M Is FOR MASHUP - November 30th, 2011
The World Of Mash-Up Your Bootz
By DJ Useo
You are mighty lucky to be reading todays 'M Is For Mashup' column. At least if you enjoy fine musical mashups. Today's article brings to you the thrill of 54+ mashup collections all hand selected from the best current mixes by DJ Morgoth ( www.djmorgoth.com/ ) himself. I still remember when he began the series using only his most recent mixes collected. Demand soon was answered when Morgoth expanded the series & added others mashups. If you didn't realize, mashups are red hot & encouraged over in Europe (for the most part), not like here in the states where a growing fear of a ban on them persists.
The growth of the bootleg scene in Germany/Austria is phenomenal, & Mash-Up Your Bootz is one of the main reasons. The collections spawned a similarly-named live concert at BOOTIE-BERLIN ( www.bootieberlin.com/ ) , & also a fantastic weekly web-radio show hosted by the acclaimed Dr.Waimaiu ( www.myspace.com/dr_waumiau ) called MASH-UP YOUR BOOTZ LIVE ON AIR ( mashupyourbootzradio.blogspot.com/ ) . The album series has reached number 54 (with a few bonus specials) & the radio show is up to episode 148. All are available at the respective sites & I reckon they'll continue until that giant asteroid bags us all in 2017. (lol)
A special note I should mention is the mashup version albums the MUYB crew have done in conjunction with the Berlin Rap-MC-Duo & Soundsystem SMITH & SMART ( www.smith-smart.com/ ) ". In 2010 they mashed their Album "Beides", the result was "MASH-BEIDES" ( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com/2010/02/smith-smart-mash-beides.html ) and can be found here ( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com/2010/02/smith-smart-mash-beides.html ).
Today they present you their new Album "Blutsbrüder" in a new Mashup-Bastard Pop & Remix Version and it is called: "MASHBRÜDER" ( mashupyourbootz.blogspot.com/2011/11/smith-smart-mashbruder.html )
Once again it features great tunes by their German & Austrian Mashup League. I gave it a firm listen & can report it's one excellent listen. Here's a few of the mixing DJ's names - The Fabulous Beatmashers, DJ Schmolli, Ed Home, & MarcJohnce with others just as great. Hear the modern sound of 2011 that puts most other releases in the backseat.
I actually got a surprise when I discovered they have their own bootleg forum called MASHUP YOUR BOARD ( mashupyourboard.com/ ). How did that fact escape me? No matter, I intend to join right away.
I'm sure I don't need to tell you to bookmark these links. They'll be of desired use in the future when you crave mashups. Can you imagine over 54 free excellent mashup albums? Well, you don't need to, they're all real & waiting for you right now. Thanks DJ Morgoth & the rest of youse mugs.
Mix Of The Week
DJ MXR,one of my faves, is in the midst of a series of mini-mixes called 'Delirium Tremens'. So far 3 incredible ten minute volumes have appeared & I urge you to hear them. They run through old skool club at a dizzying, but wonderfully mixed, pace.
V1- ti1ca.com/ye2jqzaa-DJ-MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-1-DJ_MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-1.mp3.html
V2- ti1ca.com/duld5tf5-DJ-MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-2-DJ_MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-2.mp3.html
V3- ti1ca.com/05h8uo3a-DJ-MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-3-DJ_MXR-Delirium-Tremens-Dementia-3.mp3.html
Mashup Tip : Pay for your mashup hosting, if you can find a reliable host site.(not divshare, or z-share)
Latest Useo Thing
Hoo boy! I managed to work up a mashup and a remix to show my support for todays most urgent cause, OCCUPYWALLSTREET ( www.occupywallst.org/ ). First is a mellow, melodic mélange called 'Roamolution' (The B-52s vs The Beatles) ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/pro-occupy-mashup-beatles-vs-b-52s.html ). John Lennon's amazing words sound so timely, you'd think they weren't over 40 years old.
For those who want harder-edged protest tunage, I did up a much longer extended version of KMFDM's 'A Drug Against Wall Street' ( groovytimewithdjuseo.blogspot.com/2011/11/kmfdm-drug-against-wall-street-dj-useo.html ) . Play them loud enough & they might even scare off pepper-spraying fuzz.
