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

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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.

 

[MG 620]

I mean he's not as fat as he used to be, but even at his age a fair bit of damage has already been done.

Yea, he's still fat on the inside, where it really counts.

 

[Salt Water Taffy]

Oh no, looks like the voodoo gods mistook my Bob Chipman voodoo doll for Kevin Smith.

 

[Cato]

I don't really get why people hate Kevin Smith all that much.

I like his movies but he's a little bitch. Like the time GLAAD accused him of hating the gays and he collapsed in despair and donated a bunch of money, or when he got kicked off a plane for being fat and whined about it for years and years, or his constant angst over the opinions of critics and internet forum members, to the point that he ended one of his movies with the main characters flying around the world and beating up everyone that made fun of them on the internet.

He's a funny guy but he's such a faggot it's unreal. He's really pissy and passive aggressive.

Another example of him being a pathetic whiny pussy is his history with Bruce Willis.

Basically Willis was his hero and when he got the chance to direct him, Smith was too starstruck and intimidated by him to actually be clear and straight with him and direct him properly, so Willis didn't perform in the way he wanted. This is even how Smith himself characterizes how things went when they worked together. At one point after being a timid, indirect wimp while trying to get Willis to redo a scene without explicitly telling him what he wanted done differently (which understandably kind of visibly irritated Willis), Willis started to turn away to do the shoot again and Smith flinched and Willis kind of chuckled and said "did you think I was going to hit you, Kevin?"

As a result of this, literally for years Smith has been going around whining and complaining about how Willis is supposedly a dick. In fairness, this is something that other people in Hollywood have said, but the stuff I cited was Smith's specific reasoning, and it just makes him sound incompetent, annoying and pathetic while Willis doesn't sound like he did anything wrong at all. And Willis never talked shit about Smith in return until he was pressed in an interview once because Smith had been so vocal on the subject, and all Willis had to say was "poor Kevin, all he does is whine" and then he moved on and didn't talk about the subject again. He comes across as a professional while Smith comes across as a petulant child.

 

[escapegoat]

I feel like that guy is a sort of living archetype for the guy who had potential, could have been something, but instead chose to coast and burrow deep into muh subculture. The Willis thing is a good example. He's a fucking "director," but never learned anything about lenses. Willis was all, "Jesus, wtf is wrong with you?" about it. Because, he'd been a "director" for what? 15 years at that point, and didn't bother, at any point to learn literally anything about lenses. Willis was 100% correct. And that was Smith's version of the story.

 

[Schwachkopf]

Apparently, the first thing a celebrity does when laying on a hospital bed is to take selfies for attention.

Ugh

 

[Maggots on a Train]

Does anybody actually want to watch Comic Book Men? I thought it was just AMC's way to keep any real show from ending up as annoying filler sandwiched between two episodes of The Walking Dead. And obviously jerk off some cronyism.

 

[Room312]

Phew, for a minute I thought we'd never be getting a sequel to Tusk

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

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.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Kevin Smith always came off as kind of a coward to me. Honestly, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.

 

[Spicy Hog]

Oh I was worried for a second I thought this was Kevin James

 

[OwO What's This?]

the stockholders of jorts and hockey jersies must've been shitting themselves

God help them if they lose Cena

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Oh I was worried for a second I thought this was Kevin James

don't joke about that

 

[Wesley Willis]

Does anybody actually want to watch Comic Book Men? I thought it was just AMC's way to keep any real show from ending up as annoying filler sandwiched between two episodes of The Walking Dead. And obviously jerk off some cronyism.

I'd rather watch someone sperg out in a comic store than watch Chris Harwick sperg out on a fucking talk show.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

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.

I know he lost 85 pounds, but he never stated what his starting or current weight was, so who knows if he really had turned into a fit man or a blubbery mess underneath those oversized canvases he wears.

And it sounds like he did do it right, but wasnt interested in pursuing more significant exercise as time went on. No interest in weight lifting or muscle building, cardio limited to walking. He was in his early 40s when he started, so damage was already done to his cardiovascular system, and partial blockage of that artery had most likely already started by then.

Anybody know how heavy Smith really is?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

or his constant angst over the opinions of critics and internet forum members, to the point that he ended one of his movies with the main characters flying around the world and beating up everyone that made fun of them on the internet.

Jay and Bob Strikes Back is the only movie his I really like tho.

