Tom Wilson going back to his comedy future?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on September 21st, 2005

We note that Tom Wilson will be opening for Ian Bagg at Nashvile Zanies for a week next month. Wilson, who portrayed Biff in the Back to the Future franchise, started out life as a comedian at the Comedy Works in Philadelphia back in 1980 or thereabouts.

The Male Half of the Staff mentioned Wilson in a column about reaching a comfort level when it comes to how much or how little material a comedian should feel compelled to write. (The column, entitled “Stupid Cruelty.” was spotted by a Wilson friend, who sent him an email with our mag’s URL and Wilson plowed through a lot of our archives, becoming a fan of the mag, eventually contacting us to let us know how much he liked our humble pub.

We eventually got an email from Wilson, after he took mild offense at the Male Half’s characterization of his early days in SoCal. We eventually cleared things up with a an author’s note:

(Author’s note: After some recent back and forth with Mr. Wilson himself via email, he made it clear that clarification on this point was in order– Wilson wanted it known that he was never “one of Mitzi’s boys.” The term, as I understood it, was not a pejorative one, merely an inidcation that Wilson became a regular at the world famous Comedy Store in Hollywood. However, it has been brought to my attention that the term had considerable… weight… among those who were around the scene at that time. We apologize for any misunderstanding.)

We take this opportunity to apologize to Mr. Wilson again and make it clear that he was nobody’s “boy,” not then, not now!

And now he’s on the road again– at least he’ll be at Zanies in Nashville, Oct. 12-16

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