# RIP Ed Asner **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [August 29, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739 "2021-08-29T19:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/1 "2021-08-29T19:17:07Z")
Dead at 91. Natural causes, I guess. You were one of the Good Ones, Ed. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/2 "2021-08-29T19:19:57Z")
Oh, Mr. Grant. ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/3 "2021-08-29T19:24:13Z")
“I hate spunk!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zj286uBKCu0/hqdefault.jpg "MTM 1x01 Mary's Job Interview") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj286uBKCu0) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/4 "2021-08-29T19:42:33Z")
Damn, I though he was going to live forever. ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/5 "2021-08-29T20:11:36Z")
Just saw him on Grace & Frankie. This is sad news. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/6 "2021-08-29T20:15:11Z")
Sad news indeed. He should have lived forever. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/7 "2021-08-29T20:31:13Z")
Quite the icon from the 70’s with outstanding work in the MTM Show, Roots and Rich Man, Poor Man. Well done Ed, RIP. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/8 "2021-08-29T21:23:12Z")
I hope he wasn’t shelled to death, like Chuckles the Clown. That’d be too sad, no funny, no sad. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/9 "2021-08-29T21:29:31Z")
I wonder whose tomb he will be buried in. mmm ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/10 "2021-08-29T21:54:38Z")
Oh, Rest Well Mr Asner. You did such good work. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2021, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/11 "2021-08-29T23:32:04Z")
RIP, Ed. You had spunk. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/12 "2021-08-30T01:31:29Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Damn, I though he was going to live forever. Yeah, me too. He was active well into his 80s, at least. Leno used to feature him regularly on his version of the Tonight Show (up until the 2014 end of Leno’s reign, I think). He was a good guy, and a great actor–adept at both drama and comedy. Condolences to his family and friends. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/13 "2021-08-30T02:03:25Z")
I remember him fondly in both the Mary Tyler Moore show and in Lou Grant, the spin-off. I was disgusted with his 9/11 nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/14 "2021-08-30T02:08:04Z")
I appreciated his body of work, although it seemed that his roles later in life tended to be of mean-spirited people. To play Lou Grant as both a comedic and a dramatic character was a tour de force. ---
**Author:** ![SwissMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@SwissMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwissMan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/15 "2021-08-30T02:40:14Z")
I’d like to give some love to Ed Asner’s performance as Sgt. Mike Cosgrove on _Freakazoid!_ One of my all time favorite cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/16 "2021-08-30T03:03:58Z")
For those who liked him in _UP_, I believe he returned to voice Carl in the new Disney+ series about Dug the dog which comes out soon. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/17 "2021-08-30T03:08:43Z")
He seemed to be a great guy irl. James Woods had nothing but nice things to say about him. [https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1432115229698052101?s=20](https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1432115229698052101?s=20) ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/18 "2021-08-30T07:36:25Z")
He was kind enough to write the foreword to my book on comedy. ---
**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:** [August 30, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/19 "2021-08-30T15:49:38Z")
Like Abe Vigoda, Ed looked older than he actually was. He was just 41 then he started playing Lou Grant, and it always seemed that he’d be around forever. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/20 "2021-08-31T00:15:27Z")
I have a clear memory of Ed referring to himself, jokingly, as “El Asner”–a reference to a typo in some press release (or such). But a search turns up nothing. Anyone else remember this? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739.md?page=2)