Podgornio, The Mashup Psychic Predicts
No mashups will be made December 25, 2011 for some unknown reason.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Andrew Tobias: Liberals
Oh, the victims of tyranny, upon whom - by liberals - Social Security benefits and access to health care have been thrust! Who now - thanks to Barack Obama - have to accept less onerous college loan terms! Who - thanks to liberals over the decades - must suffer the tyranny of a cushion to fall back on if they lose their jobs; a minimum wage to prevent a complete race-to-the-bottom; . . . and, through some combination of labor unions, communists, and Pol Pot wannabes, weekends.
JUSTIN ELLIOTT: "Perpetual Money Machine: Conservative PAC Raises Millions In Order To Raise More Millions" (TPMmuckraker)
AmeriPAC is the latest in a pattern TPMmuckraker has documented of right-leaning political organizations that plow almost all of the money they raise from small donors into their own self-perpetuation rather than supporting GOP candidates or causes, as they promise contributors.
Stephen Moss: "Umberto Eco: 'People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged'" (Guardian)
The author of "The Name of the Rose" on why it is human to lie, how Berlusconi has used conspiracy theories to stay in power - and his love/hate relationship with his most famous book.
Jim Phillips: Would you buy a used memoir from this man? (Athens News)
Will Dewees is a big fat liar. He makes stuff up and pretends it's true. He fabricates and confabulates. He never lets the facts get in the way of a good story. In short, Dewees is a writer of something that's rather like fiction - and of course, nothing at all like journalism.
The Muppets and Moi (Guardian)
Kermit, Miss Piggy and pals are back with a new film and a TV series in the works. Hadley Freeman fondly remembers the satirical puppets and the massive role they played in her childhood.
Geoff Boucher: Terry Gilliam, the heir of Fellini and the enemy of God? (LA Times)
"I never quite understand what the real world is," Gilliam said during a recent visit to Los Angeles. "I told Ted [Demme] I shoot reality and fantasy the same way because it's all the same to me. I don't know how to distinguish between the two, they flow into each other all the time. That's the autobiographical part in my movies…in Hollywood, everyone takes characters and puts them into action sequences where they are threatened by outside forces, but to me the threat is your own perception of the world."
Brad Bird: Hollywood isn't brave enough to copy Pixar process (LA Times)
Dads are supposed to be strong, so I made him strong; mothers are supposed to be infinitely flexible, so I made her infinitely flexible; teenage girls are insecure and a little defensive, so I had her be invisible and gave her force fields; 10-year-old boys are energy balls and race everywhere, so I made him super fast; and babies are unknowns, they could be the next president of the United States or a bum - or both.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Children (Athens News)
According to actor Brad Pitt, his children are "the funniest people I've ever met." For example, in 2008 his daughter Shiloh went through a phase where she wanted to be called by another name: John or Peter. Mr. Pitt calls it "a Peter Pan thing" where whenever he starts to call her by her real name she responds, "I'm John." Of course, Mr. Pitt is right when he says that this stuff is "cute to parents" and he is wrong when he says that this stuff is "probably really obnoxious to other people." It's actually pretty cute to other people.
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another sunny morning and overcast afternoon.
Local CBS interrupted Letterman about 40 minutes in to offer live coverage of LAPD moving on the Occupy site at LA city hall.
8 buses of cops were deployed from Dodger stadium, and 27 buses were sent to carry the protesters.
In the first few minutes of coverage we heard cops yelling at the media to turn off their lights and leave the area. An unnamed male reporter asked a cop for his name and was taken down. Live.
It was the only take-down that made air.
All the talking heads back at the station, and most in the field, mouthed the corporate line, siding completely with the 1%.
Phone Hacking A Regular Tool
Rupert
A former reporter at Britain's News of the World made a rare, robust defense of phone hacking Tuesday, telling Britain's media ethics inquiry that eavesdropping on voicemails was a "perfectly acceptable tool" to help journalists uncover stories.
Paul McMullan said hacking was common at the now-defunct tabloid, describing how reporters traded the phone numbers of celebrities and accessed their messages by entering factory-set passcodes.
McMullan, who now runs a pub in the English port of Dover, made headlines earlier this year when he was secretly taped by actor Hugh Grant claiming phone hacking was widespread at the News of the World and other U.K. newspapers.
