This one tour that we were on, we had this spot light op who was this real skinny kid. He basically had no people skills, none of us liked him, and he really did a crappy job. In retrospect, I kinda feel bad for him, because we were all so tight, and even though he was part of the crew, we basically ignored his existence on the show. You could hardly blame us though. I think his name was Bill. Bill would walk around dressed in clothes that didn't fit, and every time you saw him, his hands were in his pants pockets, and he was adjusting himself, or playing with himself... it was just disturbing.
So, Bill would be operating the spotlight in the show and Jimmy would see that the spot was not totally lighting the narrators head.. so, he would ask things over the headset to Bill like, "Bill, do we have to pay extra to light his head?"
We would all be rolling as poor Bill would snap to attention.. jerking the spot light around like a bouncing ball...
Bill went home early on that show.. I inherited the job of spotlight op.
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