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AM I UNCOOL, OR WHAT?

Ben Bonsky, the man in Detroit who looks the least like Don Johnson, is getting ready to take a free trip for two to sunny Miami.

But WMJC-FM’s Magic Comedy Theatre, the morning disc jockey crew that thought up the contest that Bonsky won, is out in the cold. A station rep said the team got pink-slipped because its humor “didn’t work for Detroit listeners.”

It sure worked for Bonsky, a 6-foot, 230-pound electrician with thinning curly hair--and now champion of the Don Johnson Least Look-Alike Contest. Nominated by his wife (callers had to describe their candidates on the air), Bonsky beat out a John DeLorean look-alike, a bearded black man and a bald man in coveralls and wig, among others--judged by crowd applause during half time of a Detroit Pistons game.

WMJC’s former funnymen did the contest because they were sick to death of Don Johnson stories and “obnoxious comments” about his prowess with women. Bonsky, 34, also won $200 in cash and a vise donated by a local hardware store.

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“I’d never seen the show before I was nominated,” Bonsky confessed to Outtakes. “I’ve never paid any attention to Don Johnson.”

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