His bizarre live performances are legendary to this day. US comedian Leo Gallagher has died at the age of 76.
The legendary US comedian Leo Gallagher is dead. , the comedian died at the age of 76 surrounded by his family in California. Gallagher became famous mainly because of his special and bizarre live performance, called “Sledge-O-Matic”. There he regularly smashed watermelons and other food with a homemade wooden sledgehammer.
He died “after a brief struggle for his health,” it said. In a conversation with talk show host David Letterman (75) a few years ago, Gallagher already reported “some heart attacks” that he had suffered. The comedian first came to prominence in the early ’80s when he became the first stand-up comedian to earn his own special on cable TV, on his show An Uncensored Evening.
Source: Stern
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