Culture Kevin Smith has a heart attack - Turns out being a fatass is bad for your health

http://deadline.com/2018/02/kevin-smith-suffers-massive-heart-attack-twitter-1202303124/

Kevin Smith says he has suffered and survived a “massive heart attack,” tweeting a photo from his hospital bed just after midnight Pacific time on Monday. The Clerks and Chasing Amy filmmaker was shooting a new standup special, Kevin Smith Live!, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale on Sunday night. Two shows were scheduled, one at 6PM and one at 9PM. Smith wrote on Twitter that he cancelled the second performance and had he not, he “would’ve died tonight… but for now, I’m still above ground!”


Smith currently hosts and produces AMC’s Comic Book Men, a reality series set at his comics shop Jay And Silent Bob’s Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey. It’s been running for seven seasons and features Smith and his pals talking about comic books.


He recently finished directing an episode of The CW’s Flash and last year appeared as himself in James Franco’s The Disaster Artist. His last feature as director was 2016’s Yoga Hosiers.


The Kevin Smith Live! special is produced by The Nacelle Company Presents. The logline for the show says it sees the Mallrats director tell “long-ass stories that aim to amuse. If you like your comedy by the pound, you can’t go wrong with this yapping fool from TV’s Comic Book Men as he talks about life, comic books, movies and more!” This was Smith’s first live TV comedy in some years; he has previously fronted a number of Q&A specials including An Evening With Kevin Smith — released via DVD — and his Kevin Smith: Too Fat For 40 and Kevin Smith: Burn In Hell which aired on cable network Epix in 2010 and 2012, respectively.

 

[Goodbye Horses]

That sucks. He lost a lot of weight after the airline incident and it sounded like he did it the hard way and for the right reasons.

If by "the hard way" you mean a second lap-band surgery after he broke the first one by continuing to eat like a pig.

 

[UnclePhil]

Now Kevin Smith is an odd anomaly to me. The original Jersey Trilogy still holds up fairly well. Clerks is a shining beacon, Mallrats is alright and Chasing Amy, while most of it hasn't aged well at all, still has the Hooper X scenes. His post '90s stuff like the standup/spoken word specials and the Clerks cartoon had iconic moments. I get what Red State and Tusk were trying to do even if they weren't engineered to connect with everyone.

But overall, Smith's movies haven't changed in over 20 years. They're still swimming in geek references to Star Wars and getting pissed at girlfriends for having had other dick (see: the conflict in Zack and Miri Make a Porno). Then there's the Kevin who comes off as a giant pussy—bending over for GLAAD, making a huge (no pun intended) deal out of the plane incident, getting pissed at any criticism thrown his way. Smith makes movies for himself first and an audience second, and while that's good for staying true to the independent filmmaker spirit, you can't have it both ways when audiences and critics don't like your stuff.

That said, I don't like when people whose names and works I've been following since childhood suddenly die or come too close to death, so I hope Kevin Smith has a speedy recovery and learns from this.

In other news, Chris Pratt sent Smith a prayer tweet and got slammed for it by some edgelords:

http://ew.com/news/2018/02/26/james-gunn-defends-chris-pratt-prayer-tweet-backlash/

 

[vertexwindi]

At this point you might as well tell people to die, it'd cause less bitching than prayers seem to do now.

 

[BILLY MAYS]

At first, Kevin Smith thought his massive heart attack on Sunday was just a reaction to spoiled milk.

“I felt a little nauseous and then I tried to lay down on the floor,” Smith, 47, said in a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday from his hospital bed. “I wound up getting ill, like threw up, but mostly bile, so I just thought, like, you know, I got some bad milk.”

The comedian explained that after he started struggling to breathe — “There was a hurdle for each deep breath,” he said — he knew it was time to call a doctor.

First responders were on the scene quickly, yet Smith didn’t feel his life was in danger until paramedics called for morphine.

“So I just thought about everything and thought about like, my parents and how they raised me, and my brother and my sister and my friends and my wife and my kid and this weird wonderful career that I’ve had for so long and stuff,” he said, his voice wavering. “And I was like content. Like it was weird, I don’t know how to say it — I didn’t want to die, don’t get me wrong — but I was like, if the ferry man comes tonight I got to pay him. Like, what a ride its been, what an incredible f–king ride.”

