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), The Man in Black (2010-17), Spade Cooley (2018-19), msc (2020-21), Grim Up North (2020-22), and Reptile (2020-23). Now the Committee of DI (2022), time (2024), and Banana (2023) oversee the biggest deadpool going...
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 […]
MOON ON A FUNERAL SHAWL Actress and model Cicely Tyson has somewhat surprised deadpoolers by dying at the age of only 96. One of the seemingly better aging nonagenarians in some time, many expected she’d see 100. She hasn’t. Tyson was best known for her roles in films such as Sounder (for which she […]
RUMOURS OF HIS DEATH GREATLY CONFIRMED The acting great Hal Holbrook has died aged 95. Holborok, who first came to fame playing Mark Twain in the 1940s, played the author nearly longer than Twain himself did, retiring the role in 2017. He won a Tony for his Twain, five Emmy awards and was nominated […]
LARRY KING DEAD LIVE ON CNN American TV broadcasting legend Larry King has died aged 87 after a number of health complaints in recent years. His broadcasting career started in local Florida radio in the 1950s and ended last year with an opinion show on Russia Today, which yours truly was surprised to stumble […]
FINAL TRAIN Screenwriter Walter Bernstein has died aged 101. After serving in WW2, he was uncredited script assistant at Columbia and Universal, until he was blacklisted during the McCarthy Communism scare of the 1950s. He continued to work under pseudonyms until Sidney Lumet signed him for That Kind of Woman. Other scripts of the […]
