コメディアンのレッド・フォックスは、心臓発作に見舞われたふりをし、コミカルに転倒する芸をしばしば披露していました。 皮肉にも、数年後、彼は本当に心臓発作を起こし、倒れた彼を見て多くの人がいつもの芸だと勘違いしました。 彼はその心臓発作で亡くなりました。
レッド・フォックス、心臓発作ネタで死亡…マジだった！？
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挿話コメディアンのレッド・フォックスは、心臓発作に見舞われたふりをし、コミカルに転倒する芸をしばしば披露していました。 皮肉にも、数年後、彼は本当に心臓発作を起こし、倒れた彼を見て多くの人がいつもの芸だと勘違いしました。 彼はその心臓発作で亡くなりました。
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The boy who cried wolf.
It’s the big one !
Tommy Cooper (British comedian) died similarly but live on TV.
He had a heart attack during a broadcast and everyone thought he was messing about (he did things like that), but he died right there on stage with the audience laughing – I like to think that he’d have actually liked that… that the sound of his own audience’s joy was the last thing he heard.
If he’d survived, I guarantee you his next act would be a joke about how he died on stage (i.e. when the audience don’t laugh at your jokes).
They had to cut the broadcast and go to advertisements early, but him collapsing did air because the producers obviously hadn’t seen him do this part and it took a while to get to the stage that they realised something was wrong.
Pro tip: never pretend to need medical attention as a ‘bit’. It’s not worth it.
Someone recently told me that their family called them and said “I’m at the airport! I need a ride!” So they went out to the airport which is an hour away and always in heavy traffic. They “thought they knew they were joking.”
A week later they actually DID come into town and called for a ride, and low and behold, they did not get a ride.
I’ll never forget the vibe I fealt getting ready for a typical road trip down south, 12 hours in a car with the family. Dad just got the rental with a new Garmin he just bought from circuit city, and hes signing up for a 3 day free Sirius xm radio subscription; red Foxx, Richard prior, norm mcdonald, rodney dangerfield, and sam kinison is all we hear for the next 12 hours. Life is good.
My dad did this, too. Fortunately, I guess for him he had his actual heart attack at work in front of people that he hadn’t terrorized for their entire lives.
This time it was, in fact, the big one.
i’d only have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it’s happened twice
That’s some Pierce Hawthorne shit
“I’m comin to join ya, honey”
Oh, oh, this is the big one!
Similar thing happened to Col. Bruce Hampton, a strange and legendary Atlanta musician.
The Foxx who cried wolf.
Honestly, I bet he would have found this hilarious
it kinda happened with Col Bruce Hampton as well. https://alanpaul.net/2018/05/the-amazing-insane-totally-true-story-of-how-col-bruce-hamptons-death/
Reading the Wiki, it sounds like someone checked on him pretty fast. People might have initially thought he was faking for a minute, but it doesn’t seem like his care was neglected substantially.
Most heart attacks don’t present so suddenly and dramatically. It was probably a very large heart attack which they couldn’t have saved him from, but I’m not sure about all the specifics.
Actor Dick Shawn died onstage in the middle of his one man show in San Diego. Also was assumed to be part of the performance by audience and stage crew.
One of his jokes:
So a white missionary goes to visit a small village in Africa. He helps the people, he ministers to them, and helps them with their tasks. After a few months, a lady in the village gives birth to a white baby. The chief calls the minister in, very unhappy. The chief tells the minister that this is unacceptable.
But the minister says “you have to understand sir, God has a way of making these things happen. Look out there, there’s a lone black sheep surrounded by all the white sheep. No one can explain that.”
The chief pauses, breathes in deeply, and says “if you keep my secret, ill keep your secret”
(I probably butchered it, told from memory from 20 years ago)
Andy Kaufman vibes
Or maybe he was just committed to the bit
The studio gave in to his demand for a golf cart to ferry him from his dressing room to the recording studio. Parked conspicuously in the main hallway, it was a huge thing with three rows of seats and tassels dangling from the perimeter. Back then it was part of the studio tour.
First thing that came to mind:
https://youtu.be/1OjR5_1e5jc?si=FNv-I9u5UBqAzK-5&t=47
*I’m coming Elizabeth, this is the big one!* It was in fact, the big one…
Feigning a heart attack was the signature bit of Redd Foxx’s character Fred G. Sanford on the show “[Sanford & Son.](https://youtu.be/jLw8a1g7UD8). The inspiration for the bit came from Redd Foxx’s mother who acted like she was having a heart attack when he was growing up.
The bit is one of the most famous in TV history, but it wasn’t a Redd Foxx thing as much as a Fred Sanford thing.
I saw an interview with Royal Family costar Della Reese that says before Redd Foxx had the heart attack on the set of the show, [he had been stressed out by a Royal Family producer in a heated argument.](https://youtu.be/ifZ7CFu7Pik) Also Redd Foxx made it clear it was real and told people nearby to get his wife.
He needed a safe word.
Pineapple juice.
He was the original King of the dramatic exit.
Foxx who cried wolf
Doesnt Redd Foxx sell counterfiet art?
boy who cried wolf
He was just too good an actor.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Tragic, but man you dug your grave with that one.
He sure Foxxed up