“I’m losing my ass,” the club owner confessed. “I’m paying this guy a thousand bucks a night. And look at the [empty] house … I had him here about three years ago and made good money. He was doing more straight comedy then—not so much of this political nonsense. A year later he was deeper into the political thing and I just broke even. This time he’s knocking everything—religion, the colored, even the dead Kennedys. It’s a disaster. People are calling up to complain.” Asked about his drastic shift in personality, Gardner said, “Well, everything grows and events change too. For ten years there
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