Tom Bergeron

Tom Bergeron Instagram – 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. | Posted on 06/Apr/2024 08:26:00