Longtime TV host and game-show producer Merv Griffin passed away yesterday at the age of 82. He had been battling prostate cancer since 1996.
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big | August 13, 2007 at 8:17 am
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big | August 13, 2007 at 8:18 am
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big | August 13, 2007 at 8:19 am
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big | August 13, 2007 at 8:21 am
big also fifth
LouLou | August 13, 2007 at 8:22 am
Fifth!
This is news and doesn’t belong on this site – it’s not gossipy enough, although he was the biggest queen in Hollywood. I think it was Ava Gabor that was his beard.
FreeJose | August 13, 2007 at 8:22 am
R.I.P. Merv. You will be missed.
LouLou | August 13, 2007 at 8:23 am
Uhhh, big, don’t you have anything substantial to say. Congratulations, you’re first, second, third, fourth…………. and are you big??
big fan | August 13, 2007 at 8:26 am
big is fifth!!
big isn't tenth | August 13, 2007 at 8:31 am
haha! :P
1MILF Hunter | August 13, 2007 at 8:31 am
Thanks, Merv. You gave us Vanna White. She used to be the hottest thing on TV. I’d still take a taste of that.
Conor | August 13, 2007 at 8:38 am
This site has the least funniest and most immature commenters i’ve ever seen. Honestly mostly 80% of this site’s commenters are retarded sea lions.
chill | August 13, 2007 at 8:40 am
@12 shut up boy
13th !!!
Stuey | August 13, 2007 at 8:45 am
I agree with Conor…the remarks have gotten to be tedious. They used to be funny and good slams….now it seems like high school kids and Jr. high kids have taken over.
Conor | August 13, 2007 at 8:45 am
@13
WOW! Your 13th! Thats amazing! 13th! Wow! I’m so happy for you.
???????krazihottkelli??????? | August 13, 2007 at 8:54 am
12// funny how U zaid that b 4 I commented
SgtHulka | August 13, 2007 at 8:54 am
Now Liberace will have his boy toy back. Have fun Merv!!
Goodman | August 13, 2007 at 8:56 am
16th God I feel bad I was watching an advert 4 days ago about his new show ad I said he was gonna die, so now i feel psychic and evil
Nikky Raney | August 13, 2007 at 9:01 am
did you know if every man in the world lived long enough they would all get prostate cancer.
Chauncey Gardner | August 13, 2007 at 9:01 am
So the cancer finally won, huh? Did it choose the all-expenses paid vacation to Aruba or the cash?
KittyGoesAWOL | August 13, 2007 at 9:05 am
Farewell Merv! You shall be sorely missed!
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RichPort | August 13, 2007 at 9:11 am
Wait… he was alive two days ago..? I thought he’d been dead for years.
Phil | August 13, 2007 at 9:47 am
I’m surprized his prostate lasted this long – considering the beating it probably took.
Also – 23rd!
Radar | August 13, 2007 at 10:00 am
Never heard of him. Was he a politician?
pointandlaugh | August 13, 2007 at 10:15 am
RIP Merv.
mdiz | August 13, 2007 at 10:33 am
RIP Merv the Perv.
Lexoka | August 13, 2007 at 10:40 am
No mean comment, no bad joke, no bikini pictures, wow, that’s unusual.
Hollywood Agent | August 13, 2007 at 10:49 am
Merv, you will be missed.
Cornie on a Candlestick | August 13, 2007 at 11:07 am
well RIP and i hope heaven is everything you dreamed it would be. If that’s not where you are, then…at least you went SOMEWHERE. come on ppl, have a little heart.
Merv Griffin | August 13, 2007 at 11:08 am
#29 OH SHIT! FIRE!
wedgeone | August 13, 2007 at 11:47 am
Merv Griffin was a gigantic figure in TV, and he will be sorely missed. By other closeted gays. With sores. On their anuses. I think I speak for all of us when I say I wished I could have been there while his body was still warm, to give him a very special farewell fisting.
Googolygoo | August 13, 2007 at 11:50 am
You people are lowbrow morons, waving the fact that you have no relevant recall prior to 1998 like a banner.
Merv Griffin was a great fellow, a trailblazer and one of the pioneers of the celebrity talk-show genre (which led to sites like our beloved Superfish) as we know it. He created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, and made a fortune just for writing the Jeopardy! theme song. He was classy and elegant while still being flamboyant and [quietly] in the middle of the toast of Hollywood.
RIP, Merv, and to all you people who can only seem to count as high as your post number, go suck a dick.
Googolygoo | August 13, 2007 at 11:57 am
“go suck a random public restroom dick, like Merv.”
Sorry, the last part didn’t post correctly the first time. As much as I admire him, I’ll be the first to admit that there was a reason he had to battle prostate problems for so long!
Dr. Hfuhruhurr | August 13, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Merv, I’d let you kill me in an elevator any day.
Farewell, old chum.
