June '06 Rich Little Column

“I’ve been traveling so much lately my cats are calling the pet sitter dad! I guess that’s life in show business.

I performed at The Orleans Hotel & Casino in April and the audience was fabulous. I am looking forward to doing my next engagement in Las Vegas at the Suncoast Hotel & Casino September 16^th and 17^th.

I am always happy to play a venue close to home – enjoying the “Little” things you CAN’T do at a hotel verses when you are home. Like falling asleep on the bed after a long show, you can’t do that in a hotel because when you wake up you find your body covered with melted chocolate and wrappers from the candy they leave on your bed each night; you can’t enjoy a cup of coffee that doesn’t cost you the price of a Mr. Coffee maker.

Oh my favorite is taking a shower and a voice in the bathroom asks if I need towels and it’s not my wife – it’s a very short lady standing in my bathroom holding towels while I am naked behind a cheap shower curtain – I yell – No thanks not right now! Then there is always housekeeping waking me up at 6:00 am to say; “Senior do you want your room cleaned?” I reply as Jack Nicholson, “No Man, I’m still asleep – go away!”

I love performing here in Las Vegas and the benefit of when it’s over I don’t have to unpack a bag; I just go home, turn on the TV and get into bed.