RIP Buck Henry

[Kraken]

Dead at 89. Dude deserves his own thread.

Buck Henry, a writer and actor who exerted an often overlooked but potent influence on television and movie comedy — creating the loopy prime-time spy spoof “Get Smart” with Mel Brooks, writing the script for Mike Nichols’s landmark social satire “The Graduate” and teaming up with John Belushi in the famous samurai sketches on “Saturday Night Live” — died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 89.

[Unagi]

I heard about this yesterday.
Rip Buck.

His creepy babysitting uncle sketches freaked me out a little as a kid.

[hepcat]

Damn it. A true legend in comedy has left us. I just listened to a great interview with him on the Gilbert Gottfried podcast not that long ago that was hysterical.

They don't make them any funnier than Buck.

[Kraken]

He had that deadpan, understated kind of delivery that I enjoy (and that made him a great foil for Belushi's samurai). I hadn't realized he'd done so much writing until I read his obit.