Comedian Bares All in New Novel, Cape Comedy
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 ...