         Gatecon 2003 - Michael Shanks turns up as a surprise guest *TRANSCRIBER's NOTE: This isn't perfect, but it's as close as I'm going to get. Whenever I wasn't sure what Michael was saying, I tended to omit words. Whenever I wasn't sure what an audience member was saying, I tended to paraphrase. Generally, italics are what was said by the audience. By the way: yes, I'm the one that asked the Sam/Daniel question.* Sound clips available (also linked within the transcript): "Hi guys!" "Is this a surprise?" Boxers or briefs? "I'm not gettin' naked!" "Well, I really am evil." "Very Canadian of me, but it's true." "Daniel's actually a nighttime ninja." "The question that Daniel was asking [in WoO]..." "It made me feel really bad about killing [Seth] because... "Do you have an inkling to knee me in the balls or anything?" Michael does Thor's voice Michael explains 'the fart memo' "I'm just a little white guy, I can't even compete." Michael discusses Daniel whumping Michael demonstrates the puff & ruffle Michael demonstrates the wounded lamb Michael discusses his role in Lifeboat Michael discusses the infamous cream jumper Michael discusses filming Meridian Michael discusses the Daniel/Janet ship Michael discusses the possibility of Sam/Daniel ship on the show Michael explains why he hasn't made it to previous Gatecons Michael discusses fighting Lexa's character on Andromeda "I think Christopher and myself just sort of sat back there, crapping our pants." E-mail me to request a different sound clip.         Pictures courtesy of Tanya's STARGATE SHRINE {insane clapping when Michael appears} [sly smile] I was just in the neighbourhood. I thought I’d drop by. {cameras flashing} Every time I’m at one of these things, I leave blind. {woman yells “This is so awesome!”} Is this a surprise? [Listen to sound clip] {resounding Yes!} I feel so naked.... I think it’s because I can’t hide behind the fact that I’m in another country and I don’t speak your language anymore. You’re in mine. Hi guys! {muted hi’s from audience} HI GUYS! [Listen to sound clip] {resounding Hi from the audience} I heard you guys had a bit of a wild night lastnight....Ladies? (Referring to the auction with Doug Arthurs and David Palffy) Doug’s gonna raffle off something else tonight but I can’t tell you what it is. Oh you’d be surprised. {woman yells “Congratulations!” and audience cheers} Thank you! [flashes wedding band] You mean about season 8, right? Um. You guys aren’t all from Vancouver, are you? {“No’s” from audience} Who here is actually from Vancouver? {a few cheers} Some must be here from the States. {many cheers} And Europe? Australia? Anywhere else? {someone yells out “Toronto!”} Toronto. That’s a whole ‘nother country... Ok, who’s here from Canada? {cheers from the Canadians} Way to go, season 5 huh? The DVDs are gonna catch up to Canada soon. {someone says they have later DVDs} Oh you guys have seen more. North America’s only up to..season 4, I think. Um, I’m from Kamloops, the place that’s burning down right now. {awww’s from audience} Yeah. But I’ve made Vancouver my home for the last...I’d say 13 years now. Beautiful town. As you can see, we’ve had some great weather this summer, unfortunately. Water rationing in Vancouver is kinda rare. In a place that rains 90% of the time, we’re down to 40% of our water reservoirs. So it’s pretty weird to watch Vancouverites pray for rain. Watching the show the first few seasons, you see how much it rained shooting outdoors, so... But the weathers lovely, I hope you’re enjoying it if you’re from far away. And I hope it keeps up, but not too much longer! Transcriber's Note: Somewhere amidst all this, Michael took off his jacket to reveal a sleeveless "muscle" Tee. I swear a rippled sigh went through the audience.... So I guess I could go right into some questions. Uh, anybody got any questions? All the way in the back. How come you weren’t here the last few years? [Listen to Michael's answer] How come I wasn’t here the last 3 years? I have a daughter, who lives down in Los Angeles, and every 2nd weekend I’m usually off to see her. And in the middle of filming, it’s usually tough to get away. So it was great this year because we finished filming a week ago, and my daughter went back to school on Wednesday. And I could come back here and see all you guys. First of all, thank you for coming. I know you’ve done tons of episodes, but what is one of the many that has been your favourite? Oooh. How many have we done now? A hundred and fifty something. If I can remember the one that stands out in my brain... Torment of Tantalus is one. I think The Fifth Race is another. I think it showcases what makes our show good, and Rick did a really great job on that one. Hi Michael. Mine’s more of a short story on why I’m the biggest idiot in the world. You were filming in North Burnaby close to my house a little while ago, and me and my dog ran up to Christopher Judge and I had a picture taken. On my friend’s digital camera, it had you standing by looking at us. I’m sorry I missed you, but you’re great and I would have recognized you if I’d looked behind me! Well, thank you. I remember that - I remember that story, actually. But, um, it’s very rare, especially when you’re standing next to