A few weeks after Kenny DeForest died, a group of his friends gathered in an apartment in Los Angeles. The mood was somber — Mr. DeForest was only 37, and he had died from traumatic brain injuries after falling off an electric bike in Brooklyn. But Mr. DeForest was a professional comedian, and his friends were all comedians, and any gathering of comedians eventually comes to feel like a party. They were playing a game where everybody gets a card with a single word and then gives clues to help their teammates guess the word. Will Miles, one of Mr. DeForest’s best friends, plucked a card from the deck.

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Persons: Kenny DeForest, DeForest, Will Miles, DeForest’s, “ Kenny Locations: Los Angeles, Brooklyn