Rip Taylor

Taylor is known for his high-voiced yells, wacky toupée, and handlebar moustache over a perpetually toothy grin. He often enters a venue tossing handfuls of confetti from a paper bag onto his audience and laughing hysterically, while the band plays his theme song, “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

Taylor’s comedic style includes puns, often in conjunction with props (for example, holding up a plastic fish full of holes and exclaiming “Holy Mackerel!”) and miming along to novelty records (including the works of Spike Jones). If he gets little or no reaction following one of his jokes, he stops for a moment and yells at the audience: “I don’t dance, folks! This is it!” Or, “Hello? Can you people hear me?”

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