Watermelon-smashing comedy legend Gallagher is hospitalized in Texas tonight ... after suffering a heart attack at a bar moments before he was supposed to perform ... TMZ has learned.
65-year-old Gallagher was preparing to go on stage, when he began to experience intense chest pains. The owner of the club called 911 ... and emergency personnel responded to the scene and transported Gallagher to a nearby hospital.
I hope he makes it through and focuses on his health more considering his 1st heart attack was back in March 2011.
I thought it was going to be Liam or Noel. Sucks for anybody to have a heart attack but I'm glad its neither of them. I hope Gallagher can make a full recovery.
I wouldn't say he was the worst comedian ever, but he'd definitely be in the bracket pool for Worst of All-Time Tournament. He was rather terrible and due to the success he had was extremely over-rated but he was always able to have maybe one half decent joke per set.
It's very much like Dane Cook. Why he was popular to the level that he was confuses me. Dane would drag some of his stories out - not in a funny way that Norm does, but in the way a boring friend or family members does when they're telling you some junk story you don't care about. Some of the absolute worst over-all delivery I've witnessed.
He's apparently dropped the grammar and pun routines and just tries to act like a right-wing version of Carlin (and I mean final years Carlin when he lost his edge and just got bitter and angry). Still smashes crap, but apparently it's getting harder for him.
is he that bad? I honesty have never heard the guys act before and like many others the only thing I know him for is smashing watermelons.
In any event hopefully he gets better.
Not even close. His schtick overshadows the good material he had, and some either love it or hate it. He had some funny ways of getting points across, and sometimes the props were funny. Watch some Youtube clips and see if you can find some things you find funny. I'd wager it'd be tough to be able to give him a fair shot at winning new fans nowadays, though, at least from the old stuff. It's just a very dated feel and flow to the production that people nowadays in general aren't interested in such for too long. Of course that's just a generality, but on the same token consider how many younger people today think Victor Borge is funny, or even know who he is.
Many would say Jeff Dunham, Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia, Larry The Cable Guy, or Louis CK are the worst too. There's no accounting for taste. Comedy isn't like music where you can fabricate garbage and make it popular. Comedians don't make it big if they're not at all funny one way or another. I like and dislike some of the above-mentioned comics. I've seen Dane Cook live and felt the show was great, but most of his later works have bored the hell out of me. I love Louis CK, but the thing to do lately is to act like he's Jesus. I'm sure you could find plenty of people who don't understand what's so funny about him and likely even find it irritating that he's on stage trying to be a comedian. Same people probably think Larry the Cable Guy is *** hilarious. It doesn't mean CK isn't a riot, it just means some people get it and some people don't. Opinion is just that.
Ah bizarro Brian Trottier But seriously, hope he gets better.
Always appreciated this guy as a very little kid in the early 80s but it obviously had a lot to do with him being in HBO so much in the early years of cable.
He had some funny stuff, some good props, and much like one of his specials was called, he definitely looked like he was "Stuck In The 60s."
He was no Carlin, Pryor, or Rivers.
Dane Cook? Right place right time and used the early internet to his advantage. Family Guy summed up why he got popular (youtube it).
Oddly, he had the first heart attack in my hometown. This broke the same day as the Japan quake/tsunami/nuclear disaster, so a lot of the local media used him as the "in other news" story. I know someone in the crowd that night, and they honestly thought it was part of the act.
Worst comedian ever, hope he can recover to obscurity.
That guy went through hecklers like Mexican water going through a tourist...yet his personality off stage was almost as pleasant as the results... If you get fired by him...he'll try to add insult to injury by suing to get the money back that he paid for you to heckle him... I know this firsthand because I was one of those paid hecklers...
This was the situation...
In Anaheim...a theater that was in operation for just three months had Gallagher making an appearance... I was paid $500 to work his show... The way his act was going...I needed triple for combat pay...trust me on this... People were walking out on him in droves...and I had to do something to get them back in the seats... Trust me...that was my main concern...
I didn't PLAN on upstaging him...but that line on a Dr. Ruth joke got more laughs than his entire act put together...AND a standing ovation...on top of me being escorted out of the theater for upstaging him...
The line was SHE'S STILL A VIRGIN!!!...
I didn't expect the subpoena a week after the show... That ****** sued to get his money back... I not only won the case...but got awarded another $750 of which I have yet to see a dime... Trust me...it's worth $750 to never see that jerk again...
"He had another minor heart attack," on Sunday, his spokeswoman said Sunday night.
Christine Scherrer told The Hollywood Reporter that Leo Anthony Gallagher is resting in a Sedona, Ariz., hospital. He was with his son when he began to feel lousy and his son took him to the hospital.
But seriously, hope he gets better.
