Well, the obits were full of celebrities yesterday.

Celebrity Directors

Celebrity Coaches

Celebrity Talk Show hosts, I’m not much of a movie buff and haven’t ever really been into football (except THE BUCKEYES!!!) but talk? I was into talk, still am!

Yesterdays passing of Tom Snyder brought back memories of staying all night at my grandmothers house after my grandfather died and I couldn’t sleep, so I would get up and go into the living room and find my grandmother there working on a crossword puzzle in ink with the TV turned on low with Tom Snyder and his burning cigarette interviewing somebody like John Lennon or some other celeb
while he and his staff took pot shots at one another and only a reading lamp lighting the room. Every once in a while she would ask me to retrieve her dictionary from beneath the coffee table so she could look up a word. She’d take her skinny fingers and follow the words, scratch her head and ponder what her next letter would be and then finally write down in her BEAUTIFUL penmanship the correct word.

Mama, as she was known, was ALWAYS right on her crossword puzzles. She never once had to cross a word out and rewrite an answer, she was just very smart.

She always smelled like BenGay and Ivory soap. When I would fix her a dinner of creamed tuna and peas with instant coffee she acted like it was a fine dining experience.

I lived part time with my grandmother after my grandfather, Papa, passed away when I was in 3rd grade. I still miss him. Oddly, I never realized I missed Mama till I started to write this blog about the passing of Tom Snyder.

Farewell, Tom Snyder and thanks for the walk down memory lane.

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Growing up in the mid 70’s and 80’s no respectable Class Clown would be caught without a solid impression of Steve Martin. It didn’t matter if it was the arrow through the head, the white suit, the King Tut Strut or my ultimate favorite the loud sarcastic response "WELL, EXCUUUUUUUSE MEEEE!"

Congratulations to Steve Martin and Anne Stringfield who tied the knot in a surprise wedding ceremony at his house.

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The LA Times is reporting today that veteran Comedienne/Radio Host/TV Personality Whoopi Goldberg is the "chosen one" to take over for Rosie O’Donnell on the ABC morning TV Talk Show, THE VIEW.

I think this is a losing situation.

I may have only watched The View two or three times before but I know Rosie was obviously a controversial part of the show that drove the ratings through the roof. I also know that Whoopi has a reputation as being a comedienne with a sharp wit who is vastly opinionated.

Many viewers may be looking for Whoopi to follow Rosie’s lead and be the one who mixes it up with guests, co-hosts and non-affiliated billionaires. That ain’t going to happen as ABC is the one who pulled the reigns in and if it does happen, people will simply call it out as an imitation of what Rosie did.

And alas, The View will be that mid-morning time waster with no teeth…again.

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I know everybody and their brother has already posted about Drew Carey being named the new host of The Price Is Right but I watched him on Letterman where he was when he found out that got the gig and he was just so darn happy it made me smile.

I love Drew Carey because to his audience he is just a pal.

Check out this video from YoutTube of Drew on Late Night with David Letterman and then I will tell you one of the funniest stories I have EVER heard…and it is about Drew Carey.

Wasn’t that great? The guy is obviously pumped.

Congratulations to Drew Carey and to The Price Is Right.

Ok,

So I am at a comedy club opening for a better known club comedian who used to open up for Drew Carey A LOT…at this particular club everyone was really great, very nice and they paid a little better than most of the one nighter gigs you get some of the time in clubs when you are just starting out…so, I am in the dressing room before the show and this veteran comedian and I are talking and he is telling stories about when he and Drew did this and that…well, he says that one night they were at a club in Travers City, Michigan and did two shows on Friday and three shows on Saturday…club owners/mangers usually pay you at the end of the last night…the comedians were waiting around for their pay and the owner says that the club didn’t break even so they were going to have to “be patient”…I guess Drew got very upset and asked well, the room was full for all five shows…people bought food and drinks, right? People paid to get in, right?

The owner didn’t budge…so Drew and this other comedian sat down at a table and talked for a few minutes…all the sudden Drew stands up and drags this other guy with up to the bar…over the bar where he starts to pour out every bottle of liquor in the place…he then walks over to the cash register, unplugs it and he and the other guy start to walk out the door with it…the owner finally sees what is going on and is VERY UPSET and demanded they put the register down…Drew said “This register is my pay…” The owner says why did you pour out all the liquor? To which Drew reportedly responds, “You can thank me later. With you having such a tough time of it in business I didn’t think it would good for you to be around liquor…you might drink real heavy and do something stupid…like pay your comedians…”

That was it, that’s the end of the story…they did not leave with the register but they did get paid.

I love Drew Carey.

There is no way for me to know if that story is true or not but it is one of the things I miss about doing clubs, hearing those sort of outrageous stories of comedians who have made it and what they did while they were still struggling.

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New Episode of Humble O Radio is up and ready to listen to at http://www.HumbelORadio.com

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