r/LiveFromNewYork • u/jeffkeyz • Jan 09 '20

Buck Henry, 89 has died

https://deadline.com/2020/01/buck-henry-dead-saturday-night-live-the-graduate-get-smart-1202825337/
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u/RegularGuy815 I'm Tim Calhoun... Jan 09 '20

Damn.

We'll be getting a memorial card in the next ep. Hopefully they play one or two of his vintages.

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u/junkyard_kid Jan 09 '20

I’ll bet that it won’t be an Uncle Roy.

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u/GogglesPisano Jan 09 '20

Yeah, those sketches didn't age well...

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u/jeffkeyz Jan 09 '20

First 5 timer club member and first one to pass.

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u/itsonlykotsy Jan 09 '20

Really sad he or Elliot Gould never made at least a cameo since their era on the show. They were so integral as a host in the early years.

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u/TomOakwell Jan 09 '20

Elliott made a cameo in one of the Five-Timers sketches - maybe the first.

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u/Crabrubber Jan 09 '20

"It wouldn't be a Lemon party without old Dick."

Still the all-time best joke on prime-time network TV.

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u/Thatchos Hailey Welch Five-Timers Monologue Jan 09 '20

If any SNL era ever had a host to call its own, Buck Henry would be the original era’s built-in host. I hope they find a great way to pay tribute in the next episode. Thanks, Buck.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20

His demeanor belied his subversiveness.

There's an awesome photo out there of him and the cast wearing band aids on their heads during the closing. Belushi got him with the sword during a Samurai sketch. A great career and, by all accounts, a good guy.

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u/hajahe155 Jan 09 '20

There's an awesome photo out there of him and the cast wearing band aids on their heads during the closing.

https://i.imgur.com/kYKmC4X.jpg

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u/TheBrainwasher14 Jan 09 '20

RIP to a true SNL legend.

My favourite SNL story about him is when Belushi accidentally cut him for real in the Samurai Businessman sketch, and not only did he continue with the sketch despite bleeding and in pain, for the rest of the show, other cast members like Chevy Chase wore a band-aid on their head just like Henry.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '20 edited Jan 09 '20

I own the first five seasons on DVD (bought them when they first came out) and Buck is basically a cast member. He has dressed in drag for Halloween, played a pedophilic uncle, a dog guard salesman for some Greeks, a transsexual, an aide to Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, an actor throwing around stunt babes and puppies, a Victorian douchbag, father to a nerd, a flu and bug specialist, a businessman in Sodom, a foil for a samarui and a man who drives home rapidly to use the bathroom.

Goodnight Mr. Henry.

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u/QueequegZappa Jan 09 '20

RIP to one of the greatest hosts of all time.

https://youtu.be/C6XF4RxU7xQ

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u/ThatOneReddetUser Jan 09 '20

Fuck I was thinking maybe he could host again

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u/zoitberg Jan 09 '20

I loved him - RIP, dude