You never saw George Carlin or Richard Pryor resort to smashing produce ... suggested filming a scene where Gallagher visited a grocery store to select watermelons for his act.

Gallagher, the comic who reached incredible comic heights with his Sledge-O-Matic watermelon antics and clever wordplay, sunk to equally remarkable lows during the final years of his life ...

and a general sense of bitterness about being synonymous with smashing melon, Forbes began to make a film about him. Shot over the course of seven years, “Gallagher” is a portrait of a prop comedian ...

While reeling from the effects of the holiday revelry and mindlessly scrolling my iPad, I stumbled across a review of a documentary on watermelon-smashing comic Leo Gallagher, famous for prop ...