Do you have a "Claim to Fame"?

Eoe wrote:

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What can I say?
It was many years ago and not a major artist.[CODE]

Awww come on, share, share, share.........

~taps foot as I wait impatiently.......

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Reyn wrote:

Noddy24 wrote:
A bear came to tea in my back yard and ate all my birdseed. I forgave her. She was a nursing mother.

This is the right answer, right?

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
also when doing stand up had the privilege of opening for some incredibly funny and talented people, Steven Wright and Richard Jenni probably being my two favorites.

I don't know who these folks are, but I'm sure if I say "good job", it will be warranted!

Wright is the balding but yet wild haired guy that is the king of deadpan, he usually never smiles once during an act...kinda a highlight if he does crack up a bit. He often talks about his weird friend George....my friend George has braces.....on his dentures....my friend George is a DJ....when he walks under a bridge you can't hear him talk. Looks sort of like Larry from the Three Stooges.

Jeni was a small fast talking New York guy, whom I always confuse with Kevin Pollak....Pollak does a perfect Colombo, and is a all around good impressionist....they really don't look that much alike, Jeni had a very dark complexion, very Italian, and he was more of an angry commenting comic....a good one, that took his own life...a few months ago maybe...it's been recent, we had a thread on it here.

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http://fusionanomaly.net/stevenwright.jpg

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http://www.chortle.co.uk/images/photos/small/rjeni.jpg

... wright ....................................... jeni ...

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My father invented the question mark.

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makemeshiver33 wrote:

Awww come on, share, share, share.........

~taps foot as I wait impatiently.......

Oh. Didn't know you were waiting girlfriend.

It really was no biggie. My friend was art directing a video for a new artist, Micky Blue, Nicky Bleu, something like that, and asked if I wanted to be in it. There was a big dance party scene and I got a little face time with the camera. Must have been somewhere between 1988-1990.

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I always found Jeni to be one hell of a clever guy. He was also very down to earth and friendly, very gracious. I remember the first time I went to a cattle call at Catch a Rising Star. I was waiting in the pen with about a million other wannabes and Jeni came in, saw me and called me by name, took me around and next thing you know I was on stage. I had only worked with him once before at the local club and partied after. I was amazed he knew me by name and would do such a nice thing. I was saddened when he killed himself.

I did stand up for a short time and my star was rising quickly on the regional circuit and i always did really well and never bombed until the night I did an opening slot for Steven Wright at The Punchline in Atlanta, and those people wanted to see Steven wright and anyone and everyone else could go to hell. A humbling experience. Laughing

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Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

A humbling experience.

I'm using this emoticon only because there isn't one to represent sheer horror.

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Eoe wrote:

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Oh. Didn't know you were waiting girlfriend.

It really was no biggie. My friend was art directing a video for a new artist, Micky Blue, Nicky Bleu, something like that, and asked if I wanted to be in it. There was a big dance party scene and I got a little face time with the camera. Must have been somewhere between 1988-1990.

COOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLL....lol

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It was one of the longest and most tedious nights of my life! We started at 10am and didn't wrap up until 6 am the next morning.

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eoe wrote:

Bi-Polar Bear wrote:
A humbling experience.

I'm using this emoticon only because there isn't one to represent sheer horror.

I have been humbled a couple of times in my life... but only a couple... :wink:

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Being laughed at when you weren't trying to be funny runs a close second.

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eoe wrote:

I didn't get booed.... being booed or heckled is a wonderful opportunity to cut someone to shreds and humiliate them.... this was meeting with total silence... no response at all....that's the worst.

I remember opening for Mothers Finest in Roanoke right after they were thrown off the ZZ Top tour back sometime in the late seventies.... now here was a club where we were the hands down number one draw and packed the place to the rafters every time we played.... but here was Mothers Finest... who I will state for the record is one of the strongest live acts that ever took the stage.... and people... I mean big cirkus fans... were yelling at us to get the f**k off the stage and get MF up there... that kind of **** happens and you need to be philosophical about it... I still got a big check and i got laid that night... plus I got to rock out to and party with MF.... Laughing

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Loved Mothers Finest!!
(But I think we've had this conversation some time back.)

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I wish I could tell you.

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here it is.

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JLNobody wrote:

I wish I could tell you.

How about a hint?

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JLNobody wrote:

I wish I could tell you.

D. B. Cooper?

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A hint? No way. There's no possible "hint" that would not give it away.

Oh, how about the fact that the actress (that's what female actors were called in those days), Betty Grable, kissed me* when I was a baby. I've got the scar to prove it.

*My father was a member of her husband's (Harry James') band.

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