Category Archives: Comedians
King of Comedy
After the show at a New York comedy club, I order another orange juice, scan a few dozen tables in a room where the lights just came on, and notice two old men in the furthest corner. One’s about ninety and the other in his seventies. My eyes must be haywire. Is that really them? […]
Also posted in Jerry Lewis, Kidnapping, Martin Scorsese, Mental Health, Movies, Robert De Niro, The King of Comedy
Bon Qui Qui at King Burger
I must’ve been beset by Baby Boomer inertia as I read about young comedian Anjelah Johnson coming to Bakersfield in a couple of days. She’s cute, I thought, and her act is probably funny and it’s cool she used to be a Raider cheerleader, but that was all until two hours before the show on […]
Also posted in Anjelah Johnson, Bakersfield, Bon Qui Qui, Interstate 5, YouTube
Old Newscasters Never Die
The chronology unfolded about like this: I recently visited my hometown Sacramento, which I’d left in 1991, and was as ever moved by familiar places laden with ancient memories, and shortly after returning to Bakersfield I wondered what had become of several television newscasters from my youth. And in particular I was interested in Harry […]
Also posted in Babe Ruth, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Martin, Jay Leno, John Wayne, Media, Paul, Paul Newman, Sacramento, Stu Nahan, Television
