Tom’s still a stand-up guy

Tom Arnold. Starred on TV’s once famous “Roseanne.” Was even Roseanne Barr’s real husband for a minute. Also married and divorced four times. Now on a tour peddling jokes, stories, himself. When I asked, “You rich?” He said: “My kids are 12 and 9. Four divorces. How rich could I still be?

“I’m from southeast farm town Ottumwa, Iowa. Worked three years on the kill floor of a meat-packing plant to save for school because my single dad wouldn’t give me money. There everyone works in some factory. All look the same.

“University of Iowa not the classiest, but I learned about a stage. I only heard dad laugh when he watched a Bob Hope special. In Hollywood my first thing was to have Bob Hope sign everything for my dad.

“Then Roseanne, John Goodman, Oprah and I

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