Craig Russell

I met Craig Russell in the subway one night.

He was on his way to his hit show at the Royal York.

Here he was in the subway entertaining about 6 people.

He was sitting beside a wino and a small group had gathered around him and he was entertaining them and had them in stitches. I stood and watched for a while and when I got an opening I held out my hand. "Hi Craig I always wanted to meet you. I am a friend of your friend Sandy's." " oh Sandy, How is she? he pushed against the wino slightly to make room for me to sit down.

We talked about Sandy for a couple of minutes and suddenly he stopped and sniffed loudly, still sniffing he asked "What is that horrible smell?" he gasped.

"I am afraid it is your friend," I said nodding to the wino.

"Shit!" he said, "there goes the promise I made to myself to fuck anybody that asked me."