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shit.

Posted by jBee on August 10, 2012 at 8:37 AM

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Absolutely tragic.

Posted by carriemcc on August 10, 2012 at 8:50 AM

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This is so sad. My condolences to his friends and family.

Posted by uhh... on August 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM

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David was so talented and funny. Such a great voice, figuratively AND literally. Listen to his segments on This American Life

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/search?k…

Posted by St. Murse on August 10, 2012 at 9:01 AM

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I'm sorry to see him go. Like many, I'm familiar with him through TAL, where I've always found him to be one of the most distinctive and clever voices on the show.

47 is so young, too. Crud.

Posted by Zebes

on August 10, 2012 at 9:25 AM

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I'll miss his voice on Wiretap.

RIP, Rakoff, thank you for Freud.

Posted by Allyn on August 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM

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I am terribly sorry he is gone. Such a loss for gay culture in America too. Too few gay men worth a damn survived to our age. Rakoff helped a post-epidemic audience (whose leaders mostly got wiped out) cultivate a renewed appreciation for a sophisticated comic sensibility. God damn cancer.

Posted by gloomy gus on August 10, 2012 at 9:35 AM

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Heartbreaking.

Posted by kid icarus

on August 10, 2012 at 9:38 AM

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I always thought Rakoff was the best of the This American Life crowd. Long after that clique got maudlin and precious, David remained grumpy and wry.
Wiretap on the other hand has always been awful and even he couldn't save it.

Posted by couchetard on August 10, 2012 at 10:27 AM

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Tragic. We're lucky he gave so much in the time he had.

Posted by Volo on August 10, 2012 at 10:34 AM

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I nearly ran off the road from laughing the weekend before last listening to him and Jonathan Goldstien reading his story consisting of letters between Gregor Samsa and Dr. Seuss. Just brilliant.

He will be greatly missed.

Posted by bleedingheartlibertarian on August 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM