• An insult comic, in the modern sense. It’s been a tough month for hard-living acid-tongued comics. First, Robert Schimmel died at the beginning of the month, and now Greg Giraldo has died of an accidental prescription drug overdose at the gone-too-soon age of 44. While Giraldo had a career outside of these roasts (among other things, he was a panelist on “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,” a featured player on numerous other Comedy Central shows, and most recently a judge on “Last Comic Standing”), this is the setting where he really, truly shined. R.I.P. man. We’ll keep insulting people for you. source

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