A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it ‘must be old as he’s been dead for a while’?
Nope. 88 and going strong.
Who else has surprised you?
Dick van Dyke turns 99 in a few weeks.
I swear to God he’s the first person that came to mind, and here it’s currently the first post - thank you for reminding me that he’s still alive!
Kick your knees up, step in time!
Mel Brooks. He turned 98 this year.
I thought Carter was dead until he was in the news for turning 100.
I mean he’s been in hospice for like 18 months now . . .
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If I were his hospice worker, I’d tell him Kamala won.
Maybe knowing the truth, he’ll fight harder and live another 100 years out of rage.
I im imagining he goes to make a pact with the Devil:
Jimmy: “Let me outlive Donald Trump, and I’ll pledge you my soul.”
Satan: “Don’t worry about it bro this one’s on the house.”
He could still run for a second term.
he is 88 and still alive
Whenever we would hear “Crimson and Clover” growing up, my dad would comment how Tommy James (the singer) killed himself in the 70s. Cut to like 5 years ago when I see Tommy James, in his 70s, still kickin’, on some random public access programming lol.
My dad has been repeating this “fact” for so many years that there’s a solid chance he’s forgotten it isn’t true and still says it whenever he hears “Crimson and Clover.”
Chuck Norris, back in 2010s. I thought I heard of a heart attack before that.
Buzz Aldrin.
Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.
The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, “Vera”, from 1982. I guess people in the UK would’ve known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?
Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.
Abe Vigoda
… oh wait, he did actually finally die in 2016
In a conversation the other day the film Contempt came up, and we looked up the movie and were surprised Brigitte Bardot is still around at 90.
I thought Bill Cosby died a year ago.
Morgan Freeman.
Though in hindsight I realized he probably would’ve given his own eulogy.
Christopher Loyd for a while
James Earl Jones prior to him actually passing away.
Yes. I think his character dies in one of the Jack Ryan films (clear and present danger?) and for years my brain thought that was real life…
