![]() I went to my bunk, I was reading a ‘Hardy Boys’ novel, I went to sleep and when I woke up, Natalie was gone,'” Sterne said. “‘It was a festive night aboard the ship, there was lots of sambuca and later shouting. That’s when Sterne improvised a response on the spot, pretending to be Walken: ![]() “Kevin came to me, ‘Now Christopher, this is a big time, there’s lots of news about you and Natalie Wood.'” You have to work this into the bit,” Sterne said. “The captain of the boat was making the rounds and Kevin comes to me and says, ‘We’ve got to do this on the show. In planning the show, Sheehan urged Sterne to address the incident in his Walken voice. … She was one of those personalities on screen that you felt like you knew her. 29, 1981 while yachting with her husband Robert Wagner and Walken. 18, 2011 episode, they marked the anniversary of actress Natalie Wood’s tragic drowning off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on Nov. … We thought this is a way to talk about fantasy football - Christopher Walken will call in and give us his picks of the week.” “Everybody knew that I had been doing this Christopher Walken impersonation for a while, which I learned from Billy Bush when I was doing ‘The Bush League’ morning show on Z-104. ![]() “It seems like yesterday,” Sterne told WTOP. Marc Sterne impersonated Christopher Walken during an appearance on Kevin Sheehan’s “The Sports Fix” on ESPN 980, not knowing it would explode into a case of “fake news.” He’s best known for his British alter-ego Nigel on “The Tony Kornheiser Show,” but it was a different impersonation that created a Hollywood controversy exactly 10 years ago today. WTOP's Jason Fraley marks 10 years of Marc Sterne's hoax (Part 1)
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