![]() I’ve interviewed more than 90 people for this project so far, including nearly half of the 50 or so living Gator Growl stand-up comedy veterans. I’m Gregory Hardy, and I attended many a Gator Growl when I was a UF journalism student in the nineties. I feel like smoking a cigarette and asking, ‘Was it good for me?’ ” Robin Williams, on stage during his set at Gator Growl 1982 I go, ‘Ooh, wow!’ I feel like I’m having an orgasm in front of 65,000 people. I count more than 65 comedians who took the stage at Gator Growl, including Bob Hope, Robin Williams, Rodney Dangerfield, Jerry Seinfeld, Gabriel Iglesias, Dave Chappelle and Garry Shandling.įrom Dennis Miller to Carrot Top, from Billy Crystal to Sinbad, from Paula Poundstone to Kevin Hart, Gator Growl was an astonishing sampler platter of stand-up comedy styles and personalities of the art form’s ever-changing zeitgeist.īut unless you were one of the comedians invited to perform or lived in Gainesville at the time, you have no idea it ever happened. ![]() Learn the story of “The World’s Largest Student-Run College Pep Rally” in the book I’m researching and writing that I’m calling Let the Gator Growl: The Improbably History of How the World’s Greatest Stand-up Comedians Were the Heartbeat of the World’s Largest Student-Run Pep Rally. ![]() Stand-up comedians performed their acts in the college’s football stadium before a paying audience that reached up to 75,000 alumni, faculty, students and guests. It was a four-decade era that began in the mid-1970. Gator Growl-the annual student-run pep rally at the University of Florida-is the greatest stand-up comedy tradition you’ve never heard of. There was never a bigger stage for stand-up comedians than the legendary Gator Growl. Click on this image to the cover of my 16-page pitch deck that demonstrates the scope and tone of my research about the stand-up comedian era of Gator Growl.
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