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By Neil Vigdor Rip Taylor, a flamboyant mainstay of the comedy circuit who was known for his gags involving confetti, for his brand of self-deprecating humor, which included removing his toupee ...
Rip Taylor, the confetti-tossing actor and comedian, died Sunday. He was 84. Taylor was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in the intensive care unit after suffering a ...
"Thank you for all the laughter you brought me," one actor wrote. Rip Taylor, the flamboyant comedian known as "The King of Camp and Confetti" and "The Crying Comedian," died Sunday in Beverly ...
Rip Taylor, the exuberant comedian whose zany shtick and over-the-top delivery made him a television and nightclub mainstay for more than six decades, has died. He was 88. By Chris Koseluk Rip ...
Comedian Rip Taylor died Sunday in Beverly Hills at the age of 84, his publicist confirmed. Taylor died at 1:59 p.m., longtime Hollywood publicist Harlan Boll said. No cause of death was given.
When a joke would bomb — or rather, when an audience would fail to join him in laughing uproariously at a joke he'd just finished — Rip Taylor would switch off. For just a second, he'd drop ...
Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rip Taylor get a cursory mention in a new documentary about queer stand-up, but they were groundbreaking. By Erik Piepenburg In 1987, David Letterman was ...
Rip Taylor, the animated comedian who always left behind a trail of confetti, died Sunday, The New York Times reports. He was 84. Taylor’s publicist, Harlan Böll, confirmed Taylor’s death ...