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"There's a dog-and-pony show to everything," explained Big Show, a 500-pound, 7-foot-2, World Wrestling Entertainment performer from Tampa who said he had a hard time slipping between the metal detectors to get into the convention. "I think our whole world has become entertainment. You have to make things entertaining to give them an enlightening tone."
Big Show said he was particularly impressed with Bill Clinton's entrance onstage for the 2000 Democratic National Convention. The camera work, he said, looked borrowed from the wrestling world.
"It was the 'Raw' entrance -- the low camera shot," Big Show said.
One of the other wrestlers, Mick Foley, who broke in as Cactus Jack and once was The Rock's tag-team partner, says pro wrestlers, like everybody else, have issues. "Heath care is a huge issue," Foley said.
The wrestler said his biggest thrill has been meeting Ed Helms and Rob Corddry, two reporters from Comedy Central's The Daily Show, who are here spoofing the convention for the cable TV show.
For those of you keeping score at home: That's a fake wrestler being impressed by meeting two fake newsmen who have become stars of a show that parodies the news.
It all fits. The convention itself is kind of a parody of a news event.
Speaking of which, one of the Ohio delegates is talk-show host Jerry Springer, who walks the floor, leaving other delegates in his wake shouting, "Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!"
In other news, Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of the presumptive nominee, told a pissant newspaper editorial writer to "shove it!"
It is one of the few unscripted moments of the week, and something that I'm sure Big Show would applaud as entertainment that gives an enlightening tone.
Whatever that means.