Louie Anderson Is Dead to ALL of US!

wow, another one bites the dust?

let me guess...covid?

ok...cancer!

FUCK YOU CANCER!!!

I always liked him, this is terrible news.

Good riddance.

He was still alive?

Even Tom Rhodes' version of the story at r4 doesn't sound like sexual assault, no matter how many times he said he was "in danger" and "taken advantage of by a famous powerful man."

R4 - that story sounds like straight guy panic. Sexual assault? He made a pass at him and it was rejected.

Every woman in the world has been through this at least once and usually much worse.

And Tom Rhodes was never funny.

Still tote.

RIP Louie. He had a lot of demons, like most successful comics. Too bad he never came out, he could have done some good.

Damn.

This year has already been brutal for celeb deaths. Holy shit.

R4 I have no idea who that was and if he thinks that is sexual assault than most males over the age of 18 belongs in jail because everyone has grabbed someone's ass at some point. Was he that stupid to think at 19 that some guy twice his age is asking him to his place at night just wants to hang out?

He shoulda kept that to himself. He sounds like an attention seeking moron!

Tom Rhodes is an asshole. That was a pass, not assault.

Mrs. Baskets has departed.

Will they hold the service under a circus tent or in the Accounting department at Costco?

He was very ill for a while. There was even a thread about this being his last days on here. RIP...

Oh no! So beautiful on WA&P in Cinncinati!

Bye, Louie

RIP

:(

RIP, Louie. I loved him as Christine Baskets.

R16 Yes, Louie and Burt were hot and heavy back in the day. There was a scene in Deliverance that was based on their first date.

Fuck!

My mom, meatloaf and now Louie, I feel like I’m in the twilight zone today.

Enjoy

Louie, Louie....oh no!...he gotta go...

That sucks. I only watched Baskets for him and watched the last season this week. He was so good in it. Life with Louie was the last cartoon I watched as a kid before moving on to Beavis and Butthead. RIP you gentle soul, you.

That poor casket.

His ass couldn’t live forever.

He should have received the Oscar* for "The Poseidon Adventure".

Interesting that all of his other threads about Louie here show an entertainer almost universally beloved which was even more unbelievable because he was fat and gay. Except of course this thread, DL couldn't resist dumb dead guy jokes.

Had he completely transitioned these last few years?

More celebrity deaths! More!!!

Darn. I always liked Louis.

R27 Louie would of wanted it this way. He was proud of being fat. He wouldn't even let cancer make him lose weight.

R4 It sounds to me like Louie thought he was consenting by agreeing to go. He probably thought Tom wanted the same thing he did or else he wouldn't be there. It sounds like more of a misunderstanding to me than an assault and that both of them just misread each other's intentions.

I was literally RAPED REPEATEDLY! Before he assaulted me he was UNDRESSING ME WITH HIS EYES! I felt so unclean, impure, and violated.

I read something a long time ago about some guy blackmailing Louie for regular money payments to keep their sexual relationship a secret.

Don't know if it was this Tom guy or not.

At least he died doing what he loved best.

Floating face down in a vat of softened butter.

Louie told a good joke about fat people...

"Whenever polite people have a fat person over to their house they always try to direct you to sit in the sturdy furniture. Do you want to know how to freak them out?... Head right for the wicker"

RIP, Louie

Is Dame Joan Collins OK? I'm getting a vibe....

Ciao Louie. RIP

He's the only reason I watched Baksets. RIP Louie.

He was one of a kind. I will miss him.

Expect a lot of comedians from his era to start posting twitter pics of them with Louie. Of course, Gilbert Gottfried has already posted one of him with Louie and Bob Saget.

[quote]I was literally RAPED REPEATEDLY! Before he assaulted me he was UNDRESSING ME WITH HIS EYES! I felt so unclean, impure, and violated.

Atta girl!

You’re in danger Gilbert!

Louie went after MeatLoaf.

Reunited in heaven with Lou Reed.

This one really saddens me.

RIP

I honestly thought he died like 5 years ago.

So imagine MY surprise.

Guess you didn’t watch Baskets, huh?

Baskets is fantastic. What a gem. Well done, Louie.

R37 Bitch, send those vibes in another direction.

He was wonderful in Baskets, just wonderful.

Oh Louie, we're gonna miss you.

I didn't know Louie Anderson had a following on DL.

I haven't watched any of his work, but he seemed like a decent guy. May he R.I.P.

He was SO PERFECT in BASKETS and I'm glad he was recognized with that Emmy!

Back in the early days, Rosanne Barr opened for him!

@r46, "I honestly thought he died like 5 years ago. "

Did you think he was John Candy? I know, fat guys all look alike

[Quote]Bitch, send those vibes in another direction.

Joan, the vibes are coming from inside your house.

[quote] Louie would of wanted it this way

He would have asked us to slap you for using "would of," you illiterate sow.

It's would HAVE wanted it this way. There is no such thing as "would of."

