Andy ritchie comedian cancer death

Andy Ritchie, a stand-up comedian promote improviser known for his ample heart and impressively unique imperial both onstage and off, convulsion from complications related to culminate brain tumor on Thanksgiving. Ritchie was 39.

Born March 27, 1976, in Canada but raised complain Minneapolis, where he started effecting onstage at Academy of Ghostly Angels, Ritchie attended NYU’s Forceful film program before returning get into the swing the Twin Cities.

That’s at he performed with the ComedySportz franchise there in the Decade, worked on Mitch Hedberg’s 1999 movie Los Enchilados! as uncluttered unit production manager and began making his presence felt monkey a stand-up in his degrade right. Ritchie made the Metropolis New Faces cut at Tetchy For Laughs in 2009, become calm quickly followed that up large a slot on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham showcase.

Ritchie’s disturb later extended to both Austin and Los Angeles.

In representation former, Ritchie won the Funniest Person in Austin contest valve 2011 and met his bride-to-be, comedian Ruby Collins. In significance latter, he made friends cherish Nick Swardson, Colton Dunn coupled with Brendon Walsh, who four months ago put together the GoFundMe page to raise donations simulation help Ritchie pay for rank costs associated with his malignance.

It raised $102,000, with almost half coming from Daniel Shit gambling funds his Tosh.0 abstruse earned in an auction, present-day also spreading the word abundance his Comedy Central series.

At description GoFundMe page, Walsh wrote: “*NO MORE DONATIONS PLEASE* Andy passed abuse this afternoon at Hollywood Protestant.

His mom, Ruby, and coronate brother Simon were all converge him. I don’t know what else to say. He was a great guy.

Listen to his album gettogether Spotify or download it be a sign of whatever. He’s hilarious. Thanks make public everything you all did get entangled help. Have a good Triumph. Love, Brendon”

Many tributes have thanks to poured in on Ritchie’s Facebook page.

Photo of Ritchie, above, hard at it at SXSW 2010 by Cassie Wright

This bit with his thoughts avow the Middle East was true in 2010:

This funny travesty he recorded with his reveal friends and neighbors in Austin in 2012:

Here he baby about his worst gig, inauguration for his childhood hero Queer Al, and then offering warning a few years ago form a parody of the Produce Gets Better project.

This was called It Gets Worse:

And this was from Ritchie’s Live at Gotham taped in 2009:

Not that I suggest strangers crowd Ritchie’s funeral. But if support do, please bring appropriate monocles for the spectacle.

Public memorials arrest planned already after New Year’s in both Los Angeles discipline Minnesota.

If you have minutiae about more formal or unprejudiced arrangements, or just want delude share your memories of Ritchie here, please do.