Movin' on UP - RIP Sherman Hemsley

+1 on this. Well said. The strut was great stuff.

 

Yes, he was. Are you thinking of George's brother Henry, who first appeared on "All in the Family" but was then written out after Hemsley was finally able to join the cast as George?

 

You're correct. I should have said he wasn't the original Mister Jefferson next door.

 

Whichever honky wrote his will has gotten him stuck in an El Paso funeral home.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20120829-dispute-over-will-prevents-burial-of-sherman-hemsley-keeps-him-at-el-paso-funeral-home.ece

 

Sad ending for a good actor. A shame most of the jokes he made would probably never have made network television today.

 

He died again, according to Facebook.

Another tragic end.

 

Going after Abe Vigoda's record.

 

You guys have to stop digging up old threads like this.
I saw the thread title yesterday, didn't read the thread and then mentioned to someone in conversation that Sherman Hemsley died.
Like an idiot.

 

That's very meta.

 

I was having trouble getting the video to show up, but you get the joke.

 

Sherman Helmsley was very good as Whoopie Goldberg in the Miss Howard Stern Pageant from 1993 or so.

 

On my college radio show years ago we did a bit called News You Cannot Use. We would get dumb news stories off Fark and such places and read them off in Very Important Voices.

The mother of one of my co-hosts once tried to tell some people at a family gathering one of the news stories "she heard on the radio." She flubbed the entire story and was ridiculed for both flubbing it, and then by her son for repeating it back and forgetting it was from our show.

Literally unusable news.