Our friend Jimmy Brogan dropped me a note that he was pleased I'd featured that clip of him performing here so here's another. Again, there's no date on the video but someone in the audience mentions managing the Stage Deli in Century City. That place opened there around 1988 and didn't last for very long so the video is of that time period.
Once again, you'll see how Jimmy always has a joke no matter how the folks in his audience respond to his questions. I've probably seen this guy perform three dozen times and I've never seen him at a loss for words.
Quick story: Years ago, I liked to do my grocery shopping around 1 AM at an Open-All-Night Hughes Market at Doheny and Beverly, right across from Chasen's Restaurant. Chasen's is gone and so are all the Hughes Markets but I'd sometimes run into Jimmy Brogan there. He was always on his way to Jay Leno's house because Jay liked to gather some writers at that hour and work on monologue material. Wanna guess why Jimmy was stopping in at the market on his way to work?
Because as he mentions in this video, he's a vegetarian. And a guy who only eats vegetables could starve to death in Jay's house, that's why…