A family member put on a game show that included Brian Blessed and I commented it ‘must be old as he’s been dead for a while’?
Nope. 88 and going strong.
Who else has surprised you?
John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)
Holy crap, I thought he was dead too… Turns out it was Raul Julia, Gomez in the Addams Family movies.
Morgan Freeman.
Though in hindsight I realized he probably would’ve given his own eulogy.
Not gonna say because I don’t want to jinx it
OJ SIMPSON
I thought Mr dress up was dead for years before he actually died . Pretty sure that was just a Canadian show so most people probably have no idea what I’m talking about . But he was like Mr Rogers and made lots of cool things with construction paper and glue .
I’m not sure why I thought this, but I thought Carole King died in the late 80s. Nope, she’s still kickin’.
Lionel Richie and anyone who was bald or over 30 when I was less than 10. Like Steve Ballmer
I thought Bill Cosby died a year ago.
Whenever we would hear “Crimson and Clover” growing up, my dad would comment how Tommy James (the singer) killed himself in the 70s. Cut to like 5 years ago when I see Tommy James, in his 70s, still kickin’, on some random public access programming lol.
My dad has been repeating this “fact” for so many years that there’s a solid chance he’s forgotten it isn’t true and still says it whenever he hears “Crimson and Clover.”
Nobody has mentioned Elvis so far?
/s
His character in The Blacklist did perish.
Bob Barker only died a year ago. I thought for a long time he had gone in, like, 2010 or so.
Dick van Dyke turns 99 in a few weeks.
Kick your knees up, step in time!
I swear to God he’s the first person that came to mind, and here it’s currently the first post - thank you for reminding me that he’s still alive!
The day James Earl Jones died I was talking to my girlfriend about him and wondered if he was still alive.
He was.
30 minutes later he died. Literally 30 fucking minutes.
I feel like I manifested it…
He was probably dead when you thought of it, it just hadn’t been announced yet. You didn’t manifest it, you felt a disturbance in the Force.
The biggest shock for me was Vera Lynn. She recorded her biggest hit song in 1939, and I was most familiar with it from the ending of Dr. Strangelove from 1964, and the Pink Floyd song, “Vera”, from 1982. I guess people in the UK would’ve known better, but the song implied a long-bygone time, so of course she had to be dead by the '90s, right?
Imagine my shock when she released a new compilation album in 2014, while still very much kicking.
I know this isn’t exactly what this is for as this person is dead, but i was certain harold reimis (egon from ghostbusters) died in the early 90s but it turned out he died in 2014. I had it in my head that they didnt make a ghostbusters 3 back in the 90s because he had died.
