Rip Taylor

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Charles Elmer "Rip" Taylor Jr. (January 13, 1931 – October 6, 2019) was an American actor and comedian best known for his exuberance and flamboyant appearance, as well as his habit of showering himself (and others) with confetti.

The Hollywood Reporter called him "a television and nightclub mainstay for more than six decades" who made thousands of nightclub and television appearances.

Early life

Charles Elmer Taylor Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Elizabeth Sue Evans (1911–2000), a waitress and former government employee, and Charles Elmer Taylor (1933), a musician. He died when he was only two years old. Taylor had a difficult childhood, including being molestified while in foster care and dealing with bullies in school, as shown by him in his 2010 one-man show It Ain't All Confetti. He went to Capitol Page School as a child. Before serving in the Korean War, Taylor served as a congressional reporter; he was in the United States Army Signal Corps. Despite being sent to the army, he was sent to Special Services, the military's entertainment branch, where he served for the troops in Tokyo and Korea.

Personal life and death

Taylor debuted in 2005 as the grand marshal of the Washington, D.C., Capital Pride parade. Brent Hartinger recalled being sent by Taylor in a 2009 interview about "Ask the Flying Monkey" as "openly gay." I'm not sure you aren't an open drug user.

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"Think before writing" is a word that comes to mind. Taylor was married for a number of years to Las Vegas showgirl Rusty Rowe, who died in the early 1960s.

Taylor was a close friend of entertainer Liberace. In 1988, Taylor cut the ribbon at the Las Vegas estate auction of Liberace's possessions and personal effects.

Taylor was in a long-term relationship with Robert Fortney at the time of his death, according to his publicist.

Taylor died in Los Angeles on October 6, 2019 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a week before being hospitalized for an epileptic seizure the week before. Heart disease was cited as a contributing factor in his death certificate. Taylor's birth year was often reported as 1935, but his death certificate and census results point to his birthdate in 1931. His remains were scattered at sea in Hawaii.

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Career

Taylor's show business career began when he joined the United States Army, where he began performing stand-up in pubs and restaurants around the world while also serving for the troops. He concentrated on a nightclub career after leaving his military service and returning to the United States. "pantomiming records; his favorites were Yidish folk songs and Spike Jones tunes," he said. "I haven't shut down since" came to an end one day when the record player broke, according to him. He worked in the strip joints all along the East coast of the United States in the mid-1950s. Although much of his material was based on parodies from live performances at USO shows, his first signature work would be to pretend to cry while begging the audience for laughs. He found that he could get a bigger response that way. His bookings began to grow more luxurious, and he took over Miami Beach, Florida, which had long been regarded as a winter destination for the wealthy. Taylor was also a mainstay in the Catskills Mountains' summer playground. A ticket agent from The Ed Sullivan Show attended his performance for one night. To get the audience ecstatic, Taylor will spend a week's salary on champagne. He first appeared on the show in 1961 and made around twenty appearances. "Get me the crying panda." Sullivan would forget his name, saying, "Get me the crying comedian."

Taylor appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show in a number of guest appearances during the 1963-1964 season as "the crying comedian." Taylor's signature confetti tossing gag came from an appearance at the Merv Griffin Exhibition in the 1960s, where he was bombing as a stand-up comedian. "I did props and I was 'The Prop Comedian,'" says the actor. On Merv Griffin's show, I was screaming like hell. The jokes were stupid, and I tore the five by eight cards, threw them up in the air, and it became confetti," he recalled. "I knocked over his desk, walked up the aisle, and said, 'Well, that's the end of my television career,'" she continued. That night, I went home. Their switchboard had lit up. 'Get the guy that went crazy,'" the girls sang.

Taylor became a fixture in Las Vegas. He was the opener for Eleanor Powell's dance-focused revue and would continue to warm up audiences for headliners "Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Ann-Margret, Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine, Judy Garland, and The Kingston Trio." He was named Entertainer of the Year three times in the 1970s.

He appeared in two episodes of The Monkees in 1968, as well as a having a cameo in their 1969 special 33+1 vote per Monkee. He continued to act as the title character in the 1970s cartoon series Here Comes the Grump, as the protagonist, and as the voice of Uncle Fester in the second edition of the Addams Family cartoon series in 1992.

