Damn, that sucks. Richard Simmons always seemed like one of the nicest, most genuinely good-hearted people in Hollywood. The world is just a little bit worse off without him.

I’ll never be able to think of him without thinking of his spectacular performance on Whose Line Is It Anyway.

A little story about why Richard Simmons became a fitness and diet guru. He was in the Frederico Fellini film Satyricon and he was fat. A fan wrote to him and said, “fat people die young, Richard. Please don’t die.” He took it to heart and his relentless positivity became an inspiration to so many people.

Here he was in Satyricon.

I’m legitimately sad. What a nice man he seemed to be.

I can’t believe Richard Simmons’ final act was to try and get trump once and for all.