AN UNUSUAL OFFER, BUT GLAD WE TURNED IT DOWN
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMaybe the timing is not the best, as Democracy appears to be hanging by a thread, but I’ll just assure myself that there’ll be a November surprise, and maybe a lot of stupid people will forget to vote. But as it is Hallowe’en, I’m reminded of a weird offer we got on October 30, 1971 […]
WHY I NEVER DRINK IN THE MORNING
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis story has to do with the great baseball player Pete Rose who died Monday at age 83, never making the baseball Hall of Fame because of his off-field gambling activity. Though he would vehemently deny it much the way Donald Trump denies all his misdeeds, there was plenty of evidence that he had not […]
WORST COMICS I EVER WORKED WITH
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedBut no names, just to be nice. A few months ago, I talked about a juggler I worked with in Arizona and the guilt I felt about compounding the misery of his disastrous set with a somewhat catty remark during my triumphant set at his expense. That was a gig in Arizona. The three I […]
A BREAK I DEFINITELY WASN’T READY FOR
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’ve told parts of this story before, and it’s not a commemmoration of any anniversary as much as just a reminiscence of a near break I got waaaaay too soon in my career. This story began on January 2, 1986, when my solo career was barely two months old. It was my first time performing […]
MY BIGGEST ONSTAGE A**HOLE MOMENT
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis post won’t be a commemorative one, though I had initially planned to write about the 30th Anniversary of my first ever gig outside North America. Turned out, searching my archives, I found I had told that story in April of 2018, including the total hack/asshole I worked with. So as I started to think […]
YEP, THEY GO IN THREE’S
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWhen I first heard that adage about deaths of notable persons seeming to go in groups of three, it was in a particular week in 1988, when the three celebrities that died were pop star Andy Gibb (who had only five days earlier reached the ripe old age of 30), porn star John “The Wad” […]
MET HIM FOR ABOUT FIVE SECONDS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA lot of tributes have come through in the 40 hours or so since San Francisco baseball legend Willie Mays passed away Tuesday at age 93. He was arguably the greatest player in the game for the second half of the 20th Century, and probably in the top five greatest of all time. And my […]
MY WORST UK GIG EVER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAs I’ve said numerous times in the past, as a performer, the good gigs sort of fade into anonymity with a few of the excellent ones standing out, whereas that 1 or 2% of gigs that go terribly wrong are the ones that will remain forever. Why else would I commemorate a disastrous gig that […]
COAT TAILING
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized45 years ago this month, and for most of the year 1979, the act I was part of was on its way to getting almost famous. It all came down to befriending someone who was on his way to becoming a megastar, and we had a clever manager who recognised it, who made sure we […]
DOING COMEDY WHEN LIFE ISN’T FUNNY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedToday we go back in our time machine to 15 years ago this month. I wrote earlier this year about working in South Africa and the nightmare of my return, how I was unceremoniously tossed out of my house by my wife, who declared she was in love with someone else. That turned out to […]
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- AN UNUSUAL OFFER, BUT GLAD WE TURNED IT DOWN October 31, 2024
- WHY I NEVER DRINK IN THE MORNING October 1, 2024
- WORST COMICS I EVER WORKED WITH September 27, 2024
- A BREAK I DEFINITELY WASN’T READY FOR August 31, 2024
- MY BIGGEST ONSTAGE A**HOLE MOMENT July 31, 2024
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