He graduated from Alcee Fortier High School and attended Loyola University, where he studied communications and led a charity entertainment troupe that performed at hospitals and nursing homes. During the Korean War, Rideau served for eight years in the U. Navy Reserve. In a interview, he said he got a reputation for comedy with stunts, such as pretended to receive an on-air telephone call from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Over time, the self-assured scientist toyed with everything from teleportation to lycanthropy to cloning. In one episode, Morgus used a smoking contraption to siphon the musical talent from the bald head of jazz superstar Pete Fountain. Morgus' chaotic wig was supposed to symbolize the genius of Einstein, and his endless questing on behalf of humanity was a nod to Don Quixote.
His looming, hooded lab assistant Chopsley was his silent and servile foil. Accomplished television producer Albert Fisher was a year-old science enthusiast when Rideau interviewed him on his morning WWL radio show. In the planning stages of the Morgus show, Rideau asked Fisher to be the consulting writer. He and Rideau tried to tie topical hooks to the otherwise nonsensical performances, Fisher said. By , the Morgus character was so popular that Rideau was invited to star in a full-length feature film, "The Wacky World of Dr.
Morgus," a tongue-in-cheek Cold War spy thriller. They were together for 52 years, until her death in In fact, she said, when she and her brother were small children, they were told that Morgus was a friend of their dad's, not his alter ego. Rideau relocated the Morgus show to Detroit in , then returned to New Orleans for a few more episodes before the show went off the air for almost 20 years.
But in , a revival of the show returned with 52 new episodes. Morgus has remained a Crescent City icon for almost six decades.
Natalie Rideau said that, recently, she discovered a social media meme that announced that Morgus had discovered the cure for the coronavirus: pure crawfish boil. They follow him the way they follow the Saints. When his experiments failed, as they often did, Morgus blamed and berated the long-suffering but forever loyal Chopsle y. Tommy George, a six-foot-seven-inch St. The recording features a sizzling guitar solo by Mac Rebennack , the future Dr.
Rideau did his own stunts on a French Quarter rooftop , and an antique hearse featured in a Canal Street chase. The Wacky World of Dr. Duplicating his earlier work in New Orleans, he hosted horror movies and presented weather reports. You could never recapture what it was.
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