HALLOWE’EN MEMORIES
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIt’s amazing to think that 60+ years ago, when I was in primary school, on Hallow’en I could go trick or treating, be out for 2-3 hours, come back with a shopping bag full of assorted candies, and not be worried about any consequences. This was before any stories emerged of sickos putting razor blades […]
END OF AN ERA
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedYesterday I got the news I was expecting to get, which was that my eight-year run as vinyl DJ at The King’s Head in Crouch End was done. Granted, because of the Pandemic, there was a gap from March 2020 to New Years Eve 2022 that got in the way. Even so, my actual return […]
SOMEHOW I SURVIVED
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis past weekend saw the annual Reading and Leeds Music Festivals, which always features a comedy tent where the most prominent comics as well as up-and-comers get 30 minutes to prove themselves. I had a look at this year’s lineup, and there was no one whose name I recognised. That may be because the acts […]
REMEMBERING PAUL REUBENS (PART 2)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedLast night, at my pub quiz, I asked this question: “The American comedian/actor Paul Reubens, who passed away Sunday at the age of 70, was better known for what character he portrayed on stage, television and film?” Only one team got the correct answer. Having been in UK for over 20 years now, I found […]
REMEMBERING PAUL REUBENS (PART 1)
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedMy association with Paul Reubens, best known as Pee Wee Herman, actually began a year before Ruby and I first met him. In May of 1978, our clever manager Bob Lacey, seeing a window of opportunity to coattail with a star of the future, offered to Robin Williams that Rick and Ruby would perform at […]
ANOTHER HELLISH GIG, WHICH WE DIDN’T EVEN DO
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis is not an anniversary of anything, just a remembrance of the stamina I had in my younger days. My partner and I spent the better part of the mid-1970s working in Lake Tahoe, where we met lots of people that thought they could do something for/with us. One of the people we met in […]
IT WAS HELL, OR WARM ENOUGH TO QUALIFY
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedAs I sit here sweltering in the London summer with the temperature slightly over 20 Celsius after 9:00 PM, it’s still nothing like all those years I lived in Arizona. It was only some seven years after our family had left Tucson and I was now living in San Francisco, where summer usually held off […]
I STILL FEEL A BIT GUILTY, BUT A HACK IS A HACK
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedIn the Comedy Dish podcast I do on Wednesdays with Steven Alan Green in LA (and me in London), we have a running feature entitled You’ve Been Hacked. We discuss instances we’ve seen of either comic thievery or blatant hackery. I mentioned the acts that most often fall into the hack realm, including guitar acts […]
DOING STANDUP DURING A STANDOFF
Published by Rick on Tagged UncategorizedThis past week, the British ITV Network ran a three part series dramatising the case of a July 9, 2010 incident involving a psychotic by the name of Raoul Moat. Moat was incarcerated for domestic violence, but had served his time, and once released, stalked his ex-girlfriend, killed her lover, and shot her, though she […]
30 YEARS AGO, WORKING FOR A FUTURE POLITICIAN
Published by Rick on Tagged Uncategorized1993 started rather miserably, with me getting audited for the only time in my life, and so did many of my show biz colleagues. My then-wife and I were called to the auditor’s office, and after nearly three hours of grilling from a shill who was “just doing her job,” I felt the only way […]
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