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What Was Gallagher’s Net Worth?
Gallagher was an American comedian and producer who had a net worth of $200 thousand on the time of his dying in 2022. Gallagher was a preferred “prop” comedian within the Seventies and Eighties, maybe most well-known for destroying watermelons with a sledgehammer throughout his dwell act (a routine generally known as “Sledge-O-Matic”). He starred in additional than a dozen comedy specials, together with “An Uncensored Evening” (1980), “Stuck within the Sixties” (1983), “Melon Crazy” (1984), “Overboard” (1987), “Smashing Cheeseheads” (1997), and “Tropic of Gallagher” (2007), and he produced a number of of his specials as nicely. Gallagher was ranked #100 on Comedy Central’s 2004 “100 Greatest Standups of all Time” listing. He additionally appeared within the movies “Record City” (1977) and “The Book of Daniel” (2013), and in 2003, he ran as an Independent within the California gubernatorial recall election, ending sixteenth. Though he had well being points in his sixties and seventies, struggling three coronary heart assaults in 2011 and 2012, he continued touring till the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Sadly, Gallagher died of organ failure in November 2022 on the age of 76.
Early Life
Gallagher was born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. on July 24, 1946, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He was the son of Garnett Dorothy Phelps and Leo Anthony Gallagher Sr., and he had a youthful brother named Ron. Gallagher grew up in Lorain, Ohio, however when he was 9 years outdated, the family relocated to South Tampa, Florida, resulting from his bronchial asthma. After graduating from Henry B. Plant High School, he earned a chemical engineering diploma from the University of South Florida in 1970. As a college scholar, Gallagher minored in English literature.
Career
After graduating from college, Gallagher started working as a street supervisor for musician/comedian Jim Stafford. When they traveled to California within the late ’60s, Gallagher determined to strive comedy, and he began acting at The Ice House and The Comedy Store. Early in his profession, he appeared on “The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show” (1977), “The Midnight Special” (1978), “The Merv Griffin Show” (1979), and “Make Me Laugh” (1979).
Gallagher made his first look on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in 1975. Carson wasn’t a fan of prop comedy, so Gallagher principally appeared on the present when visitor hosts stuffed in, solely acting on the present twice when Johnny was current.
Gallagher launched his first comedy particular, “An Uncensored Evening,” in 1980, and he adopted it with “Mad as Hell” and “Two Real” in 1981, “Totally New” and “That’s Stupid” in 1982, “Stuck within the Sixties” and “The Maddest” in 1983, “Melon Crazy” and “Over Your Head” in 1984, “The Bookkeeper” in 1985, and “Overboard” in 1987. “An Uncensored Evening” was the primary stand-up particular to ever air on cable.
In the ’90s, he starred within the comedy specials “We Need a Hero” (1992), “Smashing Cheeseheads” (1997), and “Messin’ Up Texas” (1998), then he launched “Sledge-O-Matic.com” (2000) and “Tropic of Gallagher” (2007) and had his personal episode of “Gotham Comedy Live” (2014). Gallagher mentioned that he carried out “200 exhibits a yr for 35 years,” and “Variety” reported that he carried out greater than 3,500 dwell exhibits throughout his five-decade profession.
In July 1999, Gallagher used stereotypes that many thought of offensive to Mexicans throughout a efficiency in Cerritos, California.
While showing on the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” in late 2011, Maron requested Gallagher about accusations of his comedy being homophobic and racist, and Gallagher walked out of the interview.
Due to the character of Gallagher’s act, typically viewers members sustained accidents throughout his exhibits. At a 1990 efficiency in San Juan Capistrano, California, a lady was hit on the top by a big plush penguin with a fireplace extinguisher inside it. She filed a lawsuit towards Gallagher, asking for him to pay $13,000 in medical payments in addition to $20,000 in misplaced wages and greater than $100,000 in punitive damages. When the case went to trial, the jury sided with Gallagher, and the choose mentioned of the trial (by which the comedian took the stand) that “in seven years on the bench, I’ve seen a whole lot of characters, however none so theatrical … It was entertaining. It actually wasn’t boring.”
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Personal Life
Gallagher married Deedra Kay Higgins in 1980. After they divorced, he wed Geralyn Ann Hines in 1988. Gallagher and Hines additionally divorced. He had two youngsters, daughter Aimee and son Barnaby. During a March 2011 efficiency in Minnesota, Gallagher collapsed after having a minor coronary heart assault onstage. In March 2012, he started affected by chest pains after a efficiency in Texas. He was taken to a hospital and positioned in a medically induced coma resulting from a “delicate to severe” coronary heart assault, and two coronary stents have been changed. Just a few days after he was launched from the hospital, Gallagher had one other delicate coronary heart assault.
Brother Lawsuit
In the early ’90s, Gallagher’s brother, Ron, requested for permission to carry out exhibits utilizing the Sledge-O-Matic routine. Gallagher granted Ron permission so long as Ron clarified that the act was Ron Gallagher, not Leo Gallagher, when selling the exhibits.
Ron later started calling his act Gallagher Two or Gallagher Too, and it was typically promoted in a manner that did not make it clear that he wasn’t the extra well-known Gallagher. Gallagher finally requested his brother to cease utilizing the Sledge-O-Matic routine, however after Ron did not comply, Gallagher sued him for false promoting and trademark violations. The courts dominated towards Ron and ordered him to cease performing any act by which he impersonated his brother.
Death
On November 11, 2022, Gallagher handed away on the age of 76 at his house in Palm Desert, California, the place he had been receiving hospice care. His dying was brought on by organ failure, reportedly a results of the guts assaults he had suffered in earlier years.
Awards and Nominations
Gallagher earned 5 CableACE Award nominations, profitable Writing a Comedy or Music Program for “Gallagher: The Maddest” in 1984. He additionally acquired a nomination for Actor in a Comedy or Music Program for that particular, and his different nominations have been for Writing in a Variety Program for “Gallagher: Stuck within the Sixties” (1983), Performance in a Comedy Special for “Gallagher: Over Your Head” (1985), and Directing a Comedy Special for “Gallagher: Overboard” (1989).
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