Kim Smith | August 13, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I used to work for Merv: he was a despicable, greedy, awful human being, and when I found he died yesterday, but first response is “Ding. dong, the witch is dead.” He took advantage of his employees by never paying them well, and treating all of them like they were replaceable in a second, and that they were lucky to have a job on TV. Some had second jobs so they could afford the “privilege” of working on a game show. No RIP – I hope there is a heaven and Hell, so he is rotting in hell as we speak.
wedgeone | August 13, 2007 at 12:36 pm
#30 – that brought me a laugh today. Thx.
#31 – stop trolling me, schack. Find something constructive to do.
#35 – Welcome to the world of the rich & famous. How do you think they stay that way? Greed has no saturation point, like my uncle always says.
crazy otto | August 13, 2007 at 12:42 pm
he had a lovely bunch of coconuts
steve | August 13, 2007 at 12:54 pm
16: I think he was referring to you honey
UNCLE NED | August 13, 2007 at 1:01 pm
So essentially, because Merv was gay, it’s OK to dump bile on him today, the day he passed into eternity? #12 is right about the level of commentary on this site – putrid.
And # 35 – nobody cares about your personal, or personnel, problems at work. If you don’t like a job, then you leave it and get another one. You could have told your anti-Merv story without wishing him to rot in Hell. Obviously you’re still bitter after so many years – sounds like your problem. And from my point of view, it IS a privilege to work on TV – even a dumb game show like Wheel.
woodhorse | August 13, 2007 at 1:56 pm
#36: For what it’s worth, I say Greed is where it all breaks down. He was a really talented business man from what I hear but I wasn’t aware, nor do I care, if he was gay. The game shows were amusing but the world is too busy for me to watch TV now.
#35 It is really bad when your paycheck is your life’s blood and your boss makes you feel like you could lose it any second (for no fair reason) but I think he’s answering for that right about now. Just be glad you didn’t have to stay at that job – leaving it was probably a blessing in disguise, if you think back on it.
I usually feel a little sadness when someone famous – like Johnny Carson – dies but I just don’t remember this man very much.
David J. | August 13, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Did you see the clip of his appearance on “The Man With Two Brains” as a serial killer? THAT’S a sense of humor!
TR | August 13, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Big is gay. I wished he would’ve died instead of Merv.
shankyouverymuch | August 13, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I honestly had NO idea that old Merv was a fudge packing purv!!! … Wow that rhymes … Do think maybe I can get a job on a game show? … Anyway, back to the point, how are people so sure Merv was a Homo??? Gossip ALL just gossip! I for one am going to choose NOT to believe this vicious pack of homo lies! He was just a regular guy as far as I’m concerned …
Butt-pirate or not, I still wish Merv peace in his final rest …
Googolygoo | August 13, 2007 at 4:31 pm
#33, if you can’t post intelligently under your own pseudonym, don’t appropriate other peope’s creativity as your own.
Go suck any kind of dick you want, better yet, go jerk off, as your hands will then be busy and unable to type.
douglas | August 13, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Merv was a big horse racing fan. Had 2 year old champ Stevie Wonderboy who was the early derby favorite before he was injured. Not enough celebs in horse racing like there used to be.
Rhea | August 13, 2007 at 10:59 pm
The Hollywood mogul Merv Griffin died at the age of 82 over the weekend after a battle with cancer, and The New York Times actually discuss his sexual orientation, the palimony lawsuit and the male-on-male sexual harassment lawsuit.
Merv Griffin was an example of how dangerous the closet can be — and how the closet and power are a combustible combination that adversely affects so many other lives.
Griffin never acknowledged he was gay, though it became widely known in Hollywood, even as Eva Gabor played his beard.
Griffin’s closet kept him shockingly silent while he had access to the president of the United States as his own people were dying.
He also stayed silent about the epidemic in the media even though he was a man very much at the center of the media industry and in shaping communications and television in this country. He could have made a huge difference!
Griffin’s closet had him firing gay men who’d actually made it up through the ranks of his own company, simply because they were openly gay.
Merv Griffin accomplished a lot and being held up as a example of a stellar Hollywood businessman. But he should also be held up as man who was hugely influential and powerful and yet still allowed the closet and homophobia to manipulate his life. That should not be forgotten.
. | August 14, 2007 at 5:41 am
Its pathetic what some people comment, thinking they sound clever and funny when really you just sound like complete idiots. Have some respect.
tonycatman | August 14, 2007 at 6:38 am
Absolutely right. If you haven’t got something insightful, or otherwise intelligent to say, just shut up.
The idea of just posting your place numbers is childish and pointless beyond belief.
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LouLou | August 14, 2007 at 2:01 pm
#48 – How right you are. Posting numbers is such immature bullshit. How could anybody be so preoccupied with such a trivial bit of nonsense?
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WooHoo!!!!!!
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LouLou | August 14, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Was the key to Merv’s wealth that he was responsible for both Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and they both aired on major networks during the same time slot? So, like, you couldn’t really lose. If you weren’t watching one, you were watching the other. Or the McNeil Leher Report. Or King Of Queens Reruns. King Of Queens! Haha! Merve, King of the queens!!! haha.