Aug 13 2007Merv Griffin dies (1925 - 2007)

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This is news and doesn't belong on this site - it's not gossipy enough, although he was the biggest queen in Hollywood. I think it was Ava Gabor that was his beard.

R.I.P. Merv. You will be missed.

Uhhh, big, don't you have anything substantial to say. Congratulations, you're first, second, third, fourth............. and are you big??

big is fifth!!

haha! :P

Thanks, Merv. You gave us Vanna White. She used to be the hottest thing on TV. I'd still take a taste of that.

This site has the least funniest and most immature commenters i've ever seen. Honestly mostly 80% of this site's commenters are retarded sea lions.

@12 shut up boy

13th !!!

I agree with Conor...the remarks have gotten to be tedious. They used to be funny and good slams....now it seems like high school kids and Jr. high kids have taken over.

@13

WOW! Your 13th! Thats amazing! 13th! Wow! I'm so happy for you.

12// funny how U zaid that b 4 I commented

Now Liberace will have his boy toy back. Have fun Merv!!

16th God I feel bad I was watching an advert 4 days ago about his new show ad I said he was gonna die, so now i feel psychic and evil

did you know if every man in the world lived long enough they would all get prostate cancer.

So the cancer finally won, huh? Did it choose the all-expenses paid vacation to Aruba or the cash?

Farewell Merv! You shall be sorely missed!

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Wait... he was alive two days ago..? I thought he'd been dead for years.

I'm surprized his prostate lasted this long - considering the beating it probably took.

Also - 23rd!

Never heard of him. Was he a politician?

RIP Merv.

RIP Merv the Perv.

No mean comment, no bad joke, no bikini pictures, wow, that's unusual.

Merv, you will be missed.

well RIP and i hope heaven is everything you dreamed it would be. If that's not where you are, then...at least you went SOMEWHERE. come on ppl, have a little heart.

#29 OH SHIT! FIRE!

Merv Griffin was a gigantic figure in TV, and he will be sorely missed. By other closeted gays. With sores. On their anuses. I think I speak for all of us when I say I wished I could have been there while his body was still warm, to give him a very special farewell fisting.

You people are lowbrow morons, waving the fact that you have no relevant recall prior to 1998 like a banner.
Merv Griffin was a great fellow, a trailblazer and one of the pioneers of the celebrity talk-show genre (which led to sites like our beloved Superfish) as we know it. He created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, and made a fortune just for writing the Jeopardy! theme song. He was classy and elegant while still being flamboyant and [quietly] in the middle of the toast of Hollywood.
RIP, Merv, and to all you people who can only seem to count as high as your post number, go suck a dick.

"go suck a random public restroom dick, like Merv."

Sorry, the last part didn't post correctly the first time. As much as I admire him, I'll be the first to admit that there was a reason he had to battle prostate problems for so long!

Merv, I'd let you kill me in an elevator any day.

Farewell, old chum.

I used to work for Merv: he was a despicable, greedy, awful human being, and when I found he died yesterday, but first response is "Ding. dong, the witch is dead." He took advantage of his employees by never paying them well, and treating all of them like they were replaceable in a second, and that they were lucky to have a job on TV. Some had second jobs so they could afford the "privilege" of working on a game show. No RIP - I hope there is a heaven and Hell, so he is rotting in hell as we speak.

#30 - that brought me a laugh today. Thx.
#31 - stop trolling me, schack. Find something constructive to do.
#35 - Welcome to the world of the rich & famous. How do you think they stay that way? Greed has no saturation point, like my uncle always says.

he had a lovely bunch of coconuts

16: I think he was referring to you honey

So essentially, because Merv was gay, it's OK to dump bile on him today, the day he passed into eternity? #12 is right about the level of commentary on this site - putrid.

And # 35 - nobody cares about your personal, or personnel, problems at work. If you don't like a job, then you leave it and get another one. You could have told your anti-Merv story without wishing him to rot in Hell. Obviously you're still bitter after so many years - sounds like your problem. And from my point of view, it IS a privilege to work on TV - even a dumb game show like Wheel.

