I know lots of funny people. For instance, I know Bill Kirchenbauer, who many of you will recall from the TV shows Growing Pains and Just the Ten of Us, as well as his many appearances with Mr. Carson on The Tonight Show. Some of you may even remember him as Tony Roletti, the dreadful lounge singer on Fernwood Tonight. There was a moment in American comedy when half the comics out there seemed to be doing a bad lounge singer character but Bill was doing his before any of them. Here's an old clip of Bill doing stand-up…
Like I said, funny man. Bill has a new project that is less funny than important. It's a series of videos designed to raise awareness of the widespread problem of Diabetes and to wake people up to the fact that it's all quite treatable if they'll just do something about it. They're the Adventures of Captain Glucose and Meterboy and I think it's a great idea. Years ago, I heard the stats and was stunned to hear how many people let Diabetes become a crippling or even life-threatening problem just because they don't become aware of their conditions and/or seek proper treatment.
I think it's such a good idea that I've been trying to think of new venues in which Cap'n Glucose and Meterboy can spread their message…and things I can suggest to Bill that will enable the cause to reach a larger audience. Anyone out there got any ideas? Better still, anyone out there got a connection to a big pharmaceutical corporation that might want to take what they make in about three seconds and fund a whole series of these cartoons or a widely-distributed comic book or something? Drop me a note if you have an "in" anywhere that I can pass on to Bill. And in the meantime, here's the first installment of their adventures. I'll feature others but they oughta have a much bigger audience than just you folks who are wise enough to visit this blog…