Epstein Secrets

San Francisco some years previously. Now she told me that when she first met Charlie and people asked her what he was like, she had compared him to Lenny Bruce and me. It was the weirdest compliment I ever got, but I began to understand Manson's peculiar charisma. With his sardonic rap, mixed with psyched

h out people was intensified so that he could zero in on their weaknesses and fears. In 1967, he was released and went to the Scientology Center in San Francisco. A friend who accompanied him there told me, "Charlie said to them, 'I'm Clear - what do I do now?" But they expected him to sweep the floor - shit

Hungry i and the Purple Onion in San Francisco presided over a new age of stand-up by providing stage time for such Hall of Fame game- changers as Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Bill Cosby, the Smothers Brothers, Woody Allen, Phyllis Diller, Bob Newhart and Jonathan Winters. Nothing compares to that Golden Age b

t your day job!" - hopefully wouldn't pertain to me in the very near future. But at the time I had a day job, working at Banana Records in downtown San Francisco's financial district. Although the pay was nothing great, it was, as menial soul-numbing McJobs go, almost fun. For a guy with no real plans in life

. But "Mass" is an early Sunday morning thing and I'm a late-night Saturday evening kinda guy. Mass audience is not who I am. That wasn't my voice. Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor were brilliant on tv but the material they did on the air didn't hold a candle to what they didn't do on tv. A lot of my stuff ba

lk about killing the messenger. At a rock concert the comic is always the messenger! In 1982 I was asked to host the 5th annual Bammie Awards Show, San Francisco's home-grown version of The Grammy's. There were dozens of musicians, music critics and record company people in the good seats and behind them in th