#36: For what it's worth, I say Greed is where it all breaks down. He was a really talented business man from what I hear but I wasn't aware, nor do I care, if he was gay. The game shows were amusing but the world is too busy for me to watch TV now.

#35 It is really bad when your paycheck is your life's blood and your boss makes you feel like you could lose it any second (for no fair reason) but I think he's answering for that right about now. Just be glad you didn't have to stay at that job - leaving it was probably a blessing in disguise, if you think back on it.

I usually feel a little sadness when someone famous - like Johnny Carson - dies but I just don't remember this man very much.

Did you see the clip of his appearance on "The Man With Two Brains" as a serial killer? THAT'S a sense of humor!

Big is gay. I wished he would've died instead of Merv.

I honestly had NO idea that old Merv was a fudge packing purv!!! ... Wow that rhymes ... Do think maybe I can get a job on a game show? ... Anyway, back to the point, how are people so sure Merv was a Homo??? Gossip ALL just gossip! I for one am going to choose NOT to believe this vicious pack of homo lies! He was just a regular guy as far as I’m concerned ...

Butt-pirate or not, I still wish Merv peace in his final rest ...

#33, if you can't post intelligently under your own pseudonym, don't appropriate other peope's creativity as your own.
Go suck any kind of dick you want, better yet, go jerk off, as your hands will then be busy and unable to type.

Merv was a big horse racing fan. Had 2 year old champ Stevie Wonderboy who was the early derby favorite before he was injured. Not enough celebs in horse racing like there used to be.

The Hollywood mogul Merv Griffin died at the age of 82 over the weekend after a battle with cancer, and The New York Times actually discuss his sexual orientation, the palimony lawsuit and the male-on-male sexual harassment lawsuit.

Merv Griffin was an example of how dangerous the closet can be -- and how the closet and power are a combustible combination that adversely affects so many other lives.

Griffin never acknowledged he was gay, though it became widely known in Hollywood, even as Eva Gabor played his beard.

Griffin's closet kept him shockingly silent while he had access to the president of the United States as his own people were dying.

He also stayed silent about the epidemic in the media even though he was a man very much at the center of the media industry and in shaping communications and television in this country. He could have made a huge difference!

Griffin's closet had him firing gay men who'd actually made it up through the ranks of his own company, simply because they were openly gay.

Merv Griffin accomplished a lot and being held up as a example of a stellar Hollywood businessman. But he should also be held up as man who was hugely influential and powerful and yet still allowed the closet and homophobia to manipulate his life. That should not be forgotten.

Its pathetic what some people comment, thinking they sound clever and funny when really you just sound like complete idiots. Have some respect.

Absolutely right. If you haven't got something insightful, or otherwise intelligent to say, just shut up.

The idea of just posting your place numbers is childish and pointless beyond belief.

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#48 - How right you are. Posting numbers is such immature bullshit. How could anybody be so preoccupied with such a trivial bit of nonsense?
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Was the key to Merv's wealth that he was responsible for both Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune and they both aired on major networks during the same time slot? So, like, you couldn't really lose. If you weren't watching one, you were watching the other. Or the McNeil Leher Report. Or King Of Queens Reruns. King Of Queens! Haha! Merve, King of the queens!!! haha.

I'm not dead yet.....

I don't get it.

Oh Merv was definately a homo. Back in high school I had a friend who was a waiter at an upscale tennis club that hosted an annual pro-am tournament in Northern California that Merv would attend every year. My friend was good looking but definately HETEROSEXUAL but Merv would always request him by name and always put the moves on him: i.e. telling him how handsome he was, offering him money and or alcohol if he would come back to his room, even offering to pay for part of his college expenses. He was no innocent pervert by any stretch of the immagination but he still deserves to rest in peace!

RIP from me too, Merv. Although I'm a little ticked off I didn't know you were gay until now, seeing as you're from my home town and my family knew you. Yes you will be (butt) sorely missed.