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I didn’t remember practicing my circle spins, yet my head was swimmy. The back of my neck throbbed. I tried to rub it only to discover that I couldn’t move my hands! Paralyzed! At least that’s what I thought but I soon discovered that in fact, my hands and feet had just been tied to a chair. Tightly. Too tightly. This was a professional rope job. I was groggy but I tried to think – had I wronged a cowboy? I tried to make out where I was but an incredibly bright light was obstructing my view and not helping my swimmy head at all. A man’s voice called out from the area beyond the light – “So, here we are.” He had an accent as thick as my Aunt Minnie’s calves. I tried to place his speech but it was unique, somewhere between Pepe le Pew gargling and everyone’s Uncle’s Italian Restaurant W...

Q: Tell us a little bit about yourself. How long have you been in the comedy business? I started in 1976. An extraordinary story, actually. A guy fixed me up with his wife (They had an open relationship and it was the 70's) and our initial “relationship” actually turned into a friendship. She had a friend who owned a club in Newport Beach called the Laff Stop. She recommended me to him and I wound up owning a 1% share of the club and doing the promotion/marketing part time. But because the club was a two-hour drive the commute was impossible. So, they housed me in the same apartment they rented for the comics. For a year-and-a-half my roommates were David Letterman, Jay Leno, Bob Saget, Roger And Roger, the Unknown Comic, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, and whoever the comics were that ...

The Easy Way

Comedian Bares All in New Novel, Cape Comedy