Guy Williams draws die-hards
Semi-funny comedian Guy Williams reckons Levin’s toilets aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
While in Levin for a gig at Ihakara Hall last week he walked the town and loved the adventure playground, which everyone had told him to visit.
He asked locals what the best thing about Levin was, and was surprised how many people said the clean toilets at the adventure park.
“I went there and they’re not that good. They’re just normal toilets. They’re good, but it wasn’t like woohoo!”
He spent hours at the park playing on all the equipment like the flying fox and “for a full-grown man that rat wheel was off the hook,” he said.
Ihakara Hall was a small and intimate spot for his gig. Probably just as well, as just 32 people showed up to see Williams, made famous by his appearances on the nowdefunct Jono and Ben television show.
Williams said had he arrived early and opened the windows “to let the smell out”, and noticed a sign as he walked in that said “no stilettos to be worn in hall”.
“Who wears stilettos?” he said. Wearing a Hurricanes rugby top and unshaven, the absence of a support crew was evident as he walked around behind the crowd and turned on some small lamps for stage lighting himself.
He then hid behind the piano on stage to introduce himself — “give it up for Guy Williams” — before launching into his routine, a mixture of ad lib gags loosely bound to prepared material.
Williams said while comedians could find folly and poke fun at just about anything and anyone, they tended to leave each other alone.
That was probably just as well, given the exploits Bill Cosby, Woody Allen and Louis C.K, some of his favourite comedians facing serious court allegations.
“Comedians are creepy,” he said.
With bootleg sex tapes of celebrities creating headlines worldwide he thought about getting in on the act too, although he was concerned no-one would want to watch them, and they would only be 30 seconds in duration anyway.
While in Levin he also popped into the Nice with Spice adult shop on Oxford St.
“It’s a nice family business,” he said. The crowd in Levin enjoyed the night and most were die-hard Guy Williams fans. He had the ability to polarise people though, as evidenced by a “I hate Guy Williams” Facebook page.
He went to one of the meetings himself.
His nationwide tour of small town centres continues.
With bootleg sex tapes of celebrities creating headlines worldwide he thought about getting in on the act too, although he was concerned no-one would want to watch them, and they would only be 30 seconds in duration anyway.