# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [September 3, 2021, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/41 "2021-09-03T05:45:37Z")
The episode I remember best is the one where Rossi helps a grieving mother track down the hit-and-run driver who killed her son as he was leaving a convenience store with “a six-pack of root beer and some cartons of yogurt.” She and Rossi doggedly go through the whole rigamarole of identifying the vehicle and its driver and finally nail the perp, who turns out to be … SURPRISE, SURPRISE … a hard-nosed judge in Traffic Court famous for handing down harsh sentences to violators! The scene where they confront the guilty party in his office was one of the best I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/42 "2021-09-03T13:14:45Z")
I have never felt older than I did yesterday, when a young person of my acquaintance said, “Did you hear the guy who played Carl in _Up_ died?” She was completely unfamiliar with Asner’s long body of work before that. The words “Mr. Grant” got nothing but a blank look. I don’t want this to be a “kids today” post, and ultimately it speaks well of Asner’s talents that he continued to give performances that appealed to newer audiences right up until the end of his life. But it really made me feel my age. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/43 "2021-09-03T16:22:10Z")
Get used to it. I’ve been feeling that way since the 1970s, when I heard astonishment that Paul McCartney had been in a band before Wings. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/44 "2021-09-03T21:28:12Z")
> [@Newtosite](#): > > He was kind enough to write the foreword to my book on comedy. No kidding? Are you willing to share the book title with us? I only knew him from Lou Grant, one of the few shows I watched when I moved out on my own. Great show. > [@Monty](#): > > I was disgusted with his 9/11 nonsense. Didn’t know about that part. Had to Google and it looks like he actually belonged to a formal group of actors that were truthers. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/45 "2021-09-03T23:25:10Z")
I had that exact experience as well. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2021, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739/46 "2021-09-04T00:39:37Z")
I didn’t think I was allowed to say the title. But here it is: “Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy” (Rowman & Littlefield) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-ed-asner/949739.md?page=2)