Whoopi Goldberg’s Stage Title Is As a result of Of Farting

You already know Whoopi Goldberg — however do you know that “Whoopi Goldberg” is not her actual identify?!?

It is true — the enduring actor and comic was born Caryn Elaine Johnson, and when she began performing, she glided by Whoopi Goldberg. However why?

Effectively, Whoopi’s granddaughter, Amara Skye Dean, seems on tonight’s episode of the ABC recreation present Declare to Fame, and in the course of the episode (through Leisure Weekly), she reveals the reality behind what makes Whoopi, nicely, Whoopi.

So, in the course of the episode, Amara tells an anecdote involving her grandmother and legendary comedians Robin Williams and Billy Crystal — particularly, about how all three of them bought right into a fart-off in an elevator. Sure, actually.

“I assume they have been Dutch Oven-ing one another, simply basking within the atmosphere of farts,” Amara recounted, after saying that “Robin Williams was simply farting his life away.”

“My grandma bought her identify as a result of she likes to fart so much,” Amara mentioned. “So, whoopee cushions, farts. That is how Caryn Johnson grew to become Whoopi Goldberg.”

What a revelation! Though, to be clear, this is not the primary time we have gotten a whiff — sorry — of how Whoopi’s love of flatulence impressed her stage identify.

“While you’re acting on stage, you by no means actually have time to enter the toilet and shut the door,” she defined to the New York Occasions in 2006. “So in case you get somewhat gassy, you have to let it go. So individuals used to say to me, ‘You are like a whoopee cushion.’ And that is the place the identify got here from.”

Hey, let’s face it — farts are humorous, and so is Whoopi Goldberg. It is a match made in flatulent heaven.