Comedian Artie Lange is not dead; Update: Neither is Amanda Bynes

https://twitter.com/#!/Scarecrows1/status/198430843566428160

https://twitter.com/#!/CardinalMcgee/status/198571005680156672

https://twitter.com/#!/MrFuckingSalsa/status/198582135282610176

https://twitter.com/#!/TheArticHobo/status/198487988953546753

Then, several hours after the Deadline Hollywood announcement, Carson Daly tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/#!/carsonjdaly/status/198528179382661120

Possible explanation:

https://twitter.com/#!/ChadFu/status/198452563220246529

Update: Deadline Hollywood (or a hacker pretending to be Deadline Hollywood) is reporting that actress Amanda Bynes is dead, too:

https://twitter.com/NikkiFlNKE/status/198589073689022465

Some Twitter users are taking the announcement–which we presume is another hoax–at face value:

WTF Amanda Bynes is dead? I can't stop crying. #RIPAmanda @GingeeB_ @fuckingshow @NikkiFlNKE

— Croissant Roll (@CroissantRoll) May 5, 2012

Shit, now Amanda Bynes is dead?!?! When is it going to be my turn? 🙁 #RIPAmanda #Iwannadie

— Arctic Hobo (@TheArcticHobo) May 5, 2012

Update: @NikkiFinke (bona fide Deadline Hollywood account) vs. @NikkiFlNKE (impostor account):

https://twitter.com/#!/losingstreak12/status/198697895099244544

Meanwhile, the fake Deadline Hollywood is now “reporting” that the Amanda Bynes “death” was a suicide:

https://twitter.com/NikkiFlNKE/status/198645797418569728