{"id":209936,"date":"2019-04-14T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=209936"},"modified":"2019-04-14T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T10:00:24","slug":"uk-standup-comedian-ian-cognito-dies-onstage-during-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/14\/uk-standup-comedian-ian-cognito-dies-onstage-during-show\/","title":{"rendered":"UK standup comedian Ian Cognito dies onstage during show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_209937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209937\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/535385_535246199854153_516955872_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209937\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/535385_535246199854153_516955872_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/535385_535246199854153_516955872_n-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/535385_535246199854153_516955872_n-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cognito, whose real name was Paul Barbieri, never achieved wide fame but was highly respected among fellow comedians. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TheIanCognito\/photos\/a.528269023885204\/535246199854153\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/TheIanCognito\/\">Ian Cognito\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2013 British standup comedian\u00a0Ian\u00a0Cognito\u00a0has died on stage during a gig.<\/p>\n<p>South Central Ambulance Service said Friday that medics were called to a club in Bicester, southern England, Thursday night, and \u201csadly one patient passed away at the scene.\u201d Police said the death was not suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Show organizer Andrew Bird told the BBC that when\u00a0Cognito\u00a0sat down and fell silent, \u201ceveryone in the crowd, me included, thought he was joking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cognito, whose real name was Paul Barbieri, never achieved wide fame but was highly respected among fellow comedians.<\/p>\n<p>Entertainer Jimmy Carr tweeted of\u00a0Cognito&#8217;s onstage death: \u201cThat&#8217;s commitment to comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle Britain\u201d star Matt Lucas tweeted: \u201cHe was always kind to me when I started out, and brilliant and provocative and entirely original onstage. What a loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2013 British standup comedian\u00a0Ian\u00a0Cognito\u00a0has died on stage during a gig. South Central Ambulance Service said Friday that medics were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":209938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209939,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209936\/revisions\/209939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}