Greg Giraldo

I loved Giraldo, no joking around. (that is kind of funny when you say something like that and you're writing about a comedian. huh?)  He was truly a very funny funny cat that had the rare gift of combining vulgar and grossly inappropriate jokes with extreme intellect.  Harvard intellect (Giraldo graduated from Harvard Law School). It's a lot harder to do then you would think.  Any fat slob can tell a dirty joke for God's sake, look at Artie Lange.  But to push the envelope to where you make everyone feel unbelievably uncomfortable, yet the entire audience has to appreciate the context of the joke is solid fucking gold.  Giraldo did that to a "T".

The best thing about Giraldo was that he was a comics comic.  Loved by the most respected men in the game.  Here's where I get angry.  Larry the Cable Guy is still around and making millions.  He's about as deep as a shot glass.  It always happens this way though, we lose the great ones and we think about what they could have done if they had stuck around.  Mitch Hedburg, Chris Farley, Belushi, Candy, and so on.  We're left wondering what unreal material these guys could have produced as we are forced to watch Carrot-top press on each and everyday like an unflappable Confederate front line.

Below is Geraldo insulting and outsmarting a so called better comedian Dennis Leary.  It's one of the many times Greg made dumb fucking Americans say, "who is this funny guy insulting one of the great comedians of our time?"  Well that "guy" IS one of the great comedians of our time.  Or should I say was.  RIP good sir.