(Scenes from movie, play, with soundtrack and all) (Bitch Spasms hops out of the room cartoonishly, owing a lot to Daffy Duck) (Bitch Spasms takes off the clown nose, then throws it at NC) I wanna get better.īitch Spasms: Well, laughter's the best medicine!īitch Spasms: Hoho! What? You don't trust a doctor who looks like this?īitch Spasms: (points to his clown nose) Look. Bitch Spasms, and I'm here to make you laugh! Hoho!
Bitch Spasms (played by Doug Walker) appears wearing clown makeup, dressed in a doctor's coat, speaking like Robin Williams)īitch Spasms: Hoho! Don't you know? The cure for anything, anywhere, is laughter! Hoho!īitch Spasms: I'm Dr. Either one wouldn't surprise me! So, the doctor says I should be fine, though, as long as I get plenty of rest and relaxat. It was either brought on by natural circumstances or the film I saw was so bad, it made me physically sick. As you can probably tell by my voice, I'm just getting over an illness. NC: (downbeat) Hello, I'm the Nostalgia Critic. His second wife for the past 23 years and mother of their two kids, she says he was not around much, with his continual travels for fundraising.Īs irrepressible as ever, after concluding a graduation address at the University of California, San Diego, he dropped his pants and "mooned" the audience of some 4,000. Adams even has a website: In October 1998, Adams and Linda Edquist divorced. From the 1983, Adams' time has been devoted to fundraising and building, resulting in $1.1 million and the purchase of 310 acres in Pocahontas County, WV for the location of a 40-bed hospital. During those first 12 years, 15,000 people came through the home/facility for everything from profound illnesses to simple curiosity and play. For staff and patient, medicine was integrated with the performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, nature, recreation and social service. They never charged money and their work was supported by part-time jobs of the live-in staff. Three physicians and others did what they could for whoever came. For the first 12 years, 20 adults lived in a large home and used it as a crude hospital, open 24 hours a day. He says, "I love people and medicine is simply friend after friend after friend." His Gesundheit Institute, founded in 1973, began as an experiment. In 1994, he was honored to receive the Institute of Noetic Sciences Award for Creative Altruism.
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Patch has been described as an iconoclast, a pattern-breaker and professional clown in the Wavy Gravy tradition. Their son Atomic Zagnut (now known as Zag) was born in 1976, and Lars Zig in 1987. They moved in together the following year and married in 1975. Linda Edquist fell in love with that "incredibly charismatic person" in 1971 while volunteering at the same clinic where he worked in his final months of training. He became a conscientious objector to the raging Vietnam war.
A few weeks later Adams left the ward and enrolled at the University in Washington DC. He turned his own emotional corner by helping his roommate conquer hallucinations and a fear of squirrels. He was 18 when his mom checked him into a mental ward at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He dropped out of school and made the first of several suicide attempts. He was deeply shaken by his dad's death at 52 but it was his uncle's suicide in 1963 that pushed him into despair. He grew up as an Army brat in Japan, Germany and the U.S. The younger son of a WW II Army officer who died in 1961 and his wife Anna, a schoolteacher who died in 1989, Patch does not remember how his nickname began in college. He puts out a newsletter, "Achoo!" and is the author of two books, "House Calls: How We Can All Heal the World One Visit at a Time," and "Gesundheit: Bringing Good Health to You Through Complimentary Therapies, Humor, and Joy." He has been featured in countless newspaper article and a film about him, starring Robin Williams, was released in December 1998, "Patch Adams." He has always maintained that humor and joy are more important than any drug or therapy, relating this concept throughout the country for a decade at lectures and seminars.Ī former mental patient himself who went back to school to become a doctor, Adams is founder of the Gesundheit Institute.
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