{"id":7267,"date":"2007-11-20T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7267"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:03:25","slug":"wild-and-crazy-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7267","title":{"rendered":"The Wild and Crazy Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words cannot express how much I can’t wait to read this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from article:<\/p>\n

Eventually he would ditch the turquoise and adopt a white three-piece suit for his stage act. He had the same kinds of lucid reasons for this as he did for other pivotal decisions. He wanted to be visible from a distance. He wanted a vest to keep his shirt from coming loose. He wanted to escape the politics of the period, finding it funnier to look \u00e2\u0080\u009clike a visitor from the straight world who had gone seriously awry.\u00e2\u0080\u009d And he wanted to honor a piece of advice about audiences that he had heard early on: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAlways look better than they do.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am DYING to read the book. He’s one of my happy places<\/a> … THAT era of his career. It just brings up so many memories – and I can’t wait to read his perspective on all of it.<\/p>\n

And God. King Tut. Come on now. “Maybe we can all learn something from this …” SNL video clip below the jump.<\/p>\n

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