The Day I Opened For Jerry Lewis — Sort Of
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedWe were on the same bill, anyway. It was early September, 2002, and my friend Steven Alan Green was putting together a comedy show for a charity known as High On Laughter. The event was to be at The Palladium Theatre in London, and I was excited to be on the bill, not so much […]
Holiday-ed Out
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt doesn’t usually happen that I go away for a week, then go away again a week later, but that was just the way things went over the past couple of weeks. I gotta say Maggie & I were very lucky we chose to travel to Spain when we did, as the newspapers this week […]
Do You Know The Way To Felixstowe?
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s triumphant speech at the Glastonbury Music Festival, which I was a mere 200 miles away from, I couldn’t wait to see how the conservative Daily Mail would report it. They didn’t let me down, reporting accusations (probably from their own staff) that it was another case of BBC Leftist […]
50-Year Recollections
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI avoided using the phrase “It was 50 years ago today,” as I’m sure countless journalists across the globe have already thought of and used it in commemorative pieces. It’s actually 50 years ago tomorrow, June 1st, 1967, that The Beatles’ iconic album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was released, but that’s a mere […]
Now People Will Think I Stole It
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOver the past few weeks, at least five different sources have sent me a link from “Buckshot – The Movie” which shows a clown by the name of Puddles Pity Party singing The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” to the tune of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.” I’ve gone to where the original link was posted, which […]
My TV Career (such as it was) Began With The Gong Show
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedBack in 1976, NBC debuted “The Gong Show” as a five-day-a-week alternative to game shows and soap operas. This was a very unusual move, especially back then, but for Chuck Barris, producer and reluctant host of the show, who died a few days ago, and who had built a mini-empire based on humiliation, exploitation, and […]
Never Met Him
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedBut I think we all felt as though we knew him. The only way Chuck Berry and I could have ever met is if I had been on the same bill with him, either in a concert or TV show, but neither obviously ever happened. I still remember when Robert Klein was doing stand-up, on […]
Four Years Today
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedToday marks the 4th anniversary of the passing of my partner of 28 months, Eileen Cadman, and I’ve talked about her enough over these past four years that I’m not really sure what’s left to say that I haven’t said already. Suffice to say, and I know I have acknowledged this, I wouldn’t be living […]
Adventure In Paradise — Well Actually Dagenham
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMy first ever gig in London some 17 years ago was the very same place I now do my Sunday DJ gig, The King’s Head in Crouch End. On the late summer day I first ventured into that venue, I remember looking at the surrounding area and thinking “I could live here.” It only took […]
How I Spent My Winter Vacation
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedFirst off, I need to apologise to all the people I didn’t see or even contact this time around, which would be virtually everyone I know in Southern Cal. My schedule went: Friday, drive down from San Francisco; Saturday, spend time with my former stage partner, her family, and my ex-wife; Sunday, drive back to […]
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