Birthday

There’s no crying during birthdays: Famous birthdays for 01-21.

01-21. Happy birthday to Geena Davis, Luke Grimes, Charlotte Ross – Days of our Lives, Emma Bunton – Baby Spice, Placido Domingo, Billy Ocean, Robby Benson.

Also:

Benny Hill

Christian Dior

Jack Nicklaus

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Paul Allen

Telly Savalas, Actor

Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA

Special birthday shoutout to Geena Davis. I first met Geena in 1994 shortly after I arrived in LA in 1991. She and I were cast in a 1994 sequel to “A League of Their Own” (1992) called “There’s No Crying in Baking Doughnuts,” the story of a broke young couple trying to make a go of their Dun King Doughnut franchise in Brooklyn. This picture was shot just after we wrapped a scene where I foil a robbery by telling the guy dumb jokes. Things like “What do you call a 4-foot psychic that got away with robbery? A small medium at large!” I laugh hysterically which makes the guy so angry he gets distracted and I nail him with a doughnut pan right in the neck. He takes off swearing while holding his main artery so he doesn’t bleed to death.

Joe Ditzel

Joe Ditzel is a keynote speaker, humor writer, and really bad golfer. You can reach him via email at [email protected] as well as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn.