The bits -- taped at L.A.'s Comedy Store and Improv on the weekend -- showed the title character of Fox's ill-fated Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire doing "triumphant" seven-minute spots in front of polite crowds. But the cameras were unplugged before viewers could see other comics getting much bigger laughs at Rockwell's expense. " />

 


March 7, 2000
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He was a million laughs
By JIM SLOTEK


Viewers of Entertainment Tonight last night got to see the standup comedy return of faux "millionaire" Rick Rockwell. But they didn't get the full story.

The bits -- taped at L.A.'s Comedy Store and Improv on the weekend -- showed the title character of Fox's ill-fated Who Wants To Marry A Multi-Millionaire doing "triumphant" seven-minute spots in front of polite crowds. But the cameras were unplugged before viewers could see other comics getting much bigger laughs at Rockwell's expense.

At the Improv, according to a report from comic Tim O'Rourke on the Internet newsgroup alt.comedy.standup, Rockwell opened with the Leno/Hugh Grant line... 'What was I thinking?,' did several jokes about Darva (Conger, the 'winner' of his hand in marriage) and closed with a long piece about My America. O'Rourke said the crowd reaction "started out as 'Ok, whatever'... and changed to 'This guy's really an ass.' "

Comic Steve Marmel -- a writer for Teletoon's Cow & Chicken and Johnny Bravo -- walked up to the mike following Rockwell's set, wiped it and said, "Let me just clean this off in case stupid is contagious." He then did a full set carving up Rockwell, and elicited, according to O'Rourke, "the loudest, rowdiest responses I've heard at the Improv in a long time."

Both Rockwell and Conger have wilted under scrutiny since the top-rated, morally indefensible marriage contest aired. He was revealed to have had a restraining order against him for threats against a previous girlfriend, and Conger turned out to have lied about serving in the Gulf War.



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