# Celebrity Deaths that Upset You the Most? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362 "2002-11-18T19:27:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/141 "2002-11-21T18:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Magickly Delicious \* > \*\*\*\*. > > And **Will Lee** , Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street. \*\* Behind Big Bird’s nest is a picture of Mr. Hooper. When I saw that - after not having watched Sesame Street in twenty years - I teared up. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/142 "2002-11-21T19:49:46Z")
John Lennon John Belushi Jim Henson I’m too young for both of them but I’m wondering why JFK and no RFK? If I had been around/aware back then (add 15 years to me) and I think those would have really affected me. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/143 "2002-11-21T21:41:10Z")
The great, great Joe Williams. My wife and I had seen him at Yoshi’s a month before, and we both commented on how good he looked. Then he was dead. My wife called me at work with the sad news, and Iwept unashamedly. (So there, Fenris.) ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/144 "2002-11-21T21:50:03Z")
Oh, I don’t think anyone’s mentioned **Madeline Kahn** yet—almost as upsetting as Gilda Radner. ---
**Author:** ![chiefhardcrab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@chiefhardcrab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiefhardcrab)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/145 "2002-11-21T22:12:45Z")
In addition to a host of others previously mentioned **Steve Goodman** **Kate Wolf** **John Duffey** **John Hartford** ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/146 "2002-11-22T00:42:41Z")
**Freddie Prinze**. It was reported on my birthday. It came over the car radio while we – a group of teens who were in a play together – were in the North Carolina mountains, staying for the weekend at a friend’s house. I loved “Chico and the Man,” and that was the first time someone who had affected me (and how can we not like someone who makes us laugh?) killed himself. **John Lennon**. No news there. I was in college at the time. I had grown up on the Beatles, and the stupidity of his murder still shocks me. He was half bullshit at times, but he was also brave and outspoken in his beliefs, and it would have been fascinating to see where he was going to next. **Jim Henson** because it meant the end of the Muppets. What has come out since has been all right, but there’s a Henson-sized gap there. **Andy Warhol**. Sudden and stupid death. Again, no more interesting things to see. It’s not seeing the old ones go that make me sad. It’s inevitable and they’ve had their run. We’ll never see Bob Hope entertaining the troops, or Reagan make a speech that slips underneath your cynicism somehow. It’s the young, talented ones who go that choke me up, because talent, genius, brilliance is so rare. And **Douglas Adams**. I still can’t talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/147 "2002-11-22T01:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarRRva \* > \*\*Definately the guy who played Troy Maclure in the simpsons. I’m not sure of his name but he was a bloody grreat guy… Oh I’m going to miss that voice _tear_ \*\* Dark, that was Phil Hartman, of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio. That one hit hard. Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of Superman. I’ve always been a fan of the man of steel and it really made me sad when they each passed away. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/148 "2002-11-22T01:59:07Z")
Englebert Humperdinck. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/149 "2002-11-22T16:21:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miss Creant \* > **I was hoping that I wouldn’t have to go through this whole thread only to find Sweetness had not been mentioned. Thank you \*\* > t-keela** > > **Stevie Ray Vaughn** cried for days > **Edgar Bergan** > **George Burns**'night Gracie \*\* Even though I am a die hard, lifelong Packer fan, I will admit to being saddened when Walter Payton died. He was a respected opponent, and from what I hear a very nice person off the field. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/150 "2002-11-22T18:35:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Equipoise \* > \*\*Lissener, what about **Kirsty MacColl**?? I know you’re a huge fan. \*\* Yeah, but her death was so STOOPID–killed while snorkeling by an out-of-bounds speedboater–that I mostly just felt angry. What a fucking monstrous asshole, deciding that the boundaries set up for speedboaters didn’t apply to him, so he fucking kills one of the best songwriters of the 20th century. I hope he was eaten by tiny crabs, from the feet up. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/151 "2002-11-22T19:31:10Z")
Englebert Humperdinck is still alive—unless you mean the German composer, who died in 1921. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/152 "2002-11-22T23:13:30Z")
I think he was reffing **deeward**. ---
**Author:** ![Lorenzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4da419/32.png) [@Lorenzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorenzo)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-deaths-that-upset-you-the-most/137362/153 "2002-11-23T03:37:30Z")
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