We were surprised to learn that comedian Louie Anderson had died. Where had he performed most recently in Vegas? Didn’t he work regularly at one time at one of the Strip casinos? We were sorry we never got to see him.
Louie Anderson not only performed in Las Vegas, he lived here too, for 15 years.
A few days after he died at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson on January 21 of complications from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age 68, he was honored by marquees on the Strip. The Tropicana displayed his image with Rest in Peace, 1953-2022, and "Make God Laugh."
Anderson moved to Las Vegas when his one-man show, “Louie: Larger Than Life,” opened at Excalibur in 2003. He played there for seven years, when he relocated to his eponymously named theater at Palace Station in 2010 for a new show, “Louie LOL.” He lasted there for three years, then moved again to the Plaza. He even played the lounge at Red Rock and, being a local, performed on occasion at Brad Garrett and Jimmy Kimmel's comedy clubs.
His last appearance was in May 2021 at the Laugh Factory at the Trop, but he'd been a perennially popular headliner on and off the Strip for more than 30 years.
We liked one of his lines about Vegas: "Vegas is where you get into the money thing. You get greedy. Vegas is the only place that you can start out betting twenty-five dollars, run it up to five thousand, and refuse to quit."
Rest in peace, Louie.
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Mar-07-2022
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