Monday, June 21, 2010

Whatever Happened To Kevin Seal?

The things you learn when reading Wikipedia. I was checking some things for my summer playlist (coming very soon to a blog near you) and found this humorous note:

Kevin Seal once introduced Sinéad O'Connor's music video of "Nothing Compares 2 U" (which was also composed by Prince) "for all those who missed her version of 'Batdance.'"

(Note: "Batdance," though it's actually so weird that I love it, is not on the summer playlist.)

Now, I don't remember seeing him say that, but I actually do remember Kevin Seal from his MTV days. This is all it says on Wikipedia about him:

Kevin Seal was an MTV VJ in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV (according to an MTV special) and one of the hosts of the influential alternative-music program 120 Minutes, which debuted in 1986. After leaving the program, he hosted MTV's Headbangers Ball from 1987 to 1988 and Kevin Seal: Sporting Fool in 1990. Since leaving MTV, he made occasional TV and movie appearances. In 2000, he was cast as voice talent for both the lead character and primary antagonist in the Cartoon Network series Sheep in the Big City.

So, seeing his name made me wonder where he went.
And there's pretty much nothing out there in Google-land, although I found this article from 2006 about filmmaker Lynn Shelton, where it mentions that she and Kevin Seal are married (at least they were at the time) and they had just moved back to Seattle. Shelton went on to write, direct and produce "Humpday," a film I really enjoyed.


Some video with Kevin and the late Ken Ober, from the 1989 MTV Video Awards pre-show...about 1:20 into it, his shirt is off!

8 comments:

  1. He lives in Seattle. Is still married to Lynn Shelton. Takes care of his son. Is still very funny.

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  2. That's good to know. Perhaps he'll make a comeback at some point.

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  3. Always liked Seal. It's funny to see some of the comments on various YouTube videos trashing him -- some people just don't get him.

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  4. I went to the Art Institute in Seattle with him. Really rad guy, He does commercials and I think has a band or used to. Put Kevin Seal back on MTV!

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  5. Oh, lord, don't put him back on MTV. Put him somewhere relevant and worthy of his brilliant wit.

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  6. http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Catching-up-with-Kevin-Seal-of-MTV-fame-133542758.html

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  7. https://frenchsabbatical.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/082411/

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