Yesterday Patrice O’neal passed away after suffering stroke a last month. I did not know Patrice on a personal level but a few years ago I interned for The Opie and Anthony Show. Patrice O’Neal was a regular on the program. I must have seen and spoke with Patrice a dozen or so times while interning, but the memory I’m about to share sticks out in my mind.
For whatever reason there was a Liberator sex couch inside the Opie and Anthony studio. I don’t remember why O&A gave Patrice the sex couch, all I remember was Patrice asking me to help him get the Liberator to his car. Im slightly germophobic so the idea of lugging a couch with god knows what embedded in the fibers wasn’t my ideal way of earning my stripes with the show. But I did my due diligence as an intern. I remember Patrice being excited that he was going to have sex with his girl on the Liberator.
In our makeshift kitchen area were those gloves you wear when you do the dishes. I put them and we proceed to lug to the couch to the elevator making awkward eye contact with other people who work in the same building. We carried the Liberator 5 or 6 blocks to a parking garage. As we get to his truck he told me thank you and went into his pocket and pulled out ten dollars, I decline a tip and told him the experience was enough. I told him I was just starting out in radio and would like to interview him on my WSIA radio show. He gave me his number and told me to call him.
I never saw or spoke to Patrice again my internship ended 3 days later. I never did call him for that interview, but the memory of lugging the Liberator up 57th and 7th avenue is one of the best memories I have during that whole internship experience.
Patrice was super talented quick witted comedian who also had a small stint as a writer with the WWE. Below is Patrice’s first appearance on The Opie and Anthony Show.
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