This list was submitted by Eppa Rixey on Saturday, December 26th, 2009 at 1:32 PM PST for The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Dead Pool.
Points | Celebrity | Date of Death | Age |
---|---|---|---|
10 | Robert Byrd | June 28th, 2010 | 92 |
9 | George Steinbrenner | July 13th, 2010 | 80 |
8 | Abe Vigoda | January 26th, 2016 | 94 |
7 | Pope Benedict XVI | December 31st, 2022 | 95 |
6 | Andy Rooney | November 5th, 2011 | 92 |
5 | Sid Caesar | February 12th, 2014 | 91 |
4 | Whitney Houston | February 11th, 2012 | 48 |
3 | Betty Ford | July 8th, 2011 | 93 |
2 | B. B. King | May 14th, 2015 | 89 |
1 | Liz Taylor | March 23rd, 2011 | 79 |
19 points | 2 hits |
The worst thing about losing The King of the One-Liners is that even though it's the most obvious, worn-out, dull, insipid, overused, unfunny, hackneyed, banal, pedestrian, trite (not to mention stupid) obit line imaginable, we got e-mail from about 50 of you idiots telling us that the blurb on Henny shoulda been, "Take my life .... Please." Leave this stuff to the experts, huh? Please.
(d) February 24th, 1998