{"id":22598,"date":"2019-10-08T18:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=22598"},"modified":"2019-12-14T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T23:41:40","slug":"rip-rip-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/10\/08\/rip-rip-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Rip Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thankfully Rip was appreciated again before he passed, namely his appearance on\u00a0<em>Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.<\/em> He had a few laughs this year as people mistakenly thought he died when Rip Torn did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regardless of the decade, I loved watching him. Unlike other prop comics (Gallagher, Carrot Top), Rip was genuinely funny alongside his trademark confetti throwing. He was hilariously self-effacing too. He&#8217;d pull his toupee off to make a funny situation funnier be it John Oliver,\u00a0<em>Password<\/em> or the Jerry Lewis telethon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My favorite joke involving him was a Paul Provenza short in which certain tough realities were hitting his sidekick. The best one was\u2026hard reality, the world doesn&#8217;t revolve around you\u2026followed by, even worse reality\u2026Rip Taylor revolves around you! There he was, circling the sidekick, throwing that confetti!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks for everything Rip Taylor! Whenever you were on\u00a0<em>The Mike Douglas Show<\/em> or\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, you brought something for us Seventies kids to laugh at while the adults watched. I&#8217;m also glad, the comedians of my era helped bring you back to attention alongside Don Rickles. I have a feeling in person, you were a very sweet person who loved to bring people joy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully Rip was appreciated again before he passed, namely his appearance on\u00a0Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He had a few laughs this year as people mistakenly thought he died when Rip Torn did. Regardless of the decade, I loved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/10\/08\/rip-rip-taylor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[66,154],"class_list":["post-22598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","tag-comedy","tag-seventies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22750,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22598\/revisions\/22750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}