Christopher Judge, that you get recognized. I think I remember that very distinctly. Everybody was coming up to Christopher and I just kinda [mimes sneaking away]... I tiptoed off and nobody noticed. I don’t think you guys noticed me until I came out in costume later. And it was like “there he is!” So it’s a bit of a blessing when I can go to different places..and I think it’s the glasses. I just got season four, they just came out this week, and I was listening to the commentary for every episode. I enjoyed the one you did about the episode you directed. Are you doing any more of those commentaries? Um, we just did some a couple weeks ago. I did a commentary for three episodes - Revisions, Fallen, and Homecoming. So myself, Martin Wood, and ?? all did commentaries together. We had a blast doing those. Yeah, those are a lot of fun. I spent most of that commentary (Double Jeopardy) cutting up what I did: “what I meant to do was this, and this was how it turned out. Sorry.” Very Canadian of me, but it’s true. [Listen to sound clip] But yeah, they’re fun. Do you have a role other than Stargate that you’re most proud of? Not any time I directed, I can guarantee that. I think the only kind of artistic achievements I’m proud of is that last year I did Hamlet here. I’m not proud of the end result of what I did, but I am kind of proud that we mounted Hamlet after 3 weeks of rehearsal, and had a pretty good run of it. So I’m proud that the group was a really nice environment, and it was nice to get back to that. So I’m most proud of that. I’m so glad you’re here, you’ve just made my - I guess year. I have a comment. What was it like when you did Andromeda and - you play evil so well, I loved you in Absolute Power - but in Andromeda, you have this big fight scene with Lexa. How was that? Well, it was the running joke when we were filming that - I don’t know if any of you have seen that episode of Andromeda, but if you saw the scene, “just another day in the Michael Shanks house.” We never get the chance to use wirework at home, but... No, it was great. Christopher Judge was in that episode, Jr Bourne was in that episode. Lexa and myself were all there, so it was kinda - you know, Christopher and myself and Lexa - and Jr’s good friends with Lexa from way back, so we all worked together different places. It was a second home for me, that was great. [Listen to sound clip] I never get a chance to do that kind of stuff on Stargate, and Andromeda is really good at that wirework action, so it was so much fun to do. So it was great to not only work with her, because she’s so easy to work with, but also appreciate her. She used to be a gymnast and whatnot, and most of the stuff she was trying to do on her own, and we got to really appreciate her because it made us look really good [laughs] so that was a lot of fun. I had nothing but a good time working on the show. I flew all the way from Philadelphia in the very slim chance that you would actually be here, so this is a dream come true. I really enjoyed Absolute Power. Do you enjoy being dark Daniel or comedic Daniel? Well, I really am evil. So comedic Daniel’s a bit more of a stretch for me... [Listen to sound clip] No, um, I think after doing this series for so long, that it’s great to mix it up so much, and I’ve had so many great opportunities to play different characters on the show. It always makes it entertaining, and interesting, so I think I enjoy either one. The comedic one is always the funnest, because I get to work with Rick a lot of the time when we’re doing funny stuff, so I have more fun doing that. It’s always nice to play the bastard sometimes. I think equally I enjoy both of those. We loved it in season 6 when you kept coming back as different characters, but what the hell was with that cream jumper? [Listen to sound clip of this Q&A] [Laughs] We had a big discussion about that. It was a running discussion when Daniel first shows up in Abyss and he’s wearing the cream coloured sweater and he was, I was wearing like loafers so there was a running gag that Jack and Daniel were having a bit of an off-camera thing going on. There was a running gag about this is actually Jack’s fancy of Daniel coming to him. We thought it did get a little old as time went on, it was nice to change and give him a different kind of ascended wardrobe. All the ascended people wear earth tones, apparently. What’s your scariest moment on Stargate? Boy, nothing much comes to me.... except we were filming the season finale of season 7. We’re filming out in this grass field and because the weather has been so dry, that we’re setting off huge mortar bombs with gasoline in them, to make them blow up really high in the sky. We had the fire department standing by. All the fires going on in British Columbia, you know, and everything being so dry, there’s always a big threat. And we had to run through a couple of them at different points where they were going off behind us. So there were certain moments we were told some huge explosion was going to happen over there, it was 100 yards away and they were telling us how big it was. They were covering us with this heat resistant sort of Vasoline - I dunno, Dan Shea could tell you more, I think it was gelatin. And they kept