Alice Cooper, Chubby Checker, and Liza Minelli walk into a Las Vegas hotel room … and no, that’s not a joke, that’s the start of a completely epic story that features Elvis Presley right in the center. Cooper told the story on an episode of “Never Mind the Buzzcocks,” and did it also feature porn-actress-turned-anti-porn-advocate Linda Lovelace? Of course it did.
After calling Cooper, “the kid with the snake,” Elvis took him into the kitchen, pulled a loaded .38 out of a drawer, handed it to Cooper, and said, “I’m gonna show you how to take this gun out of somebody’s hand.” Did it almost go horribly wrong? “There’s a little devil on my shoulder here that says, ‘Shoot him,'” Cooper said: “And a little angel over here that said, ‘Don’t kill him, just wound him.'” Elvis saved him the decision, dropped him, and stood on his neck.
Hilariously, Minnelli told her version of the story on “The Graham Norton Show,” and said that he had also demonstrated some sick karate moves, much to the confusion of his guests — who were at this time just sort of hanging out together. “We’re all kind of sitting there, and he disappears … and suddenly, the door flies open, and I hear, ‘Hiiiii-YAH!'” With that, Elvis burst into the room ahead of another man shouting, “Fiiiight!” Minnelli continued, “And all of us are going, ‘Gee, that’s … great, just great. Wow! Do you do this every night?'”
