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This may
be the strangest anecdote of all. One
of my earliest comedy jobs was working as the hidden voice of an electronic
robot at parties. The robot was
booked by a party-planning company, usually for very high-end parties.
The robot was remote-controlled. I
would hide behind some large tree or other object, where I could operate the
robot's movements. I would wear a headset microphone, so I could both hear and
talk as the robot. I was booked for
a large party at the famous Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach.
I was doing my usual 'shtick' with the
guests, when I see Meatloaf come into the room.
He was there as one of the guests, not as a performer.
He ended up next to the robot, so I had the robot engage him in
conversation. "How are you?" I
asked (in my robot-style voice.) And
Meatloaf said, "Well, to be honest, I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, and I've
got a bad cold." And I replied,
"Well, dinner is in five minutes, the bar is right behind you, so two out of
three ain't bad." With
the ad-libbed reference to Meatloaf's most famous song, it was the biggest
laugh the robot ever got!
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