telling us how big it was. So I think Christopher and myself just sort of sat back there, crapping our pants. [Listen to sound clip] Our guys love to blow stuff up. Our special effects jobs think they have the best job in the world. I think they were kids who lit up firecrackers, and now they get to do it for a living. They get to blow up C4 and gasoline explosives. So when you see those guys walk around scared, I think its time to panic. So it didn’t turn out to be as bad as we thought, but it did scorch the brushfire burning on the clearing, so there were kind of frightening moments when we didn’t know if the wind was going to pick back up. So I think that was one of the scariest moments I can remember. First of all, on behalf of archaeologists everywhere, myself included, thank you for making us look cool. And my question for you is, what’s one thing you know about Daniel Jackson you know that we don’t? I don’t know what all you know. Is that just from watching the show, or is that from when you put the pieces together? Whatever you want! Have you heard the ninja story? Some of you have, I know. Daniel’s actually a nighttime ninja. He fights crime on the streets of Colorado Springs. When everybody thinks he’s up late studying stuff, he’s actually fighting crime through the streets. [slyly]Another little tidbit for you fanfiction writers. [Listen to sound clip] You have made this con for me, I won’t forget this one. My question is, are we gonna see any more of the harcesis child in season 7, or even a mention of the harcesis child? There is a mention um in Resurrection of the harcesis child, but um, he doesn’t appear at any point. There’s just made a reference to about what that child went through and the girl in Resurrection has a similar mixture of capabilities. So there’s a mention of him, but we don’t delve into the backstory of the ascended, I think there’s a rich vein to be mined there. Thanks for being here. How much fun was it playing the different characters in Lifeboat? Deluise and I were talking about this and, I kinda talk to myself anyway. I mean, I even use funny different voices. So I think it was only a stretch to actually bring it to camera. To actually reveal that closet side of myself that has little people running around in my head. [Listen to sound clip] It was great, I had a lot of fun doing that. It was difficult - you get the script, then you have to pull these characters out of somewhere, in whatever prep time you have while you’re doing something else. So it’s a bit of a - you have to just make decisions and stick to it. That’s why I think some of the characters are certain extremes, but it was a lot of fun bringing it to the front, so I just had a lot of fun doing that, it was great. [everyone looks around for the next question] I’m gonna start a singalong soon. You wrote a script for the new season, and Amanda was directing it. What was it like? We spent so much time together on set, before I even went off and wrote it, so that we had so much time to talk a lot about it. About different ideas and, sorta meet the two in the middle. It was pretty straightforward. She was very reverent to my ideas for it, and I was very hands-off once I wrote it and handed it to Rob Cooper, and he...did what Rob does. Um, so, at the end of the day, once I handed it off - I think that’s the best way. I watched Christopher Judge rewrite Birthright and, sort of, pull what little hair he has on his head out, so I’m very emotionally attached to the fact that... here’s the baby writer, you take the script, you hand it in, they make the changes for whatever reason they want to, and then you should just emotionally back off and have no more say in it. And I watched Chris stand by and say “No! Don’t cut that!” and stuff. So I think after awhile, I just handed the script in and let Amanda do her thing. There was great symmetry, so.. Teryl was talking this morning of the relationship between Dr. Frasier and Daniel. [Listen to sound clip] [slowly]What did she tell you? Yeah, Teryl and I had a running gag between us. I think it started in two thousand and.. (Audience yells “Ten!”) Ten. Um, when we were - there was this strange line written in one scene in the script where, um, I can’t remember the exact line that Teryl said, but we were all having champagne and toasting each other. She said something like “I can’t make it, I have to do something” and I go “Really?” And there seems to be this... funny beat where they seemed to have some sort of off-camera familiarity. So we shot the scene for about 2 hours, and we started playing with it, into this running thread throughout the show. So whenever we did a scene together, there’d be an extra look or extra glance, and they actually started writing it into the script. They saw it happening. I think in Rite of Passage, they wrote the scene of Daniel being a little more reverent to Teryl’s character, so I think they, um, there’s a you know, there’s an attraction there. I’ll let you guys fill in the blanks of where that actually went. Of the four of you that have such great chemistry, are there any projects being done now or in the future where we can see 1 or 2 of you together? Um, there’s nothing in the works. I’ve worked with Don on a couple