I wish I knew what happened to the tape though. Paul slit his throat from ear to ear and there was blood everywhere And Paul's cigar was still in his mouth after he did it. Price.$2.00 !! They actually showed the pic of this. Years ago when one of our video stores was going out of business I bought a tape of "Tragic Hollywood" or something like that. I guess one of the newspapers took the picture. Perhaps as well known as the The Marx Brothers and Three Stooges are today.īTW this was a pic of Paul's body in the chair taken after he cut his throat. I wouldn't go as far as say they ( Clark & McCullough ) were famous as they only had a few shorts out like "Odor in the Court" before Paul's suicide but they most certainly would have been famous had Paul not killed himself. Paul's partner Bobby was in that barber shop when Paul killed himself. He was "chatting amicably" with the barber when Paul took the razor from the barber's hand and slit his own throat. McCullough was on his way to California for the filming when he stopped for a shave. In 1935 Paul McCullough had just left a sanitarium for exhaustion and was scheduled to return with his partner Bobby Clark to make some more shorts for RKO. There was a very famous comedy team in the 1930's named Clark & McCullough who are forgotten today, yet they are still funnier than hell. My guess is that Lorne never forgave Rocket over him using the F word on HIS show and I bet he still holds a grudge against him to this day despite Rocket's death.
I have also heard that Lorne Michaels is a very tough guy and known to hold a grudge against anyone for years and years even for the most petty of reasons. If NBC does own the show, still though I am sure Michaels has a big say on everything though. I am pretty sure he pretty much owns everything connected to SNL. It's always disgusted me how NBC almost completely ignored his passing (giving him only a brief mention in that week's SNL, which was cut from the rerun), because in his short run on the show, there was more than enough great material that they could've used for a "Best Of Charles Rocket." I definitely urge everyone on here to track down his episodes he really was a great and very sorely underrated comic, who didn't deserve the bad reputation he got for one silly, almost inaudible mistake.Īctually it would be SNL's Lorne Michaels who should be blamed for ignoring Rocket's passing and not NBC. His sudden death was particularly shocking, as I had just become a friend of his castmate Denny Dillon, so the night the news broke we had a couple sad but memorable phone conversations about him. :-)Ĭharlie's death was one of only two celebrity deaths in my lifetime that truly struck me (the other being Maurice Gibb's) at the time, I had just started being a huge fan of his brief twelve-episode era of SNL, and thought he was absolutely brilliant. I'm glad someone did a thread about Charlie, because I was about to start one myself.
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