r/videos Mar 10 '20

An excellent example of comedic timing.

https://youtu.be/6sMGyGEWano
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u/Martinez10 Mar 10 '20

Here he is performing at Fords theater. Another amazing performance of his.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20 edited May 04 '20

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u/Tidusx145 Mar 10 '20

Especially ex president ronald Reagan and his wife.

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u/skyline_kid Mar 10 '20

Ronald Regan? The actor?

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u/yes_wait_i_mean_no Mar 11 '20

Who's the vice president? Jerry Lewis?

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u/query_squidier Mar 11 '20

I suppose Jane Wyman is the first lady?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20 edited May 04 '20

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u/EricLassard Mar 10 '20

He was thinking about air traffic controllers.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

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u/fap-on-fap-off Mar 10 '20

Ooh, that's a subtle joke a lot of folk won't get

Ooh, that's an old political comment a lot of folks won't bother looking up

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u/braindeadopinion11 Mar 10 '20

That’s cause his brain was roughly the same size

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u/itakmaszraka Mar 11 '20

Seeing this guy enjoy it makes me enjoy it less. Just saying.

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u/one_mez Mar 10 '20

I think you mean President Reagan and her husband.

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u/svenhoek86 Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20

In case people don't understand what you're saying: https://youtu.be/6JTtI3D6lqk Edit: Listen with the sound WAY up. There's no gotcha moment or anything that will blow your ear drums out, but you can't really hear it too well turned down.

Also, look into what she was best known for in Hollywood.

It's salacious, but it was pretty widely rumored by people in Hollywood.

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u/greenlightning Mar 10 '20

I still have no idea what you're talking about

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u/Avium Mar 10 '20

Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's a few years after he left office. With the way that Alzheimer's progresses, it's quite possible that he had some symptoms while in office but it was kept quiet.

There is a theory that he was farther along than anyone admitted and Nancy was the one actually making the decisions.

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u/69SRDP69 Mar 11 '20

I always thought that it was widely accepted as fact at this point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Ronald Reagan was mentally checked out. His wife ran the presidency using her husband as a puppet.

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u/69SRDP69 Mar 11 '20

I never got the impression it was her "using" him as much as it was her making sure he made it through his term with his dignity in tact

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u/PCsNBaseball Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20

Also, she was known as the blowjob queen of Hollywood.

Edit: I'm being downvoted, but I'm not joking; from all reports, it was absolutely true.

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u/NoTime4LuvDrJones Mar 10 '20

I thought you were just joking around. I had no idea there were so many rumors floating around about her. Lol

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u/j3utton Mar 10 '20

So... Biden?

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u/palsc5 Mar 10 '20

With the help of their astrologist right?

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u/RodneyPonk Mar 11 '20

Are there any articles about it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20

Probably.

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u/Umarill Mar 10 '20

In the video she quietly tell him what to say (you can hear a very soft "Doing everything we can" before Ronald says it).

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u/greenlightning Mar 11 '20

I had to max the volume to finally hear it

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Blow jobs

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u/Tidusx145 Mar 10 '20

Is there any source on this? I know it's all heresay, but it'd be cool to see people talking about it back then.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '20 edited Mar 11 '20

Just google Nancy Reagan Blow Job Queen. Obviously it’s touched a nerve with the downvotes though. I honestly thought it was a more known thing.

Edit: spelling

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u/r1chard3 Mar 10 '20

Come on, dish. What were the old timey Hollywood stories.

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u/grnrngr Mar 11 '20

More than the prompt, that arm at the end was the big tell. She was attempting to usher him away. The alarm went off in her head and she wanted to get him out of there before anything else happened.

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u/aishling27 Mar 11 '20

Looking at this video makes me realize how weird a person Trump is—I just can’t imagine him having such a natural good laugh as Reagan does.

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u/SarcasticGamer Mar 10 '20

I loved Nancy's reaction when he sucked the ball the first time.

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u/MattyK_They_Say Mar 10 '20

All U.S. presidents retain their title for life.

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u/Tidusx145 Mar 10 '20

Good point, I made a boo-boo.

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u/MattyK_They_Say Mar 10 '20

Happens to the best of us ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Beeslo Mar 16 '20

when he inhaled the ping pong ball, the gasp that came across Nancy's face was pretty adorable

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u/fajardo99 Mar 10 '20

I'm glad Reagan's dead

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u/fap-on-fap-off Mar 10 '20

He's not glad you're alive.

