{"id":4954,"date":"2007-05-30T12:41:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2007-05-30T12:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T12:41:42","slug":"charles-nelson-reilly-1931-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/charles-nelson-reilly-1931-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Nelson Reilly (1931 &#8211; 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; and various game shows, has died. He was 76.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>His larger-than-life persona and affinity for double-entendres also landed him on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; with Johnny Carson more than 95 times.<\/p>\n<p>Reilly ruefully admitted his wild game show appearances adversely affected his acting career. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/2007\/05\/28\/2007-05-28_charles_nelson_reilly_tonywinning_comic_.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">You can&#8217;t do anything else once you do game shows<\/a>,&#8221; he told The Advocate, the national gay magazine, in 2001. &#8220;You have no career.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny that it&#8217;s the game shows I remember him from.  Back when I watched those terrible things.<\/p>\n<p>The game shows and one of the best X-Files ever filmed: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jose_Chung%27s_%22From_Outer_Space%22\" class=\"external external_icon\">Jose Chung&#8217;s &#8220;From Outer Space&#8221;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/2007\/05\/28\/2007-05-28_charles_nelson_reilly_tonywinning_comic_.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">nydailynews<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; and various game shows, has died. He was 76. [&#8230;] His larger-than-life persona and affinity for double-entendres also landed him on the &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; with Johnny Carson more than 95 times. Reilly ruefully admitted his wild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-who-died"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}