Every show Gallagher does is just as unpredictable as the last one.
"I'm such a spontaneous, unpredictable person. There are stores everywhere. There's no telling what I'll (buy and) bring to the show," he said during a telephone interview Sept. 23.
Gallagher will perform Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. at the Wagon Wheel Theatre. Tickets for this show are $29 for the first two rows and $19 for all other seats.
"It'll be a party," Gallagher promised.
The Oct. 9 show will be a "no sledge show", he said, as the WWT didn't want a mess.
"There are a lot of people who don't want that anyway," Gallagher said. "They enjoy my stand up."
He said about one in three of his shows doesn't involve fruits and vegetables getting all smashed up on the audience's laps.
In his stand up, Gallagher may talk about anything.
"I'm going to talk about everything," he said. "Men and women and their relationship. Politics. Driving. Drinking. Celebrities. Clothes. I'll be inclusive and concise."
Besides promising the audience will enjoy his show, Gallagher also said, "I'm the smartest man in the world. You have to be to keep doing shows in this downturn."
Besides his television specials, Gold albums and touring, Gallagher also has his family reunion hotels.
"That's my contribution to America," he said.
Families need a place to bond. At his hotels, Gallagher sees a place where families can bond and meet other families. A place where groups as diverse as wedding parties to motorcycle gangs to Little League moms can gather.
"Hotels are made just for single people and are too expensive," he said. "We need places for people to meet."
Anywhere there's families, Gallagher said one of his visionary hotels could go up. Casinos could invest in them, or they could be built by golf courses. A vacant building in a community could become one of his hotels.
Gallagher also holds eight to 10 patents.
"I have a shower that stops when you step back out of the shower," he said. "A safety car jack so it doesn't fall when you're changing a tire. A toilet that doesn't overflow because of too much toilet paper. A solar-powered Coke machine."
He also said he has a patent for a saddle for people to wear on their knee so they can bounce their children or grandchildren without causing injury.
"I have clothing and toy inventions and in all kinds of different areas," Gallagher said. "I just come up with an idea and call my patent attorney."
Gallagher wants to get his cartoon series "CLAW" off the ground and shown in schools, he said. The cartoon is about wrestling animals and would give kids positive role models. By being shown in schools instead of on a station like Cartoon Network, Gallagher said "CLAW" wouldn't have to compete with all the silly cartoons out there.
Gallagher said he would voice the raccoon who is little and who the other animals don't want around. The other animals include an eagle, polar bear, lion and crab.
Gallagher has been at his career since the 1970s, which even includes writing songs and novelty songs. But what makes his career challenging is that society keeps changing.
"Every day another word that is taboo becomes allowable," Gallagher.
Once upon a time, a word like "ass" wasn't permissible. Now, he said, there's a show called "Dance Your Ass Off". A woman with many tattoos used to be a freak in the circus, but now it's average. A guy with baggy pants used to be funny in a vaudeville act, but now kids have their pants down half way, girls have their bras showing and everyone wears earrings.
"It's hard to be unusual and surprising if everyone looks like they're going to a Halloween ball," Gallagher said.
He said what he does is tell people about their behavior and make them "see the light" in a new way so they can see how stupid something is.
"I help people to stop being stupid," Gallagher said.For ticket information to Gallagher's Oct. 9 show at the Wagon Wheel, visit wagonwheeltheatre.com or call the box office at 574-267-8041 or toll free at 866-823-2618.
