# The Celebrity Death Pool 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** death-pool\ **Created:** [December 1, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574 "2009-12-01T11:44:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 88
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1741 "2010-09-29T21:52:24Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Greg Giraldo, stand-up comic and judge on this year’s _Last Comic Standing_, is no longer standing. [Dead at 44](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Giraldo). Hadn’t seen this officially anywhere but all his comedian friends just tweeting this about an hour ago. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1742 "2010-09-29T22:04:48Z")
My favorite Greg Giraldo line: “This is the 21st century! Why aren’t I snorting vitamin-enriched coke off the tits of my sex robot?” ---
**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:** [September 29, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1743 "2010-09-29T22:06:07Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Greg Giraldo, stand-up comic and judge on this year’s _Last Comic Standing_, is no longer standing. [Dead at 44](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Giraldo). Wow, that’s a shocker. He was just at David Hasselhoff’s roast. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1744 "2010-09-29T22:07:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > > > Greg Giraldo, stand-up comic and judge on this year’s _Last Comic Standing_, is no longer standing. [Dead at 44](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Giraldo). > > Wow, that’s a shocker. He was just at David Hasselhoff’s roast. > > ☹ Eating on the floor with David? ---
**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:** [September 29, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1745 "2010-09-29T22:07:23Z")
Yep, here is Giraldo just a few weeks ago. [Hasselhoff roast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o6DF2qKucg) ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1746 "2010-09-29T22:35:25Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [Arthur Penn, film director, dies at 88.](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100929/ap_en_mo/us_obit_penn) 12 points. > > He directed _Bonnie and Clyde_ and _Little Big Man_, among others. A little late to the show, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1747 "2010-09-29T23:11:23Z")
Damn. Bad year for comedy. First Schimmel and now Giraldo. All the good comedians are dropping like flies. Good news for Carrottop, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1748 "2010-09-30T00:00:31Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Damn. Bad year for comedy. First Schimmel and now Giraldo. All the good comedians are dropping like flies. > > Good news for Carrottop, I suppose. Did you just use Good and Carrottop in the same sentence\*? :eek: Juist to be clear, I saw Giraldo’s pic. We are talking the guy on Last Comic Standing just back a few months ago, right?! I kinda wonder what was going on in his life to do that. … On second thought, perhaps not. - Actually, I saw him in Vegas. But, Winning 900 from the slots an hour before it kinda took the wind out of his sails. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1749 "2010-09-30T00:29:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > My favorite Greg Giraldo line: “This is the 21st century! Why aren’t I snorting vitamin-enriched coke off the tits of my sex robot?” Bah, they started doing that in 1989 in Japan. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1750 "2010-09-30T09:54:37Z")
Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. > **[Bronx-Born Actor Tony Curtis Dead At 85](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/)** > > Tony Curtis, a Hollywood legend remembered for starring roles in classic movies like "Some Like It Hot" and "The Defiant Ones," died at his Las Vegas-area home at the age of 85. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1751 "2010-09-30T10:34:32Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. > > [Bronx-Born Actor Tony Curtis Dead At 85 - CBS New York](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/30/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/) [Bernie Schwartz died, too](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/30/earlyshow/main6914033.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1752 "2010-09-30T10:44:40Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > > [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > > > Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. > > > > [Bronx-Born Actor Tony Curtis Dead At 85 - CBS New York](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/30/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/) > > [Bernie Schwartz died, too](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/09/30/earlyshow/main6914033.shtml) The Schwartz is no longer with us. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1753 "2010-09-30T10:47:10Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. > > [Bronx-Born Actor Tony Curtis Dead At 85 - CBS New York](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/30/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/) He gone ovah yondah, to his faddah’s castle… ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Uncle\_Goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Goat)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1754 "2010-09-30T11:30:42Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. Well, to be fair, his career had been dead for over 30 years. He was on my short list for 2011, which is now getting shorter. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1755 "2010-09-30T12:56:16Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Juist to be clear, I saw Giraldo’s pic. We are talking the guy on Last Comic Standing just back a few months ago, right?! If you mean being a _judge_ on Last Comic Standing, then yes. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1756 "2010-09-30T13:07:18Z")
> [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](#): > > Actor Tony Curtis (who I’d figured into the “already dead” column), has died at 85. > > [Bronx-Born Actor Tony Curtis Dead At 85 - CBS New York](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/30/actor-tony-curtis-dies-at-85/) No one on my list from last year is safe! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1757 "2010-09-30T13:29:16Z")
It’s been so long that I’d forgotten but: Tony Curtis was on my list! I’m out of the zeroes! I mean, it’s a tragedy, great actor, significant body of work, condolences to the family and all that, but 15 points to me! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1758 "2010-09-30T13:40:32Z")
I finally get some points! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1759 "2010-09-30T13:46:41Z")
Congratulations, Gentlemen. I hate you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574/1760 "2010-09-30T16:43:14Z")
What’s weird is that I always confuse Tony Curtis with Eddie Fisher, and when Eddie died last week, I kept thinking it was Tony. At least now I don’t have to try to remember which one is still alive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=87) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-celebrity-death-pool-2010/519574.md?page=89)