# Buddy Hackett Dies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-hackett-dies/185618>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-hackett-dies/185618 "2003-07-01T17:45:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-hackett-dies/185618/1 "2003-07-01T17:45:17Z")

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“Rubber-faced funnyman Buddy Hackett, who rose to fame first as a waiter-turned-performer in the Catskills and later cracking wise in nightclubs, on Broadway, on television and in movies like The Music Man and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, died Monday at his home in Malibu. He was 78.” from E!Online.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-hackett-dies/185618/2 "2003-07-01T17:58:55Z")

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Sorry, hon—he’s already dead, further down the page in this forum.

One death per customer.

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**Author:** ![Peg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Peg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peg)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-hackett-dies/185618/3 "2003-07-01T18:04:46Z")

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🙂

Sorry, didn’t see the thread. Thought it would have been up a little higher.