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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 3, 2024 13:01:00 GMT -5
Joe Flaherty's passing caused me to bring this following topic up, as I vaguely remembered someone (Bryan Alvarez?) saying Joe was actually the person who played Billionaire Ted himself.
Did we ever learn who played who in the skits?
90s-era NEWZ: on RSPW, I recall Jimmy Garvin (!) being named as being Nacho Man.
That leaves both Scheme Genes, and both Hucksters (original looked like that Hogan cosplay fan you saw all the time in the '90s; the newer one, who you saw at Mania 12, looked like "Maniac" Mike Davis. Perhaps Nacho WAS Jimmy Jam, and Michael Hayes was getting his old Dallas friends work??)
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 3, 2024 14:20:47 GMT -5
If "Billionaire Ted" was Joe Flaherty, then I'm Brad Pitt.
I'm not.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 3, 2024 16:26:50 GMT -5
If "Billionaire Ted" was Joe Flaherty, then I'm Brad Pitt. I'm not. Good. If you were, it probably wouldn't impress me much. |
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Post by Celexa Bliss 54 on Apr 3, 2024 16:38:58 GMT -5
IIRC most of the people in the skits were WWF office staff. That's what I read in Sex, Lies and Headlocks, anyway.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 3, 2024 16:46:45 GMT -5
According to IMDB, its James Flaherty, a character actor with a smattering of TV roles who played Billionaire Ted. Facially there does seem to be a resemblance. |
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 3, 2024 21:33:49 GMT -5
Surprised they didnt use WCW jobber and Hogan lookalike Randy Hogan to play the Huckster.
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Apr 3, 2024 23:49:34 GMT -5
All I know is this is where Vince Russo first appeared as a boardroom exec when Billionaire Ted was asking for ideas for his show.
It's funny that WWF pushes itself as young and hip around this time, while it was in the midst of promoting Jerry Lawler, King Kong Bundy and Bob Backlund.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 4, 2024 1:03:01 GMT -5
I could have sworn I saw Bruce Prichard in one of those skits, but I could be wrong.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Apr 4, 2024 2:08:43 GMT -5
All I know is this is where Vince Russo first appeared as a boardroom exec when Billionaire Ted was asking for ideas for his show. It's funny that WWF pushes itself as young and hip around this time, while it was in the midst of promoting Jerry Lawler, King Kong Bundy and Bob Backlund. I love Roddy Pipper, but he was also heavily featured on WWF TV as these skits were airing. Despite only being 8 months younger than Hogan. Who WWF was overtly calling a washed up old man due to his age. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 4, 2024 3:37:46 GMT -5
All I know is this is where Vince Russo first appeared as a boardroom exec when Billionaire Ted was asking for ideas for his show. It's funny that WWF pushes itself as young and hip around this time, while it was in the midst of promoting Jerry Lawler, King Kong Bundy and Bob Backlund. At least with Backlund, they were purposely making a big deal of his age and trying to tell a George Foreman style comeback story, not trying to pretend he was just the same as he was in 1983. |
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