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Robert Goulet, 1933-2007
Sad news to report: Robert Goulet, the man, the legend, has died.
In addition to being a towering showbiz giant, Goulet was also a lifelong Red Sox fan who sang at Fenway Park before this season’s opener, as well as being the inspiration for some of the funniest Saturday Night Live skits of recent years:
And less anyone think that this is in poor taste, let’s see what the man himself had to say about the lampooning:
But the aging entertainment idol, who at one point began sporting a mustache, became something of a camp icon, whose old-school show-biz image made him ripe for satire on such TV shows as “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons.”Mr. Goulet didn’t object and, in fact, periodically spoofed his Vegas persona, including appearing as himself in a series of wacky commercials in the 1990s to promote ESPN’s college basketball schedule and, more recently, a goofy commercial spot for Emerald Nuts.
“If you can’t laugh at yourself, you’re a fool,” Mr. Goulet told the Orange County Register in 1996. “I don’t like those who pat themselves on the back. My job is to entertain, not to go out there and be myself.”
