# RIP Greg Giraldo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 29, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522 "2010-09-29T21:31:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/1 "2010-09-29T21:31:59Z")
Apparently comedian Greg Giraldo has died. It’s all over Twitter and on his Wikipedia page. A shame. I always found him to be one of the most solid stand-ups currently working.
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Bird)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/2 "2010-09-29T21:42:40Z")
Aw man, that’s sad. I was a big fan of his stand-up and his roast appearances. I noticed they quite often would have him open the roasting, to get things off to a rollicking start. R.I.P Greg.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/3 "2010-09-29T21:51:47Z")
I had never heard of him until a few months ago when he was a judge on Last Comic Standing, and I thought he was the single best thing about the entire show (although his fellow judge Natasha was a hot little stunner, even if not very funny).
He seemed fairly young, I would guess early 40s; anyone know how he died? 😕
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/4 "2010-09-29T21:53:24Z")
Apparently it’s Comedy Month for the Grim Reaper. Too bad, Giraldo was a funny guy.
Meanwhile Artie Lange, the Keith Richards of comedy, somehow continues to draw breath…
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### Author:  [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/5 "2010-09-29T21:55:01Z")
Did a Google search:
> **[Comedian Greg Giraldo Is Dead](https://www.tmz.com/2010/09/29/comedian-greg-giraldo-dies-overdose-prescription-pills/)**
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> Comedian Greg Giraldo has died. Details on Greg Giraldo's death.
He overdosed 5 days ago, according to the link, and died today.
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### Author:  [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/6 "2010-09-29T22:11:10Z")
Wow, that’s awful. He was hilarious.
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### Author:  [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/7 "2010-09-29T22:17:00Z")
[Dammit](http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/comedy-central-presents/volume-2/comedy-central-presents-greg-giraldo-rip/#clip96254).
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### Author:  [@i\_am\_a\_scientist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_am_a_scientist)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/8 "2010-09-29T22:23:37Z")
awful, one of my favorite comedians. 3 kids too.
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/9 "2010-09-29T22:50:20Z")
He was also one of my favorites, very sad to hear this.
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/10 "2010-09-29T22:58:44Z")
I too will join the sentiment that it is a tragedy he passed. I always thought he was funny and never seemed to me to be an arrogant asshole.
RIP Bud.
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/11 "2010-09-29T23:23:00Z")
Didn’t know until I read an obit that he had a law degree from Harvard. Weird.
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### Author:  [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/12 "2010-09-29T23:23:14Z")
I was unable to get orcenio’s link to work, but was able to read that Greg Giraldo was a graduate of both Columbia University and Harvard Law School, obviously a very intelligent guy.
I wish I would have known about him earlier (I don’t have cable) because as I said before, he was the standout talent on Last Comic Standing, much funnier than any of the contestants or his two fellow judges.
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### Author:  [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/13 "2010-09-30T00:33:32Z")
Holy shit. I saw him live about 4 months ago and his act was awful, all about how much coke he does and how evil his wife is for leaving him. We left being very disappointed and wondering if he would get off the drugs and back to being funny. I wish he could have had the opportunity because he started out his career being pretty hilarous.
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/14 "2010-09-30T01:43:09Z")
Sucks, I’ve seen Greg perform numerous times at the Comedy Cellar, and he was great on LCS this year.
Of course, since it was PRESCRIPTION drugs he died of, and not the illegal kind, then we need to treat this as a tragedy and put the blame on everyone else, sue his dr, etc. Just like Michael Jackson. Bill Maher’s gonna have a fucking FIELD DAY on Friday with this.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/15 "2010-09-30T01:49:28Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Meanwhile Artie Lange, the Keith Richards of comedy, somehow continues to draw breath…
It’s only a matter of time for Artie. He’s supposedly “doing better” at the moment, but I don’t think you ever really come all the way back from the dark places he’s gone.
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/16 "2010-09-30T02:08:55Z")
I don’t know if we should put the blame on everybody else, but I’ll bet prescription opiates were involved somewhere in the mix, and well, he probably got them from some quack somewhere. It’s no coincidence that there is a thread titled [“Oxycodone- is it a big deal?”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=579784) going on concurrently over in IMHO. There are a whole shitload of people strung out on opiates legally or illegally at this point in history and they are some of the worst addicts with some of the shortest shelflifes I have ever seen. They are even worse than the worst crackheads I have ever seen, and that’s coming from a recovered crackhead… the current epidemic of prescription opiate abuse makes the crack and cocaine epidemic of the 80’s and 90’s pale in comparison.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/17 "2010-09-30T02:27:06Z")
Reading the thread title I was sure there was a joke. Apparently not. Sorry Greg. Hope you get a better crowd at your funeral than your usual show. Most people didn’t know you were here, but I’ll miss you.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/18 "2010-09-30T04:14:09Z")
> [@devilsknew](#):
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> and that’s coming from a recovered crackhead
OT: Have you ever started a thread titled “Ask the former crackhead?” If not, why don’t you?
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### Author:  [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/19 "2010-09-30T04:24:08Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#):
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> > [@devilsknew](#):
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> > and that’s coming from a recovered crackhead
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> OT: Have you ever started a thread titled “Ask the former crackhead?” If not, why don’t you?
Because I don’t feel comfortable doing that, simple as that.
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-greg-giraldo/555522/20 "2010-09-30T04:25:42Z")
Okay, sorry; just asking.
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