# Fan claims Gallagher hit him at show **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612 "2005-06-02T20:30:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/21 "2005-06-03T15:04:03Z")
He was on the Bob And Tom syndicated morning radio show a few months back, and all he did was complain about all the stuff he “did first”. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/22 "2005-06-03T15:57:58Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > My husband and I saw him years ago at a New Year’s Eve thingie. He was the headliner, after Danny Bonaduce and Dennis Miller. Gallagher came out, did a few half-hearted jokes to almost zero response. He shouted, “Oh yeah, you laugh for Miller and that f\*kin’ Partridge kid!” > > Then someone in the audience yelled “Sledge-o-matic!” At that point, Gallagher summoned security and insisted that they “escort this assh\*le out of here.” The rest of his show was nothing but more abuse heaped on the audience. > > When we left the theatre, all three were standing in the lobby to “meet & greet.” Bonaduce and Miller were mobbed, but NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON approached Gallagher. You’re lucky, Black Gallagher would have shot you in the face. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/23 "2005-06-03T16:05:11Z")
> [@Mr. Goob](#): > > As one trick wonder he was funny, once for about 20 minutes. What a coincidence. I think Gallagher belongs at the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/24 "2005-06-03T20:51:38Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > He was on the Bob And Tom syndicated morning radio show a few months back, and all he did was complain about all the stuff he “did first”. I’ve heard him slam Carrot Top and accuse him of stealing his act. (Yes, Gallagher, you were indeed the first comedian ever to think of using props- in fact you were so original that other comics were copying you before you were ever born.) It was actually for this reason that he licensed his lookalike brother to appear as _Gallagher 2_ and appear in smaller venues, to recoup the revenues he felt he was losing from “copycat” comedians. Gallager 2 was allowed to use his brother’s old routines [but no jokes from his current material at the time] and split the take 50/50 with his brother (which believe it or not still earned his brother a six-figure income back when Gallagher was bigger). Gallagher 1 filed a cease-and-desist order when he learned that some venues were dropping the **2** part from the bill, and he learned his brother was telling some of his current jokes, and his brother was successfully sued for $75,000 when the sledgomatic flew off it’s handle (rather like Gallagher himself) and injured an audience member. There was a nasty court battle that Gallagher 1 won. I wonder if there’ll ever be a Carrot Top 2. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/25 "2005-06-03T21:48:42Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > What a coincidence. I think Gallagher belongs at the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. Don’t worry, his career has been on it’s way down to the bottom of the trench for some time now. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/26 "2005-06-03T22:20:47Z")
I predict a judge will sentence him to attend a Gallagher show. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/27 "2005-06-03T22:23:30Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > Tell me I’m not the only one who opened this thread wondering: > > Liam or Noel? No, that was my first thought, too. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612/28 "2005-06-03T23:07:03Z")
Gallagher should go to hell if only because he started all that driveway/parkway bullshit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fan-claims-gallagher-hit-him-at-show/306612.md?page=1)