WIDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
Lfinished a standup performance, and was admonished by the surly comic, who went “ballistic,” thinking he was being mocked. He calls him “completely neurotic and unhinged.”
David wasn’t the best dinner host on his rise to stardom, either. Comic
says he used to come by David’s place for supper, but the host only had one set of silverware, so they “had to eat in shifts.”
He also recalls going to a standup show where David joked that he made menstruating women stand over a newspaper when they visited his house.
That joke caused comic genius who was in the crowd with a few friends, to walk out of the venue.
“The Improv” — which includes reminiscing from
and — covers plenty of other ground. There’s a memorable chapter relating how actor
came to visit Rodney Dangerfield backstage, where the dressing rooms had no toilets. Wuhl says that when he walked in, Dangerfield had his bathrobe wide open and was peeing in the sink. and were in the Westside Theater on Thursday to watch star in “Curvy Widow.” The comedy tells the story of author search to find love after the death of her husband, writer James Goldman. “There are myths about women of a certain age not being interested (in sex),” Goldman told us after the show. “Boy, are they wrong about women loving sex!”