The self-described "King of Confetti," Taylor was famous for dousing his audience with buckets of colored paper, and anyone attending a Rip Taylor performance expected to be wearing confetti by the end of it.
"As I made my entrance that night 'Here's tonight's comic, Rip Taylor' they all applauded," Taylor said. "I said, 'Not now! At the finish!' He [the booking agent] was in on the joke. And that's how I got the show [in 1961]."