RIP Greg Giraldo (Page 1 of 2)

That's why they call it DOPE!!!! The guy claimed to be clean, you make the call, could've been darker n deeper than anybody knows.

                                                                                              RIP Greg,

                                                                                              J Dawg

Why is it that there is always someone willing to come in and crap on a thread? Leave the speculation to the tabloids dawg. They're better at it. Right now it's being called an accidental overdose due to prescription meds. Let's just leave it at that.

And do I care? No, but you seem to wanna go on and make fun of someone who passed on by calling them a dope. And I don't appreciate that.

You may not take an order from a 20 something, but you sure did not act your age in this case. Age has nothing to do with a little thing called class. I'm sure you were right there when Heath Ledger died saying the same thing.

settle folks, we are family after all. I think I know what happened, and will speculate for the tabloids before they put out complete trash. He had a big event coming up the next day, he was to do a show for some kind of alcohol-drug abuse awareness rally in NYC. He got freaked out because he was using, and maybe was afraid someone would notice. I've been there, hooked on narcotic pain pills. The more I had to confront in the course of real life, major events coming up that required attention, the more pills I took. And it took more, and more and more to get the same buzz. He had a party going on, I think he lost count of how many he had taken. It happens, no I didn't get a tshirt. He was a super funny somofabeech.

Tres

Accidents happen ohiodawg. There are people that know how to drive, but did they intentionally drive headfirst into a telephone pole? And all they're saying is that it's an accidental overdose of PRESCRIPTION drugs. Could he have been abusing those? Absolutely, actually I wouldn't put it past him, as he had a history with alcoholism and had actually quit drinking. But thus far, no one is saying it was narcotics, not police, not anybody. So he's no more a dope than Heath Ledger, whom everyone was sure was abusing drugs, but sadly had just been suffering from insomnia and took one too many sleeping pills in an effort to get some rest.

But this is all irrelevant. We have lost one of the comedic greats of this generation. The dude was a genius, and had a way of being crude without relying on it or using it as a gimmick. And was brutally honest to a fault, which made him so awesome on those Roasts.

Booze and pills, the deadly duo. I think Tres has it right, a tragic accident.  RIP.
Rick

He had been off the booze for about 5 years, just transferred the addiction. They can't smell those pills on your breath now can they. I speculated on something like oxycodone, but it could have been something else or a combo. My favorite memory will be of him destroying Lisa Lampinelli and Courtney Love on those roasts.

Tres

Bless you on your entire contribution on this Deezer.  You have presented your side well.  In good Faith, and of good Heart, , and a Spirit of Kindness and Golden Ruling.  I appreciate that, and you, and your views greatly.

But Hendrix certainly, (Ledger I don't know him from Adam until he was dead so I'll leave him out although clues don't exclude him completely) had large addictions issues.  Luckily for me until he died, one of them was music.  Even if someone buys into the foul play bit, it will never become fully believed because of lifestyle.  This is the price and the burden of any addiction.  The one thing that always rings loudest, ESPECIALLY among addicts who suffer recovery, is DENIAL.  No favors are granted to the living, recovering, never forgotten past sufferers of addiction(s) when ANYONE tries to paint a rosy picture of the problems.  The truth is not known, except as it WAS known in someone's past.  Relapse is ALWAYS pounding on the FRONT doorstep, back door, shuffling around the attic, circling around for the kill in the cool waters of the swimming pool, sent a spam Email, calling on the phone, graffiti writing on your Facebook wall, trying to steal a significant other or significance period, developing new, worse methods of identity theft....the list goes on & on...until one is dead.  That is the point of true, blissful resting in peace .  May this latest tragic one (whom I also do not know but sense) do so now.

Rock On & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

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