A friend of mine posted this story today: In 1975 I was working stage crew at the theater venue at Knott's Berry Farm. That year the summer show was "Pop Your Buttons" this was an archetype of a theme park show and is like that this was probably the worst thing ever. It was supposed to be a vaudeville review. It was awful. The music was provided by an accordionist sitting on a stool downstate left in front of the main drape. That is how bad it was. And I wore a gorilla suit in part of it. And part of the show was Leo Gallagher.
He had an ongoing walk on bit through the show, and then would do his routine with props and the Sledge-o-Matic. He would put the apple between the patented pans and turn it to applesauce. Then he would say to the audience 'Imagine this with a watermelon' and some laughter ensued. So eventually, while looking for amusement, we went out between shows and bought a watermelon. The next show, after he made the watermelon joke, two of our usherettes in pillbox hats roller skated onstage carrying the watermelon. And then for the very first time he smashed up a watermelon. After that he never stopped. So the watermelon bit was our fault. We did this. You can blame us. It was we who doomed so many poor innocent watermelons. It feels good to finally admit to this. On Friday, November 11, 2022 at 9:10:14 AM UTC-8 Brad Beam wrote: > Gallagher (as portrayed by Paul F Tompkins in the Weird Al movie), 76. > > > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/gallagher-dead-comedian-smashing-watermelons-1235430439/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/4fd4909b-3fc3-428f-9148-5b1214148fe6n%40googlegroups.com.
