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Article: Wirtz Jokes, Satan Burns
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 10, 1995
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PICTURED on the cover of his new live album, "Pianist Envy,"
Reverend Billy C. Wirtz looks all the world like Weird Al Yankovic's
long-lost cousin, the one who's partial to boogie-woogie piano,
elaborate tattoos and lizard-skin boots. Inside, however, the
thoroughly irreverent reverend comes across as a blues and boogie
version of Henny Youngman, pounding away at the piano and the
audience's tolerance for one-liners with equal abandon.
For every joke that hits its mark, two or three miss, but like
Youngman, Wirtz doesn't pause long enough to take a tally. He's a
scattershot comic, after all, who knows that there's safety in
numbers and that one good line can redeem a lot of bad ones. ...
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