ST. LOU FRINGE: ALWAYS THE FOOL

Comedian Nick Kelly told a tale about a regular, periodic joke his parents played on him in childhood into his young adult years. Every spring, they would devise intricate, elaborate pranks. In this bit, his father told him there was some small but vicious animal in the attic that they must be rid of at once. Nick was told to get a baseball bat to whack the thing to death while his father trapped it in a sheet for disposal. Nick got very worked up, afraid, anxious and full of force. Just as he thought he was about to slay the beast his mother threw a stuffed toy dog at him. April fool!