Ralphie May is funny, in part, because he’s big. As a society, we tend to find fat people hilarious at base value, and the rotund comedian has capitalized on this by poking fun at his own rotundity.

Literally the biggest comedian working today, Ralphie May has been charming the pants off of comedy fans for the last decade and a half. Playing a slack-jawed wise-ass, May will often twist his ...

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In October 2017, comedian Ralphie May passed away from a cardiac arrest due to pneumonia. May first became well-known when he was a contestant on "Last Comic Standing," which led to an extensive ...

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To become a good comedian, you have to learn more than how to tell a good joke. You also have to learn how to take one. Forty-five-year-old comedian Ralphie May, who died of cardiac arrest Friday at ...