WEST NEW YORK AND BEYOND — Back in 2001, West New York native Prescott Tolk was covering Jersey City for the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain. But he longed to return to Chicago, where he had gone to college, to hone his standup comedy act. (And Jersey City politics just aren’t all that funny.)
This week, Time Out Chicago has a long piece on Tolk, noting:
” For his debut narrative show, Tolk will revisit his adolescence in the town of West New York, New Jersey, where his boyhood adventures included shoplifting, finding guns and cocaine, getting arrested (multiple times) and receiving dog s— in the mail. ‘I did a lot of this crazy stuff because I wanted to have stories to talk about. I wanted to be an interesting grandfather,” Tolk says. “I realize now, no kid wants to hear their granddad telling stories about shoplifting.’ ”
Gosh, none of that was on Prescott’s resume!
To read about Prescott, click HERE.