Here’s how the MTV thing played out…
If you taped or TiVo-ed the show last night, you’ll need to pause/slo-mo/rewind the thing a few times till you figure out which shape is me on the stage. During the opening monologue, when Sarah Silverman mentions, “if the producers had their way the opening of the show would look like this –” and she turns on a large prop switch, about thirty of us rush on to stage. I’m in the back of all the dancers and other performers (for safety reasons ’cause I breathe monster fireballs).
Unfortunately, the ENORMOUS multimedia wall at the back of the stage was also showing explosions and flashes and fire, so my personal fireball kinda blends right in. But it’s there!
Then we all freeze frame while Sarah starts singing an ultra-vulgar song to test the censors (this was broadcast live). She then flips the switch again and we all start moving. If you listen carefully you can hear me cracking a whip at the back of the stage, and at certain points can clearly make out my “body shape”, center stage at the back. Can’t quite see my face, but if you’ve seen my pirate outfit, you know it’s me.
A short while after we left the stage we got to meet Jack Nicholson and take a photo with him. Super laid back guy. Really nice. Our group leader, a beautiful dancer friend of mine named Starchild said, “Ooh, one more pick ’cause I wanna kiss him!” And as she leaned in to plant one on Jack’s face, I jokingly said, “Wait, me too!” and also planted one on him. Everybody thought it was pretty funny. And hey, I’ve kissed Jack Nicholson on the cheek. Who else can say that?!
A little later we abducted Robin Williams for another photo op. Once again, uber-friendly, and he’s exactly the same off stage as he is on. Always the energetic goof ball. He never did tell us why he was wearing a kilt. But he had some groovy chain mail stuff on his sporran, which was pretty cool (I used to make that stuff in college instead of studying, ya see).
Overall: Cool experience, and a step in the right direction for my career. Now I can bill myself –> Jack Dagger: The King of Fling (As seen on MTV). Aw, yeah.
JD:TKoF