Gary Gulman

Gary was 6'6", 200 pounds.

And he was athletic.

Played basketball on his high school team.

Those coaches scolded him for his complete lack of aggression and for crying.

What he really loved doing was art projects, going to the arts and crafts store, reading.

He kept an enormous stuffed animal collection in his room, even in high school.

He was also pretty depressed at the time.

Gary's a comedian today, Gary Goleman.

And on stage, when he tries to describe what he was like as a kid...

I talk about being Charlie Brown.

I say, picture my childhood, Charlie Brown, if Snoopy had died.

That was my childhood.

I felt so sorry for him.

Because Charlie Brown, the whole point of his character is that he's sad and lonely.

But even that wasn't lonely enough.

You have to kill off his dog.

Yes.

So when the Jetsons started telling him that they were going to make him into a star, he laughed it off.

He liked the attention from the Jetsons, sure, but he did not consider this seriously at all.

Football seemed brutal.