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Richard Jeni: Comedian Found Shot
Richard Jeni: Comedian Found Shot
Richard Jeni, one of Comedy Central's Top 100 Comedians of All Time, is dead. According to police, Jeni was found dead presumably from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Saturday, March 10, 2007. A loaded gun was reportedly found next to his body. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago
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 2manyuse...
2 years ago

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 2manyuse...
2 years ago

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 2manyuse...
2 years ago

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 jaxomlot...
2 years ago
Wow, that's horrible. I've been following him for a while. That's awful, awful news.
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 RTCA
2 years ago
Not just a good comedian, but a good actor as well, playing second fiddle to Jim Carrey.
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 2manyuse...
2 years ago
It is so shocking to hear that someone who seemingly had everything would decide to end his life. Very tragic.
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 Rowangre...
2 years ago
Oddly enough, I can't find any other news reports on this anywhere. Wikipedia cites this as an unconfirmed report. Does anyone have anything else to back this up?
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 donteatp...
2 years ago
How sad. He was excellent and will be greatly missed.
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 mennufer
2 years ago
That's so sad! He was one of my favorites. :(
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 Bornbad
2 years ago
Wow! We just watched his latest HBO special around Xmas. One of my favorites.
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 jaxomlot...
2 years ago
It's been 2 hours now without seeing this anywhere else on Google News (other than blogs rehashing this same story without attribution). I don't think this is necessarily true.

Is the "Post Chronicle" credible in general?
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 RTCA
2 years ago
« jaxomlotus : It's been 2 hours now without seeing this anywhere else on Google News (other than blogs rehashing this same story without attribution). I don't think this is necessarily true.

Is the "Post Chronicle" credible in general?
I wouldn't trust it. I just checked the AP and UPI wires and they have nothing either. As you said, it's being rehashed on blogs. It has even made it to reddit, digg and here (those are all I checked). But no other original source, not even a police blotter.
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 BrownTro...
2 years ago
Check this out this...



This...



And this...

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 RTCA
2 years ago
« BrownTrout : Check this out...




And this...

Correction: SHECKYmagazine.com was the originator of this story. I overlooked it the first time I wrote this. This is what happens when I stay up later than anticipated (I'm 15 hours ahead of California).
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 BrownTro...
2 years ago
« RTCA : Both rehash the same information. Nothing different. No sources cited.

Here's my blog article:
The first link I posted cites the AP as a source but I couldn't find it on their news wire. I just posted those other links to show that it is turning up in places other than blogs (no offense).
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 RTCA
2 years ago
No offense taken. But if this was a true story, it would be all over the wires. They have no names that die of old age get more coverage than this.

Edit: Story confirmed from the source, SHECKYmagazine.com.
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 videoguy
2 years ago
Looks to be true.
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 MissOphe...
2 years ago
Here is the CNN link:
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 vexingmo...
2 years ago
Man, that just sucks. I can't fathom the kind of pain one must be going through to do something like this, but obviously it was awful.

His humor was right up my alley too.

RIP, bro.
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 vinnielo...
2 years ago
Very funny man - very sad to hear this
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