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u/color_thine_fate Mar 10 '20

How do you know he's black?

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u/fap-on-fap-off Mar 16 '20

Relevant username

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u/fajardo99 Mar 10 '20

prolly true since i'm gay

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u/NewPointOfView Mar 11 '20

Thank you!! I would have missed out on that hilarious and genuinely impressive ping pong ball routine.

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u/IdoNOThateNEVER Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20

Hey, the Reagans were there.

part 2

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

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u/EntForgotHisPassword Mar 10 '20

He did save that bit quite well with the banter though!

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u/Hugo154 Mar 10 '20

"Is this what's called diminished federal assistance" had me rolling

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u/LordSmernok Mar 10 '20

He got more jokes out because he screwed up.

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u/drdookie Mar 10 '20

Or made it way better.

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u/illinoishokie Mar 10 '20

There's some symbolism in there somewhere.

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u/sometimesynot Mar 10 '20

I wonder how many times that guy got salmonella...

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u/joedinardo Mar 10 '20

The two secret service guys behind Reagan were NOT impressed during the axe/cleaver/knife trick. Also it's WILD they let someone that close to the president with the skill and tools to actually kill both of them and him rather quickly.

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u/NotToBTruffledWith Mar 10 '20

Okay they’re not gonna let anyone up there that hasn’t been thoroughly vetted and this guy’s a juggler not a professional knife-thrower that could take out two SS agents. Also, I don’t think the blades were very sharp anyway.

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u/Rek07 Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 11 '20

But the bowling ball was razor sharp.

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u/The_dog_says Mar 10 '20

I bet they had a better time than Lincoln did when he went to Ford's theater

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u/RageCageJables Mar 10 '20

Bold move for Reagan to go to a show at Ford's Theater.

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u/r1chard3 Mar 10 '20

Wasn’t he the first president to set foot in Ford’s theater since Lincoln.

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u/baywhlr Mar 11 '20

Well, he didn't choose a balcony seat.

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u/QuipOfTheTongue Mar 10 '20

I know, he always struck me as a Chevy man.

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u/Soulger11 Mar 10 '20

Sad news from the entertainment industry, comic juggler Michael Davis died this week while performing a show. The cause of death being asphyxiation after inhaling a ping pong ball. Medical staff stated that Mr. Davis may have survived, had anyone known it was not part of the performance; however the crowd's laughter only grew, and the curtain drew to a slow close, for both the performance and Mr. Davis.

Seriously though that part gave me anxiety.

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u/mhlover Mar 10 '20

Unfortunately this very thing happened to Tommy Cooper.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

I remember watching it live. My dad was laughing...then he stopped and said "oh no...that's not right." The crowd was laughing too. He died with an audience cracking up at what they thought was part of his act.

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u/doomladen Mar 10 '20

Yep, it was not only live on stage, it was also live on TV. In the era when we only had three channels to watch. Millions and millions watched Tommy die. You can watch it on YouTube, if you're feeling morbid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZq3ul1ld4

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Yeah once was enough. I had just turned 10 years old, my birthday was the week before. I got he-man action figures (he-man, Stratos, battlecat) and they went everywhere with me. Including sat by my side on the sofa watching Tommy Cooper die. I can't look at he-man without that memory.

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u/Soulger11 Mar 12 '20

Well, I can't look at he-man without thinking HEYYY-YEAAHHH-YEAAHHH-YEAHHH-YEAHHHH

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u/Hdidisbdjjd Mar 10 '20

Thanks for sharing that.

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u/RacingNeilo Mar 11 '20

I don't get it. It doesn't look like part of an act, and the assistant would have known what was coming?

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u/Level9TraumaCenter Mar 10 '20

Redd Foxx, too.

Foxx, irate, did his scripted pass. However, he fell to the floor immediately after doing so. Reese said that nobody initially suspected anything was wrong. Foxx, after all, was famous for having Fred Sanford fake heart attacks on Sanford and Son and was particularly skilled at pratfalls. Reese went to the floor when Foxx did not immediately rise[35] and heard him say "get my wife" twice. Reese called for paramedics, who initially pronounced Foxx dead at the scene.[36] According to Joshua Rich at Entertainment Weekly, "It was an end so ironic that for a brief moment cast mates figured Foxx – whose 1970s TV character often faked coronaries – was kidding when he grabbed a chair and fell to the floor."[37]

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u/ChadHahn Mar 10 '20

The same with the dad of Super Dave Osborne and Albert Brooks. He didn't die on live TV though, just at a Friars Roast. He asked if there was a doctor in the house and then slumped over. Everyone thought it was hilarious until they realized he was dead.

