CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Wacky American comedian Gallagher, known for using a variety of props and smashing stuff during his act, said he does not plan to return to the stage after he was placed in a ...

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 ...

The comedian Gallagher is telling jokes after being taken out of a medically induced coma that doctors put him in following his heart attack last week in Texas. Doctors slowly woke up Gallagher on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Gallagher, the long-haired, smash-’em-up comedian who left a trail of laughter, anger and shattered watermelons over a decadeslong career, has died at age 76. Craig Marquardo, in a ...

April 07--It has happened only a few times in the past four decades, but Sledge-O-Matic watermelon pulverizer Gallagher spent a night telling jokes in Uniontown-- and none of them made any cents.

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.

FILE – In this Nov. 18, 2006 file photo, comedian Gallagher smashes strawberry syrup and flour at the end of his performance at the Five Flags Theater in Dubuque, Iowa. Gallagher is hospitalized in ...

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