RIP LEO GALLAGHER. The Court Jester of comedy. He was the original cable TV comedy star and the first huge Stand-up fool our generation had. He was Rip Taylor or Phyliss Diller in an a moment when David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Tim Allen were taking the stage and making it even cooler than it ever was to just stand there and talk. He may have been followed by Emo Phillips and Judy Tenuta and an early version of Howie Mandel with the glove on his head, but in his original days, it was not at all smart to have too much of a hook and he had an uber-hook with the props, which he then took to a ridiculous level that quickly overshadowed his great joke writing and onstage straight stand-up skills. I remember in the early days at The Comedy Store how good Gallagher was with audience play.
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RIP LEO GALLAGHER. The Court Jester of comedy. He was the original cable TV comedy star and the first huge Stand-up fool our generation had. He was Rip Taylor or Phyliss Diller in an a moment when David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Tim Allen were taking the stage and making it even cooler than it ever was to just stand there and talk. He may have been followed by Emo Phillips and Judy Tenuta and an early version of Howie Mandel with the glove on his head, but in his original days, it was not at all smart to have too much of a hook and he had an uber-hook with the props, which he then took to a ridiculous level that quickly overshadowed his great joke writing and onstage straight stand-up skills. I remember in the early days at The Comedy Store how good Gallagher was with audience play.