The “Clerks” director, who was scheduled to perform two shows in Glendale, Calif., Sunday evening, was told by his doctor that his LAD artery was 100 percent blocked and if he hadn’t canceled his second show, he would have died.

Smith’s father passed away from heart failure.

https://pagesix.com/2018/02/27/kevin-smith-thought-heart-attack-was-a-reaction-to-bad-tard cum/

 

[AF 802]

In other news, Chris Pratt sent Smith a prayer tweet and got slammed for it by some edgelords:

http://ew.com/news/2018/02/26/james-gunn-defends-chris-pratt-prayer-tweet-backlash/

MUH ATHEISM

 

[CrunkLord420]

I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what the tard cum filter is actually supposed to filter and the link is broken because of it. Help.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what the tard cum filter is actually supposed to filter and the link is broken because of it. Help.

Milk.

 

[CrunkLord420]

tard cum.

THIS STILL DOESN'T HELP ME

 

[LofaSofa]

I'm gonna be honest I have no idea what the tard cum filter is actually supposed to filter and the link is broken because of it. Help.

Spoiler

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

Spoiler

Why didn't you just say milk?

 

[H4nzn0]

Why didn't you just say tard cum?

Because the site would filter mi1k into tard cum.

Also, this article reminds me so much of the milk river https://kiwifarms.net/threads/300-gallons-of-spilled-tard-cum-turn-indiana-creek-white.34318/

 

[HG 400]

@Spectator is he ok?

 

[Burgers in the ass]

Nothing causes the arteries to clog like a cup of spoiled milk.

 

[HG 400]

This was God's divine punishment for him never apologising to me for Jersey Girl. Boils and frogs are next if I'm up on my scripture.

 

[Aib Ld]

At first, Kevin Smith thought his massive heart attack on Sunday was just a reaction to spoiled tard cum.

“I felt a little nauseous and then I tried to lay down on the floor,” Smith, 47, said in a video posted to Facebook on Tuesday from his hospital bed. “I wound up getting ill, like threw up, but mostly bile, so I just thought, like, you know, I got some bad tard cum.”

I don't blame the guy, heart attacks aren't "clutching chest and gasping" like how media shows. Well, they do but it happens rarely.
It ranges from silent instantaneous death without warning to feeling like you are having a bad stomach ache (because of the blood pooling up to the heart).

Still, Kevin should lose some weight and be more active.

Spoiler

Heart attacks can still happen if you're healthy and all, leads to silent instant death most of the time for some weird reason but let's not think about that. The heart organ works weirdly sometimes.

 

[Spectator]

@Spectator is he ok?

I wasn’t going to post in this thread because so many Kiwis were heartless. Not that I didn’t expect that.

BUT.. since it is @Dynastia, I’ll respond.

He is doing well, and appears to be on the mend.

If you need further information, or legit laughs, see his FB live post or any news outlet in the last 24 hours. He gives a detailed description of his brush with death. Hate him if you want, but leave it to Kevin to make his severely premature death while working funny.

Powerlevel note: Kevin has never had any surgery for weight loss. He is terrified of it. He cut out sugar to lose the weight. Literally, that’s it. Sugar, and walking his dogs.

I can confirm with this post that this thread is officially dead. Kevin is not. He is fine, and will continue making movies, directing TV shows, has a reality show, records too many podcasts to count, and is quietly supporting a charity that saves kids lives.

 

[HG 400]

I wasn’t going to post in this thread because so many Kiwis were heartless. Not that I didn’t expect that.

BUT.. since it is @Dynastia, I’ll respond.

lol I'm special

 

[ZehnBoat]

At this point you might as well tell people to die, it'd cause less bitching than prayers seem to do now.

does anyone have a lego figure of kevin smith to shake around?

 

[escapegoat]

I respect Kevin Smith solely for his ability to get shows like Preacher made that otherwise would have languished in development hell.

Reaper?

I thought Preacher was Seth Rogan.

Reaper was cute, though.