Kevin Pereira
Kevin Pereira at the 2007 Comic-Con
Born	(1982-12-28) December 28, 1982 (age 29) Antioch, California, U.S.
Occupation	Television personality
Years active	2004–present
Website
kevinpereira.com

Kevin Pereira (born December 28, 1982^[1]) is best known as a former co-host of G4's Attack of the Show!.

Biography[link]

While in high school, Pereira hosted Pointless Audio under the pseudonym Captain Immy.^[2] The show featured many prank calls and was hosted on such gaming sites as Planet Quake and ShugaShack (now Shacknews); it later evolved into Pointless TV, and finally LickMySweaty.com.^[2] One of the projects featured on the latter site, a short film created for his video production class at Deer Valley High School, earned him three California Media Festival awards in 2001.^[3] A different film project was recognized in 2002.^[4] He studied film and television production with a scholarship to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California for one semester.^[2]

After working as a network administrator at an internet service provider for five years and also at a television network, he pursued a career at G4.^[2] He started as a production assistant on the talk show in 2002 G4tv.com, then moved on to Arena and Pulse and then quickly moved to another G4 show, The Screen Savers, in 2004.^[5] Pereira was a co-host of Attack of the Show!, G4's live tech info show, and was the last original cast member to leave. He co-hosted the show for a year with Sarah Lane, who left in 2006, followed by Olivia Munn, who left in 2010. In 2011 Candace Bailey joined Pereira as cohost.^[6] He hosted his last episode of AOTS on May 31, 2012 after it was announced on May 8, 2012 by G4 that his final broadcast on Attack of the Show! would take place on that day. His final broadcast for the channel is scheduled to take place during their Electronic Entertainment Expo coverage, preceded by a month-long retrospective of highlights from the show.^[7]

References[link]

1. ^ Kevin Pereira (December 28, 2005). Operation: Birthday. Accessed 2006-11-04.
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Stephen A. Johnson (April 15, 2006). AOTS hosts Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn. g4tv.com. Accessed 2007-01-25.
3. ^ 2001 Secondary Subject Area Award Winning Videos. 35th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01-26.
4. ^ Secondary Awards 2001-2002 School Year. 36th Annual California Student Media & Multimedia Festival. Accessed 2007-01-26.
5. ^ Kevin Pereira. IMDb.com. Accessed 2007-01-26.
6. ^ Moye Ishimoto (December 6, 2010). Candace Bailey is the New AOTS Co-Host. g4tv.com. Accessed 2011-08-02.
7. ^ Kevin Pereira Leaving Attack Of The Show. G4 (TV channel). Accessed 2012-05-08.

External links[link]

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Candace Kaye Bailey (born May 20, 1982) is an American actress known for roles on Nickelodeon, the TV series Jericho, and as of January 2011 is a co-host to Attack of the Show!.

Early life[link]

Candace Bailey was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a graduate of Gulf Breeze High School near Pensacola, Florida,^[1] and attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She is also a former Junior Olympic gymnast.^[2]

Career[link]

Bailey played Skylar Stevens on the CBS series Jericho from 2006 to 2008.^[3] Prior to that, she was on Nickelodeon's U-Pick Live from 2002 to 2005.^[4][5] She also appeared in the music video of "Goodnight Goodnight" by Maroon 5.

Bailey has said that after Jericho was cancelled she worked as a cocktail waitress and babysitter between acting jobs and that work made her more appreciative of her acting opportunities.^[6] Other TV appearances have included episodes of Ghost Whisperer (January 2010, Episode 5.12), The Sopranos, Robot Chicken, As the World Turns, Slime Time Live and a co-hosting slot on a kids-focused 2004 Super Bowl pre-game show.^[7]

On January 11, 2011, Bailey joined Kevin Pereira as the new co-host of Attack of the Show!.^[8][9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Candace Bailey at the Internet Movie Database
• Candace Bailey on Twitter
• Candace Bailey profile at G4TV.com

Sandeep Parikh
Parikh at the 2009 Streamy Awards
Born	(1980-07-23) July 23, 1980 (age 31) Goffstown, New Hampshire

Sandeep Parikh (born July 23, 1980) is an American writer, director, actor and producer of comedy currently residing in Silverlake in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his co-starring role as Zaboo on the award-winning web series The Guild. He is the founder of Effinfunny.com, a comedy video site focusing on alternative stand up comedy and the creation of original web series like The Legend of Neil (for Comedy Central and AtomFilms), which are currently available online.

Background[link]

Parikh was born to Indian immigrants in Goffstown, New Hampshire, and raised there by his parents and two older brothers, Rajiv and Sanjiv.^{[citation needed]} He was a gymnast since the age of 4 and competed nationally in all six male events until 18.^{[citation needed]}

Parikh went to Goffstown High School in New Hampshire and then went to Brown University where he received an A.B. in Computer Science with Honors in Creative Writing.