He repeated that assertion Tuesday, adding that the bosses at the News of the World, including former top editors Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, knew of the practice - a claim both former editors have denied.
Both resigned in the scandal - Brooks from a senior role in Rupert Murdoch's media empire, and Coulson from his job as top communications aide to Prime Minister David Cameron.
Rupert
Overtakes CNN
MSNBC
The battle between CNN and MSNBC for second place appears to have tipped back in MSNBC's favor for the month of November.
The left-leaning network took the second spot in both total viewers and the coveted adults 25-54 demographic for primetime and total day, according data from to Nielsen Media Research.
MSNBC credits the resurgence to its scheduling move in October, when it moved "The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz to 8 p.m. and "The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell" back to 10 p.m., bookending the "Rachel Maddow Show" at 9 p.m.
While Fox remained the unquestioned leader with 1.7 million viewers in prime time (and 368,000 in the key demo), MSNBC bested CNN by 89,000 in average prime-time viewers (729,000 to 640,000) and 30,000 in the demo (215,000 to 185,000).
The lone non-Fox show in the top 10? "Rachel Maddow."
MSNBC
CBS & FOX Take Top Honors
November Sweeps
CBS won the November television sweeps period for the 11th straight year but Fox took the honors with the 18-49 year-old age group most coveted by advertisers, according to ratings data on Tuesday.
ABC finished second to CBS in terms of overall viewers, thanks partly to the success of its Emmy-award winning comedy "Modern Family". But there was little joy for NBC, which came last again among the leading four TV networks despite featuring a slew of new comedy and drama shows.
The November sweeps are one of four periods each year in which detailed viewing habits are measured across the United States and used by local TV stations to set advertising rates.
Fox said its win among younger viewers was fueled by new comedy "New Girl", reality show "The X Factor" and pricey dinosaur drama "Terra Nova". In terms of overall viewers, Fox finished in third place.
November Sweeps
Dress Fetches Over $67,100
Amy Winehouse
The dress worn by Amy Winehouse on the cover of the late singer's Grammy-winning "Back to Black" album has sold for over 43,000 pounds ($67,120) at auction.
Kerry Taylor Auctions says the polka-dot chiffon dress, designed in 2006, was purchased by Musea de la Moda - a fashion museum in Santiago, Chile - for 43,200 pounds.
It said the dress's designer, Disaya, agreed to donate proceeds from the sale to a foundation set up in Winehouse's name.
Winehouse's father, Mitch, attended the auction and called the donation a "wonderful start to the foundation," which was set up to help vulnerable youth following Winehouse's death in July.
Amy Winehouse
Rediscovered Amp Set To Sell
Beatles
An amplifier used by George Harrison during recording sessions for Beatles albums "Revolver" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is expected to fetch 50-70,000 pounds ($80-110,000) at auction next month.
The rare Vox UL730 amp and cabinet will be offered at Bonhams' London entertainment memorabilia sale on December 15.
Bonhams said about six 7-series amps went to the band in 1966. John Lennon and Paul McCartney moved to more powerful models in the series later in the year, but George continued using the 730.
Another highlight of the auction is expected to be the original cover artwork for the 1969 Rolling Stones album "Let It Bleed," estimated to be worth 30-40,000 pounds.
Beatles
Newest Inductees
TV Hall of Fame
The eclectic lineup of new members who will be inducted in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame next year includes a network executive, a pair of producers who created a seminal reality series and three beloved sitcom stars.
Former ABC and Disney exec Michael Eisner, "Real World" creators Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, "I Love Lucy" couple Vivian Vance and William Frawley and "The Jeffersons" papa Sherman Hemsley will join the TV Hall of Fame on March 1, during a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel.
"Two and a Half Men," "The Big Bang Theory" and "Mike & Molly" creator Chuck Lorre, Emmy-winning lighting designer Bill Klages, and Mario Kreutzberger -- better known as Don Francisco, the host of the wildly popular Spanish-language series "Sabado Gigante" -- round out the 2012 inductees.
Since the Hall of Fame was created in 1984, more than 120 industry players have been inducted, including "Golden Girls" Betty White and Bea Arthur, Oprah Winfrey, Peter Jennings, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and star William Shatner, Tom Brokaw, Regis Philbin, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, "The Carol Burnett Show" stars Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, Mary Tyler Moore, Jim Henson, Bob Hope, "All in the Family" stars Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton, Johnny Carson, and Bill Cosby.
