch SNL in the late 70s and early 80s, I don't recall this guy.

He was on the original "switch-over" cast, after the "Not Ready for Prime-Time Players" left. If I remember correctly from reading different books on SNL they were pretty high on him, but he never "paid-off" along with most of that cast. He did have many bit roles in different shows and movies after. Sad.
cuervo72
10-18-2005, 09:25 AM
He was a "that guy".
Hurst2112
10-18-2005, 11:31 AM
he was in dumb and dumber too. was he the 'bad guy'?
gottimd
10-18-2005, 11:32 AM
If the 6 other people that saw the movie "It's Pat" are on this board, you would recognize him as the guy who was obsessed with pat.
timmynausea
10-18-2005, 11:38 AM
If the 6 other people that saw the movie "It's Pat" are on this board, you would recognize him as the guy who was obsessed with pat.

That is actually how I remember him as well. So, we'll have to see if the other 5 weigh in on this.
Bad-example
10-18-2005, 11:43 AM
He was the cheating boyfriend of Geena Davis in Earth Girls Are Easy.
Qwikshot
10-18-2005, 12:58 PM
He was the kidnapping mastermind in Dumb and Dumber.
Kodos
10-18-2005, 12:59 PM
I predict that eventually all of the SNL alumni will die.
QuikSand
10-18-2005, 01:02 PM
I predict that eventually all of the SNL alumni will die.

Ah yes... the same fate that befell the entire cast of Our American Cousin as performed that fateful night at Ford's Theater. Spooky.