Day: May 31, 2012

John Fox has died from colon cancer. The comedian was 54. Fox liked to joke that he looked like Nick Nolte’s headshot and told jokes that suggested he lived even bawdier — he was the kind of dirty club comic that inspired other comedians to write songs about him. Here is Pat Godwin singing, “The Legend of John Fox,” on The Bob & Tom Show. So would there even be that scene in I Am Comic without a comic such as John Fox? Fox made his living on the club circuit, and for a time he also appeared on...