Another gem found during spring cleaning! Who knew I was living in a time capsule 🤷🏻♂️🥳 @therealpriceisright
Spring Cleaning Update: I found THIS treasure buried under some other books 🤦🏻 When Mary Tyler Moore was a guest on fX’s “Breakfast Time,” I did a “Rob Petrie Roll” over an ottoman (the classic pratfall from @official_dick_van_dyke). I didn’t think I nailed it, but this is how she signed her book to me before she left. 🥰
9 years ago today (4/6/15), my cover was blown on a TV show by 2 @agentsofshield 🤦🏻😉
Dear Mother Nature, Yes, I know it was a surprise to see my basement organized for the first time in almost 30 years, but… WTF???!!! 🫨😳🤯 Sincerely, Tom
Life is full of unpredictable intersections. I grew up (more or less 😏) loving Stan Laurel and @official_dick_van_dyke. Dick grew up loving Stan, too. But he got to meet him, become friends with him, do a brilliant impression of him on the Dick Van Dyke Show (although Dick told me Stan had “some notes” on it 🥰) and give the eulogy at Stan’s funeral. In 2004, when Carl Reiner invited me to be “a groupie” during the “DVD Show Revisited” shoot, I sat with Dick during a meal break and he told me about what it was like for him to meet Stan. When he was finished I told him, “You know, Dick, for me, THIS is like THAT.” Sometime later he, his lovely (and also hilarious) wife @bijoubox and I had lunch in Malibu. We started talking about Stan again and Arlene snapped this picture (bottom right) of Dick and I impersonating Stan’s classic sad face (bottom left). And here’s the final intersection. Anyone who has seen my basement-cleaning-post can tell I love a sense of order. It’s why, even though I loved the unpredictably of live television, the other hours of my day were always fairly structured. Starbucks, gym, studio, home. Lather, rinse, repeat. Stan loved order, too. The precision of his comedy spoke to it. That love of order also spoke to his love of stationery stores (top pic). Carl Reiner told me how meticulously Dick would rehearse the seemingly effortless physical comedy he made iconic. A sense of order. A display of joyful surrender. Unlikely but, no doubt about it, pretty cool intersections.
PS (added on 4/6). A friend asked me if I’ve ever met Steve. Only once. He joined me, Carl Reiner and Carl’s daughter, Annie, for lunch (name drop much, Tom?). My only goal at the lunch was to make Steve Martin laugh. Even one laugh would feel like winning a gold medal. Without realizing she was setting me up, Annie did. She, like her late father, is an artist, a poet, an intellectual. She went into a rather long-winded monologue about Freud, Jung, Picasso and the like. I waited for her to take a breath and, when she did, I asked, “So how did they know Kevin Bacon?” Steve laughed. Best lunch ever.
More Spring cleaning discoveries: For years, when our daughters were little, I’d be out the door by 3:30 or 4am, off to host a morning radio or, later, TV show. I’d leave cartoons for them on the kitchen island. A way of still being there when they woke up for school. Even years later, when they were older and I’d be heading to JFK or Logan Airport to fly to Los Angeles, the tradition continued. Our family cat, a majestic Maine Coon named Tigger, was often the star of the drawings. Here are a few from 2002 😱
More Spring cleaning discoveries: For years, when our daughters were little, I’d be out the door by 3:30 or 4am, off to host a morning radio or, later, TV show. I’d leave cartoons for them on the kitchen island. A way of still being there when they woke up for school. Even years later, when they were older and I’d be heading to JFK or Logan Airport to fly to Los Angeles, the tradition continued. Our family cat, a majestic Maine Coon named Tigger, was often the star of the drawings. Here are a few from 2002 😱
More Spring cleaning discoveries: For years, when our daughters were little, I’d be out the door by 3:30 or 4am, off to host a morning radio or, later, TV show. I’d leave cartoons for them on the kitchen island. A way of still being there when they woke up for school. Even years later, when they were older and I’d be heading to JFK or Logan Airport to fly to Los Angeles, the tradition continued. Our family cat, a majestic Maine Coon named Tigger, was often the star of the drawings. Here are a few from 2002 😱
