I had the pleasure of working with Frank once when he appeared on the air at WBCN. A very funny and friendly man…
Frank Santos, a comedian who billed himself as the R-rated hypnotist, died Monday in his sleep, his son, also Frank Santos, confirmed Tuesday. He was 60.
The former grocer had a following that jammed Periwinkles, a club where many local comedians got their start in the mid-1980s. But, “The genius of Frank was that he knew that he wasn’t the star of the show,” Ocean State Follies founder Charlie Hall said Tuesday. Audiences loved seeing their friends on stage, singing under hypnosis as if they were Madonna or Mick Jagger.
“He got people to laugh at themselves,” said Hall, who was a hypnotism skeptic until he worked with Santos. “To see these bodybuilders from Johnston coming out of the men’s room wearing nothing but pantyhose made me a believer,” Hall said. “I guess it worked.”
Although Hall said Santos had “the biggest money-making act in New England,” he was “the sweetest guy in the world. He never had any ego.”
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