WHILE WE’RE REMINISCING…
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedA lot was going on in the month of March in different decades, not all of it good. I’ve decided this time to highlight March of every year of my life ending in number 5, beginning with 1955. 70 Years ago: I was in Nursery School in Lafayette, Louisiana. The head of the school was […]
NEVER HAD ANYTHING GO VIRAL BEFORE
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThree weeks ago, I was doing my standard daily walk, that, if I don’t cut any corners, will guarantee me reaching my goal of 10,000 steps a day. I was at about the halfway point, walking through Finsbury Park, and preparing to go into one of three or four tea places in the adjacent area, […]
WASN’T SO LONG AGO
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’m thinking back exactly a decade ago. Obama was president, and it would be six months before Trump “descended down the escalator” and the American nightmare would begin. No, I’m talking about a life-changing decision that I just thought would be a fun endeavour. I had been living in North London for about a year […]
CAR CRASH — MY LAST AMERICAN CHRISTMAS
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI’m not being colloquial here, we’re talking about an actual car crash that I was involved in just before I was to head out to California. When I last posted, it was to commemorate the 20th anniversary of my third and final wedding. My parents were still around but not very mobile at that time […]
A DAY OF BLISS, THEN REALITY A WEEK LATER
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedOn this date 20 years ago, I said “I do” for the third and very likely final time. I entered into this last one with the attitude of “Well this is the final piece of the puzzle,” as I’d wanted to move to England anyway, so being married to someone seemed the best way to […]
AN UNUSUAL OFFER, BUT GLAD WE TURNED IT DOWN
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedSeeing as it is Hallowe’en, I’m reminded of a weird offer we got on October 30, 1971 (I knew it was close to that date, as I remembered people were in costume) after we had finished our Saturday show at the Tarr & Feathers Saloon on Union Street in San Francisco, where Rick and Ruby […]
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 UncategorizedWe’ll keep them anonymous, 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 I made at his expense. The three I want to talk about were all in […]
A BREAK I DEFINITELY WASN’T READY FOR
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis is not a commemoration of any anniversary as much as just a remembrance of a near break I got way too soon in my career to really capitalise. On January 2, 1986, when my solo career was barely two months old, I got my first paid spot in the Comedy Store’s Main Room, which […]
MY BIGGEST ONSTAGE ASSHOLE MOMENT
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedI was originally going to commemorate the 30th anniversary of my first gigs outside North America, but 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 about what an asshole he was, I said to myself “Wait […]
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