Comedian Richard Jeni died over the weekend, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face. Naturally, the comedy community is abuzz. I didn’t know the guy personally and wasn’t a fan of his work but he was quite successful and you can’t help but pause and wonder why? While I have no intention of mocking the way he died, I do need to mock this statement I read in a news article:

Authorities have scheduled an autopsy for Monday to determine the exact cause of death.

Do they really need an autopsy? I have no medical background but I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the face. Though it wouldn’t completely surprise me if one of these Hollywood coroners on retainer from a publicist came back and said, “It was Cancer. The gunshot wound didn’t help, but the Cancer’s what killed him.”