"Screech" visits WSC
Check out the cartoon I did for the Wayne Stater about Screech's visit

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Dustin Diamond, best known for his role as "Screech" on the long-running teen sitcom Saved by the Bell, came to Wayne State College to do some stand-up comedy last Wednesday. Here are the highlights of what happened:

While he openly jokes about his role on Saved by the Bell and makes fun of the other male cast members, Dustin seemed tired of being associated with Screech, particularly. One guy saw him on the street and asked, "Hey! Aren't you that dork from TV?" and Dustin responded, "Yeah! And aren't you that d*ck from real life?"

In his act, he spent a great deal of time on bathroom-related humor. For instance, one guy in an airport followed him into the men's room where the two stood side-by-side at the urinals. The guy in the suit and turned to ask, "hey, aren't you Screech?" and ended up peeing on him!

He also asked us to boycott the new live-action Scooby Doo movie. He had auditioned for the part of Shaggy but was turned down in favor of Matthew Lillard for what he believed are "political" reasons.

The real fun came later when Dustin went upstairs to met and greet the students who came by. After the show, when a girl asked me to take a picture of her and some friends with him, and I told them all to say, "Busy!" for the camera. I said that because of an article I read about Dustin on the Internet the day before where I learned that in his first commercial acting job, he did a commercial for a chain of grocery stores and had one line: Busy. Of course, the girls were confused, but Dustin picked up on the comment I was making and seemed somewhat surprised that I knew that bit of trivia. He mentioned that "Not everything you read about me on the Internet is true, but that is."

During his stand-up act, Dustin asked the students where they went to party in Wayne. Several students called out "The Max," a bar and grill on Main Street. Those of you who watched Saved by the Bell might remember that he burger joint where all the characters regularly met was called "The Max," so Dustin naturally assumed the students were joking. The students insisted that the establishment really was called The Max, so naturally Dustin stopped by and visited the place after his act. It was such an amusing scenario, I drew a cartoon to commemorate the event.

It was a memorable evening, to say the least, and plenty of students got the pictures to remember it, including me. What can I say? I must be a bigger geek than Screech.