- Nicknames
- Hey Lockwood
- Whitey
- Big Red
- Brad Lachman is known for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1996), The World's Funniest! (1997) and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (1999).
- Very well groomed
- Considered a career as a professional drummer or basketball player before parking cars at Universal City and stumbling into "show-biz".
- Played tight-end for the Triple A's, an undefeated and unknown youth football team which existed in the late 1950s and claims to have never dropped a pass through-out his career.
- Once challenged pro wrestler Freddie Blassie to a fight (over the phone). Blassie accepted and may have actually showed up at the appointed time and place. Lachman was upset over Blassie's use of a well-known Lachmanism: Don't point unless you're picking out French pastry.
- As a high school basketball player, his idol was Elgin Baylor, whose hang time Lachman tried to imitate by inventing the "hoota" shot. While un-spectacular in practices, it was never tried in an actual game.
- (on Andy Gibb, who hosted Lachman's TV series Solid Gold (1980)...until Gibb was dismissed for skipping several tapings) Andy was a very charming, very vulnerable, and very charismatic performer who clearly meant well. He wasn't being difficult; he was experiencing deep-rooted problems and couldn't deal. Andy wanted *everyone* to love him. He had so much going on for him, and he just couldn't take it all in.
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