Hasselhoff Don’t Like Stilts
June 19th, 2006This morning I was on the Today Show performing the electric slide on stilts.
If that sentence isn’t bizarre enough for you, there’s more.
Regis Philbin, David Hasselhoff, Brandy and some British guy critiqued my stiltwalking routine.
Also, Matt Lauer greeted me live on television by saying, “Hi I’m Matt Lauer. Have you met Regis yet?”
I certainly have gotten a lot of mileage out of these “Crazy Legs”, huh?
Here’s a video of the event:
Electric Slide on Stilts from lathan on Vimeo
June 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
I was half-expecting you’d do the speed-eating routine.
June 19th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
That is amazing.
“Get psyched!”
They buzzed you almost immediately. I love it.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:33 pm
I thought about doing the speed eating bit. But they probably wouldn’t have gone for it - maybe a little too much set up for that kind of setting. The probably would have buzzed me before I even started eating anything.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Rabe-
Awesome. I am surprised you did not pull out any Talkback Live lines. I had an email from Scott Thomasson who caught you real time. He was psyched. Later.
Chris
June 26th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
That’s great news Chris. I’m also psyched that Scott Thomasson caught me live. He must’ve spit his cereal out.
And yeah I could’ve added in a little Talk Back Live stuff about “The Juice”. But it might’ve been a little out of date.
September 18th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Nearly choked on my Cheerios when I saw it! The look of utter confusion on their faces made me feel like you were using nationwide air time for an inside joke, except most of your audience probably wasn’t watching. Congrats on pulling that off. You probably need to walk around on stilts with huevos that big!
Scott
September 21st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Thanks Scott! It’s great to hear from you. And that’s really cool you got to see the event air live. You were probably wondering if you were dreaming or not?
January 26th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
[...] Yesterday I got a notice from YouTube that the video of me performing The Electric Slide on stilts on the Today Show has been removed as a result of a third party claiming that the material was infringing. Now I figured this “third party” was either from NBC or Hasselhoff or maybe even Regis. But it was neither of them. It came from a website called: http://the-electricslidedance.com/ [...]
January 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
[...] wide on my shiny, red stilts - brand-named by the manufacturer as “Crazy Legs”. From a stint on the Today Show, to a SugaBabes music video, to a battle with the inventor of the Electric Slide - my trusty stilts [...]