This happens to me all too often. I'm watching TV and think, "I thought he was dead!"
Mike Wallace. I thought he was dead!
Andy Rooney. I REALLY thought HE was dead.
So ... either I'm just out of touch, or ... I'm dead, and the afterlife is a parallel universe where the same old people hold the same jobs.
Can you imagine Mauri Povitch NEVER going off the air? If that's the way that heaven is, then I don't want to die!
So it's not just me!
ReplyDeleteI could have sworn that Mike Wallace was dead. Isn't he at least publicly sick with something? Ed Bradley is definitely dead, right? I would have been flipping a coin on Andy Rooney. Clearly 60 Minutes is not on my TiVo.
Another recent example:
Johnny Mathis ... NOT DEAD. He actually sang at Michael Deaver's funeral last week. (Bonus knowledge: Johnny Mathis is both black and gay.) Wrong on all three counts, I fail this one miserably.
We landed on 60 minutes on Sunday too--it had been a long time and I felt like all the reporters are a step away from death. How 'bout some fresh blood?
ReplyDeleteJohnny Mathis is gay? I didn't know that! I took my mother to see one of his concerts 14 years ago when I was a Senior in high school. Yes, I was a very cool teenager.
OMG! You know who else is dead?
ReplyDeleteFalco.
Remember "Rock Me Amadeus" from the '80s? (And who doesn't, really?)
Well, that was the basis for a joke on The Daily Show last night, and Jon Stewart made a comment "if he were alive today ..."
Wha?!?!
Confirmed by Wikipedia. Died in a car wreck in the Dominican Republic in 1998.
So, to sum it up:
Mike Wallace: alive
Ed Bradley: dead
Andy Rooney: alive
Johnny Mathis: alive
Michael Deaver: dead
Falco: dead