Sammy David Jnr was born today in 1925. Billing himself as a 'one-eyed Jewish black man', his stand-up was legendary. He used 25 pounds of brylcreem on his hair everyday and was the fastest man with a six-shooter never to appear in a Western.
In other news ...
Thomas de Quincey died today in 1859. He suffered from facial neuralgia, gave up school and Oxford University, lived as a beggar in London, was constantly broke and smoked opium. Despite all this he lived to be seventy four. What an advert for declassifying drugs!
