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‘Good Times’ star returns to the Off the Hook comedy club stage

Comedian Jimmie Walker will add to the holiday season’s festivities on Marco Island with his engagement this week at the Off the Hook Comedy Club.

Walker will will perform one show per evening, Wednesday through Friday, at the South Collier Boulevard venue.

The uber-popular 1970’s sitcom, “Good Times,” and Walker’s uber-popular character, the wisecracking “J.J.” Evans” and his “Dyn-o-mite” catch phrase brought the Bronx native fame.

But stand-up it was stand-up comedy that served as the launching pad that enabled Walker’s show business career to take flight back in the late 1960s.

Walker has played Off the Hook several times and the club’s owner, Brien Spina, said his “G-rated” approach to stand-up makes Walker an ideal act to book this time of year.

“His comedy is very clean, it’s not offensive,” said Spina. “He doesn’t curse. That’s why I brought him in around the holidays. He has a well-rounded act. He’s a pro. Everyone’s really happy to see J.J. You might not hear Dyn-o-mite come out of his mouth, but everyone can expect a good performance.”

Walker, in turn, has high praise for Spina and Off the Hook.

“Brien has a legendary comedy club,” said Walker. “The people of Marco should be very thankful. I’’m happy to be playing there again.”

David Brenner, Freddie Prinze, Steve Landesberg and Bette Midler are some of the comedians were among Walker’s contemporaries as he climbed the show biz ladder after making stand-up his profession in 1967.

Since then, he’s been touring in the U.S. and abroad for 40 weeks a year or more, playing every every state in the Union over the years.

Venues such as Off the Hook are Walker’s specialty.

“Clubs are what we do ,” said Walker “I’m a road comic.”

Walker has been a frequent guest on David Letterman and other late night talk show. He has also had his own political talk shows on radio stations around the country and been a columnist for “Talker’s Magazine” and the “LA Times.”

The 64-year-old is also poised to entering the publishing world.

Walker’s memoir about his rise from hardscrabble beginnings to high-profile success entitled ” It’s Not All Dyn-O-Mite,” will be released in June.