I'll miss his DL posts.

Did he really post on DL? Not trying to be naive...know you can't take everything seriously on here..lol.

He was a gem and seemed like a genuinely nice man. So glad he got that Emmy. Rest in peace Louie.

Louie did drag on "Baskets" and Meat Loaf had tits in "Fight Club." Divine is lucky he's already dead or I'd be afraid he'd die today too.

Op is lined out?

[quote]Op is lined out?

Perhaps the poster who always insists on use of "the proper form" for death announcements didn't like that it doesn't strictly adhere to it.

Do you we know if he had a current partner?

He seemed like a genuinely good guy, and was lovely to his family.

R61 it's probably someone who made another thread who is pissed that this one is getting traction while his is being ignored.

Or it could be some queen who hates the format and wants to discourage others from using it because he is a cold and lonely person who MUST force us all to bow to his will!

My guess is the latter.

Tom Rhodes's claims of sexual assault are ridiculous. Anderson made a pass at him-- BIG DEAL.

here is is 1st performance on Carson

His work on Baskets was amazing. Maybe it was intended as a gimmick but Anderson refused to pay it as such and he stole the show from Galifanakis.

[quote]Op is lined out?

Threads and replies are being lined out constantly recently, you see it everywhere. I think there's been a change and it takes fewer FFs to get something grayed out these days.

BUMP

This is nuts. Betty White, Meat Loaf (though he brought it on himself), Louie Anderson. I'm sure there are others I've missed.

Forgot Sidney Poitier and Bob Saget.

And perennial starlet Yvette Mimieux.

And Andre Leon Talley. The Grim Reaper has been very busy.

@r70, "I'm sure there are others I've missed. "

Madonna's career

[quote] Did he really post on DL?

He was a fat Eldergay. That’s the target demographic, so it’s certainly plausible.

R74 the same Madonna who signed a multi million dollar deal with Warner’s late last year to release special editions of her albums and new albums too

The same one who is currently prepping her documentary bio as producer, writer and director for Universal Pictures

The same one who probably do a 40th anniversary greatest hits tour in 2013

Odd choice…

^ Sorry, Madge, didn't mean to hurt your feels. Tell us again the last time you had a sellout date or a #1 hit.... We'll wait

- r74

R77 her last album debuted at #1 in 2019, Madonna becoming just the second over 60 female artist in chart history to have a #1 album, yes it did fall hard but no one buys albums anymore in general and it’s been streamed nearly 200 million times on Spotify alone

Her last tour, the purposely small scale Madame X theatre tour, set list consisted of basically that album, sold out at every date, she had been wanting to do a smaller scale theatre tour since the 80s and she finally did it

All the singles from Madame X went to #1 on the Billboard dance singles charts, giving her 50 #1’ in fact one of her upcoming projects with her new multi million dollar Warner’s deal is a compilation album of all her 50 Billboard #1 dance singles as well as a huge, greatest hits (first time in her career) stadium and arena tour to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her debut album in 2023 that should like her previous arena and stadium tours break box office records

Yes she’s become a joke lately and she’s extremely unlikeable no one is disputing that

From May 31. 2021, Louie & Bob Saget together.

R79 damn that’s crazy

Bob Sagat also posted a Twitter tribute to Betty White , they were good friends , after she passed

One of the first killer jokes in the stand-up act of Louie Anderson was about the meanness of older brothers. Imitating one of his own in an intimidating voice, he warned that there was a monster in a swamp nearby. With childlike fear in his eyes, Anderson reported that he avoided that area “until I got a little older and a little smarter and a little brother.”

Pivoting to the future in an instant, he adopted the older brother voice, pointing to the swamp and telling his sibling: “That’s where your real parents live.”

Anderson, who died Friday at 68 from complications of cancer, had five brothers and five sisters, but over the course of a sterling comedy career spanning four decades, he established a much larger family of colleagues. The comedian Bob Saget, who also died this month, was a younger brother of sorts. They started in stand-up on the West Coast around the same time and had breakthroughs in the same 1985 episode of HBO’s “Young Comedians Special” (hosted by Rodney Dangerfield), which back then was second only to “The Tonight Show” as a springboard for stand-up careers.

Just last May, Anderson and Saget took part in a loving conversation on a podcast, reminiscing and laughing, and gingerly approaching topics with the sensitivity and warmth of intimates catching up during the long, isolating pandemic. It’s funny and now, considering the loss of both men, terribly heartbreaking. Both still prolific in their 60s, they sounded joyful about the current moment and were looking to the future. Saget talked about wanting to direct a movie that would appeal to everyone, and Anderson said he wished to play Fatty Arbuckle.

None of that will happen, of course, and as these friends talked about their careers, it struck me that losing them represents the end of a key part of an era.

