From: zaccaria@mtl.mit.edu (Carolyn Zaccaria)
Subject: Re: AMC TAN: Walt Willey at the Funny Bone
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:47:31 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.115854.16074@cbnewse.cb.att.com> sheri@cbnewse.cb.att.com (sherlyn.k.johnson) writes:
>Well, I got to see Walt Willey at the Funny Bone in Naperville on Sunday.  
>Damn he was good.  There was a girl on before him, Lisa something that
>usually opens for him. She was pretty good.  She was picking on some
>guy in the front that had been dating his girlfriend for 5 years.

This is the same woman Pat and I saw also.  She was funny and her jokes
were really like what women can relate to.

>Then on came Walt. Obviously, most of the crowd was women and he was
>talking about how women always have to go to the bathroom together. He said
>that if that happened tonight, there would be nobody left in the audience.
>He then started talking about himself.  He grew up in Ottawa, Il. Was 
>married for 5 years and is now single but has a girlfriend. He lives in
>New Jersey.

I am glad you enjoyed him Sheri, and I am glad that he did not come off
as conceited with you either. He may have to put on a good front when
he does his stand up comic routine. I can understand how he might think
he is pretty cool but not *acting it* deserves praise :-)

>When he first came out he sang some song that he had made up and it
>was really good.  Then later, he sang a song about Pine Valley that was
>hilarious.  He called Jeremy, painter,monk and physic which really cracked
>him up. Then he started doing impressions of people on the show. He turned

This sounds very much like the same "routine" except probably slightly 
different. What did he have on for clothes anyway? How did his buns look?
:-) Did he do a really "short" Erica?

>around to do an impression of Tad(so he could put up the collar on his shirt)
>and there were a few comments made, so he turned back around and said yeah
>I know, I have a big ass. (It was strange listening to him swear.  I knew

He did "Tad" when we saw him too. He realizes that all the gals (and guys
too!) miss Tad....I felt the same way about the swearing, it was weird!
He used the F word quite a few times if I remember correctly...

>he probably would but it was just strange hearing it).  Then someone asked 
>him to do an impression of Charlie and all he did was show his front teeth! 
>This was hilarious and obviously he thought so too.  He said that he had just 
>made that one up. (It was really funny to see him laughing at his jokes, not 
>all of them but some.

Actually some of the jokes were really funny, but I have heard funnier.
I was more mezmerized with "him" then what he was saying...:-)))

>Then the really big news came, ready for this, I know you are, he said that
>he heard a rumor that MEK IS coming back! This pratically recieved a standing
>ovation.

Well, this is good news. MargARET and I both agree, we will believe it when
we SEE it! :-)

>Well, I think I've babbled long enough.  If there is anything else anyone
>wants to know, let me know.  If any of this has already been posted before,
>sorry.

Thanks Sheri for telling us all about seeing the handsome Walt Willey!
Did he tell you the one about his aunt, Lilly Willy? :-) Don't forget,
for those of you who weren't reading when *I* went to see him. I actually
took my cocktail napkin up to him to wipe his sweat! He was happy for it.
He threw it on the floor after he wiped his face, but i picked it up 
and it is now in my Episodes
issue, the one when he was on the cover. So i have a napkin with Walt's
sweat on it :-) I also touched him once on the way in and once on the way
out. I was swooning :-)

Oh another interesting "Boston" note. They filmed an episode of Cheers here
last Friday. It is one where Frazier is thinking about killing himself and
they filmed him standing out on the window ledge. He was there and Ted 
Danson was. They were both on the news. They both said Boston is a great
place and when they come here to film, they get a great reception and the
people really treat them well. :-))) Yea, Boston's a great place :-)


CAZ