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Craig Glazer Introduces Himself To The TKC Blog Community
‘Please allow me to introduce myself I’m a man of wealth and taste. I've been around for a long, long year stole many a man’s soul and faith…’
My name’s Craig Glazer. You’ve heard a lot about me…the good, the bad, and the ugly. I’ve come here to Tony’s to share much of that with you. This is our introduction.
I will be furnishing this space with my unique voice and viewpoints. Some of you will like me and the things I have to say, and some of you will not. I’m okay with either.
The Good. I run Stanford & Sons Comedy Club and have for a couple of decades. We have introduced the biggest comedy stars to Kansas City. You ever heard of Eddie Griffin, Bill Hicks, Sinbad, Larry the Cable Guy or Jim Jeffries? We’ve had them all, we gave some of them their first headlining gigs and some even told their first jokes on our stage.
I wrote a book called ‘The King of Sting’; my life story. There were several offers to buy the rights to my book for a motion picture and it was eventually optioned to the Eisners in 2009. I produced five major sports documentaries under the title ‘Champions Forever’ on everything from formula racing to heavyweight boxing, including my interviews with Muhammed Ali. As a group, millions of dvd’s were sold and are still being sold around the world. Reviews, including USA Today, were all outstanding.
My Hollywood career included Vice President, Music Division, New World Pictures (for Roger Corman), On Lot Producer with Dan York at Universal Studios and even acting in some movies like co-starring in ‘Billy Lonebear’.
I have appeared on everything from the ‘Today’ show and ‘Entertainment Tonight’ and have appeared on almost every major radio show in America from ‘Johnny Dare’ to Dennis Miller and G. Gordon Litty.
In Kansas City, you hear me on four local radio shows every week and you see me on local TV from sports to entertainment and you will often read about me or Stanford’s in the Kansas City Star.
One of my favorite calling cards was creating the monster success known as ‘Red Friday’ in Westport when the Chiefs were more successful.
The Bad. While working as a gold badge special agent I was indicted for supposedly framing two low level drug dealers. In today’s law enforcement world, what I did is done weekly, then, it had never been done. It’s called a reverse sting. Prior to that, my partner, Don Woodbeck, and I posed as law enforcement and stung/robbed drug dealers in the seventies’ on into the early eighties all over the southwest. My biggest sting and worse mistake came at the end of my career in 1982/3 in Los Angeles; I set up a money laundering sting against the Colombian Cartel which garnered over one million dollars in a year. I hired actors to pretend to be Mafia members out of Las Vegas to fool Colombians into investing their ill-gotten gains. Brilliant! Turned out they were the Federal Pacific Task Force, NOT Colombian Drug Dealers. After a lengthy trial, this landed me in federal prison with a seven year sentence.
The Ugly. Front page Kansas City Star coverage of the famous lawsuit between father and sons, my father, Stan, who ran for mayor twice, sued me and my brother feeling we had unfairly taken control of his comedy club. The story made national news including the Wall Street Journal’s Smart Money magazine. On September 11th 2001, the FBI Strike Force decided to indict me as the head of a major crime ring that controlled Kansas City. As it turned out there was no evidence against me, just the word of informants trying to get out of their own problems and lessen their sentences. In the end, the government realized that they had made an error and dropped it all the way down to ‘Craig snorted coke with some of his friends’…I was placed on probation.
I ruined a potentially great marriage with my former wife by simply not being an attentive husband and being too busy with my personal affairs. I lost my youngest brother to a fatal car wreck just over a year ago.
I have dated everyone from movie stars and models to strippers and women of questionable moral turpitude.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
What’s coming at you? The inside track on who’s going to win the big sporting events, entertainment both onstage and possibly from my bedroom and my take on celebrities, politics and local and national events.
‘…Pleased to meet you hope you guess my name,… Ah, what's puzzling you is the nature of my game…’
And here you thought Mick was singing about the Devil.
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