Bucky Walters (comedian)
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Bucky Walters (born April 6, 1939) is an American comedian, who is based in Wichita, Kansas.
Walters attended Wichita High School East and later attended Wichita State University. He was a member of the national fraternity Phi Delta Theta.
As a freshman, he formed a rock-n-roll band called "The Premiers", and played in numerous clubs around town. The group signed with an agent in Chicago and toured with the "Johnny Cash Show" in 1958. They recorded a hit song “Firewater,” which climbed to number 36 on the American national charts. The song was blacklisted, but KWBB radio disc jockey Dick Jones liked it enough to play it every hour, resulting eventually in Jones being fired.
Walters started as a solo appearance in "Comedia", a roast of Wichita put on by the Wichita Community Theatre, directed by Jean Ann Cusick, who also trained Walters. Walters also trained under Mary Jane Teall. The show later became "Laugh at..." and then, in reference to the prestigious journalist club, the Gridiron Club. The name was later changed to "Gridiron", and is now sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Walters has performed in numerous Gridiron shows, along with other long time Wichita journalists like Bonnie Bing, Jamie Oppenheimer, Sierra Scott, Ted Woodward, Bud Norman and Randy Brown.
Walters also had a short stint in radio, hosting the “The Bucky Walters Show” on KNSS in 1988.
