Phil Caragol

Phil Caragol is an American humorist, editor of the satirical "San Francisco Comicle," and award-winning creative director and writer. "The Blunder Years: A Boyhood Memoir"" is his debut book. Over his advertising career, Phil created TV and radio campaigns starring celebrities like Aaron Rodgers, Rosie O’Donnell, Henny Youngman, Dionne Warwick, Pearl Bailey, Florence Henderson, Lynn Anderson, and Pat Paulsen.

He lives near Boulder, Colorado, with his wife of 48 years, ﬁres up the crowd at University of Colorado football games as horn-helmeted superfan Buﬀalo Phil, and hopes to go out in a blaze of glory someday on a ﬂaming raft of rum barrels swept by the Caribbean Current to the tropical island of Aruba.

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