… singin’ about all that vivacious and scurrilous material he learned in higher education …
Pat Patterson accepts a Billboard Award from Don Imus
Pat Patterson’s dry wit and orginal comedy highlight this 1973 aircheck from WKIX.
Pat’s bits were always delivered straight, and unless you listened carefully, it was sometimes difficult to tell whether he was kidding, or not! And
his deliberate, seemingly annoyed pauses when something supposedly goes wrong are pure Patterson, too.
Fortunately, there was never any confusion regarding Johnny Dollar (here reading
from The Taming of the Shrew), (we hope!) but we wouldn’t be surprised if
a few less-studious students at N.C. State sometimes used Uncle Zeb’s Miracle Liniment, even without a specific recommendation from Dr. Patterson.