Comedian Gallagher Known For Watermelon Smash Dies At 76

Comedian Gallagher, best known for his watermelon-smashing comedy routine and many popular specials in the 1980s, died Friday morning, according his manager Craig Marquardo. He was 76. According to a ...

(KTLA) — Standup comedian Gallagher, perhaps best known for smashing watermelons as part of his act, has died at age 76, his manager confirmed to multiple media outlets. Born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.

Gallagher, a prop comedian known for smashing watermelons on stage, has died at age 76. The funnyman was in hospice care when he died Friday morning at his California home as a result of organ failure ...

Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. ( – ), [1] known simply as Gallagher, was an American comedian who became one of the most recognizable comedic performers of the 1980s for his prop-based and observational style. His signature routine involved the "Sledge-O-Matic", a large mallet-like tool which he used to smash various items, most notably watermelons. For more than 30 ...

You’d think your own brother wouldn’t bust your watermelon. Produce-pulverizing comedian Gallagher didn’t have a problem with his younger brother, Ron, touring as a Gallagher impersonator, as long as ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — Leo Gallagher, known as Gallagher and for smashing watermelons as part of his act, is in El Paso. Gallagher and his sidekick Artie Fletcher are the two most unpredictable ...

Yahoo: In ‘Gallagher,’ a Dying Prop Comic Reckons with a Legacy of Smashed Watermelons and Burned Bridges

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the pantheon of comedy history, few bits are as polarizing as Gallagher’s Sledge-O-Matic. The late prop comedian, whose legal ...

In ‘Gallagher,’ a Dying Prop Comic Reckons with a Legacy of Smashed Watermelons and Burned Bridges

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Gallagher, the long-haired, ...

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Comedian and filmmaker Joe List wouldn’t be one of today’s top stand ups if he didn’t have a reverence for the game-changing class of comics that came before him. List took notice when comedians like ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Comedian Nate Bargatze is coming clean about comments he made in reference to his future in stand-up. In an interview segment with PEOPLE, Bargatze expanded on his desire to ...

N ikki Glaser is turned on. That the comedian is, at full volume, discussing her level of arousal in a restaurant — she is “damp downstairs,” to be precise — is probably not surprising to anyone who ...

The Hill: Greene: GOP’s Gallagher should be expelled in time for special election

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Sunday to push for Rep. Mike Gallagher’s (R-Wis.) expulsion from Congress ahead of his scheduled departure next month to ...

The Nation: Amid All the GOP’s Profiles in Political Cowardice, None Is More Stark Than That of Mike Gallagher

Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.). (Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that ...

Amid All the GOP’s Profiles in Political Cowardice, None Is More Stark Than That of Mike Gallagher

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NPR: Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher says he won't run for reelection

MADISON, Wis. — U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a key Republican congressman who has spearheaded House pushback against the Chinese government, announced Saturday that he won't run for a fifth term. The ...

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The meaning of KNOWN is generally recognized. How to use known in a sentence.

Idiom make yourself known (Definition of known from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

If someone or something is known for a particular achievement or feature, they are familiar to many people because of that achievement or feature.

Proved or generally recognized: the only known case; a known authority. n. Something that is known: In this instance, the only known is our actual profit margin. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

There are eight meanings listed in OED's entry for the word known, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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