Via Time:
Comedian Bill Maher may have thought he was on American Gladiator rather than Pictionary [Ed.- Ha ha, good one, Jay.] in 1997 when an excitable Erik Estrada knocked him to the floor. The CHiPs actor was celebrating his successful deciphering of the phrase “tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree” when, in his exuberance, he hit Maher in the nose. The taped show cut away; when it returned, Maher had a compress against his face while Estrada sat sheepishly nearby.
Then Maher was his usual sarcastic self, guessing punch, fist, and brain damage on the next game. In fairness to Estrada, Maher’s nose is huge and hard to miss. [Ha ha, good one, Jay.] Since I’m talking about celebrity game shows anyway, check out the clip below of Betty White getting fed up with the magic toaster on Password. And since I’m talking about Betty White, check out this awesome tattoo.
On Saturday, legendary comic actress Bea Arthur succumbed to cancer. She was 86.
Arthur was most famous for the caustic wit and baritone voice she brought to Dorothy Zbornak in “Golden Girls” and the scene-stealing Maude Findlay in “All in the Family” — a role that was spun into the hugely popular “Maude” a year later. She won Emmys for both roles, and the New York Times called those characters “two of the most endearing battle-axes in television history.” Prior to that, Arthur had enjoyed a lengthy Broadway career that began in the ’50s, and she served as one of the first female Marines during World War II.
What I find most interesting about Arthur is the traction she maintained in the acerbic world of Internet culture, as the banner picture and nude paintings of her attest. The woman who once said, “Nobody ever asked me to play Juliet” always maintained a sense of humor about herself, volunteering to participate in Comedy Central roasts and starring in a memorable Sex and the City parody.
She will be missed. Especially by people who liked to say they wouldn’t F people with her dick.
