He’s got a few years to go before announcing his own hundredth birthday on a jar of Smucker’s jam, but Washington media staple and NBC weatherman Willard Scott still has plenty of stories about his times at Martin’s Tavern in Georgetown.
Scott showed up on a rare night out Tuesday to celebrate the local pub’s 75th anniversary, and being that the spot is as old as he is, we were sure to get some juicy tidbits on the place. Instead, we learned more about his own salacious times at the spot he dubbed the place where people “got engaged and got lucky.”
So did he know from experience?
“I got lucky here with a bartender once,” Scott confessed, before asking us not to share the statement, even threatening Yeas & Nays that he’d “tell everyone about your bra.” Huh? Sorry, Willard, you lose this round.
But we can’t blame him for clowning around — this is the man who was the original Ronald McDonald and played Bozo the Clown for three years.
“We had fun … TV was crazy back in those days,” the former host of the “Joy Boys” radio program said about the 50-plus years he’s visited the N Street haunt with the likes of Washington radio legend Frank Harden.
After making remarks to the crowd, which also included Chris Matthews and Luke Russert, he whispered to us, “You know what the good thing is about me? I know when to shut up.”
Wonder what he didn’t tell us.