separate projects. Uh, I worked with Christopher on Andromeda. Him and I have always talked about doing something else together. There’s no plans for anything at this point, but I think there’s kind of... a real friendship there. So there’s always a possibility. Question about what he thinks of Danny whumping [Listen to Michael's answer] Um, I was told about this years ago. I think it was Brad Wright who said to me “do you know fans love to see your character get ass-whipped?” I said “Oh man, they must really hate the character.” And he said “No, they really like it!” Um. I’m not sure what that means at this point. Freud would have something to say about that. So, I have heard of it. What it means in the grand scheme of things, I’m not sure. I think some of you gals out there may have a mothering complex..? I’m not sure, but um, (slyly) I’ve heard the character looks good dirty. (Audience cheers) I had previously encountered your best friend Christopher Judge at Dragon Con.. Uh oh. And he motioned me closer and said “When you see Shanks, you should run up and knee him in the balls.” Did that mean something, or was he just doing that so he could get me closer and sniff me? Freud would have something to say about that. Might be just trying to get you closer, that’s my favourite. Do you have an inkling to knee me in the balls or something? Well, maybe that’ll be something we can offer in the charity raffle. [Listen to sound clip] Have you ever played a practical joke on any of your co-stars? I already told the bear story. I haven’t thought of anything that good since then. Although there was the funny story about Christopher when I was dying in Meridian - when Daniel was dying in Meridian. Christopher came in and he was all emotionally choked up and he did this really strong scene. But, um, for setups, they had wrapped my stand-in in the same bandages. So in between setups, the stand-in would go and do his thing. Christopher at one point came up to me and said “Man, I’m so sorry. I couldn’t keep it together, I was bawling my eyes out.” And I said “Dude... I wasn’t there. That was my stand-in.” [Listen to sound clip] And you’ve never seen such a large man get so angry. (mimics CJ stomping and yelling in frustration “What!?! Man I was pouring my heart out..”) “No dude, that was really me.” He did a great job, and I think he was really putting his heart into it. And I was there, so it was great. He’s very gullible in that way. At SG-4, you did a great impression of the wounded lamb that Amanda and Teryl get. I was wondering if you would do it again? Oh ok. You guys know about this? [No's from audience] Amanda’s been here, Teryl’s been here. You guys know about the..um... Puff and ruffle! Puff and ruffle. Which is the guys going from seeing the pretty guest star across the way. (Imitates the puff and ruffle) ‘Can I help you with anything? You need anything, just talk to me.’ Bit of an elaboration, I’d say. Not quite a fabrication, but I think they’re projecting a little bit. [Listen to sound clip] Now the girls! When there’s a pretty guest star on the show, and they see the boys paying attention to this pretty guest star...there’s this reaction which I coined “The Wounded Lamb.” Which is, um, the same view, same guest star, and this (imitates self-pity, pouty expression) Or the ‘cry for attention.’ “Love me, Love me!” [Listen to sound clip] Daniel Jackson has a faith that’s very compelling. I was wondering, has his faith had an influence on your spiritual life? Well, faith is... Because our show is basically blaspheming every religion out there, faith is kind of an odd word. Daniel’s got an extreme passion, and I think it’s an insatiable curiosity which I think both he and I kinda share to a certain degree. So I wouldn’t say it’s always been consistent about the character. I would say, in terms of looking around at the way our world works, as much as Daniel has faith in a better way of doing things or ‘there must be an ideal out there somewhere.’ I think that I can say I certainly share that as well. But in terms of a religious faith, I wouldn’t say that that’s sparked anything like that. I was wondering, after seeing Menace where you get attached to a robot, and the fact that you just got married to a robot... Do you have this thing about robots? [laughs] Yes. I have every episode of Dr. Who. I’ve got a question to ask about Forever In A Day. You really did some great acting in that, and I’d like to know what motivated you to bring out the emotions portrayed in that. Um, when I read the script I noticed that a lot of the scenes were sort of solo, there was no one to talk to and therefore no need for words in a lot of it. The only thing I can say about it is that I’m a lot better when I don’t have to speak. Anyway. Um, I don’t know. I would say that, at that particular time, I’d just had my first - and only - child, and there was a certain sense of overjoyedness and then sadness at that point. So I just sort of mined those trenches, and figured out what was gonna happen. That was about it. What was it like to write your episode before you gave it to Amanda? It’s kinda like putting a square peg in a round hole. I have a real story notion for broad strokes, and I suck at detail. So, um, like