TV Hall of Fame
Spent $1.39 Million Lobbying In 3Q
Rupert
News Corp., the media giant controlled by Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate), spent $1.39 million in the third quarter to lobby bribe the federal government on such issues as auctioning the rights to airwaves now used by TV stations, according to a disclosure report.
That's up from the $960,000 that the company spent a year earlier and less than the $1.68 million it spent in the second quarter of 2011. The company also lobbied the federal government on overhauling rules that govern fee disputes between TV station owners like itself and pay TV distributors such as Comcast Corp., according to the report.
News Corp. owns the Fox broadcast network, Fox and MyNetwork TV stations, The Wall Street Journal and the 20th Century Fox movie studio, along with other newspapers in the U.S., Australia, Britain and elsewhere.
In the July-to-September period, the company lobbied both houses of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, the Homeland Security Department and other agencies, according to the report, which was filed Oct. 20 with the House clerk's office.
Rupert
US To Pay $2.5M In Photo Editor's Death
Anthrax
More than a decade after tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the U.S. government has agreed to pay his widow and family $2.5 million to settle their lawsuit, according to documents released Tuesday.
Stevens, 63, died on Oct. 5, 2001, when a letter containing deadly anthrax spores was opened at the then-headquarters in Boca Raton of American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe tabloids. Eventually four other people would die and 17 others would be sickened in similar letter attacks, which the FBI blames on a lone government scientist who committed suicide.
Stevens' widow, Maureen Stevens, sued the government in 2003, claiming its negligence caused her husband's death by failing to adequately safeguard anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The FBI probe concluded that Fort Detrick was the source of the spores used in the attacks in New York, Washington and Florida.
The settlement avoids a trial that had been set for early 2012 before Senior U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley, who had earlier rebuffed U.S. efforts to get the case dismissed.
The deal allows for attorney fees of up to 25 percent and requires that a host of sensitive documents be destroyed or returned to U.S. officials. In addition to Maureen Stevens, 68, the settlement will benefit her three grown children.
Anthrax
Censored Attention Whore
MSNBC
MSNBC has managed to do what few, if any, have managed before -- it has silenced Ann Coulter (R-Child Of Privilege), however momentarily.
The outspoken conservative pundit was appearing on Tuesday's edition of "Morning Joe" when an audio gap worthy of the Nixon tapes fell across the airwaves.
The moment of silence came when Coulter appeared to be criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) -- specifically, she appeared to call McCain a "douchebag."
At the time, Coulter was putting forth an argument that consistency is a perhaps-overvalued attribute in political candidates. Though the exact context of the alleged slur is unclear because Coulter's statement was bleeped in several spaces, Coulter -- clearly aware that she was being bowdlerized -- asked her fellow guests, "What did I say?"
MSNBC
4 Years Is Really Less Than 2 Years
Dr. Conrad Murray
The doctor convicted in the overdose death of Michael Jackson was sentenced to the maximum four years behind bars Tuesday by a judge who denounced him as a reckless physician whose actions were a "disgrace to the medical profession."
Dr. Conrad Murray sat stoically with his hands crossed as Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor repeatedly chastised him for what he called a "horrific violation of trust" while caring for Jackson.
However, Pastor conceded his sentence was constrained by a recent change in California law that requires Murray to serve his sentence in county jail rather than state prison.
Sheriff's officials later said Murray will serve a little less than two years behind bars while housed in a one-man cell and kept away from other prisoners.
Dr. Conrad Murray
Leaks Into Elk County Creek
Bentonite
On Tuesday night at the Johnsonburg Municipal Authority meeting, officials were told there was a leak in Silver Creek.
At about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Hunt Marcellus Operating Company was boring a pipe under the creek. In the process of doing that, 96 bags of bentonite leaked into the creek.
Bentonite is a claylike substance. It is natural clay from the earth and is nontoxic
Residents told 6 News their concern is over the water situation. The creek that the bentonite leaked into flows into the reservoir. The reservoir is then filtered into the water plant.
Most Johnsonburg residents get their water through the water plant.
