Bob Saget died

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get the punchline to the Dirtiest Joke in the World. Can someone explain it? Is it the dichotomy between all the awful stuff the family does and the fact they call themselves the Aristocrats? Am I the only one who doesn't find the punchline funny?

Part of what makes it funny is the history of the joke itself. Comedians sort of compete to make the family's act as disgusting as possible. So part of the humor has to do with how this comedian compares to other comedians who have told the joke in the past.

Some context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats

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Anonymous wrote:New reports say he recently battled covid.

Assuming he had a long flight from CA to Orlando on the heals of covid, it’s possibly he had a blood clot—or heart attack or stroke. His sister died of an aneurysm. Lots of potential silent killers.

Very sad.

Why do people just make stuff up? He didn’t have some magical CA to FL flight just before he died. He was in Florida for weeks

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Anonymous wrote:This shocks me! I didn’t realize he had a drug problem, seems common among comics though.

He DIDN'T. He was 65. It literally could have been anything from a stroke, to a heart attack, to some underlying condition. Why assume drugs. That's ridiculous.

You're both ridiculous.
Plenty of 65 year old men die suddenly from heart attack, stroke or aneurism.
Plenty of celebrities use drugs. There's no reason to be so indignant that he didn't, or to think that it was a big problem which caused his death.

Bunch of naïve drama queens.

Oddly enough, as soon as someone's parents turn 55 or 60 on this site. EVERYONE assumes they need care, or might have some type of memory issue, or is "old"- so save your drama queen comments. There's really no reason to assume drugs were involved due to a celebrity status. That is stupid

NP, but I actually see the flip side of this more. People thinking their parents are still “young” at 70, so should be willing and able to just hop on planes to do long family visits or babysitting. People seem to think that a healthy60/70 year old is the same thing as a healthy 30/40 year old, and it’s not. I have three “healthy”, active 70 year old men in my life, and all three need / prefer an afternoon nap. All of the men and their partners have some kind of common health issues like Type II diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, arthritis, with (interestingly enough) the men having more of these smalll.

PersonLly, I wouldn’t assume that a 65 year old man is in the same kind of shining “good health” that a 30 year old is. A sudden death is shocking, but probably not really that unusual.

Dunno. Been napping since my twenties and so many friends with cancer when we were in our late 30s through 50s. So, no.

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Anonymous wrote:His good friend was on the Today Show this morning and said he died in his sleep.

I'm in FL so have read lots of coverage of this. It said he was found lying in bed, one arm across his chest and other arm alongside-which is a sleeping position, and the room was neat and orderly and his were the only belongings in the room and were in appropriate places (like the closet). He was supposed to check out that day and when his wife could not reach him, she called hotel security who entered the room and called the authorities.

It really does sound like a heart attack.

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My friend woke up one morning and found her 30 year old husband dead beside her. Sometimes even healthy young men drop dead. Remember Sergei Grinkov?

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Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do some of you get so offended and angry about strangers talking about other strangers? Stop acting like you were close personal friends of Bob and should be offended.

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No one is doing that. No one.

Yes, they are.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

I’m Jewish too and we always have pallbearers. It is usually the young people, grandchildren for example. We carry the casket into and out of wherever we hold the service and again to the graveside. If we needed help we could get help from the funeral home or cemetery. It is our obligation to do this just as it is to put the first shovel of dirt over the casket. I’m interested that you have not experienced this. Hiring out pallbearers goes completely against my understanding of the tradition. The tradition being that despite our reluctance to say goodbye, it is our duty to bury our loved one.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

I’m Jewish too and we always have pallbearers. It is usually the young people, grandchildren for example. We carry the casket into and out of wherever we hold the service and again to the graveside. If we needed help we could get help from the funeral home or cemetery. It is our obligation to do this just as it is to put the first shovel of dirt over the casket. I’m interested that you have not experienced this. Hiring out pallbearers goes completely against my understanding of the tradition. The tradition being that despite our reluctance to say goodbye, it is our duty to bury our loved one.

Agreed...I am Jewish and we always have pallbearers.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

I’m Jewish too and we always have pallbearers. It is usually the young people, grandchildren for example. We carry the casket into and out of wherever we hold the service and again to the graveside. If we needed help we could get help from the funeral home or cemetery. It is our obligation to do this just as it is to put the first shovel of dirt over the casket. I’m interested that you have not experienced this. Hiring out pallbearers goes completely against my understanding of the tradition. The tradition being that despite our reluctance to say goodbye, it is our duty to bury our loved one.

Agreed...I am Jewish and we always have pallbearers.

+1 same

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

I’m Jewish too and we always have pallbearers. It is usually the young people, grandchildren for example. We carry the casket into and out of wherever we hold the service and again to the graveside. If we needed help we could get help from the funeral home or cemetery. It is our obligation to do this just as it is to put the first shovel of dirt over the casket. I’m interested that you have not experienced this. Hiring out pallbearers goes completely against my understanding of the tradition. The tradition being that despite our reluctance to say goodbye, it is our duty to bury our loved one.

Agreed...I am Jewish and we always have pallbearers.

+1 same

Muslims also have pallbearers. It's a very common, respectful phenomenon in may religions and cultures.

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Anonymous wrote:Mary Kate and Ashley attended the funeral. I am confused by the pall bearers. Bob Saget was jewish. I am jewish. I have been to many funerals. There have never been pall bearers. The people who work at the places move the casket. Why did Bob have pall bearers? Where were they carrying the casket? I don't exactly know what they do.

I’m Jewish too and we always have pallbearers. It is usually the young people, grandchildren for example. We carry the casket into and out of wherever we hold the service and again to the graveside. If we needed help we could get help from the funeral home or cemetery. It is our obligation to do this just as it is to put the first shovel of dirt over the casket. I’m interested that you have not experienced this. Hiring out pallbearers goes completely against my understanding of the tradition. The tradition being that despite our reluctance to say goodbye, it is our duty to bury our loved one.

Agreed...I am Jewish and we always have pallbearers.

I'm Jewish and helped carry my father-in-law's casket, and he was a rabbi. I honestly had no idea Saget was Jewish until he passed away and didn't know he was a Philly boy. RIP

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That John Meyer was a close friend is a bit surprising.

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Cause of death released. He died from a brain bleed after hitting his head. Went to sleep and didn't wake up. No drugs. No alcohol.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/09/bob-saget-died-brain-bleed-after-hitting-his-head/

Reminds me of Natasha Richardson. Freak accident.

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Anonymous wrote:Cause of death released. He died from a brain bleed after hitting his head. Went to sleep and didn't wake up. No drugs. No alcohol.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/02/09/bob-saget-died-brain-bleed-after-hitting-his-head/

Reminds me of Natasha Richardson. Freak accident.

Except Natasha had a skiing accident. What did he hit the back of his head on? Something in the bathroom?