"It was Groucho who dubbed Alice’s horror-comedy concerts “vaudeville,” a classification Alice immediately knew was right.
“Groucho,” he says, “came to the show and said, ‘Oh, vaudeville.’ Before that everybody said ‘shock rock,’ and ‘theatrical rock’ and ‘glam rock.’ When Groucho said, ‘vaudeville,’ I said, ‘Wow, that’s exactly what it is.’”
...Groucho took his friends to Coop’s concert, from George Burns to Jack Benny and Mae West.
Those Hollywood comedians got Alice made into a Friar. He’d go to their roasts.
“It was a bizarre time in my life,” he says. “Here I was the weirdest freak in Hollywood. I was this Alice Cooper monster. Every parent hated me. And all the comedians said, ‘He’s a friar, he’s one of us.’"
As did Alice Cooper and Glenn Campbell.
At a young age (8th grade) I had an advanced appreciation of Alice and Groucho, I meshed them both into an essay about both in regards to people's version of reality, my teacher appreciated and admired my perspective and asked me how/why I was into Alice. I received an A and was too young to realize I probably could have hit on her....