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What's The Perrycycle?
August
3, 1986
San Francisco Examiner
Comics Heat Up the Comedy Day Crowd
35,000
turn out for squeaky-clean comedy fest in the park.
By
Candy Cooper
It
was the largest turnout ever for what one comic called a "giant Amway
meeting," which drew overnight campers to the park for an early seat and
brought a surprise appearance by actress Whoopi Goldberg, dressed all in black
leather.
“That's
what fame and stardom will get you - leather everything," said comic Perry
Kurtz, watching the frenzied crush around Goldberg backstage. I'm lucky I've got
a leather belt. And, of course, a G-string."
Some
members of the audience got to meet at least one comedian up close and personal
- and in a bathrobe. Wrapped in his yellow velour robe, Perry Kurtz sang his way
through a bluesy onstage routine and then wandered through the crowd, felt pens
in hand, to have people autograph his night wear. “Way to go, dude ... good
show," 24 year-old Randall Nang, a husky, self-described rock star in a
leather jacket' told Kurtz as he scrawled his signature in huge red letters on
the robe's right shoulder.
“It's
great," Kurtz said, "Now I can take all these people to bed and into
the shower with me, so to speak."