Heaven Needed Someone to Lead The Illinois Nazis: RIP Henry Gibson

Actually, Keith Richards is already dead. It's just that no one has told him yet.

 

"Nashville" really showed Country Music starting to lose its way ... Rhinestoned Henry ("Haven Hamilton") in the studio singing " 'Cause Jimmy's been wishin' that I'd take him fishin';His Little League pitchin' is somethin' to see."

And who could forget: "We must be doin' somethin' right .... to last ... 200 years!!"


But Henry (and Haven) would ask that we all "Keep a-goin' "

 

I second bigpern's take.

RIP.

 

Right with you, pern.

Also, one of my favorite lines in comedic film history comes from that movie, via Bruce Dern to one of the neighbor's family members.

DERN: Klopec? What is that ... slavic?
REUBEN (angrily): No!
DERN: About a nine on the ol' tension scale, Rube

 

What's funny about 200 Years is that it's sarcastic, but yet still better than anything Toby Keith et. al put out (with the exception of Alan Jackson) post-9/11. And Gibson wrote it himself.

 

Rest in peace...by Henry Gibson.

Nice get by O_T on one of the best bits in Kentucky Fried Movie ("Give generously when death comes knocking at your door.") Did not know his stage name was a takeoff on Henrik Ebsen. Was a riot as the comically weak, neuroses-laden judge on Boston Legal. A solid actor who barely kept himself above the kitsch line.

 

I don't know why I remember this all the years later, but my favorite from Henry:

Birdie, birdie in the sky
Laid a turdie in my eye
I'm a big boy, I won't cty
I'm just glad cows don't fly.

 

They said on the top-of-the-hour news he was the "verry interesting" German soldier in Laugh-In.

That is incorrect. That was Arte Johnson.

 

VEEEEEEEEEEEERRRY IIIIIIIIINTERESTING. UND VEEEEEEEEEEERY STUPID of them.