Sledge is a completely unique act - a hard-guy private eye out of the 1940's with all of the lingo, the look and the low-life that goes with it. His observations deal with the stuff of life in the present, but as seen through the eyes (or peepers, blinkers, winkers, steely stare-scopes, as he would call them) of a hardboiled private eye from the days of black and white movies.
Prowling the stage in his fedora and retro coat, Sledge takes hilarious shots at all the stumbling blocks of life - relationships, the law and order system, love and marriage. A 16+ year veteran of the
… More stand-up stage, a published author, radio personality, and a writer and actor for TV and movies, Tommy Sledge brings a well-rounded, mainstream approach to the always timeless world of laughter.
He is the author of the comedy novels: "Eat Lead, Clown!", "Kiss it or Die!", and "Bullets, Blondes and The Big Ones To Bite" and he has aired his short radio plays - "Tommy Sledge's Dime Novel"--on radio stations across the country.
Various quotes:
---"And I moved on...it's my job, it's what I do"
---"Cured ham? No thanks pal. Cured of what? What if it has a relapse on my plate?"
---"I just rolled into town, boy do my sides hurt."
---"I came here from the '40s. I walked."
---"I'm just another passer-by from Palooka Ville."
---"Live every day as your last... a lot of crying and begging for mercy"
---"I walked along...I came to a sign that said LIVE NUDES. I thought, 'Good choice.' I moved along."
---"I had a hunch - not an idea, not even a feeling, more like a rabbit punch to the base of the brain."
---"She didn't have the kind of dough to buy new earrings, so she used shower curtain rings. Somewhere, a bathroom was flooding."
