Yeah yeah,
you see, in my old middle school <as well as my high school> my reputation as an astounding actor and variety man preceeded me. Once people heard I was doing my first act for the last talent show of the year
<which was also the last talent show for me to perform in, the next year we moved to high school> they automatically thought it was going to be an overblown laugh fest.
Some of them spread rumors that the act was to be of my infamous 'The Real Sean Grady', an Eminem satire. While others were saying how I was going to do a live Improv act with some of my other good acting friends.
While all of these were amazing ideas, noone seemed to know anyone else who was involved in the act. Controversy insued.
People would ask me weeks before the talent show what to expect, I never said a word of the act.
Finally, when the big day came, I disappeared from the audience to backstage and waited for my name to be called. It finally was and as I stepped out people clapped and laughed when it wasn't required of them, the look on my face <which was rehearsed> was already filled with confusion and pure fear. They thought I had frozen with stage fright, which was where I built from Andy's original sketch and made some of it into my own material. I stared down at them with the look of pure fear with my hand twiddling and twitching at my side, and I finally snapped back into reality and turned to the record player after about 30 seconds of silence. People were now laughing at me, teachers were pulling younger kids out of the crowd as they laughed and yelled obscenities at me, thinking I had frozen with fear.
By now some people believed my act to have bombed even before it had started, as I was told afterwards before the song started, almost my entire grade level had thought I wasn't as brave as they had thought.
Finally I get the record player working and as the tune starts, I stare into the crowd again with wide eyes, I had frozen with fear again.
All 600 sets of eyes were staring at me with a mocking tone to them, they thought chickenshit of me.
Finally the Mighty Mouse cry is yelled from the player and I throw my arm into the air and lip sync. The audience automatically turn from shallow murmers of teasing laughter to uproared bouts of giddiness and bellowing laughter. They finally got the joke.
I then went back to the fearful stare and started twiddling my hand at my side again. They laugh again, realizing it was all cleverly acted out. My teacher actually clapped in the back row, and my previous teachers from years past looked at me as if I were a genious.
The second and third yell of laughter came as I did the lip sync the final two shouts with the same movement <I used the original theme, not the one from the MotM soundtrack, no laugh track, no dialogue from the movie>. The audience loved it and began clapping, I lapped up every minute of this. And finally, by the time the record was over and I began to bow as if I had done a tremendous act, I got the only standing ovation of the entire show, both from my friends as well as the kids that were once shouting obscenities at me.
I love show buisness and acting in general, and mark my words, some day you will see me credited in the starting of SaturdayNightLive.