Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Comedian Richard Jeni is dead.

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Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 03-11-2007, 06:34 PM:

This is some pretty shocking and tragic news. Richard Jeni died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was still alive when medical personnel found him, but he died later at a hospital.

I really enjoyed Jeni's stand up work. The guy did a number of HBO specials and appeared numerous times to all the big talk shows. He was in a number of movies, including The Mask.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-11-2007, 07:26 PM:

That's really interesting. For some reason I remember his show called "Platypus Man" since I would record shows on Fox (Married with Children most likely) and the opening of that show would always be on the end of my tape.

Posted by Justin West (Member # 920) on 03-11-2007, 11:08 PM:

Oh no...I was just thinking about him about a month ago, while I spent a week in FLA...I saw signs promoting a stand-up series of shows he was to have at Universal Studios or somesuch place in the Orlando area. I thought, too bad, I was going to miss him... [Frown]