Another bad week for the entertainment industry as Dating game host Jim Lang and Country Comedian Tim Wilson have both join a slew of other entertainer in the afterlife.
Jim Lange, the first host of the popular game show "The Dating Game," has died at his home in Mill Valley, Calif. He was 81.
He died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack, his wife Nancy told The Associated Press Wednesday.
Though Lange had a successful career in radio, he is best known for his television role on ABC's "The Dating Game," which debuted in 1965 and on which he appeared for more than a decade, charming audiences with his mellifluous voice and wide, easygoing grin.
He also played host to many celebrity guests. Michael Jackson, Steve Martin and Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others, appeared as contestants.
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Timothy “Tim” Wilson, an American comedian, country music artist, and regular on The Bob and Tom Show, died of a heart attack on Wednesday night.
Wilson was born in Columbus, Georgia and spent most of his life making people laugh, including his school teachers. He would often emcee his high school’s talent shows and was known for his impersonations.
After attending college in South Carolina as an English major, because he took guitar lessons as a teen, Wilson pursued country music before stepping into the comedy world.
Wilson co-wrote Jeff Foxworthy’s 1996 single “Redneck 12 Days of Christmas” and other parodies for Pinkard and Bowden, an American country comedy troupe. One of his first big breaks came with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Wilson toured across the southern states, a regular in cities such as Louisville, KY, and performed with Lewis Black on Ron White’s Comedy Salute to the Troops on Country Music Television (CMT).
Ron White posted a statement: “I regret to tell you my friends that we have lost comedian Tim Wilson today he died of a heart attack in Nashville he was with his brother. I cannot tell you how much he will be missed in the comedy community. He died on the 20th anniversary of the death of Bill Hicks. ****!”
Tom Griswold from The Bob and Tom Show posted on their website: “Tim is a brother to all of us at the BOB & TOM Show. He had a comedic voice like none other. He will be terribly missed.”
Tim’s first appearance on The Bob and Tom Show happened on April 13, 1995. The first comedic song he played on air was “Acid Country.”
Chick McGee, also of Bob and Tom fame, posted on Twitter this morning:
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Jim Lang, Tim Wilson Next ??????????
