Sterne was even invited to come on “Access Hollywood.” Now you’ve got to deal with the face on the other end of that voice, sunshine.'” “You’re afraid at the point you’re going to get a knock on the door and he’s like, ‘Right, you had fun with your little giggle fest there. “I heard that Walken retained an attorney and that’s when I started getting worried like, ‘Man, I love you Chris Walken, don’t sue me!'” Sterne said. “She’s like, ‘You’re kidding me! So this was like a prank?’ And I’m like, ‘No, it’s a bit we did!'”Īll joking aside, he started worrying about potential legal ramifications. “I was like, ‘Oh, you’re going to be so upset in about three seconds.’ She’s like, ‘Why?’ And I’m like, ‘Right, because it’s me, sweetheart!,'” Sterne said. Laughing to himself, Sterne realized that he should set the record straight.

Walken coming on your show earlier?’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?'”

“My phone rings and, it’s not Access Hollywood but it’s Dateline or something like that. “I left the show, nobody said anything to us and I got to the gym about an hour after that,” Sterne said. They should actually be thanking me because I knocked them off the front page.”Īfterward, Sterne went about his usual day until his phone starting blowing up. “It was the day that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore split up, so that was the big story. … Christopher Walken has never talked about this ever, and I’ve got him talking about it on the air,'” Sterne said. “He calls up to the headquarters at AP and says, ‘I’ve got the story. However, Joe White of The Associated Press thought it was actually Walken.

“The next sentence was, ‘Adrian Peterson is going to run circles around the Lions.’ … It thought people clued into this as silly. 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) Business & Finance Click to expand menu.

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