I *might* be visible in the upcoming owen wilson movie, "The Wedding Crashers"
nearly all of the movie was shot in Easton, Maryland, where i hang out every weekend. There's a ball scene set at the Tidewater Inn, and me and a couple friends stood tip-toed up against the windows while they shot a scene where a bunch of extras are just dancing around like idiots socialites.

It was fun to stand around pretending to be pot-smoking skater punks and harass the elderly people that overtook the town. Also, girls squealed at chances to see owen wilson's fucking limo. i need to get into this business.
( AgentMuu hentai coordination, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 3:11, Reply)

My office was used in "Chicago".

Right at the end, the paperboy waves his arms out of a window. That's my office that is.

I was also filmed teaching a business class for a news report on how the budget affected small business owners.

I also got interviewed for my book a couple of weeks ago too. 10 mintues of hard sell :-D



/I just realised how dull all three of those actually were... *sigh* So much for my 15 minutes of fame. I've probably only got another 30 seconds or so. Hopefully it'll involve nakedness.
( Evil Prof. Pixel Masher I made this!, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 2:56, Reply)

During his no doubt heady daytime TV days
I sneezed on Robert Kilroy-Silk. In an Airport. Not on TV either. But his day-glo orange skin tone must surely be one o' them special effects. Or a disease.
(Ted Cunterblast, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 2:32, Reply)

Funky Monkey
I have on many occasions been fortunate enough to being in the audience on Jools Holland. Great music, great bands but unfortunately I have been caught dancing like a twat many times. If they could see me now....
(Lurchio, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 1:23, Reply)

dorks
good for you emadex! Jerks like that who won't give a dying man a bit of peace are the ones that give journalists a bad name.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 1:06, Reply)

Paramedic one…
…I took a guy to hospital who had tragically attempted suicide by setting himself on fire (98% third degree burns). When I got to hospital the media were filming really close up and we all got a bit angry as the patient was in a bad way, looked horrific and was about to die. Also there is a gentlemans agreement that the media don't report suicides. So my partner chased them and to spoil their footage I flipped the bird over my shoulder – a bit unprofessional really. The station didn’t run the footage but were going to until my manager suggested to them that we might equally put the news station in a bad light by highlighting their actions on a rival news channel. I get on TV a bit and it’s still an ego trip for me!
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 0:35, Reply)

For 2 and a bit years....
I was one of the people in the background behind the newsreader of a certain local news TV programme.

My mum was very pleased as she could keep an eye on me, making sure I was still alive and turning up at work just by watching telly at 6:30.

Trying to look busy was often difficult. But the main downside was that the camera would always be pointing in my direction when I had an itchy nose/arse, doing something stupid or just happened to be looking into the camera like a bunny in headlights.
(Scary, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 0:30, Reply)

Look Ma, I'm on the TV
I was informed that a local (if you consider the whole of Southern California in any way local) weather report would be broadcasted from outside the student apartments here at the university, I decided to look as stupid as possible in the background.

This was accomplished by holding a giant "I HEART WEATHER" sign and shouting "WOO! YAY!" while the weatherman tried to warn of the dangers of light rain.

I got a travel mug for my enthusiasm.
(kitsune, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 0:24, Reply)

Shamefully
in a crowd scene of The Manageress which was filmed at Reading FC where I worked in the bar *beats self with big stick* oh yeah was also at the live recording thingumy of the 1994 meridan business awards all you saw was my hand reaching for the red wine and them placing it back emptier at regular intervals
(DWF, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 0:11, Reply)

The Butcher boy....
crappy arty tripe a bit of it was filmed here where i live...

www.eofftv.com/b/but/butcher_boy_main.htm

they converted a disused swimming baths and made a litte fairground... put B&B signs up, sort of made the place look like a seaside resort in the victorain era... (wot it was) since then, some smart git built a block of modern flats slap in the middle of a row of victorian houses... so no more film location for us... twat.


been in a few films as an extra meself... nuffin big, mostly local crap... still waiting for me big break... :-)
( TBL I posted this on, Fri 12 Nov 2004, 0:10, Reply)

Well...
My stepdad's best friend had a minor role as a squash player in this one tim allen movie, and I was on the local news for a gollum impression at my state fair. as for background stuff, countless.
(sirwootalot, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:53, Reply)

Actual paid extra work...
TV series set in the 60s, I went up with my wife (who had been hired as a "mechanic" because she had a drivers' license) wearing my dad's wedding suit. So there I was, in costume, so they hired me as well. We were guests at a wedding; you can see me, and my wife's stomach (she was 9 months preggers with our first), for all of two and a half seconds. They paid each of us over $100 for that two and a half seconds' worth.

Oh -- and they filmed me and the missus walking up the stairs into a museum in Germany for the news -- needed some action for the video I guess. The museum was closed, but I guess we got onto the German news that night...

