This is going to keep me up all night…
I’m trying to remember the name of a comedian I saw ten years ago…
His stage persona was a 40’s era private dick, like the one’s in the old detective novels. He was a virtual thesauras of slang terms… “She had quite a set of legs… gams, poles, get-away sticks.”
His whole act was peppered with similiar lists.
I can only remember a few jokes he told…
“I man broke into my house and tried to steal my bike. He didn’t get far… It was an exercycle…”
Sound familiar to anyone?
He was one of the original hosts on the Comedy Channel, or at least a featured stand up performer…
What the hell was his name?
“It’s my job. It’s what I do, and then I move on…”
Google’s not finding him. Or, I’m not using the right search terms, yet.
No, he was a host, I’m sure of it. It was in the days of The Higgens Boys and Gruber, when all they ran was clips from stand up routines, and Clutch Cargo.
Bugger…
Tommy Sledge!!!
See here for the Sledgeman’s current whereabouts.
[sub]He hosted Comics Only.[/sub]
“There she stood, pointing two thirty eights at me . . . and she had a gun as well.”