My name is Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. thus the need for a nickname given to me by my father, Leo Sr. I've lived in California since 1978. My office is in Wellington, Fla. because my manager/promoter RuthAnn lives there now. Call her at 800 791-0021 for my real bio.I never used my own money for my Showtime specials and I was never on HBO. I worked for Florida Nitrogen later Kaiser Agricultural Chemicals as their chief chemist when Jan C. Uterwick left to run his dad's worldwide shipping company in downtown Tampa. The plant is still there on 301.I lived at 4413 El Prado and went to Manhattan Elementary, Madison Jr High, then Oak Grove Jr. High, Hillsborough High and moved back to graduate from Plant in 1964 altho the Dean of men, later big wig in the school system, expelled me on the last day of classes. My guidance councellor who later worked as an executive for Tampa Electric helped mediate the situation before graduation night. I graduated 29th in a class of 600. The pigs were never loose in the cafeteria and I had a work/study scholarship to USF that paid for my tuition $115 a trimester. I worked for the coach who I visit with each time I return to town.I worked as a chemist until I graduated not after, then I went to Los Angeles where I was hired by Allied Chemical to work as a salesmen out of Chicago. I've never had any problems getting hired to do anything in my life. I was a cab driver in Tampa and built houses for Richmond Construction and worked for Grand Way on Hillsborough Blvd. near my father's rink. I was Southern Regional Skating Champion many times. My degree is in English Literature. My student number was 14059.I also worked with Charles Fuller Productions who recorded the Snoopy and the Red Baron hit by the Royal Guardesmen. I wrote commercials and acted in them for Chuck Fuller. I called Cid Rudeau an agent in Clearwater to start my comedy career. I did Sledgematic for years before I ever decided to smash a watermelon. Jim Stafford let me get up late at night in clubs where he worked like the Elbow Room on Longboat Key to practice it. Call Jim at his theater in Branson Mo. We still talk and collaborate on routines and jokes.I haven't been married since 1990. I have two x-wives and one child by each. I had to sue one of my brothers in Federal court in 2000. My mother lives somewhere in Florida. I was arrested in 1968 for marijuana also and that is what kept me out of the draft until the end of the war. I was Kenny Rogers opening act for 100 dates in 1981 and my manager was Ken Kragen the guy who made everyone hold hands across America. My video tapes have resently been bought to be re-released by Anchor Bay over 20 years after I made them and they are still entertaining. I think I'm the most famous person from Tampa.
