Comedian and actor Richard Jeni committed suicide over the weekend in West Hollywood, California. The 45-year-old was my favorite stand-up comedian, appeared in a variety of films, was a writer for Chris Rock and authored perhaps the greatest stand-up special title of all time on HBO: “A Big Steaming Pile of Me.”
I saw Jeni locally at Charlie Goodnight’s years ago and considered him a master of a dying art, as judged by a couple of his one-liners:
About Chicago:
“I think that’s how Chicago got started: a bunch of people in New York said, ‘Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough. Let’s go west.'”
On a bad fisherman:
“He couldn't catch a yeast infection if he f#%ked Betty Crocker without a condom!”
His loss is a big one for the comedy world, putting him among the ranks of gone-too-early fallen funny men such as John Belushi, Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Sam Kinison and others. You’ll be missed, Richard Jeni.
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