Addicted to Show Business! The Dave Konig Blog : The Amazing Kreskin Terrifies Dave Konig! (All Night with Joey Reynolds, NBC NY Nonstop 2011) by Dave Konig

For a few brief, shining months in 2011, the great radio broadcaster Joey Reynolds had his own late-night TV talk show All Night with Joey Reynolds from Midnight - 2 AM, Mon - Fri, on the New York cable channel NBC NY Nonstop. Joey, God bless him, had me on once a week (out of a total of 55 episodes I did 11) and gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted. For this reason alone, Joey Reynolds is the most brilliant man in show business!

The show was taped (almost) live from the NASDAQ studio on West 43rd street and Broadway in Times Square. Joey's guests were an eclectic mix of comics, cabaret singers, writers, pool sharks, con artists and various other oddities booked by Joey's long-time radio co-hort Myra Chanin.

Here I'm on with great comics Michele Balan and Max Alexander. Max is the only comic ever to do The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, AND The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien! We're joined by another great Tonight Show alum, The Amazing Kreskin.

The Amazing Kreskin (or, as his close, show business friends like me call him, 'The Amazing') was in a cranky mood. Joey committed the unpardonable sin of calling his illusions "tricks" and The Amazing let him have it! Because of this confrontation, there wasn't enough time for The Amazing to perform the tr-...the illusion he wanted to, so he enlisted me to assist him in a different illusion, which we just barely got through. It was a tense set, presented here for the very first time since the last time I uploaded it!

Shocking inside show business scoop: Aside from being a terrific entertainer, The Amazing is one of the nicest guys in show business and has been kind enough to not only come see both my stand-up act and my most recent Off Broadway solo show, Addicted to Show Business, but he's written and posted reviews of my shows for all his fans, which makes him an Amazing Mensch!