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Was Uncle Buck his greatest?


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I think you're thinking of that guy who was in Tommy Boy

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John Candy was in Uncle Buck, Tommy Boy was Chris Farley... Both of those actors are dead. John Goodman was the only one of the fat funny men that had the sense to lose some weight before it killed him.

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Yeah, I know. The guy started a troll topic and I went along with it. Sorry you had to fall for it.

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Don't always assume stupid millennials are always trolls. They are usually just stupid millennials that weren't alive around the time of John Candy.

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Hah! Yeah I've been noticing that lately

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He didn't lose weight til he was quite a bit older than both them tho.

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That's true... he also didn't get into the alcohol drug phase as heavy as the other two.

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You are saying Farley died because he was fat? Farley died from a drug overdose. And Goodman was pretty old when he lost the weight.

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He was also suffering from atherosclerosis which the autopsy listed as a significant contributing factor. So while the drugs triggered the heart failure it was likely that if he hadn't been such a fat fuck with atherosclerosis he wouldn't have had heart failure from the drugs. If you are 150 pounds overweight things that wouldn't kill a normal person tend to be a problem for the super fat... his heart was basically working to service 2 people. If he had died walking up a flight of stairs I wouldn't say the stairs killed him I would still say it was his gross obesity.

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From what I read the atherosclerosis happens from opiate use as well. And doing morphine and cocaine together could definitely kill a healthy person. I'm not suggesting the weight would not have taken him out eventually. But I've seen a lot of fat fucks live into their 60s. That combination of drugs as often as he did them are definitely more lethal than a flight of stairs.

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Nah he was better as the main character in that movie Precious.

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He was way better in Beverly Hills Ninja

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Man went straight method actor in the Grizzly Man

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Surely it was Nacho Libre...

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I like him as Roseanne.

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Barton Fink

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