Monday, August 18, 2014

while googling...

... I somehow got lead off on a tangent, and ended up looking last night at some videos of Mark Lowery. Who is hilarious. Even those stories he tells I have heard a dozen times continue to be comical. Someone gave us a cassette tape (can you remember back that far?) of his comedy routines, that we still find ourselves quoting to each other.

The story of learning to drive, with the tale of his family going to church every time the doors were open. He knew he was in trouble, with a history of 'sassing' mother and teachers, and was expecting severe punishment from his dad.  I won't give it away, you need to look it up on Youtube and listen for yourself. Almost as amusing as hearing the tale, was seeing him change over the years, from a young sprout, in a very loud royal blue jacket sporting a mullet, to a short grey bristle-cut dressed in a conservative business suit. He apparently travels and performs quite a bit with the Gaither crowd, and was really enjoying giving the patriarch, Bill, a hard time in one of the videos.

He has a remarkable singing voice, as well as being hyper and ADD as a child, which is great fodder for his comic career. You probably did not know that he wrote the Christmas song:' Mary, Did You Know?' There is a video clip of that song that is worth your time to watch when you look it up.

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