Death happens. Why not make it interesting?
The online competition to guess which famous people won't make it to the end of the current year. If they're elderly, ill, or just live a high-risk lifestyle, stick 'em in your team, and for each one whose death you correctly predict, you'll score points. DDP was dreamt up in Derby, England (hence the name...) by Big Iain back in 1996. Other hosts: Siegfried Baboon and Rude Kid (2003-7), Octopus of Odstock (2008-9, first tenure), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), Reptile (2020-23), and Death Impends (2022-2025). Now the Committee of Banana (2023), time (2024), the returning Octopus of Odstock (2026) and the deadpooling equivalent of a gap year temp Marlfox (2026) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
UN HOMME EST MORT French screenwriter and novelist Jean-Claude Carriere has died aged 89. He wrote the screenplay for The Unbearable Lightness of Being and That Obscure Object of Desire, both of which were nominated for the Oscar. He also wrote 70s French thriller The Outside Man, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, whom you all expected […]
Republican congressman Ron Wright, of Texas, has died from the combination of lung cancer and covid. He was part of the Freedom Caucus, and had signed the contesting that Biden had won the election. He was picked by 4 teams, including Banana’s Bruises. Ron Wright8 April 1953 – 7 February 20214 teams
JUST ONE LESS THING Actor Bruce Kirby has died aged 95. He was a regular face on US TV, from Hogan’s Heroes to Scrubs, but was probably best known for his nine appearances in hit TV cop series Columbo. In six of those he played Columbo’s loyal deputy Sgt Kramer, including in fan favourite […]
BAYH BAYH DEAD SHEEP Susan Bayh was a former model and a lawyer when she became First Lady of Indiana, as wife of Governor Evan Bayh. That position was just enough to get her above the fame criteria as one of the most contentious Drop 40 picks of the season. Bayh has died after […]
ONE SMALL FALL FOR MAN Another of Grim’s uniques who tried to climb K2 in Winter has left us. Atanas Skatov was a vegan who claimed to have climbed Everest living a vegan lifestyle until it was announced he had eaten honey, and this was apparently a huge scandal in vegan mountaineering. He climbed […]
NO JOSHING WITH EVANS POINTS NFL player Josh Evans has died aged 48 after a long battle with kidney cancer. Evans played for the Oilers/Titans (who had three city hosts during his time there) and the New York Jets. He played in the Superbowl in 1999, when the Titans lost 23-16 to the Rams. […]
TOM’S GARDEN LEAVE A frail old war veteran who loved the NHS, Captain Tom Moore has died aged 100. And one year ago, this wouldn’t have been enough for a DDP obit, let alone full on TV coverage. However in the last year, there’s been a little thing called covid. Don’t know if you’ve […]
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Dustin Diamond, one of the most popular cast members on 90s youth sitcom Saved by the Bell, has died of cancer aged 44. Some of these obits are designed just to make me feel old. Diamond played geek Screech in the series, and all the various spinoffs. While suffering […]
MORPHOEXODUS Biologist Lewis Wolpert has died after a battle with covid, aged 91. As one of the leading developmental biologists of the 20th Century, he wrote books such as Malignant Sadness, How We Live and Why We Die, and How To Win The Derby Dead Pool. An atheist who despised militant atheism, Wolpert […]
LAST PICTURE SHOWN Actress and Clorox favourite, Cloris Leachman, has died aged ninety-fucking-four. An acclaimed actress, she won the Oscar and the BAFTA for The Last Picture House, the Emmy for The Woman Who Walked a Miracle, The Golden Globe for Phyllis, as well as eight TV Emmy awards. With Mel Brooks she appeared […]
