Dick Van Patten – The Comic's Comic

In Memoriam: The Year in R.I.P. in Comedy, 2015

December 31, 20152

Let us take one more look back at the comedians we still love and miss so dearly, who left us in the past year. Jason R. Chin (died Jan. 8, 2015), 46 Taylor Negron (died Jan. 10), 57 Harris Wittels (died Feb. 19), 30 Jenna McMahon (died March 2), 89 …

In Memoriam: The late Dick Van Patten remembers meeting Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner

June 24, 2015

Dick Van Patten, famously known as the TV dad on Eight is Enough in the late 1970s, died on Tuesday. Van Patten was 86. Van Patten started as a child actor on stage productions in his native New York City He really began to show off his comedic touch, though, …