Real name: Jim Parker
Years active: 1960s-1970
What a character. Former disc jockey and stock car promoter, the Vegas Vampire hosted Shock Theater on KHBV Channel 5 out of Hendersonville.
He would riff on everyone, up and to and including Richard Nixson (which allegedly got him in hot water, as one jabbing literally involved him sticking a bunch of pins into a Nixson voodoo doll). Costumes, puns, and he would end the reader mail segment by torching the mail.
You don't find acts like that anymore.
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