UPDATE: A 19-year-old transient man has been arrested and charged with murdering Jeebs. Police think methamphetamine, a robbery scheme, and a lot of sexual tension led to it.

KOMO reports.

Comedian Hokum W. Jeebs delivered slapstick humor in the classic vaudevillian manner of Ezra Kendall or Fred Duprez, but with a infusion of ragtime music that was all his own. Early on Wednesday, February 16, he was stabbed to death, and a 19-year-old suspect was arrested in connection with the crime. So with details surrounding his death still fuzzy (the latest is there may have been a “sexual link”), here’s a look at some of his finest moments.

Jeebs (born Robert Stabile) migrated to the Seattle area from San Francisco in 1980 where he co-founded Hokum Hall, now called Kenyon Hall. He was an expert pianist and often played while riding an oversized bicycle. His stage shows were a mix of prop humor, music, and family-friendly jokes.

And of course there were his facial expressions. Like this:

Photo Credit: Joe Mabel

UPDATE: Angelo Felice, a 19-year-old transient was charged with murdering Jeebs on Tuesday. Prosecutors believe he came back home with the performer with then intention of robbing him for his marijuana and money.

Jeebs, they say, had been trying to seduce the young man and promised him drugs (Felice says meth) if he’d come back to his place.

Felice, for his part, had supposedly been planning some “house licks” (burglaries) in order to get back to his native New York and may have picked Jeebs as an easy target.

KOMO:

Felice told investigators he’d gone to Stabile’s home the night before “to smoke (weed) with him,” the document said. He said Stabile, “an old dude with glasses” who’d been ‘”hitting’ on him recently,” had picked him up at a nearby 7-Eleven.

While at the house, Felice said “‘Hokum’ kept wanting to ‘hit the tweek’ (use Methamphetamine) with him,” and he did. He said he left a short time later “because ‘Hokum’ was coming on to him” and had even tried to unbutton his pants, according to the statement.

Jeebs’ partner, who also lives with him, supposedly heard him screaming around midnight and then saw the performer bleeding profusely and saying that he’d been stabbed–he would die before paramedics could arrive. The woman also caught a glimpse of a man running away from the house.

That man, police say, was Felice.

He’ll be arraigned for the murder on March 8.

The Seattle Times profiled Jeebs in a 2002 article here, and the paper reports on his murder here.

We’ll let them keep at it. And in the meantime, here’s Jeebs performing his classic One Man Band routine:

Here’s his impersonation of “split pea soup coming to a rolling boil”:

And of course, his iconic “Piano Ala Cart”:

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