Comic-Con - Day 5

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Stage-dives, undie-signing and some Hot Fuzz

Sunday, Sunday… So good to meeee…. Fortunately, Sunday offered a chance to wind down a little as most of the major presentations were out of the way and some attendees had headed home. TF could finally sleep in (but not too late) and then catch the Con shuttle bus to the convention centre for the Rogue Pictures panel.

Kicking off the event were Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, two comedy writer/actors who aren’t exactly well known over here, but have a cult following in the States for their Reno 911 series. They were promoting a side project called Balls Of Fury, about which we’d heard very little. We knew it was Game Of Death, but with Ping Pong and we’d seen Christopher Walken in a variety of silly outfits. But the scenes they showed were suitably gigglesome, with Walken proving a particular highlight. The panel descended into comedy madness when a question-asking attendee dared to accuse the boys of mocking ping-pong, which led to a stage-diving, aisle-running smackdown for one lucky – or unlucky? – Reno 911 fan. Returning to the stage clutching the man’s Con badge, Garant shouted, “Try getting back into stuff now, bitch!” Oh, and they also signed someone’s underwear. After demanding the bloke put them on. Shudder.

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