Tape Face: My main thing was my nose, I sort of got known for hammering nails up my nose. Mr ShoBiz: What did you do, you were poking nails? You we’re preparing yourself for the concert. Mr ShoBiz: We were out doing something else, we missed Marilyn Manson. Tape Face: More than likely, he was probably the support act. I believe Marilyn Manson actually opened that. Mr ShoBiz: I saw them at the PNE Forum, never heard of you guys before, cause were going to see a rock show. If I could soon tour with my favourite band that would be great. See for me, because I’m a fan of the music, that’s how I got more into the side show stuff. Tape Face: Nine Inch Nails, they did the tour. Mr ShoBiz: First time I saw them was 1995, I’m from Vancouver, at the PNE Forum, they were opening up for this band, Nine Inch Nails. Tape Face: He’s a huge inspiration for me, really good, I love his stuff. Mr ShoBiz: I gotta ask you about Jim Rose Flying Circus. Tape Face: I am going to be at the Wiggle Room for the rest of the week every night except for Friday, come along it will be good. Mr ShoBiz: Tell us about where you’re going to be performing here at Just For Laughs. And was like, I wonder if I can start touring this? Well there’s an audience for it, so let’s keep doing it. Then eventually I got twenty minutes and it built up to where I had an hour long. I used to drop into these comedy shows and do five minutes of this strange character. So I just hear this bit of music and I go that’s a funny song, here’s a visual joke with that, and then I get an audience member out. It was kind of just a novelty to get away from talking so much, and doing all these stunts. Mr ShoBiz: How was this perceived at first your show? And the more I started putting more tape on, the less nails I had to be putting into my face, and now I find myself travelling the world with more and more gaffer tape. And so the tape went on, and this show evolved, and it slowly took over. So I decided to do a show that had no talking and no tricks. I used to eat light bulbs, and hammer nails up my nose, shove my body through a tennis racquet and do grotesque stunts like that, and I was doing that for a number of years, but I kind of got bored talking so much. I used to do Circus Side Show stuff, like the Jim Rose Circus Side Show. I used to do another show where I spoke a lot. Mr ShoBiz: Very simply, I’m sure you get asked this a lot, where the hell you’d come up with this? Tape Face: I get asked that quite a bit. I’m not gonna pick on anybody, I’m not being mean, it’s a nice style of comedy. I will make you laugh without saying a single word, and I use audience interactive, but a nice style of audience interactive. A Big thick gaffer tape over my mouth and I do not talk for an entire hour. I take a large piece of gaffer tape, you call it duct tape. The Boy With Tape On His Face is essentially a stand-up comedy without talking. I have heard amazing things about this show. S0 Sam, tell everybody about The Boy With Tape On His Face. Tape Face: No, this is a bit of context, because we can actually talk about me and what I do. Mr ShoBiz: Shortly we are going to meet The Boy With Tape On His Face but we don’t get him right now. Tape Face: My name is Sam Wills, but I am better known as The Boy With Tape On His Face. Mr ShoBiz: Please introduce yourself to the people. Click to learn about Sam Wills and what he was doing before becoming Tape Face. At the time of the interview he was The Boy With Tape On His Face. Two years later Tape Face appeared on Americas Got Talent. The Tape Face Interview took place in the summer of 2014 at The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Wanna know what Tape Face sounds like? Click The Video and Find Out! Tape Face Interview Without The Tape Here is my Sam Wills aka Tape Face Interview.
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