Televisual Exploits

The Good Friday Appeal is on TV again and while I have sympathy for the cause, I'm not willing for my bank account to be mined annually, even if my name is displayed on screen. At least not without a trendy wristband! Consequently, I think the only people interested in the appeal are the ones trying to get on TV. I must admit there is comic value in seeing the name P.Ness or my personal favourite, Yuri Nayshun, on the scrollbar.

No, I already have had my brushes with television. Who could forget the episode of The Glass House where I was in the background every time the camera focused on Ross Noble? Some of my laugh work on that either was or was not described by the New York Post as "phenomenal and spellbinding". In a similar vein, I also appeared briefly behind Livinia Nixon joke interviewing someone on the unfortunately shortlived Micallef Tonight program.

I'm no one-trick pony when it comes to TV either, I do more than just comedy. The more astute viewers, who no doubt had to be Where's Wally? experts, may have even caught my pit straight walk at the conclusion of the 2002 Australian Grand Prix. Speculation has implied that if I wasn't dressed in bright orange, my work may have gone unnoticed by everyone. When I meet this Speculation fellow, I'll show him the videotape and probably shake his hand in agreement.

I also had a minor role in an episode of Australian Story, which involved us flying a kite, but mainly listening to a guy talk about kites. Stirring, riveting, spanning the entire gamut of human emotion. Of course, if I was directing, some dancing girls, explosions and an open bar might have also been included, but apparently the so-called integrity of the show was deemed more important.

There may have been more that I can't remember...but I'm confident that my short film/Media Studies project From Banks To Baryshnikov won't be submitted to Channel 31 any time soon.