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Legendary Watermelon-Smashing Comic Gallagher Dead at 76
https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...termelon-smashing-comic-gallagher-dead-at-76/
WARNER TODD HUSTON 11 Nov 2022
Leo Gallagher, the legendary watermelon smashing one-liner and prop comedian known simply as Gallagher, died on Friday. He was 76.
The North Carolina native comedian passed away in hospice care, according to his family.
“After a short health battle, Gallagher, born Leo Gallagher, succumbed to his ailments and passed away surrounded by his family in Palm Springs, California.,” his family said in a statement according to Fox News.
The comedian had success performing on stage and TV since the 1970s and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1975.
But Gallagher became a household name after his 1980 TV special An Uncensored Evening, a film directed by The Monkees’ Mike Nesmith. The wildly successful show was the fist comedy special to hit cable TV and it sent Gallagher into the stratosphere.
With his “Sledge-O-Matic” bit smashing watermelons and other food sending waves of goo out onto the audience, and his stream of one-liner jokes and stories, Gallagher became a headliner.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertain...termelon-smashing-comic-gallagher-dead-at-76/
WARNER TODD HUSTON 11 Nov 2022
Leo Gallagher, the legendary watermelon smashing one-liner and prop comedian known simply as Gallagher, died on Friday. He was 76.
The North Carolina native comedian passed away in hospice care, according to his family.
“After a short health battle, Gallagher, born Leo Gallagher, succumbed to his ailments and passed away surrounded by his family in Palm Springs, California.,” his family said in a statement according to Fox News.
The comedian had success performing on stage and TV since the 1970s and appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1975.
But Gallagher became a household name after his 1980 TV special An Uncensored Evening, a film directed by The Monkees’ Mike Nesmith. The wildly successful show was the fist comedy special to hit cable TV and it sent Gallagher into the stratosphere.
With his “Sledge-O-Matic” bit smashing watermelons and other food sending waves of goo out onto the audience, and his stream of one-liner jokes and stories, Gallagher became a headliner.
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