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Estelle Getty's Death Reduces YouTube Eulogist To Puddle Of Tears
Posted by Seth at 7:30 AM on July 24, 2008
We'll admit to not having yet fully absorbed yesterday's news that Estelle Getty had shuffled off this mortal coil to the 1912-Sicily-in-the-sky. Stalled as we are in the early, "Why couldn't it have been someone from Empty Nest?!"-stages of the Kübler-Ross model, we hand you over now to YouTube video diarist fromthe60s. His lachrymal remembrance of "one of the funniest people I ever got to see on TV" is surely the most moving—if not the moistest—user-generated-video testimonial since Leave Britney Alone Guy beseeched us to leave Britney alone. We swear, without the courageousness of Young Gays Who Feel Too Much, there'd be literally nothing to do all day at the office besides work.
We'll admit to not having yet fully absorbed
- Rest In Peace Estelle Getty [YouTube via The WOW Report]
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Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 9:25 AM 24/7/08
@Calraigh: Yeah, I hear that. Usually about three months before I hear "I think we moved too fast, don't you?"
But I will keep the gift, thank you. Do you happen to know if you kept the receipt?
Little Mintz Sunshine
Calraigh
Posted 9:09 AM 24/7/08
@Little Mintz Sunshine: You deserve some sort of gift for that, really. I instantly love you.
Calraigh
kookla
Posted 9:06 AM 24/7/08
He's like a Margaret Keane painting come to life.
kookla
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 8:59 AM 24/7/08
...also, she was 84, people. Eighty. Four. How is this a shock, again? It's like those obits that read "Edgar B. Johnson, 96, of Olathe died suddenly yesterday at the Village Home for the Aged."
Little Mintz Sunshine
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 8:57 AM 24/7/08
It's like so sad you can't turn on cable TV and see tons of dead actors, you know, acting. Or buy DVDs. Yeah, too bad you can't do that.
Little Mintz Sunshine
el smrtmnky
Posted 8:09 AM 24/7/08
Patton Oswald is so funny
el smrtmnky
vividblurry
Posted 7:58 AM 24/7/08
I like when he gets an instant message and pauses mid-tear to read it.
vividblurry
Richard
Posted 9:31 AM 24/7/08
The IM thing is priceless.
That said, no one should ever be allowed on the internet ever again.
Richard
Oxycontinmoron
Posted 10:43 AM 24/7/08
@Little Mintz Sunshine: Yes, and when presented with that, let us not forget the inevitable follow up question, "And what did he die of?"
Oxycontinmoron
gwendemarco
Posted 3:34 PM 24/7/08
@Oxycontinmoron: Death. He died of death.
gwendemarco
jetmore
Posted 8:21 PM 24/7/08
Psst, Gay Crying Guy...She wasn't actually your friend.
jetmore
GordonShumway
Posted 10:51 PM 24/7/08
Or as Sophia herself put it:
Sophia: I can't believe it. Esther Weinstock is dead.
Dorothy: Oh I'm so sorry Ma, How'd it happen?
Sophia: [sarcastically] She was fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. SHE WAS 88!
Rose: Well, it's good that she kept fighting right up to the end.
Yes, I live alone. Why do you ask?
GordonShumway