Modified On November 30, 2004
An article in the St. Petersburg Times explores the dual life of Tampa’s Ken Reed.
None of this is factual, of course, but it gets huge laughs for a man who set out to be an airline pilot and wound up a planner and noise officer at Tampa International Airport by day and a standup comedian by night.
Nearly everyone who has ever used TIA has met Reed, or at least his voice. He made that incessant recording that plays outside of the arrivals and departures doors reminding motorists that curbside parking is for pickup and dropoff only.
Nice clip for Ken Reed. And it will drive folks to the clubs in the Bay area. (But, why do the editors deem comics unworthy of ink unless they’re either starring in a sitcom or have a day job? Merely being a working comic is never enough to capture the fancy of the typical newspaper editor.) Read the rest here.