So, Does That Mean He Won’T Be Playing WSU?
A Connecticut college is refusing to pay Norm Macdonald for an appearance at an alumni reunion, contending he was hammered.
“His speech was slurred, he was mumbling, and even one of his own people tried to get him offstage,” said a Quinnipiac College official.
The former “Saturday Night Live” player allegedly cursed the school, the audience and “all your friends,” adding that if he lasted “for another five minutes, you guys have to pay me. So let’s talk about the weather.”
Macdonald claims it was the audience that was wasted: “I told a few jokes, they started screaming and throwing things at me. I didn’t want to leave before 45 minutes were up so they couldn’t use that as an excuse not to pay me. They swore at me, so I swore back at them … I’ll never perform for drunk people as long as I live.”
Loose talk
Madonna, on how the world would be different if women were in charge (in the New York Daily News): “Women do run the world! They just don’t shout about it.”
He’s getting to be a pian-old man
Billy Joel turns 49 today.
Well, not unless it’s over a three-martini lunch
A British music company agreed in court Friday to stop selling a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in a Hamburg club in 1962. While the company claimed the late John Lennon gave verbal permission, George Harrison insisted: “One drunken person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute business deals.”
And as for Yoko, it’s all a mystery to her
Sean Lennon, the “Beautiful Boy” immortalized in his father’s song of the same name, has his first record coming out May 19. Lennon, 22, told Entertainment Weekly it’s “really nice” whenever he hears his slain father’s songs on the radio, “almost as if he’s saying, ‘Hey, how are you?’ or ‘I’m still around.’ It’s almost magical.”
Guess he needs to work on his aerodynamics
Looks like Spokane fans were fortunate to see Aerosmith when they did. A few days after the band played the Spokane Arena on April 24, lead singer Steven Tyler fell and hurt his knee during an Alaskan concert, forcing the band to postpone its tour.
Everyone knows he has a real ear for music
Disgraced boxer/convicted rapist Mike Tyson was on his best behavior at the World Music Awards in Monaco. Encountering a bevy of beauties backstage, Tyson told a reporter: “I’m good. I only look. That’s it.”
If he’d taken the slap, he’d have beaten the rap
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg complained to police about being slapped by a bystander while he was walking backstage at a recent comedy concert in Los Angeles. The officer smelled marijuana on him, searched him and arrested him for possession.