any good ex-University student, I waited till the last possible moment. There’s a reason why final exams and deadlines were created. That’s the sense of “This is it, pal, hand it in.” So it was very frustrating for me. It’s not my forte. I’m really good at coming up with some idea and putting it down on paper. But when I have to turn it into rapport with dialogue, I kinda suck. Rob did a good job at polishing it, so I’m pretty happy about it. Question about how much he’s learned about ancient languages and mythology Um, a little bit here and there. I never delve too deeply like Amanda where I pick up a physics textbook and figuring out how those things really work. We do deal with ancient mythology, but we do create some of our own mythology. So there’s no textbook, it’s kinda like: just commit to it. Are you gonna be doing any cons in North America, like on the East Coast? I’m kinda new to this con thing, as you can tell by my slight unease in this department. But I think so. I’m just finding out what’s out there. People are coming to me with more notions of what to do, and what’s out there. So I would say yes, at some point for sure. When, I don’t know. First off, how’s married life? And secondly, I’m a big Sam/Daniel girl, so I was wondering if you see any possibility there? Sorry, you’re a big what? Sam/Daniel Shipper. [Listen to sound clip of Michael's answer] Oh, Sam/Daniel shipper. {loud reaction from the audience, most of whom are Sam/Jack fans} Alright, put the fruit down. Put the fruit down! Um, I don’t think that there’s any possibility there, but um...but thanks for playing. What was the other question? How’s married life. Oh, how’s married life? Great! Wonderful. Um...she’s a wonderful woman who does the same thing I do, and we come home and talk about it and then go our separate ways. I mean, you know, the married part hasn’t really changed anything. We were in that situation for a couple years beforehand so, you know, we had a big party, then we go back to life. I think it’s great, it’s uh it’s very nice. So, thank you. Question about the mention of system lords in ‘Seth.’ I have no idea which episode you’re talking about. Can anybody help me with this? [Audience yells “Seth!” and Kelly yells “Season 3, Episode 2!”] Who’s the smartass? Um, if I could properly remember it, I would elaborate, but...maybe you should ask her. I think in Summit and Last Stand, we touched on some of the existing pantheon of gods we have so..pantheon? How do you say that? We’ve met, sort of, all the gods that are existing in our universe. One thing about Seth where we were fairly disappointed with the end result, I think, is the fact that a system lord would be living on Earth for thousands and thousands of years, and all he could manage was a farmhouse. And a bunch of people dressed in white polishing his throne. It makes me feel really bad about killing him, because he wasn’t really doing anything wrong. I mean, if he was plotting taking over the world or something, if he were Kinzey’s right-hand man or something... I mean, the guy lives on a farm. Leave the guy alone! [Listen to sound clip] I was just wondering if you saw Atlantis, and recognized the character’s similarity to Daniel? [slyly] You got that too, huh? What’s your favourite Disney movie? Ooh, I have a 5 year old, so I’m all about Disney right now. Boy. Toy Story 2 was pretty kickin’. Nemo almost topped it, it was pretty good too. Um, Atlantis... Yeah, 2 archetype characters there were skirting the fine line. Um, actually, when my daughter - that was one of the first movies my daughter ever saw in the theatre, and my daughter was saying “It’s Daddy!” [under his breath "Sue! Sue!"] She actually..her Mom had to take her to a 2nd screening in a row because she cried at the end. So I noticed a smiliarity. I think Toy Story 2 or I really liked Monsters Inc. In Window of Opportunity, what was Daniel’s question? And near the end, did Daniel know about Sam and Jack’s kiss? He got this look on his face when he was saying it. The question that Daniel was asking, um.... I’m never gonna tell that. So stop asking! There’s a few things that have to remain a mystery. [Listen to sound clip] I never wanted anybody to know that I did the voice of Thor. I didn’t want anybody to know that, but that got out... Once that got out, they started printing it in the credits. So I wanted that to be the one mystery. So that’s the only thing I still have left that’s a true mystery. And um the 2nd part was...? Did Daniel know about the kiss. Um, I think he knows.... Daniel’s kinda like the little brother that sits back and watches it all take place but doesn’t really say anything. I think at different points, as you can probably imagine, in all the different realities that take place, once Daniel told Jack that ‘hey, you can do anything you want’ .... he didn’t know that he actually kissed her, he didn’t know what they could have been up to. [slyly] But he does know that smile on Jack’s face. I know that you’ve done some writing and some directing. Which direction do you see yourself going? (Pause) I think all of them, at different points. Um, I realize that the writing is the one I’m probably the least talented at. Directing, definitely in the future. Although