I’ll say one thing for Spring. It doesn’t suck. 😏🌷🌸🌿🍃🌼
I’ll say one thing for Spring. It doesn’t suck. 😏🌷🌸🌿🍃🌼
I’ll say one thing for Spring. It doesn’t suck. 😏🌷🌸🌿🍃🌼
I just finished being transfixed by both parts of “Steve.” Granted, out of context that sentence sounds kinda pervy 😬🤦🏻. Seriously, tho, I started my full-time broadcasting career, fresh out of high school, in 1973. That’s around the time Steve’s “Wild and Crazy Guy” was about to redefine stand-up comedy. Part One of the documentary, as a result, was a wonderful stroll down a collective Memory Lane. Part Two, though, made the biggest impact on me. It focuses on the modern-day Steve, who is not only a constantly evolving artist (@onlymurdershulu, anyone?) but also a loving husband, father & friend. As I near my 69th birthday in a few weeks, it’s THAT Steve I’m truly inspired by. How wild & crazy is that? 👏🏼 PS (added on 4/6). A friend asked me if I’ve ever met Steve. Only once. He joined me, Carl Reiner and Carl’s daughter, Annie, for lunch (name drop much, Tom?). My only goal at the lunch was to make Steve Martin laugh. Even one laugh would feel like winning a gold medal. Without realizing she was setting me up, Annie did. She, like her late father, is an artist, a poet, an intellectual. She went into a rather long-winded monologue about Freud, Jung, Picasso and the like. I waited for her to take a breath and, when she did, I asked, “So how did they know Kevin Bacon?” Steve laughed. Best lunch ever.
One of the treasures I found when I dove into clearing out our basement (neglected since 1994 🤦🏻🤷🏻♂️) was an envelope containing press clippings & cartoons that my late grandmother had given me decades ago. This week’s #throwbackthursday is gonna be a hoot, but here are a couple of samples. The 1st is from a cartoon series I wrote & drew for a weekly, hometown paper, The Haverhill Independent. The second, a clipping from Haverhill’s then-daily paper, The Haverhill Gazette, chronicles what would soon be my very first trip to SoCal! Turned out to be the 1st of many 😏
One of the treasures I found when I dove into clearing out our basement (neglected since 1994 🤦🏻🤷🏻♂️) was an envelope containing press clippings & cartoons that my late grandmother had given me decades ago. This week’s #throwbackthursday is gonna be a hoot, but here are a couple of samples. The 1st is from a cartoon series I wrote & drew for a weekly, hometown paper, The Haverhill Independent. The second, a clipping from Haverhill’s then-daily paper, The Haverhill Gazette, chronicles what would soon be my very first trip to SoCal! Turned out to be the 1st of many 😏
Started reading @christopherreichbooks latest last night. Can’t wait to get back to it later today! 👏🏼 #Matterhorny 😏
Memory can play tricks (anyone seen my car keys? 😳🤷🏻♂️). When I told @sternshow back in 2009 about my phone calls with Larry & Moe, I remembered reaching Larry on my first try. This story, featuring me from 50 years ago 🤯, tells a different tale. After you read it, head over to the @siriusxm app & Howard’s channel to hear the 90 minute special featuring some of those long-ago conversations with Moe & Larry.
Memory can play tricks (anyone seen my car keys? 😳🤷🏻♂️). When I told @sternshow back in 2009 about my phone calls with Larry & Moe, I remembered reaching Larry on my first try. This story, featuring me from 50 years ago 🤯, tells a different tale. After you read it, head over to the @siriusxm app & Howard’s channel to hear the 90 minute special featuring some of those long-ago conversations with Moe & Larry.
I gave an interview recently to @shaunhood94, a reporter from the @necc_observer, the student newspaper at @northernessex. He told me it’ll be on their website soon but, in a victory not seen since the last millennium, it showed up in paper form first!! 😳👏🏼
Proof you can meditate anywhere ☯️😉 #throwbackthursday (pic by @thejexxi)
“Symmetry, Soitenly!” On the left, a print of @realgilbert’s original artwork entitled “Moe, Larry, Curly,” hanging in my home office above the logo for my @siriusxm Three Stooges special with @sternshow. On the right, 3 OTHER Stooges…@realgilbert, me and @daragottfried 🥰.
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