Edit: just remembered... I wasn't in it, so it doesn't really count, but Carpool was filmed in my home town, and I think you can see the windows of the office I work in in one of the driving scenes...
(chazz, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:52, Reply)

Botty on the weather
I once walked past a bbc weather team reporting for Durham with my trousers round my knees. I'm pretty sure my arse made in onto the weather report that night.
(isaac, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:44, Reply)

In the 70's
I was in the back of a tv news report when my school played a charity football match against the Vietnamese Boat People.

We beat them 12-0
( MartinH, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:43, Reply)

Well....
Not much of an accident really, after entering some school politics competition, I was asked to film a 5 minute slot about road accients, and prevention of the above, for a regional BBC parliament show. So I was rather in the foreground of that one.

Some BBC peeps were at Lancaster Uni the other day talking about the mumps outbreak, I was stoof behind a pillar right next to the guy talking on camera. Sadly none of my mates were there and I thought doing something random and stupid would look just that if I did it by myself.

Was also interviewed a couple of times by random TV crews, not sure if they ever got shown though.

Err... no films, yet.
(R-T-C Got arbitrage profits?, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:41, Reply)

Does anyone one remember that nonsense of bbc2 that was
Back to the floor? It was a show about managment doing the piss poor jobs there staff had to do. Well one episode was about some noncy headmistress of a private school some where who goes to a crappy secondary school in "inner city london". I happened to go to said inner city school and can be seen in a school assembaliy not to slighy leaning back into camerea shot.
(udlras, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:27, Reply)

Video appearances...
I was recently doing some archaeology in iraq and found myself in this basement, where a group of men in black were holding another guy down whilst their mate filmed all this on a dodgy camcorder, as they chop the guys head off you can just see me wander into shot, and then wander back out again, the director called me a c*nt, and I think i was edited out of the broadcast version, think I might be included on the DVd tho..
(Lord Monkey of Yorkshire,OBE killed a gipsy on...., Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:17, Reply)

Johnny Ball and my school
Johhny Ball had been filimg something outside our school for some unknown reason one day, and the last shot they wanted to get was of Johnny talking and all the school buses leaving the yard, so a dozen buses, Johnny Ball, hundreds of children and a TV crew.... yep he got the fingers, people shouting Wanker at him, and several bare arses hanging out of bus windows, this went on for ten minutes as each coach left. I beleive they used very little footage from that shoot. My Fiat Bravo was also on Time team once when they were filimg in York.
(Lord Monkey of Yorkshire,OBE killed a gipsy on...., Thu 11 Nov 2004, 23:04, Reply)

Not me but...
Home and a way once filmed a scene in Ironbridge, uk. It's a quaint little tourist village, and the young nubile cast where there looking pretty. My uncle, a big, grey, hairy, ex-army, old man had parked his big, grey, hairy van right in front of the landmark ironbridge. The producer asked him to move the van, to which my uncle tactfully replyed "Fuck off" He then sat down and ate his pasty. They had to film around the shed of a van, so my less-than-pretty uncle was in shot, in the background, eating his pasty. Quality.
( nnnndave, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 22:30, Reply)

I...
...apparently was nearly on the first BBC Test the Nation thing. You remember the one? IQ tests, TV program, all that bollocks.

I'd done the IQ test earlier in the day, and scoreed 149. It had already asked for my gender and age; then, after the test, it wanted my name and phone number, in case they wanted to phone me up LIVE ON THE SHOW!!111!1One.

So, did I fill it in? Did I fuck. I figured someone would score higher.

Cut to that evening; two smarmy presenters up front, all happy. I can't even remember who they were; probably a good job they didn't call me. Anyway! They were half way through the televised bit of the test, and had paused to make an announcement.

Random bird: "Now, remember, we've been running this test online for the past few weeks, too. The highest online result so far has been..."

Cue a theatrical pause, as she checks her earpiece.

"...a score of 149, achieved by a male."

Fucksticks.
( gone, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 22:28, Reply)

Not me, but the gf
was on telly last sunday, the politics show. In the local bit, south, you can pick her out at the back enjoying a free lunch whilst the local MP bangs on about ASBOs. You can watch it on the bbc webshite if you like.....

.....although I'd be very worried if you actually.....did want to?
(Smoking Joe, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 22:27, Reply)

We were giving Moral Support..
..to a collegue at Leeds Crown Court and we nipped out for a spot of lunch. On the way back we noticed some cameras out front and decided to watch the regional news later, just in case.

There was a segment about some drunk/drugged up driver ploughing into a group of people and killing someone - turns out they were interviewing the wife/sister/mum of the person who died and, sure enough, there was me mooching back into the court in the background.
( Biggus Dickus , it was like that when I found it, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 22:25, Reply)

When Saturday Comes
Quite a few years back my brother was playing semi pro for Boston United when Sean Bean was filming the criminally oscar overlooked 'When Saturday Comes' and Boston were asked to provide players for the football sketches.