Taylor appeared on television game shows such as Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth, and The Gong Show, and he was substituted for Charles Nelson Reilly on Match Game throughout the 1970s. He joined Sid and Marty Krofft's Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, playing Sheldon, a sea-genie who lived in a conch shell. In addition, Taylor appeared on The Brady Bunch Hour as neighbor/performer Jack Merrill. Chuck Barris, a long-lived beauty pageants creator and host of The Gong Show, produced in 1978, also hosted a short-lived beauty pageant show titled The $1.98 Beauty Show, which was also a short-lived version. On the 1990 version of Match Game, Taylor appeared as a celebrity. He was the voice of C.J. in 1979. Scooby Goes Hollywood, a television film made by Hanna-Barbera. The Kids in the Hall is also included in Taylor's other appearances; the show's most flamboyantly gay character is Uncle Rip by Buddy Cole. After being taken in a dream by Jim Morrison, he appeared in Wayne's World 2. Taylor appeared on both The Tonight Show and The Mike Douglas Show, making for "dozens of mayhem-filled appearances" on both The Tonight Show and The Mike Douglas Show.

In 1990, he appeared as the genie in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Taylor was uncredited on WWF Monday Night Raw's December 1994 edition. Jeff Jartt was pushed by a rival wrestler, and he aided him in his wrestling bout.

Taylor appeared in a segment on the show Beyond Belief: Truth or Fiction in 1997. In the segment "The Man in the Model T," Elmo Middleton appeared as Elmo Middleton. He appeared on the sitcom "Easy Come Easy Go" as himself in 1997. In the graphical adventure game Zork: Grand Inquisitor in 1997, he also played Chief Undercoverary Wartle. Taylor appeared on Will & Grace in 2003. He appeared on an episode of George Lopez in 2005. In four episodes of Life with Bonnie, Taylor co-starred as chef "Rappin' Rip." As Leo, he appeared in the Suite Life of Zack & Cody episode "Loosely Ballroom." He appears in several episodes of The Emperor's New School as the voice of the Royal Record Keeper. He appeared in the Jetix animated series Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! At the end of the 1,000th episode of G4's video game evaluation show X-Play, he made a special guest appearance. On a 2012 episode of The Aquabats, he appeared as a guest star. He appeared on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters as a genie, reminding him of his character.

Taylor performed the intro for the Bloodhound Gang's Use Your Fingers album in 1995. Johnny Knoxville begged Taylor to be in the film Jackass: The Movie (2002), an early 2000s American. He wielded a pistol that gave the appearance of "The End" in the final scene, and in the final scene, he wielded a sign that read "The End" on the side. At the end of Jackass Number Two and Jackass 3D, he did the same thing. Taylor appears in the credits of The Dukes of Hazzard's 2005 film In the credits, the blooper reel appears.

Taylor made occasional appearances in films, most in comedies like The Happi Hooker Goes to Washington (1977) and the R-rated Deep Throat parody Chatterbox (1977). Things Are Tough Encounter (1982), Cheech & Chong's Things Are Tough Encounter (1982), he picks them up in the middle of nowhere, driving a convertible loaded with props. He then took them to Las Vegas and cracking jokes all the way and bringing Chong to tears (and, later, tears because he can't stop). A funeral service in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) turns into a celebrity roast as guest Rip Taylor arrives to "honor" the deceased. Taylor appeared in Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) in 1992 and appeared in Wayne's World 2. Mr. Langford, Demi Moore's boss, appeared in 1993's Indecent Proposal.

Taylor's first big live show was in 1966, when he joined Judy Garland and Eleanor Powell in Las Vegas. Taylor first appeared on Broadway in 1981 as he replaced Mickey Rooney in the burlesque-themed musical comedy Sugar Babies. He appeared in Las Vegas, Reno, Nevada, and Lake Tahoe as a regular co-star with Debbie Reynolds in her live shows. Taylor appeared in Atlantic City on a regular basis. In 2010, he appeared in It Ain't All Confetti in North Hollywood, where he shared personal tales about his personal life and work.

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