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OBITUARIES By Danny Gallagher Fans mourn stone-faced roast comic Harrison “Lippy” Hoffson The master of straight-faced put down comedy has left the spotlight for the last time. Harrison Hoffson, best known to comedy fans as “Lippy” Hoffson passed away at 65 during what would become his final show. Lippy invented the art of the stone-faced put down in which he could roast and roil an audience simply by calling his targets names like “boner,” “charlatan” and “son of a bastard mother.” Lippy started his career as a gas meter reader in Unkton, Indiana where he often had to shut off homeowners’ gas lines for lack of payment. He regularly endured abuse by angry customers. He started using their words against them with a totally straight face since he was born without a personality and found he could get laughs from the people mentally abusing him simply by insulting them right to their faces. He quit his gas line job and went on the road insulting total strangers in clubs and theaters where he built his audience who waited in long lines just to be told they were “stupid,” a “stupidhead” and a “head that’s stupid.” The Creative Arts Agency (CAA) discovered Lippy at the Comedy Hole club in Los Angeles and signed him on as their newest talent. He began to perform in bigger venues for larger audiences who loved being told how they were the offsprings of whores and lepers by a man with the world’s straightest face. The Dupont TV Network gave Lippy his own sitcom What’re You Lookin’ At, Butterface? starring the comedian has an exasperated husband who only spoke in single-word insults to everyone including the audience to the delight of millions. The show lasted for 31 seasons, the longest multi-camera sitcom in television history.

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