COMICS NOT SO FUNNY TO WORK WITH

COMICS NOT SO FUNNY TO WORK WITH



MONTREAL (Wireless Flash) – Working with comics is anything but a bunch of laughs – just ask Andy Nulman. Nulman ran the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal from 1986 to 2000 and says he had plenty of violent encounters with unpredictable comics. During his tenure, he was strangled by Jerry Lewis, shoved off a stage by Roseanne and slapped in the face by both William Shatner and Don Rickles. If that’s not bad enough, he was once chewed out by famous mime Marcel Marceau. Nulman compares his time at the festival to working with dynamite and says, “If I had a dollar for every time I was scared, believe me, I’d be a zillionaire.” He’s compiled some of his stories into a new book I Almost Killed George Burns (ECW Press), which is offered with a money-back guarantee – if you don’t laugh out loud while reading it, the publisher will return your money.

Mon 10-01-01