A public memorial service for Comedy Legend Pat McCormick will be held Wednesday, September 7 at the Writers Guild Theater on Doheny in Beverly Hills. It's scheduled to start at 7PM and I wouldn't hazard a guess at what time it will end since Pat had so many friends and they had so many stories. We could be there for days.
Pat died at the end of July and I wrote this piece (and this follow-up) about one of the field's truly great comedy minds.
It's going to be an interesting evening. At these events, one often hears stories that the speakers didn't want to tell while the subject was alive. Given the tales we did hear of Pat while he was alive, you wonder what they've been holding back.