That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb

Esther M. Friesner's short story "That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb" appears in Tales from Jabba's Palace, which was published December 1, 1995 by Bantam Spectra. and provides the backstory for the Kowakian monkey-lizard Salacious B. Crumb and Melvosh Bloor, the Kalkal professor.

Plot summary

A Kalkal professor, Melvosh Bloor, attempts to interview the notorious crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Salacious B. Crumb appears and pretends to help Bloor. Crumb tricks Bloor into saying that Jabba "lies like a Gran" along the way to Jabba's Palace. When the duo reach Jabba, Crumb explains that Bloor had said that the Hutt "lied like a Gran."

Jabba is tired of Crumb's idiotic jokes, and takes the interview Bloor set up. Once the professor asks how he can repay the crime lord, he tells Bloor to make him laugh. When Bloor tells the Hutt a joke he heard already, Jabba is not amused and feeds the Kalkal to the rancor.

Appearances

By type

Characters	Creatures	Droid models	Events	Locations
Organizations and titles	Sentient species	Vehicles and vessels	Weapons and technology	Miscellanea

Characters

Melvosh Bloor (First appearance) Salacious B. Crumb Jabba Desilijic Tiure Darian Gli (First mentioned) Jabba's rancor P'tan (First mentioned) Porcellus (Indirect mention only) Skarten (First mentioned) Darth Vader (Mentioned only) Valarian (Mentioned only) Ra Yasht (First mentioned)

Creatures

Gorm-worm (Mentioned only) (as insult) Rancor Sarlacc (Mentioned only)

Locations

Beshka University (First mentioned) Tatooine Dune Sea Jabba's Palace Mos Eisley (Mentioned only)

Organizations and titles

Eidetic Xenologist (Mentioned only) Investigative Politico-Sociologist Jabba Desilijic Tiure's criminal empire Jedi (Mentioned only) Lady (Mentioned only) Majordomo (Mentioned only) Professor (Mentioned only)

Sentient species

Gamorrean Gran (Mentioned only) Hutt Jawa (Mentioned only) Kalkal (First appearance) Kowakian lizard-monkey Markul (First mentioned) Quarren Twi'lek Whiphid (Mentioned only)

Vehicles and vessels

Sail barge (Mentioned only)

Weapons and technology

Datapad Klatooine handblaster Vibro-ax

Miscellanea

"Bollixed" Investigative Politico-Sociology (Mentioned only) Muckhead Sandstone Spectacles (Mentioned only) Torture Observed: An Interview with Jabba's Cook (First mentioned) University (Mentioned only)

Notes and references

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