Playboy After Hours
June, 1989
Wild JokerSouthern comics? We couldn't think of a single one until someone mentioned the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz, an elaborately tattooed South Carolinian who has a case of rural anxiety pretty far removed from the urban version of, say, Richard Lewis. Wirtz, who is not really a preacher, plays boogie-woogie piano and sings, but he specializes in skewing Southern life, covering such Dixie staples as inbreeding, televangelists, paintings of Elvis on black velvet and small towns, his favorite targ...
