# Celebrity Death Pool 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229 "2019-12-01T07:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/625 "2020-04-07T20:17:23Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Out of curiosity, **Baker** , was Honor Blackman a unique pick for me? Does her death mean there’s now considerably less Pussy in the world? Anyway… [Julie Bennett](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/julie-bennett-dead-yogi-bear-voice-actress-dies-coronavirus-complications-at-88-1288208) will never eat from a pic-a-nic basket again. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/626 "2020-04-07T21:06:49Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > This seriously bums me out. > > It’s now going around various comic’s social media that stand up comic Vic Henley died. I’ve listened to him on various Sirius/XM comedy talk shows for years. The word is pulmonary embolism. Not that anyone had him but FTR he was 57. A long time fixture in the NYC comedy scene and a national headliner. He also often toured with Ron White. Despite living in New York for decades he never lost his Alabama drawl. His brother is Auburn football all-American Terry Henley. > **[Stand-Up Comedy Legend Vic Henley Dies After Suffering a Pulmonary Embolism](https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/04/vic-henley-dead/)** > > Vic Henley, the celebrated Alabama-born comedian, has died at the age of 57. Henley was known for his stand-up comedy and work with Ron White and Jeff Foxworthy. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/627 "2020-04-07T21:39:30Z")
Hal Willner, ‘SNL’ music producer, dead at 64 from Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency disease…no, just kidding…it was coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/628 "2020-04-08T01:39:35Z")
Singer-songwriter John Prine has died at age of 73. The cause of death was complications related to guess what? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/629 "2020-04-08T01:50:09Z")
Allen Garfield, Actor in ‘The Conversation,’ ‘The Stunt Man’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 80 from coronavirus. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/630 "2020-04-08T02:23:36Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You know, I was _ **watching** _ that game when he made that kick. I was in junior high I think, standing around in the living room, as the family was about to go out and get our Christmas tree. The game was on television, and I never paid attention to football. But there it was, his team down two points with two seconds to go, and the only option was that field goal. And by God he did it. Even folks on the other side cheered. It was said that someone tried to protest “he was wearing a special shoe”, and the protest was denied because no objection was made before the game. And besides, their players could wear the same shoe, if they were willing to cut off half their foot. Nov 8 is pretty early to get a Christmas tree? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/631 "2020-04-08T08:45:41Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Singer-songwriter John Prine has died at age of 73. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/632 "2020-04-08T19:53:00Z")
Linda Tripp, the Clinton sex scandal whistleblower, is dead at age 70 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/633 "2020-04-08T22:25:14Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Nov 8 is pretty early to get a Christmas tree? That’s how I remember it. Whatever your subtly expressed doubts to my story, I _ **did** _ see it, never recalled the date. It could be we were going to do something else, but although I’m not a fan it was very exciting. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/634 "2020-04-09T00:25:50Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Linda Tripp, the Clinton sex scandal whistleblower, is dead at age 70 ‘Whistleblower’??? Oh please. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/635 "2020-04-09T00:34:44Z")
I hope they bury her in some else’s blue dress. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/636 "2020-04-09T02:41:29Z")
Harry “Snapper” Organs is chasing the Piranha Brothers in the afterlife. Like most American kids seeing Month Python for the first time, I had no idea that the Piranha Brothers sketch was a parody of real events in England. Leonard “Nipper” Read the man who brought down the Kray Brothers has died at 95. > **[Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read obituary](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/07/leonard-nipper-read-obituary)** > > Metropolitan police detective who brought the Kray twins to justice ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/637 "2020-04-09T14:10:03Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Harry “Snapper” Organs is chasing the Piranha Brothers in the afterlife. > > Like most American kids seeing Month Python for the first time, I had no idea that the Piranha Brothers sketch was a parody of real events in England. Leonard “Nipper” Read the man who brought down the Kray Brothers has died at 95. > > [Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read obituary | Metropolitan police | The Guardian](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/07/leonard-nipper-read-obituary) Huh. I certainly didn’t know of the connection. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/638 "2020-04-09T15:00:20Z")
[MMA fighter Isaiah Chapman](https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mma/bellators-isaiah-chapman-shot-dead-outside-akron-home/ar-BB12lXUa?ocid=spartandhp) was shot and killed at age 30 ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/639 "2020-04-09T15:46:59Z")
_Mad_ magazine artist [Mort Drucker](https://www.newsfromme.com/2020/04/09/mort-drucker-r-i-p/) has died at 91. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/640 "2020-04-10T02:00:07Z")
Ewok, Time Bandit and Oompa Loompa [Malcolm Dixon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Dixon_(actor))-66. “There are no small roles…” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/641 "2020-04-10T03:46:59Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Huh. I certainly didn’t know of the connection. I don’t think I made the connection until I saw the 1990 movie The Krays. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/642 "2020-04-10T21:27:04Z")
[Dieter Laser](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/10/human-centipede-star-dieter-laser-dies-aged-78), star of the Human Centipede. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/643 "2020-04-10T22:55:20Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I don’t think I made the connection until I saw the 1990 movie The Krays. Why? Were they nailing heads to coffee tables and stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229/644 "2020-04-10T23:23:47Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > [Dieter Laser](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/10/human-centipede-star-dieter-laser-dies-aged-78), star of the Human Centipede. I think you need to but big ol air quotes around “star.” > [@Leaffan](#): > > Why? Were they nailing heads to coffee tables and stuff? Worse, they used sarcasm. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-death-pool-2020/844229.md?page=33)