Larry guests who've passed on - RIP

Tom Snyder
Tommy Newsom
Ed McMahon

They didn't get into a fight. Ritter tripped over a dog that was loose in the studio. Ritter's agent thought it was Siskel's dog, but it was a stray.

Funny scene. Siskel has some good lines there. Of course, he is still a complete and total prick (R.I.P., of course), but I'm just sayin'...

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Wait a minute... who am I here?

The episode with all three of them - Off Camera - (Ritter, Siskel, Zevon) was on IFC last night. It was great to see them all, but also sad to think of what is ahead for them.


There is no spoon.

Yes, I was joking. 'Buried the hatchet' was supposed to be a pun. And I guess I just misremembered the incident, but it seemed to me like the got into at least a verbal argument about a review Siskel gave one of Ritter's movies. I don't know, I have to rewatch the whole show again soon.

Well... the Butthole Surfers (episode "The Prank") died in early 2002, but they've since been reborn as a touring-only act featuring their classic late-80s lineup of Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey, and sometimes Teresa Taylor. Gibby's side project "P", with Johnny Depp, Sal Jenco and Stevie Ray Vaughan's chief songwriter Bill Carter, seems to have permanently gone to the big 64-track studio in the sky, though. Requiscat Im Pax.

On a tangent, how many of Larry's guests have actually killed another person? THE NOSE magazine (sort of the West Coast's answer to SPY) once stated IN PRINT that it was Gibby who snuffed River Phoenix at Johnny's club the Viper Room way back when. IIRC, the basic accusation was that he had shot River up with some of Al Jourgensen's ultra-pure sh*t while knowing darn well that the little dude wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm pretty sure that stuff was what took out Loco Gringos front man Pepe Lopez and several other complacent users back here in Texas who were used to heavily cut Mexican "junk" (in every sense of the word). I won't go into the deal about how Gibby had been sharing a room in rehab with Kurt Cobain immediately prior to Kurt... well, you know what Kurt did.

Anyway, you know how the media is -- Rush Limbaugh said some patently false things about Gibby on his old TV show (Rush's producer Kit Carson freely admitted as much to me), and Bill Carter has told me that more than once he himself had actually committed the offenses (attacking paparazzi and that sort of thing) that the tabloids attributed to Johnny, simply because Depp's name was the one that would sell papers. So you gotta take what you read with a 30-lb. block of deer salt -- I'm sure you all knew that without me telling you, though!

- mnw

PS: Damn, this IS some strong stuff... (Just kidding!)