# Holy Mackerel! Rip Taylor dead at 84 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 7, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382 "2019-10-07T00:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/1 "2019-10-07T00:13:13Z")
[Comedian Rip Taylor, confetti-throwing staple of 1970s game shows, dies at 84](https://abc7ny.com/entertainment/comedian-rip-taylor-dies-at-84/5598170/) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/2 "2019-10-07T00:15:33Z")
wow he did a lot of voice work in the cartoons too back in the day ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/3 "2019-10-07T00:15:55Z")
I hate to say, I didn’t know that he was still alive. I do remember him from the _Gong Show_. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/4 "2019-10-07T00:19:25Z")
It’s been a bad year for Rips – Rip Torn passed away in July, and now Rip Taylor. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/5 "2019-10-07T00:20:05Z")
I loved him; his humor was quick and silly. RIP Mr. Taylor; you done funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/6 "2019-10-07T00:33:24Z")
Well, I guess if they ever _do_ make a Jackass 4, he won’t be in that one. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/7 "2019-10-07T01:03:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s been a bad year for Rips – Rip Torn passed away in July, and now Rip Taylor. ☹ RIP ---
**Author:** ![Northeast\_Refugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@Northeast\_Refugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northeast_Refugee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/8 "2019-10-07T01:14:36Z")
I hope they [confetti the shit](https://i.imgur.com/1Lqm6Cm.gif) out of his funeral. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/9 "2019-10-07T01:17:21Z")
I remember him best for telling the “What’s brown and lies in the meadow?” joke on Steve Allen’s syndicated talk show. The part that got bleeped: “Winnie’s poo.” (Hey, it was 1968!) RIP, Rip. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/10 "2019-10-07T01:44:11Z")
Man, my Uncle Ralph and I used to have a regular “date” to watch the $1.98 Beauty Pageant together when I was seven or eight years old. It was so wonderfully silly! (But truly, if you’d asked me last week, I’d have guessed that Rip was long RIP.) ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/11 "2019-10-07T04:29:16Z")
I liked Rip Taylor’s weird and wacky style of comedy. He certainly was _ **not** _ the new Will Rogers, but his immature, “junior high school” comedy was certainly a change from the usual cavalcade of late-night talk show comedians. At the risk of repeating myself, rip rip. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/12 "2019-10-07T04:59:03Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > I liked Rip Taylor’s weird and wacky style of comedy. Doesn’t Carrot Top imitate it to an extent? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/13 "2019-10-07T10:49:03Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > Doesn’t Carrot Top imitate it to an extent? Well, people loved Rip Taylor, but despise Carrot Top, so Mr Top isn’t doing it right. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/14 "2019-10-07T11:16:52Z")
Now he’s hanging out with Jim Morrison and the weird naked Indian guy. RIP, as it were. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-mackerel-rip-taylor-dead-at-84/841382/15 "2019-10-07T13:00:53Z")
I guess it’s too late to short stock in confetti makers.