Off Beat: Film star Campbell balances access, privacy

“I look at it as my television station,” said Campbell, who tweets as @GroovyBruce.

He can get a little snarky, Campbell admits. He stays away from topics like politics and religion, but lots of things are fair game.

“If someone has horrible grammar, I’ve been known to make fun of that,” Campbell said. “I think I got my sense of humor from my dad. He appreciated a good joke.”

One night at a comedy club, “He got caught stealing jokes from Rodney Dangerfield: He was writing it on a napkin. Rodney Dangerfield made fun of him for about a half hour. He still winces.”

Bear with it

Before his weekend appearance at the Wizard World Portland comic convention, the Jacksonville, Ore., resident mentioned that a bear had been messing with his garbage.

It could have been worse, Campbell said. At least it wasn’t a tabloid reporter.

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