{"id":33186,"date":"2014-04-06T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33186"},"modified":"2014-04-06T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:56:01","slug":"john-pinette-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/06\/john-pinette-50\/","title":{"rendered":"John Pinette, 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JohnPinette2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33187\" alt=\"JohnPinette2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JohnPinette2-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Veteran comedian John Pinette was found dead in his Pittsburgh hotel Saturday from what appears to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/04\/06\/john-pinette-dead_n_5101932.html\">pulmonary embolism<\/a>. The comedian was also suffering from liver and heart disease. He was 50.<\/p>\n<p>Pinette burst on the scene in the 1980s, where a series of successful <strong>Tonight Show <\/strong>appearances led him to the high-profile job of opening for Frank Sinatra. This lead him to a number of television appearances and film roles.<\/p>\n<p>The funnyman most notable roles included <strong>Junior<\/strong>, <strong>Dear God, <\/strong>and <strong>Duets. <\/strong>Comic book movie fans will recognize Pinette as the man who bought Mr. Bumpo to life in 2004&#8217;s <strong>Punisher<\/strong>. And he would often work films into his comedy routines. One of the funniest bits of his that I remember to this very day was one centered on <span>Herv\u00e9 Villechaize playing Batman.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The heavyset comedian was found dead in his Pittsburgh hotel room.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/06\/john-pinette-50\/\" title=\"John Pinette, 50\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[7215,7216,7217,7214,59,2999],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obituary-news","7":"tag-dear-god","8":"tag-duets","9":"tag-john-pinette","10":"tag-junior","11":"tag-obituary","12":"tag-punisher"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33186"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}