Rod Hull was this funny man I got to know and work with in the eighties. I wrote about him here in one of the most-read articles on this blog. I described a hilarious appearance he made on The Tonight Show back when it was hosted by someone named Johnny Carson and more recently, I put up this piece via which you can view most of that Tonight Show appearance.
Rod died in a bizarre accident in 1997. So where has his pet/partner/puppet Emu been all this time? Apparently in storage but he's about to go on the auction block where he's expected to fetch between £8,000 and £10,000. I briefly got to operate Emu for a sketch on the show where I worked with Rod but the sketch never got on the air. Despite that, I still will not be bidding. That bird can be real mean.