How long ago do you think Brokaw taped his Reagan obit?

[Fenris]

On MSNBC now.

[terrya]

1. At least a year ago.

Maybe two.

[Fenris]

3. It's very vague. Nothing about his age/date of death.

Nothing really about his illness. I agree. Two years.

[Don_G]

2. Probably Once A Year

For the past 8 years.

[didntvote4shrub]

5. SNL

..had a recurring bit when Dana Carvey was on, of Tom Brokaw taping the Gerald Ford obit over and over again...

[nemo137]

6. senselessly killed by wolves.

"Senselessly? what's this?"

it was real great.

[FredScuttle]

8. "President Gerald Ford is dead....

and I'm gay"

Probably my favorite Dana Carvey sketch ever (I didn't care for him much)

[Raven]

4. Obits of famous people are put in the can years in advance.

Then they are brought out, dusted off and updated.

[carpetbagger]

7. 2 down, 5 to go for CNN.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/cnnobit1.html

In 2001, CNN activated the links to a series of canned obits. They pulled them pretty quickly, but not before they got preserved for posterity. Notice CNN is now showing the Reagan one in their special reports section.

Dead: Hope, Reagan (Queen-Mother Elizabeth's info also was on some of them)
Not Dead Yet: Cheney, Pope, Mandela, Castro, Ford. (Yeltsin links are on Ford's obit).

Well, I guess it's time to update you death pool scorecards.