Jerry Lawler knows first-hand that meeting Rodney Dangerfield would go exactly how you’d think it would.
WWE Hall of Famer and current broadcaster Jerry Lawler recently appeared on Stories with Brisco And Bradshaw and described his first-time meeting legendary comedian Rodney Dangerfield in his restaurant while in Manhattan.
“Bill Apter picked me up from the hotel and he was driving me around. He took pictures of me at the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building and was driving me around to do a photoshoot for the magazine that was coming out the next month,” Lawler explained. “And as we’re driving down whatever street it was in Manhattan but I looked over and I saw Dangerfield’s, it was Rodney Dangerfield’s restaurant. It was like 10:30 in the morning and I said I would love to go there and it said appearing tonight was Redd Fox and Bill told the guy to pull over. He said that he’ll run in and see because even though Redd Fox is playing here, sometimes Rodney Dangerfield will be there and sometimes he’d come out to introduce the acts.
“So, he goes inside to see if Rodney’s going to be there that night and all of a sudden he comes out and says I’m not going to believe this, so I ask him what and he says ‘Rodney’s in there right now and he wants to see you so bad.’ So, I flip out and I go in and there’s Rodney Dangerfield, in a bathrobe with a hot looking girl beside him at 10:30 in the morning, in a bathrobe, sitting at his bar and I come walking in and it was like he was on stage, he’d go ‘oh my God, that was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen, last night, it was the greatest thing I’ve ever seen on television.’ Apparently [Andy Kaufman’s] manager, George Shapiro, is also Rodney Dangerfield’s manager. So, he was watching it and he was good friends with Andy and he was all over that, he said it was the greatest thing he’d seen on television, ever.”
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