Comedian Rip Taylor Dead at 84
Comedian Rip Taylor throws confetti on photographers at the premiere of the film "Jackass 3D" in October 2010.
(CNN)Actor and comedian Rip Taylor died on Sunday, his publicist Harlan Boll said. He was 84.
Taylor was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California in the intensive care unit after suffering a seizure three days ago, Boll said.
Taylor acted on Broadway, film and television. He was known for his over-the-top personality.
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May he rest in peace.
often in rather forgettable films.
But he was generally fun to watch.
Thanks for all the laughs!
Rip Taylor !!! 
I'd been following Rip, and enjoying his brand of humor as a young teen of about 14 (I'm almost 60 now). I never heard anything negative about him ever.
His intelligence was identified early on while going through high school, but he also had to suffer through a not so happy life growing up, so he used comedy to "defuse" tense situations. Also as a young man, he served as a Capitol Hill Page. Later on, he served a short stint in the military.
I remember once I saw him not being so funny, and that was when he was on Tom Snyder's Late Night Show (I think it was Tom's show), and he maintained that he was sexually assaulted/harassed by a famous congressperson during his time as a page. Years later when asked about the sexual assault accusations, he tried downplaying what he said, but to me he looked way too serious (And him being serious is you know--weird for him 
) when he was talking about it years ago, and although we know people aren't always honest about things, I don't feel that the person I saw that night was flippant enough to throw a sexual assault accusation out there like that.
Anyway, RIP ...
Rip .....
He wouldn't want tears concerning HIS passing ... He'd want this:
