Michael Caine and Peter O’Toole – The weekend they don’t remember
"Was there a wildest weekend that you remember?" Jay Leno once asked Michael Caine.
"There was a wildest weekend that I don't remember," Caine replied with a laugh. One Saturday evening during a London run of The Long, The Short and The Tall Caine had gone out on the town with Peter O'Toole.
The actors later awoke together in bed in "some strange place... fully clothed, above the sheets." When a strange woman entered the room, they asked her where they were. Hampstead, she replied. Hampstead?
O'Toole then looked at his watch and, wondering whether it was morning or night, asked the woman what day it was. Her reply? "It's Monday!" The previous 36 hours was a complete blank. Indeed, the only thing the men ever learned about that weekend was that they had both been banned for life from a fast food pizzeria in Leicester Square.
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Richard Pryor is on fire
The son of a prostitute, thrown out of school at age 14, comic Pryor was never going to be one for the occasional sherry and lights out at 10. During army service in Germany he stabbed a white soldier who laughed too hard at racial humour. A fearsome drinker and drug taker, he set fire to himself while freebasing cocaine in 1982; despite suffering 50% burns to his body, Pryor incorporated the tragedy into his act, laughing at the idea of him running down a street on fire.
I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
Johny Vegas – Part-time potter and full-time drunk
Johnny Vegas got his start as a comedian after he stormed the stage while visiting a club one night - to deliver a rant on pottery. Vegas, a part-time potter and full-time drunk at the time, was invited back to emcee in exchange for free drinks. "They agreed to pay me," he later recalled. "It was cheaper."
















