Did anyone watch the late night channel 4 show The Word in the 90s? During the early 90s just before the internet took over those post-pub TV slots were big business and The Word ruled for the right or wrong reasons! Remember the section where people would send in videos of themselves doing disgusting and degrading acts just to get on TV. Ah the good old days.
I was in the audience for a christmas one where I saw Penn & Teller do a trick where Teller has a cage on his head full of rats biting his face. I was just metres away and I still have no idea how they did it unless it really was rats biting his face. Gabrielle was also on it that night and I patted her on the back after she sang and said great performance and she looked at me and said thanks. That's right - I touched Gabrielle and she looked at me and said thanks. I even got the wind shield of the popular lesbian Hufty's mic. The floor crew were ruthless and if you didn't keep an eye out for the big camera cables being dragged around you could end up becoming a soprano very painfully. There is footage of the episode on youtube but not the part where it shows me in a very questionable jacket. It was white and very 80s with the sleeves rolled up so I looked like I was audtioning for Miami Vice. When you arrived all the girls were given a bolt and all the boys were given a screw and you had to go up to people to see if your screw and their bolt fitted each other.
A few weeks later Faith No More played the legendary Everythings Ruined on the show.