Gallagher

Gallagher is unquestionably an anachronism, but one who has steadily stained his follower’s hearts and shirts with punishing mists of smashed watermelons and chunks of cottage cheese since the early ’80s. The mainstream has long since deserted prop comedy, but Gallagher has stuck to his guns despite no longer being in the spotlight as much he was during his heyday. This past decade, Gallagher has slowed down considerably, producing only two specials (2000’s Sledge-O-Matic.com and 2005’s Tropic Of Gallagher), but his shtick has remained largely unchanged, damn the cost: Despite suffering a heart attack in the middle of a Sledge-O-Matic bit in March 2011, he was back berating his audience and smashing shit the following week.

Updated 09/21/2011