Bentonite
Another spill into our region's drinking water sources. And more lame coverage and fact-checking of science-based claims.
"Bentonite is a form of impure clay that easily absorbs water and is used to facilitate gas and oil well drilling." Absorb water, is that all the drilling industry uses it for?
Sure Bentonite clay is "a non-toxic substance that comes from the earth" -- it is also known as "Haliburton Gel." But how is bentonite being used by the gas drilling industry?
Bentonite clay is a super absorbant powder/clay substance used in multiple ways -- in drilling mud slurries, to soak up chemical/hydrocarbon spills. Some say that highly concentrated flowback water and drill cuttings are being treated with bentonite clays which turn this drilling waste into a semi-solid slurry 'frackwater goo' that can then processed as part of the solid waste stream and sent to landfills.
According to the Oil and Gas Accountability Project, "drilling fluids or muds are made up of a base fluid (water, diesel or mineral oil, or a synthetic compound); weighting agents (most frequently barite is used); bentonite clay to help remove cuttings from the well and to form a filter cake on the walls of the hole; chrome lignosulfonates and lignites to keep the mud in a fluid state; and various additives that serve specific functions, such as biocides, diesel lubricants and chromate corrosion inhibitors….Drilling muds that circulate through the well and return to the surface may contain dissolved and suspended contaminants including cadmium, arsenic, and metals such as mercury, copper and lead; hydrocarbons; hydrogen sulfide and natural gas, as well as drilling mud additives, many of which contain potentially harmful chemicals (e.g., chromate, barite)." (www.earthworksaction.org/pubs/OGAPMarcellusShaleReport-6-12-08.pdf)
Another safe spill into our drinking water -- Inadvertant Returns?
Yeah, this is dear old dad's water supply.
Slapped With Class-Action Suit
Dick Clark Productions
Dick Clark Productions' legal woes continue to mount.
The production company was hit with a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday. It was filed by a stagehand at the American Music Awards who claims that his paycheck was delayed for more than two months.
In the suit, Charles Griffin claims that he was hired for the 36th Annual AMAs to work the ceremony on November 22, 2008 -- but didn't receive payment for his services until February 5, 2009.
"DCP routinely fails to devote sufficient resources to the payroll accounting function, with the result that such late payment of wages is customary rather than exceptional," the complaint reads.
The suit includes all crew members who've worked for Dick Clark Productions in the past three years -- a number that the suit estimates to be "more than 50 but fewer than 1,000."
Dick Clark Productions
Actress Sues
IMDb
The general counsel of the Screen Actors Guild says in a new court filing that a woman suing IMDb for listing her age as 40 could be "blacklisted" as a "complainer" if her identity is revealed.
The actress, who filed the suit last month under the name Jane Doe, is seeking $1 million from the online database and its owner, Amazon.com. Her attorneys said in the suit that "youth is king" in Hollywood and that exposing her true age could cost her movie and TV jobs.
IMDb has asked that her name be revealed to help it defend itself in the lawsuit. It said in a filing two weeks ago that the actress is "selfish" and that trying to hide her true age is the same as trying to commit fraud by misleading studios and audiences.
In a filing to support the actress' contention that her name should not be revealed, SAG general counsel Duncan Crabtree-Ireland notes that "one of the most shameful elements of the history of the entertainment industry was its active participation in blacklisting creative professionals, including actors, based on their political views."
IMDb
Loses Appeal
Kevin Trudeau
Infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau lost his bid to throw out a $37.6 million fine for violating a 2004 Federal Trade Commission settlement over his advertising and a federal appeals court said the amount might even be too low.
Trudeau argued that U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman in Chicago wrongly based the fine on consumer losses rather than his unjust gain. He also challenged Gettleman's imposition of a $2 million bond to ensure his compliance with the settlement, saying it violated the First Amendment.
But the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago found that the penalty was fair, saying Trudeau aired infomercials more than 32,000 times, a violation of the FTC settlement.
Trudeau has long battled federal regulators over his marketing of "cures" for such conditions as AIDS, hair loss, memory loss, obesity and financial distress.
Kevin Trudeau
Feds Seize 150 Websites
Counterfeit Crackdown
Federal authorities have shut down 150 websites accused of selling knock-off or pirated merchandise to unsuspecting online bargain hunters.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer announced the results of the ICE and FBI three-month investigation on "Cyber Monday," the day that for many shoppers kicks off the online holiday shopping season.