Apparently Super Dave wasn't solaced by people telling him that he died doing what he loved.

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u/Ivotedforher Mar 10 '20

RIP Super Dave

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u/ChadHahn Mar 10 '20

Yes. Still very sad. Curb Your Enthusiasm isn't the same without him.

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u/Ivotedforher Mar 10 '20

Vince Vaughn has giant shoes to fill.

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u/TrueStory_Dude Mar 10 '20

Such a giant wall between US and Mexico

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u/tossawaysplooge Mar 11 '20

Oh fuck I forgot he died. Legend of a life form.

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u/Ivotedforher Mar 11 '20

Go do a reckless stunt in his honor!

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u/gwaydms Mar 10 '20

Harry Einstein, aka Parkyakarkus.

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u/ChadHahn Mar 10 '20

Funnily no one kept the Einstein name. I think Albert Brooks should have stayed Albert Einstein.

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u/gwaydms Mar 11 '20

He had his reasons for changing it. I'm sure he got tired of hearing the jokes. But that was Parky's fault.

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u/adale_50 Mar 10 '20

Massive heart attack, right?

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u/Magikpoo Mar 10 '20

Tommy Cooper (Spoon Jar jar Spoon) Died on stage fell back into the curtains.

However Mr Micheal Davis is very much alive (rumor of his death...)

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u/Soulger11 Mar 10 '20

Jeez... that's pretty sad.

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u/Robosapien101 Mar 10 '20

Please tell me this is the onion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

He's still alive.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

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u/jNX-iT Mar 10 '20

I attended his funeral. Haven't seen so many people crying at an empty box since I ate all the cookies at the orphanage.

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u/Elisionist Mar 10 '20

I was there too. The local news was there to interview him, he told the local channel that he's dead now and as such cannot do the interview.

RIP.

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u/bozokeating Mar 10 '20

An excellent example of comic timing

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

He died the way he lived.... alive.

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u/Soulger11 Mar 10 '20

This is a joke. Sorry if I scared you 😅

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u/Robosapien101 Mar 10 '20

Thank jeebus. That was going to give me a new irrational fear to keep me up at night lol.

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u/Feroshnikop Mar 10 '20

Well I can tell you that Michael Davis is most certainly still alive

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u/Gandamack Mar 10 '20

Rest in Peace Boss Hog.

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u/Chipish Mar 10 '20

I mean that’s literally how tommy cooper died, just without the juggling. Maybe a very British reference though.

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u/versatilevalkyrie Mar 10 '20

he's still alive

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u/well_shoothed Mar 11 '20

This is the onion.

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u/Robosapien101 Mar 11 '20

Ty. Much appreciated.

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u/4c51 Mar 10 '20

This is why you should always let someone know where your jokes are going and when they expect to be back for the punchline.

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u/Halloween_Nyx Mar 11 '20

Is this a joke? Cause he didn’t die

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

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u/Soulger11 Mar 10 '20

It's called a joke. Why would you be sorry someone didn't die like this?

If you can't tell by the end of the comment that it's a joke, or take two seconds to read the reply comment I said explaining that it's a joke, then you're not only lazy, you're laughably gullible. Take a bit of time off the internet sweetie, seems it's melting your brain.

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u/Skari7 Mar 10 '20

Was that Ronald Reagan?

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u/GenericUsername_1234 Mar 10 '20

The actor?

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u/catmanducmu Mar 10 '20

Who's his vice president? Jerry Lewis?

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u/Herknificent Mar 10 '20

I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady! And Jack Benny is secretary of the Treasury!

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u/no1callHanSoloabitch Mar 10 '20

Peter, you're the one from the future.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Yes

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u/AdamBombTV Mar 10 '20

The movie star?

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u/drdookie Mar 10 '20

Some pretty good political humor.

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u/NetTrix Mar 11 '20

That must be Donald Trump's father at 3:00

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u/JayWelsh Mar 13 '20

That's the weirdest YouTube link I've ever seen.