ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
(Leo Anthony Gallagher) A 'prop comic' best known for smashing watermelons with the "Sledge-O-Matic," a large wooden mallet he uses to smash other things as well (a gallon of milk, a Big Mac, a carton of cottage cheese, etc.). (Those of us in the AARP crowd recognize the Sledge-O-Matic as a parody of an 'Infomercial' for the 'Veg-o-Matic'.) Here he is on his giant couch as part of his touring show. Notice, near the end, the audience's reaction as he picks up the sledgehammer.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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