Willie Nepomuceno, the veteran comic and satirist known for his uncanny and uproarious impressions of top celebrities and politicians, died on July 26, two days after sustaining a head injury from an accident at home. He was 75. | via Allan Policarpio/PDI
‘Pesky insect bites’
That’s up for them to decide, he said. His jabs, therefore, were designed to work more like “pesky insect bites”—conspicuous and just mildly irritating, but demanded attention all the same.Nepomuceno was born on July 8, 1948, to Leonardo Nepomuceno, a policeman, and Paquita Nepomueno, a beautician. He took up Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1966. There he became a student activist, an elected councilor-at-large of the UP Student Council.
Later in his career, Nepomuceno shifted his focus to stage shows and private gigs, which he actively did until he suffered a stroke in 2016. One of his last performances — the cultural event “Singkwenta: Mga Kanta at Kwento Tungkol sa Martial Law” in 2022—had him impersonating Marcos Sr.“He was still active, but not so much with shows. He hadn’t done a lot of them since having a stroke in August 2016. But he did private gigs from time to time,” his son Dr.
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