Warren Thomas

[Louis C.K.]

What happened to him??!? I heard he died. How? God he was funny and
a nice guy. Anyone have any info?

LCK

http://www.louisck.com

[JPFC]

he went to a taping of some HBO sitcom and then...

[s...@lexregia.com]

JPFC wrote:

> he went to a taping of some HBO sitcom and then...

Didn't he once do a show called Mouthing Off with Jimmy Pardo? I hear
that can be hazardous to your health.

Stu

[Marz]

I found this obit:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/town/wisner/ThomasW.html

[Hags]

Louis C.K. wrote:

>I found this obit:
>http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/town/wisner/ThomasW.html

Jeez, he looked pretty good for his age!

-- AntiquePlate

[Louis C.K.]

Wow. Really?

Warren was a great comic and a nice guy. I have to say I'm kind of
blown away by the response here. Stu, he's a local hero where you
live. He won that stupid competition back when it meant something.
You ought to perhaps be ashamed of yourself.
Compared to other comedians who have died, the treatment here is...
surprising. I'll look elsewhere for information.

LCK

[Marz]

Hey; I didn't mean to be disrespectful; merely pointing out that a
search brought up nothing.
I hope it's a rumor.

[s...@lexregia.com]

Louis C.K. wrote:

> Warren was a great comic and a nice guy. I have to say I'm kind of
> blown away by the response here. Stu, he's a local hero where you
> live. He won that stupid competition back when it meant something.
> You ought to perhaps be ashamed of yourself.

Unfortunately the news traveled slowly. There was nothing about him in
the local SF paper, the LA Times or in the NY Times. There will be a
tribute to him this Sunday at the Punchline in SF -
http://sf.punchlinecomedyclub.com/detail.html?event_id=214119

Stu

[JPFC]

to be fair to Stu, he was responding to my "joke" about the HBO taping.
JP

[Tim Shell]

Stu still should be ashamed of himself.
Just generally.

[SHECKYmagazine.com]

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Warren Thomas
>From comic Byron Yee:

I haven't seen anything posted about the passing of comic Warren
Thomas who died a little over three weeks ago but word did not spread
until last Monday. I'm not the best person to furnish an obit for him
but I wanted to get the word out for all those who knew and loved him.

Warren Thomas, a San Francisco comedy legend and past winner of the
SF Comedy Competition, passed away earlier this month in New York City.
He was one of the giants of the San Francisco comedy scene in the late
80's and early 90's and was deserving of being known as a comic's
comic. Watching Warren riff on stage was like listening to jazz. His
bits would always spin out of control and he was infamous for doing
everything to lose the crowd, only to bring them back. There will be a
rememberance for Warren Thomas on Sunday evening, October 9th, at the
San Francisco Punchline.

# posted by SHECKYmagazine.com @ 1:26 PM 0 comments

[SHECKYmagazine.com]

Thanks for posting the obit. Believe me, I had many stories but wanted
to keep it short. I've just been contacted by a friend of Warren's
regarding the memorial service. There will still be the "comedian's
wake" at the SF Punchline on Sunday, October 9th. Here's the info:

Memorial Service - Warren Thomas
South
Berkeley Community Church
1802 Fairview Street

Berkeley, CA 94703
Saturday October 8, 2005, 2pm

Thanks again,
Byron

[SHECKYmagazine.com]

We get half a million hits a month, from 40,000 uniques. Apparently,
none of them come from ACS members!

[The Bentley]

Warren died on or shorlty before Sept 2nd. The cause of death was a
combination of natural causes and lack of health care.
I had become friends with Warren over the last 18 months while he was
doing his thing in NYC. Every tuesday night he did stand up at a left
leaning comedy show at Rocky Sullivan's (
http://www.rockysullivans.com/RSHomePage2.html ) . Sometimes there a
lot of comics and sometimes only 2 and Warren would have to do 90
minutes himself and he always killed. Basicly it was his room. 2
comics or 12 he closed every show. There was a memorial in SF that I
heard was very nice. On Tuesday October 18th we will be having a
memorial in NYC at Rocky's (Lexington between 28th and 29) starting
around 8 pm. Procedes will go to his widow. The mood may be a bit
somber at times but I am sure there will be plenty of talent there and
I will be drinking Jameson on the rocks in his honor until they make me
stop.

[Tim Shell]

I was busy that day.