The government seized the domain names for the sites that sold everything from fake replica NBA jerseys to replica Louis Vuitton handbags and imitation Ugg boots.
The federal government has seized the domain names of 350 websites since first targeting online counterfeiters in June 2010. Each investigation, Morton said, has grown.
Morton and Breuer said while the domain names were registered in the United States most of the websites were run from abroad, primarily in China. No one has been charged with a crime in connection with the most recently seized domains. But Breuer said the investigations are ongoing.
Counterfeit Crackdown
When a Fence Isn't Enough
Sea Barrier
The United States is building a barrier stretching 300 feet (90 meters) out into the Pacific to bar illegal immigrants from using a low-tide route to flood into southern California from Mexico.
The $4.3 million project will replace a dilapidated border fence with an 18-foot (nearly six-meter) high corrosion-proof barrier between Tijuana on the Mexican side and the US side south of San Diego.
"The project we are working on is to replace the existing fence," border patrol official Michael Gimenez told AFP, adding that the new structure will be a total of 1,200 feet (365 meters) long, of which 900 feet (274 meters) will be on land. It is due to be completed in March.
Immigrants have been able to come around the end of the old barrier using jet skis and surf boards, but also by walking along the shoreline at low tide to a beach on the US side of the border, he said.
Sea Barrier
'25 Least Influential People Alive'
GQ
Former Minnesota governor and Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is the least influential person alive, according to GQ's '25 Least Influential People Alive' list.
Pawlenty, who abruptly (and perhaps prematurely) ended his presidential bid in August, joins the illustrious ranks of Tia and Tamara Mowry, MSNBC's Ed Schultz, and Tila Tequila (who once had a bisexual dating show in which a bunch of men and women competed to be her true love, in case you somehow missed that).
Pawlenty's stated irrelevance looks relatively mild compared to the lashing GQ doles out to Schultz. .
"Do you watch The Ed Show on MSNBC? Of course you don't. No one does. The only reason people watch The Ed Show is they're working out in a hotel gym and they can't find a staff member to change the channel to ESPN," GQ writes. "Did you know MSNBC suspended Schultz this year? It did! He called Laura Ingraham a 'right-wing slut,' and he still couldn't get noticed."
Other political notables on the list include Marcus Bachmann, husband of Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, former California Gov. (and the Terminator) Arnold $chwarzenegger, and, rounding out the list at number 24 and 25 respectively, Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Barack Obama.
GQ
In Memory
Patrice O'Neal
Stand-up comedian Patrice O'Neal died on Tuesday at the age of 41 following a stroke last month, his agent said.
"It is with terrible sadness we must report that Patrice O'Neal has passed away this morning...due to the complications of the stroke he suffered on October 19," O'Neal's agent Matt Frost said in a statement.
O'Neal, who appeared on Comedy Central celebrity roasts and on Jimmy Fallon's and David Letterman's late night TV shows, was also a frequent guest on the "Opie & Anthony" radio show on Sirius XM.
"Yes it's true that our pal Patrice O'Neal has passed away. The funniest and best thinker I've known. PERIOD," the Sirius XM hosts said in a Twitter message.
The "Opie & Anthony" show also broke news last month that the stand-up comic, who was diabetic, had suffered a stroke last month.
Frost said O'Neal's mother Georgia was at his side when he died. O'Neal is survived by his wife, Vondecarlo, his step daughter Aymilyon and sister Zinder.
O'Neal took part along with other celebrities in Comedy Central's roast of actor Charlie Sheen in September.
He also appeared in the Comedy Central special "Elephant in the Room," and had guest roles in TV shows including "The Office" and "Arrested Development".
Film appearances included "In the Cut," "25th Hour" and "Head of State."
Patrice O'Neal
Comedy Central is paying its respects to the late Patrice O'Neal tonight -- re-airing his stand-up special "Elephant in the Room".
A rep for the network says they're broken up about his passing and will be airing the special twice tonight in remembrance ... once at 8pm and once at midnight (uncensored).
Comedy Central -- Re-airing Patrice O'Neal Special In Comic's Memory | TMZ.com
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