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MuchMusic to air Marcia Wallace tribute instead of Lou Reed

Lou Reed

MuchMusic, the nation’s former music station, will air a “Best of Mrs. Krabappel” marathon of The Simpsons featuring comedy icon Marcia Wallace, who passed away on October 25. Music icon, Lou Reed, who passed away on October 27 will not be honoured on air.

While Much has two blog posts observing Reed’s passing, the first demonstrating how Reed was “an unlikely comic genius” and the second, a collection of Reed’s appearances from the Much archives, it doesn’t seem that the network will interrupt its lineup of comedic programming like Conan and Tosh.0, which it inherited from Bell Media’s Comedy Network this past September.

I guess we could always just stream these tributes over on the TV screen:

Neil Young, Elvis Costello, My Morning Jacket, Jenny Lewis & others perform “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’”

Arcade Fire perform “Perfect Day” and “Satellite of Love” (17 minutes in)

Pearl Jam perform “I’m Waiting for the Man”

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