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Monday, March 12th 2007

6:25 AM

Richard Jeni is dead

Wow! What a stunning headline to wake up to. Richard Jeni, one of my all-time favorite comics, killed himself over the weekend:

Such sad news. Even with my own personal beliefs about death (that it's not an ending, just a transition into another form of being that is way cooler than this physical one) my heart still goes out to the man who was apparently in enough pain to shoot himself in the head, in order to end it.

I met Jeni once. I was performing at the Funny Firm in Chicago and he was on the bill later in the week. He was hanging out with the local comics (of which I was one) and seemed like a very nice man. In fact, he even let me bum a cigarette.

However, my best memories of Rich Jeni are of a performance that Jeff and I attended in Los Angeles. I laughed so hard my sides literally ached and it was hard to breathe. My God, he was a funny, funny man. What a tremendous loss to the comedy world.

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