TAYLOR NEGRON: The Poll

easy money FTW

mailman in better off dead is pretty classic

i knew him from standup first, i don't remember any of it but pretty sure he didn't suck

i like this guy, he needs a steady sitcom gig

he used to come into my record store a lot. sweet guy.

He stole the show in The Aristocrats.

So, so clearly Milo in The Last Boy Scout. Hilarious movie. One day I'll buy it on DVD.

* The Gong Show Movie (1980) (uncredited) .... Blond-Haired Man

i spotted him in that once, hilarious to see him that young.

classic non-Seinfeld TV appearances left off the poll: playing the villain in the "Die Hard 12" skit on the Ben Stiller Show, and a hilarious character named Gwillem on Hope & Gloria.

Who did he play on Seinfeld?

he was the hairdresser that couldn't get the valet's B.O. out of Elaine's hair in "The Smelly Car." I don't think it was a particularly good appearance for him, I just meant that was the only TV role chaki left in the poll.

TAYLOR'S BEST ROLE...HANDS DOWN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58Icp345-4&feature=related

The way he calls Daniel Roebuck a dick in The River's Edge has often haunted my dreams, but still the answer for me is clearly Milo from The Last Boy Scout.

i want to see stoned age NOW

lol just saw him in curb your enthusiasm last week, as the waiter who won't let susie take her leftovers home after she tells him they're for the dog

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

His interactions with Badger in "Better off Dead" still kill me. I've said this in at least 5 threads on here over the years, but where are you when we need you, "Savage" Steve Holland?

he absolutely slayed me in 'the aristrocrats'
with the multiple camera angle/fast edited bit

FAST TIMES, people

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Milo: Excuse me, but did any of you stupid shits bother to FRISK THIS FUCK? He could be a God damned cop. Frisk him please.

For some stupid reason I remember him best in Punchline, for "You don't vant cahhhhhh-pet. You vant an AHHHHRHHHEEEAAAA RUUUGGGG!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zEUrQoG7ED8

OTM. One of my favourite jokes of all time.

Need to do a Last Boy Scout/Punchline double feature one of these days. Haven't seen either as an adult.

Haha, I use that "area rug" bit in real life all the time.

i cant believe theres a taylor negron poll and i never knew about it.

al leong otm

Found this while surfing for clips on YouTube tonight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1uCvIgDIkM

RIP

Just finished watching that. Absolutely wonderful.

Thanks for posting that, really great

Former Ilxor Chaki posted an interview he did with him last year: http://youtu.be/bIlNYu58vPc

"Oh, yeah. E.G. Dailey. She was in the Paul Reubens movie."

I've seen 8 of the movies in the poll, but most loooong ago. I started noticing him when he was appearing on a lot of Comedy Central shows, and in The Aristocrats. My comic friend in the Friars Club knew and liked him a lot. RIP.

http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/taylor-negron-final-piece

^^^

great "That's So Raven" line

The demographic that is most the stunning is the number of fans I have in the homeless population. One friendly guy who lives near me in a cluster of garbage cans always high-fives me because I was in "The River’s Edge."

This bit made me laugh/wince, because I just got an Amazon notice that my Blu-Ray of River's Edge will be arriving in the next couple of weeks.

RIP. he was a funny guy.

love the wry honesty in that xojane piece. i have seen v nice stories from comedians/actors since his passing - a friend was being harrassed by a drunk after a party & negron ran interference & then walked her all the way home, having barely met her at the actual party itself.
he seemed like a genuinely good person

There should be a public campaign to encourage use of the word "fame-ish." It's a perfect description of so many people.

Hollywood is such a weird place & does such a number on ppl trying to make it, it's cool to see someone who had relaxed into the weirdness like he seemed to

His rather amazing account of being in a '77 comedy class taught by Lucille Ball:

Every 20 minutes or so she would put more Vaseline on her teeth, and we soon learned that this trick kept her teeth moist so her lips would work.

"Most of you are not going to make it in show business." The crowd hushed quiet. "Most of you aren't that good." She inhaled, then took a bit of tobacco out of her teeth, flicking it into space.

The older members of the crowd laughed. The younger members became sullen, enraged and uncomfortable. America's favorite clown had become a strict governess, a wicked Mrs. Danvers.

Shirley Hemphill was one of the students. Shirley, a rotund girl with a sloppy afro, had yet to make a name for herself as the waitress on the sitcom What's Happening. She was still working at a fast food restaurant on La Brea. She stood up. "I want to be on a TV show now! I am ready. Where do I go? I want to know where to go. You can get me on TV." Shirley's voice was filled with impatience.
Lucy pointed to her with her cigarette, then stabbed it out in the ashtray.

"You're not ready, and you will never make it with this attitude of yours. Terrible. Awful." Lucy rubbed more Vaseline on her teeth. You could hear a pin drop. "Hollywood does not stand for that."

Shirley said, "Oh, shit" and then walked out of the big room and asked for her money back.

Lucy continued: "There isn't enough room for you all. You have to be honest with your chances in this business. I didn't do the pilot for I Love Lucy until I was 40 years old." She lit another cigarette. "Back then I remember thinking that 40 sounded very old."

"Desi and I knew it was our last chance." She inhaled deeply, smiling when she said "Desi".

http://www.freshyarn.com/9/essays/negron_pink1.htm

awesome

The video embedded above is him reading that piece.

ah... i was gonna get around to it...

Content is slightly different actually.

I mean it is the same story with some different details

No I am wrong, it is,exactly the same only maybe he omits name of Shirley H, I think.

RIP. Always happy to see him in a movie, sad to see him go.