I think the confines of science fiction tv, in terms of what kind of stories you can tell; I think I’m much more of a character piece kind of director, more than a technical director. So I think I have a lot more of that to learn before I can be confident directing highly technical stuff. And the acting thing, I think I’ll do a little while longer, until they kick me out of the club. When you’re all standing there waiting for the rings up or rings down, I’ve always loved the special effects. But while you’re standing there, you have to stand there for so long. What are you guys doing? Depends on what day! If you notice, because there’s the overwhelming sound that comes through, sometimes we’re just talking to each other. And that sound never ends up in the movie, but you will see occasionally that our lips are moving, and we’re saying the stupidest stuff sometimes, so um watch closely and then you’ll see sometimes that we’re fidgeting around. We are supposed to be, we’re not supposed to be frozen, we’re not transporting or anything like that. So we are allowed to actually move. Most of the time, we’re just saying inane BS to each other, so... First of all, I’d just like to say thank you for coming. I think it shows real great class that you’re spending some of your precious time with us. You guys came all this way, so why not?! My question was, what do you think makes the relationship between Jack and Daniel tick so well. It’s definitely some of the best acting that we’ve seen. What makes it come together so well? I think that, on one hand, the characters are great foils for each other. Um, you know, you have two people who represent who represent two completely opposite sides of the spectrum, who have to work together on a weekly basis and so if they really hated each other’s guts, I think you’d have a tough time maintaining the cohesiveness. On a personal level, Rick’s got a great sense of humour, and he gets me and I get him. So when we have these silly little fights sometimes, we have the most fun doing it. We enjoy working together. So I think, just that reverence for the other actor and it’s the notion of rhythms too. That he can pick up on mine, and I can pick up on his and we can sort of wing it and see where it goes. And that’s a lot of trust and a lot of cohesiveness, so it’s a great personal relationship as well. If it inserts on screen, that’s great. A couple years back, when Chris Judge was doing a convention in the UK, he was telling us about something on the set that caused MGM to send a memo? Oh no... Could you tell us a bit more? I don’t know what Chris used to eat... The memo, if you haven’t heard about it, was a fart memo. It didn’t actually come from MGM, it came from the production office where, um - uh, you know, you get a group of boys all together in a room and somebody accidentally lets one go. Then you have burritos for lunch or something like that, and everybody’s going ‘oh no, I can do this one better.’ It all of a sudden becomes this thing, where nobody wants to work in a small environment anymore. So where it actually got to the dreadful point where nobody would want to come to the set to do their job anymore, because it stank. They had to put up a poster - it was, you know, it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but at the same time serious, because people seriously weren’t coming to set to work. To say, “Please save our flatulence for the outside.” [Listen to sound clip] Um... right now, I think Chris is on a different kind of diet program. He’s not taking some strange mix of raisin bran and Dermoline, so he seems to be keeping it more at bay. I don’t think there’s a need for it anymore. I’m a little white guy, I can’t even compete. [Listen to sound clip] [looks to woman standing up for next question] Hi. Hey. Ho. Hey ho! [Ladytree has trouble speaking because she's lost her voice] Would you like to write the question down? Every single star has been asked this question.... {cheers from the audience in anticipation of the question} Boxers or briefs? Is this a character thing or is this a real life thing? Audience yells “real!” Ok, I can give you a little show. I think these underwear are funny. [Listen to sound clip] Transcribers note: Here, Michael undid his belt and showed off the top of his white Hugo briefs - which had right down the front, red letters in a vertical line, saying H-U-G.." I’ll let you put whatever you want after that. Anybody see that? (No’s from audience) I think you can go see it on the Internet later, so... Didn’t you guys get enough of this lastnight? (More no’s) God. I’m not getting naked!! (Shows underwear again) [Listen to sound clip] Transcribers note: During all this, he also us his appendectomy scar. (Organizer Allen gets on stage, indicating the end of the talk, as audience boos) I’ve got a personal request to ask; I was just wondering, would you do Thor? Um, I don’t have the proper vocal affectation that happens in post-production to do Thor. I kinda stole it from Hal from 2001, so.. He kinda sounds a little like this: “I like the yellow ones.” [Listen to sound clip] And at the next convention, I’m gonna tell you what that tastes like. ~THE END~
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