Jon Waterhouse shows off his Wang Dang Doodle

He’s been a wrestling manager, a magazine publisher, a rock singer, and a radio-show host. So it should come as no surprise that the next step for Jon Waterhouse — Atlanta’s “Pop Culture King” — would be to host his own variety show.

Waterhouse, who also moonlights as a freelance arts journalist, has met plenty of interesting people as co-host of the Silver Scream Spook Show, lead singer of the tribute band Van Heineken, and host of WMLB’s “The Pop Culture King Show.” Now he’s assembled what could be called a greatest-hits collection of the artists, entertainers and characters he’s met along the way for Wang Dang Doodle, a 90-minute “twisted variety show” taking place 8 p.m. Wed., March 17 at 7 Stages (1105 Euclid Ave., 404-523-764, www.7stages.org).

One part “Gong Show,” one part “Tonight Show,” Waterhouse will oversee a three-ring circus with a range of characters including: the Booze, a rock band that channels the blues-fueled British Invasion rock of the 1960s; comic Dave Stone, co-founding member of the Beards of Comedy Tour; puppet-master and drag aficionado Tim Monteith, whose impersonation of Shania Twain is the stuff of YouTube legend; Flight of Swallows, an aerial troupe that features one of Waterhouse’s Silver Scream Spook Show comrades, Blast-Off Burlesque’s Sadie Hawkins; Danger Woman, a self-styled “karaoke songbird of justice” and Atlanta superheroine; Brad McGinty, and animation artist who will present his latest short film; and performance artist Celeste Miller, whom the Los Angeles Times called “a female Garrison Keillor,” will premiere a new piece.

For the uninitiated, you talked about having done some crazy endeavors in the past. Let’s go back over some of them, shall we?

I’ve trained to be a pro wrestling manager and performed throughout the Southeast as the Monopoly Man. And I worked for wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes’ TCW organization. I have secretly performed as an Elvis impersonator at live events on various occasions. I wrote and published a comic book based on Blondie, the legendary stripper from the Clermont Lounge. I wrote and produced the short film “Basically Frightened” starring Col. Bruce Hampton, which screened it at the Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion in 1999. I’m one of the original members of the Silver Scream Spookshow cast, and have performed as the sidekick Retch, and co-produced the Spookshow CD, Building the Perfect Monster, and co-wrote six songs on the album. I’ve served as MC for Blast-Off Burlesque, and have played various characters, including Mr. T. And I performed in the first season of the Dad’s Garage improv show “B.R.A.W.L.”