What’s better than Christopher Walken?

Seven Christopher Walken impersonators in a 75-minute live show that meshes the pop culture phenomenon with music, images and hilarity. The long-standing Los Angeles show is making its first appearance in the Bay Area, home to the director Patrick O’Sullivan.

O’Sullivan, 33, is a Mills High School grad who developed his Walken impression while attending College of San Mateo and San Francisco State University. He developed an entire show based on that impression while living in Los Angeles. Now, for the first time ever, O’Sullivan is returning home with the first of many comedic endeavors he is creating.

O’Sullivan grew up in Millbrae, where his mother still lives. He was a newspaper boy when he was young, went to Mills High School and worked as a disc jockey at College of San Mateo’s KCSM.

In 2000, while working what his friends called a “dream job” as the Giants and 49ers scoreboard operator, O’Sullivan made the decision to move to Los Angeles.

“All my friends thought I was going to commute to work because of the job,” O’Sullivan said.

In Los Angeles, he got a job selling bathroom advertisements. It paid pretty well and came with benefits, O’Sullivan said.

He spent a few years being lost in the Los Angeles shuffle, but soon realized he wanted to make his comedic dreams a reality.

“It’s tough in L.A. to find your own voice. I started trusting myself and my ideas,” O’Sullivan said.

He remembered the days as a student of the San Francisco State University theater department in the late 90s. He and classmate Dan Carlos often impersonated each other. Carlos was also developing his impersonation of Jay Mohr impersonating Christopher Walken at the time, which triggered O’Sullivan to create his own impersonation of Carlos impersonating Mohr impersonating Walken. Before long, several students in the Creative Arts building were doing their own “Walkens” in the hallway between studying Shakespeare in the classroom, O’Sullivan said.

In 2006, he brought the idea of impersonating Walken to the stage. No one thought he could make a show out of seven people impersonating Walken.

They were wrong.

“It’s a melding of Christopher Walken and pop culture. It’s not about him. It’s about the phenomenon of him and how engrossed in pop culture he’s become,” O’Sullivan said. “He’s so unique. He’s the kind of guy everyone knows but not everyone knows his name.”

The show has a cult following and is the longest running comedy show in Los Angeles, attracting both Christopher Walken’s agent and family members. Walken himself, a Connecticut resident, told one crew member personally that he would attend a show. He conveyed the message in a phone conversation with the crew member doing his best Walken impersonation. Walken was impressed, O’Sullivan said.

Walken has yet to show.

The show has earned time on both Fox News and NPR. The troop was even written into the new VH1 comedy series “Free Radio” last season, O’Sullivan said.

This is the first time O’Sullivan is taking the show on the road. It is already playing to a sold-out San Francisco crowd on Saturday night and seats are limited Sunday.

All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken plays 7 p.m. Oct. 25 and Oct. 26 at The Clubhouse, 414 Mason Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco. For tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com or visit myspace.com/allaboutwalken.

Dana Yates can be reached by e-mail: dana@smdailyjournal.com or by phone: (650) 344-5200 ext. 106.