Rick Kogan: Catching up with the life and times (and COVID battle) of comic Tom Dreesen, who has written a memoir 'Still Standing'
CHICAGO â Of the comic Tom Dreesen, David Letterman once told me, "I cannot say enough good things about the guy and his comedy. He is one of my oldest friends and a born storyteller. And he's got such a good heart."
Those stories and that good heart pepper every page of Dreesen's new autobiography, "Still Standing ... My Journey from Streets and Saloons to the Stage, and Sinatra" (Post Hill Press), written with Darren Grubb and Johnny Russo, with a foreword by Letterman, in which he writes, "Tom Dreesen is not my oldest friend, but he may be my best."
Dreesen's life began in once thriving south suburban Harvey, Illinois. But whatever pleasures were available
