# Late RIP:  Pioneering Black comic Timmie Rogers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rip-pioneering-black-comic-timmie-rogers/434689>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 23, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rip-pioneering-black-comic-timmie-rogers/434689 "2008-01-23T17:31:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rip-pioneering-black-comic-timmie-rogers/434689/1 "2008-01-23T17:31:36Z")

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Can’t find an online obit, but he died at the end of 2006. I never knew his name, but I do remember his specific way of rendering, “Oh yeaaaaaaaah!”

[Some samples](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=timmie+rogers&search=Search)

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-rip-pioneering-black-comic-timmie-rogers/434689/2 "2008-01-23T17:41:09Z")

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Aww. I remember him from the Ed Sullivan Show, and how one time he cracked me the hell up just by saying _“Oh nooooooo!!!”_