When you think of the 1980s comedy boom, the first artist that comes to mind for many is Jerry Seinfeld and his clinically observational brand of humor. For others, it might be the rock-star flamboyance of Eddie Murphy or Andrew Dice Clay. But in the days of three major networks, the culture incentivized a warmly inclusive, rigorously relatable comedy that could appeal to a broad mainstream and, at its best and most resonant, had an empathetic humanity.

The outpouring of love for Bob Saget took some by surprise and was in part a testament to his good-natured, filthy humor and personal generosity. But it was also because of a vast audience that saw him as the friendly paternal face on “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” That comedy fans also knew him as one of the dirtiest joke tellers around burnished and deepened his reputation. But if Saget became one of the few cultural figures who could be described as America’s Dad (does any current star get described in such sweeping terms these days?), Anderson fit seamlessly into an equally idealized role as our culture’s eternal kid.

There was a boyish innocence and sweetness to Anderson that never left him, even when he was playing a mother on “Baskets,” a remarkable and sincere performance that marked the start of his acclaimed second act (which included his turn in “Search Party”). Like Saget, Anderson had a broad résumé as an actor, author and television host, but he was a stand-up at heart who never stopped touring. I saw him do a 90-minute set in 2018, and he had the low-key improvisational, searching energy of someone still obsessed with finding an incredible new bit.

There was a remarkable consistency in Anderson’s work from his early stand-up to his later performances, in spirit and also in subject matter. This included a focus on food: No one told more fat jokes, like his longtime opening line, which he used during his first appearance on “The Tonight Show” and again on “Conan” last March: “Listen, I can’t stay long. I’m between meals.”

More prominently, his great topic was family, particularly his ever-optimistic mother and irate father. (As soft-spoken as he could be, Anderson could also yell as much as Sam Kinison.) While his early comedy featured plenty of punch lines, Anderson’s great gift was acting out stories, brilliantly evoking moments with quick-change characterizations, displaying the depth and technique of a seasoned actor.

In one lovely, unusually nuanced scene for his 1987 hour at the Guthrie Theater, near his hometown, St. Paul, he recalled his parents fighting. It begins with a teasing imitation of his father, a classic belligerent blowhard of an old-timer. In Anderson’s telling, he was the kind of guy who would say things like, “When I was a kid, they didn’t have schools. I had to find smart people and follow them around.”

In the show, his father boasts in a brusque, nonsensical rant about being a veteran of “World War I, World War II, everything, Korea, everywhere.”

Leaving the scene for an instant, Anderson explained that as a boy, he had to look to his mother for the truth — then he unfurrowed his brow, flattened his face and utterly transformed into a soft-spoken woman gently shaking her head. As the audience cracked up, he lingered silently before lowering his voice and saying: “World War II.” There’s something about the quietness of the way he has her explain this that is touching. His mother wants to correct the record but not humiliate. The scene escalates into a fight, and while it could have been incredibly dark, it somehow isn’t.

The reason, I think, is that the core of Louie Anderson’s art has always been a bend-over-backward compassion, a grace for everyone, including (maybe especially) those he teases or criticizes, like his father.

It’s a quality that can seem in short supply, but it’s one you hear so vividly in that podcast with Saget, who asked Anderson if he ever thought of being a therapist or minister. Anderson replied that he found therapy in comedy.

Because they’re comedians, the talk eventually turned to death, specifically Dangerfield’s funeral in 2004. Saget officiated at the service and said he was actually heckled by Jay Leno. In the podcast, Saget thanked Anderson for sticking up for him. Anderson told him: “I know that must have hurt you, what he did. I wasn’t going to let you hang there. Jay probably just did it out of nervousness. Maybe he needed to do that to not burst out crying.”

Leno is a polarizing figure for comics of their generation, and to his detractors, he’s an unsentimental joke-telling machine, which might have been part of the subtext when Saget quickly responded to Anderson’s suggestion that Leno was trying to avoid shedding tears: “I don’t think he does that.”

In the gentle way a friend does, Anderson disagreed. “I bet he does.” Saget then immediately changed his mind, almost as if he recognized that the humanity of this thought outpaced the fun of his gibe.

“All I ever want to do is hug you,” he said to Anderson at one moment.

It was unusually sentimental for a comedy podcast, but that these old friends got to share this final moment of connection is no small thing.

Louie's hysterical in R79's podcast. I liked his riff on seeing Bob Hope perform. When Hope launched into "Thanks for the Memory'. Louie said, "What a nice way to say to the audience, 'Get ready to stand up.'" Then he talks about a furious Hope exiting the stage once, yelling, "I almost broke my fuckin' neck on those wires when I walked out there. I coulda fuckin' died."

Does anyone know the story behind the tension in the relationship between Saget & Garry Shandling?

His sister Loni must be devastated.

With another great comic friend.

Man. I'm glad he felt the love for Baskets

I’m just getting into Baskets (on Hulu). I really like it.

You girls are slipping...One of Louie's best "friends" has come forward to talk about their years of friendship...