As a monologist, Rick won the Jury Award for Outstanding Performance in a
One Person Show at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 2006 for his
Mark Twain-inspired monologue, My Buddy Bill, a meta-tall-tale about his friendship with the 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, and the President's dog, Buddy. Rick has toured the US performing My Buddy Bill, and a filmed version premiered on Comedy Central in 2008 and is currently one of their Top Ten Specials on i-tunes. Last summer Rick premiered a follow-up monologue, My Pal George (about the 44th President, George W. Bush) at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and is currently working on a new monologue entitled Ricky and Dick, about his epistolary childhood relationship with the 37th President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon.