Funny Fanny Farkle
Sophie's Mentertainment® Issue May/June 1997
The woman stands 6'3"at the top of which sits a teased mess of almost orange hair. (Haircolor subject to change.) Her mammoth breasts sit like suffocating melons on her amazon physique. She is larger than life, and life for Fanny Farkle has been very interesting.
This show started out quite by accident. Fanny was accompanying a friend to an audition at a go-go club when she was spotted by the club's owner, who decided he wanted Fanny to audition, not her friend. Fanny says she weighed about 250 at the time and it took plenty of persuasion before she finally got up on stage. but the crowd loved it and I guess maybe Fanny liked it a bit too because she's still at it.
She has appeared in films, most notably "Porky's" and "Summer Job." Commenting on her role, Fanny says she "usually plays herself." She's hosted NBC's Queen of Belly Flop but swears she never herself belly flopped in the pool with one of the contestants. She's released two LP's: "Live at the Follies " and "Fanny on a 12 inch." In addition. she appeared on "The Dakota" episode of Miami Vice which Don Johnson himself directed. One of the promo shots she uses pictures Fanny between a pointing Phillip Michael Thomas and an insanely grinning Don Johnson. Apparently the reason for the grinning was that just before that picture was taken at the end of a week of joking and working together, Fanny "just grabbed him by the dick." Now a lot of women in the world would kill for this opportunity so I just had to ask, for their sake, well, was he hung? Fanny just smiled and said "yeah, he has a nice one."
We caught up with Fanny at Peeper's North in Calgary, Canada. Working a club like Peeper's is a bit of a challenge, she finds that cabaret type clubs with more of a mixed audience are more her forte. But that didn't stop Big Fanny from packing the house with laughter and trembling young men in gynecology row.
In each of her shows, she picks a "volunteer" from the audience to "win a prize." But the volunteer must cooperate and sit still while Fanny, among other things. slaps him silly with her tits, and best of all stuffs his head in her panties and then hoists him up by the seat of the pants and dances around a bit. This is her best trick and it's well worth witnessing the look on the "volunteer's face when he emerges. I thought she picked these guys out according to their size and asked her if the guy she had up on stage earlier in the evening had been too big because she let him off the stage. She told me the reason she had let the young guy go is that he was so terrified of what she might do to him, that he was actually crying.
Fanny has a trunkful of hilarious anecdotes about her experiences. Once she was booked as a gag to lay in wait in the hotel room bed for Tom Jones. You can imagine pulling back the covers to find Fanny in your bed. He just said, "holy stars or holy shit or something."
I remember the first time I saw her, this jiggling mountain of a woman, glittering with miles of sequins, (she sews all her own costumes with the help of a sequin machine, because as she jokes, she couldn't find anybody to make them that big.), a 12 foot feather boa dusting the air as she sashayed her way to the stage, stopping along the way to grab some unsuspecting customer's head and bang it off her chest. The room was awestruck and silent mostly. When she got up on the stage, a young man in the front row yelled out: "You're fat!" Everyone in the room held their breath in anticipation of her reply. She grabbed her microphone, wiped her brow and said: "No shit. honey. you think I didn't know that?" There was a round of applause and laughter and everybody made a small place in their heart for Big Fanny Annie.
See See Fanny Farkle Live
- on Wed/Thu June 25/26 at Spanky's, 290 Watchung Ave, West Orange --- (201) 669-0333
- and Fri/Sat June 27/28 at Wizzard's, 751 Washington Ave, Belleville, NJ --- 201-844-9146 in New Jersey.