He is Man United's No.7 in the Semi Final and gets into a fight with Sean Bean when he gets booked. Better than that though, he was also interviewed by Look North (crappy regional BBC TV news for Yorkshire) and compared to Eric Cantona.

The bald ginger twat looks nothing like the big nosed french nob jockey.

(Edit: Oh, also our French class at school took part in a schools tv program about French lessons. It was complete shit.)
(GreasyChipButty, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 21:53, Reply)

Soapy
After getting caught by the Air Force trying to shag in a car next to a base (other story... wait for "Ever had a gun pointed at you on the job?") we were banned from seeing each other by her parents. However, she lived in Salford, I lived in Fife, and they lived in Cornwall, so the chances of getting caught were minimal. I would visit her, she would visit me, they would live in Cornwall, and no-one's knackers were in jeopardy.

However, one time there we were, large as fucking life walking down the street together in Coronation Street. They saw it.

They never saw us...
( collapsibletank procreates, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 21:45, Reply)

my own extra
back in my first year of uni i was sponsered by the royal socioty of chemistry, all well a good until they need photos of us all so off we trot on one cold wet hazy morning, stand infront of the chemistry block and get a photo of everyone in blazen lab coats, not worries.
the following day i was called to a photo shoot for the same thing jsut two people and a blue screen, so 2 weeks and the photo came back, me in the front looking all smug and me in the background looking hungover.

SORRY FOR THE LENGTH
(Bored, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 21:44, Reply)

Virtual Pool
me and my friend laura were milling about one day, while bunking off college, when we noticed a fairly large crowd of people, and a collection of TV News vans outside the gates of harlow police station.

so, in the interests of being nosey, we decide to hang about and see what all the commotion is about. After naging around for about 2 hours, we discover that michael barrymore was inside, being questioned about flicking fags in his pool the death of that bloke in his swimming pool.

we hung around until about 4, and then jumped on the next bus home, thinking nothing of it.

i got home, turned on the tv, and innocently watch the 6 o clock news, when suddenly the pair of us appear on screen for about 10 seconds, as the voiceover mentions about the local gay community :S

sometimes i wonder if i look too camp for my own good...
( lo, the Greebo Warrior - Est. 2002, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 21:39, Reply)

The person who lived in our house before us
is on Holby City now. And we keep getting some of her fan mail. And we reply. It am amoosing. We got a card with a baby on in saying "Thank you for the baby clothes you sent us", then returned the card with the photo of the baby in it, but with a tip-exed cock in the babys mouth.

Such larks.
(cottaging, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 21:31, Reply)

There was some shootout threat at my school so the news was there constantly for a week
my friend was one of the people on the hit list so we waited for him after school while some news people interviewed him. After it was over they were still filming us walking away so he purposly make the biggest, most embarassing trip right on his face. My other friend tyler who was there too said they accually aired it but cut away right in the middle of his fall.
(Cyrus, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 20:50, Reply)

Much ribbing at school
took place after the screening of the second series of A Bit of Fry and Laurie on BBC2. I got some tickets for the recording on two consecutive days and there were several sketches which involved the comedy duo interacting or walking through the audience. My gurning, grinning face was painfully apparent several times throughout the series which led to Lillian, a girl in my year, asking me every week "Brian, didn't I see you on Fry and Laurie last night?" I thought when it finished that that would be it, but when the series was repeated about six months later the piss taking started again.

What's worse, is that at the begining of the series they trailed it on BBC2 with a clip of a prerecorded sketch which I had been in the audience of when they recorded the laughter track. Rather embarrassingly I saw where the joke was going before the punchline and laughed very very loudly and very distinctively before the joke was completed. You know how often a trailer for a new comedy series is shown on the BBC? Well I'm painfully aware. For about three weeks, when looking away from the TV or just walking into a room I could hear my (what was then) distinctive and amusing cackle of laughter several times a day. I actively tried to alter my laugh after that. Reasonably successfully. I hope.

Rather randomly I was wandering through Leicester Square one day when I bumped into a friend of mine from University - Jeremy Maxwell Kramer (an actor from Los Angeles who spent a year at my University on an exchange programme and has recently starred in The Hazing and has been in all sorts of random stuff). He was over visiting people, and told me that fairly recently, in Los Angeles, and being a fan of British comedy, he had hired a video of A Bit and Fry of Laurie from Blockbusters and had been pretty startled when my laughing red face had appeared out of the gloom of the studio audience.
( brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 20:50, Reply)

My house
Has been in untold films and tv programmes. Here's a taste:
An episode of Spooks
David Cronenberg's movie Spider
A BBC trailer for Chris Moyles
A British Gas ad for this Xmas
I think the TV people like it because it looks like "up north" but is actually in NW10 and they can therefore get to the Groucho Club to snort some nose candy after a hard day's standing about ... oops, I mean, day's filming.
(Stacker, Thu 11 Nov 2004, 20:33, Reply)