Basically Willis was his hero and when he got the chance to direct him, Smith was too starstruck and intimidated by him to actually be clear and straight with him and direct him properly, so Willis didn't perform in the way he wanted. This is even how Smith himself characterizes how things went when they worked together. At one point after being a timid, indirect wimp while trying to get Willis to redo a scene without explicitly telling him what he wanted done differently (which understandably kind of visibly irritated Willis), Willis started to turn away to do the shoot again and Smith flinched and Willis kind of chuckled and said "did you think I was going to hit you, Kevin?"

As a result of this, literally for years Smith has been going around whining and complaining about how Willis is supposedly a dick. In fairness, this is something that other people in Hollywood have said, but the stuff I cited was Smith's specific reasoning, and it just makes him sound incompetent, annoying and pathetic while Willis doesn't sound like he did anything wrong at all. And Willis never talked shit about Smith in return until he was pressed in an interview once because Smith had been so vocal on the subject, and all Willis had to say was "poor Kevin, all he does is whine" and then he moved on and didn't talk about the subject again. He comes across as a professional while Smith comes across as a petulant child.

Okay, now I'm starting to see it.

Does anybody actually want to watch Comic Book Men? I thought it was just AMC's way to keep any real show from ending up as annoying filler sandwiched between two episodes of The Walking Dead. And obviously jerk off some cronyism.

Comic Book Men is the nerd's version of Storage Wars, only you skip the part where they rip open the storage unit and rummage around in garbage and go straight to the bartering bit at the pawn store, only the show revolves around the pawn store instead of the people taking things to the pawn store. Even if you had a manic obsession with comic books, you still probably wouldn't watch this show given you'd probably have already accrued a bunch of comic resources for yourself before the show came into being anyway.

 

[Red Hood]

I'd rather watch someone sperg out in a comic store than watch Chris Harwick sperg out on a fucking talk show.

Chris Hardwick is cancer.

 

[Paul_Allen]

He can't die now! There's still 40 more years worth of mediocre shit Marvel-Disney movies planned out that someone has to relentlessly shill for and blindly praise because "at the end of the day, I just love movies, maaaaaan."

Get it together, lunchbox.

He was fucking embarassing when he directed an episode of “The Flash”. Epiccringe shit on Instagram.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

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

 

[Dysnomia]

Who’s Kevin Smith?

For years I kept mixing him up with the guy who played Ares on Hercules and Xena. But they are totally different guys. Bear in mind this was just by name and not by photos. I just never checked it out on IMDB.

Anyway, when you are pushing 50 and a fat ass you are playing with fire. Hope this is a wake up call to get in shape.

 

[Titty Figurine]

From his Instagram:

Spoiler

I was trying to do a killer standup special this evening but I might’ve gone too far. After the first show, I felt kinda nauseous. I threw up a little but it didn’t seem to help. Then I started sweating buckets and my chest felt heavy. Turns out I had a massive heart attack. The Doctor who saved my life at the glendale hospital told me I had 100% blockage of my LAD artery (also known as “the Widow-Maker” because when it goes, you’re a goner). If I hadn’t canceled the second show to go to the hospital, the Doc said I would’ve died tonight. For now, I’m still above ground! But this is what I learned about myself during this crisis: death was always the thing I was most terrified of in life. When the time came, I never imagined I’d ever be able to die with dignity - I assumed I’d die screaming, like my Dad (who lost his life to a massive heart attack). But even as they cut into my groin to slip a stent into the lethal Widow-Maker, I was filled with a sense of calm. I’ve had a great life: loved by parents who raised me to become the individual I am. I’ve had a weird, wonderful career in all sorts of media, amazing friends, the best wife in the world and an incredible daughter who made me a Dad. But as I stared into the infinite, I realized I was relatively content. Yes, I’d miss life as it moved on without me - and I was bummed we weren’t gonna get to make jayandsilentbobreboot before I shuffled loose the mortal coil. But generally speaking, I was okay with the end, if this was gonna be it. I’ve gotten to do so many cool things and I’ve had so many adventures - how could I be shitty about finally paying the tab. But the good folks at the Glendale hospital had other plans and the expertise to mend me. Total strangers saved my life tonight (as well as my friends jordanmonsanto & iamemilydawn, who called the ambulance). This is all a part of my mythology now and I’m sure I’ll be facing some lifestyle changes (maybe it’s time to go Vegan). But the point of this post is to tell you that I faced my greatest fear tonight... and it wasn’t as bad as I’ve always imagined it’d be. I don’t want my life to end but if it ends, I can’t complain. It was such a gift.

Jason Mewes clean and Kevin Smith vegan. What a world to live in.