Career[link]

Parikh began improvising and writing sketches for the short-lived comedy troupe The Village Idiots at Brown University. In 2001 he wrote and produced his first film, The Courier Dodge, which was a finalist at the Ivy Film Festival for Best Comedy. He was awarded the Capstone at Brown for writing the feature screenplay Chess Wesley. After graduating, he lived in Brooklyn, New York, and wrote plays, one of which was produced at the Lower Tenement Theatre in Manhattan. Unable to ignore the calls of Hollywood, he moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and wrote, directed, and produced an independent television pilot called The Good Guys. This landed him his agent at the William Morris Agency. In July 2006 he founded Effinfunny.com where he produced stand-up comedy shows in Los Angeles and edited the best bits into digestible clips for the Internet and created profiles for the comedians for promotional purposes.

Parikh at the 2011 Phoenix Comicon for The Guild.

Parikh plays the role of "Zaboo" in The Guild, an Internet sitcom about a group of online role-playing game members whose guild meets in real life for the first time after Zaboo turns up on the doorstep of fellow gamer "Codex," played by show's star and creator Felicia Day, whom he has tracked down to give her the blue roses he crafted for her.

Parikh created, co-wrote, and directed The Legend of Neil about a real-world slacker who gets sucked into The Legend of Zelda and has to fight his way out with a wooden sword and no discernible skills. He wrote the 4-minute short as a web pilot for VH1's Acceptable.tv. The show was cancelled before the Legend of Neil was eligible to air but it won best Sci Fi Fantasy Web Pilot for the Acceptable.tv podcast. The show was then a YouTube sensation amassing over a quarter million hits. It was soon picked up by Comedy Central for 5 more webisodes that were released in July 2008 on Atom.com. A second season, commissioned by Comedy Central, was released by Atom.com in 2009. A third season followed, premiering in July 2010.

He also co-wrote, directed, and acted in Raptor, which had a two-episode run on Channel101.com, in which he plays a man who plays foosball against his co-worker Raymond, a velociraptor. Parikh co-wrote, directed, and starred as Tom Selleck in The Blood Oath of Three Men and a Baby which likewise had a two-episode run on Channel101.

In 2009, Parikh appeared in an episode of Community. In the end credits scene of the season one episode "Debate 109," he appears as "Abed's Abed," playing Abed in one of his films and performing the Spanish rap from the end of "Spanish 101" with "Abed's Troy."

References[link]

External links[link]

• The Legend of Neil Videos
• effinfunny.com
• watchtheguild.com
• Sandeep Parikh at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site

David Andrew Seaman MBE (born 19 September 1963 in Rotherham, South Yorkshire) is an English former football goalkeeper who played for several clubs, most notably Arsenal. He retired from the game on 13 January 2004, following a recurring shoulder injury. He was awarded the MBE in 1997 for services to the sport.

The peak of his career was during his period as Arsenal and England goalkeeper in the 1990s and early 2000s; during his time at Arsenal he won many medals including three league championships (1991, 1998, 2002), four FA Cups (1993, 1998, 2002, 2003), the League Cup in 1993 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1994. During this time he also played in the 1998 and 2002 World Cups, and Euro 96 and Euro 2000, and is England's second-most capped goalkeeper with 75 caps, after Peter Shilton.^[1]

Seaman's career highs came in his successful performance in UEFA Euro 96 and in Arsenal's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Premier League and FA Cup (including a superb save from Paul Peschisolido for Sheffield United in the FA Cup 2002–03) campaigns in the mid-90s and early-2000s. Notable lows came with two costly errors, both from long-range efforts — conceding a last-minute goal in the 1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final to Nayim and conceding to a Ronaldinho free-kick in the 2002 FIFA World Cup quarter-final.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Seaman is left-handed,^[7] but throws the football with his right arm^[8] and kicks with his right foot. He also played in the Premier League for Manchester City, as well as appearances in the Football League for Peterborough United, Birmingham City and Queens Park Rangers.

Club career[link]

Early career[link]

Seaman was brought up in Rotherham where he attended Kimberworth Comprehensive School.^[9] He began his career at Leeds United, the club he supported as a boy. However (much to his disappointment), he was not wanted by then-manager Eddie Gray, who had been his favourite player. Seaman went to Division 4 club Peterborough United for a £4,000 fee in August 1982, where he began to make a name for himself.

Just over two years later, in October 1984, Second Division Birmingham City paid £100,000 for Seaman's services. They ended up winning promotion at the end of that season, but were relegated again at the end of the following season. Seaman was not to follow them back to Division Two, however.

In August 1986, Seaman moved to Queens Park Rangers for £225,000. Playing in a higher profile club on a plastic pitch, he earned his first England cap, which came under Bobby Robson in a friendly against Saudi Arabia in November 1988. Whilst at Q.P.R., Seaman was coached by Arsenal double-winner (of 1971) Bob Wilson, who was to work with him for more than a decade.

Arsenal[link]

In 1990, long before the current transfer window system had come to English football, there was still a transfer deadline a few weeks before the end of the season. Arsenal, who had won the league in 1989, wanted to sign Seaman, but the deal involved Arsenal's keeper John Lukic heading the opposite way on loan. Lukic did not want to do this, and the deal broke down and remained unresolved when the deadline passed. As soon as the season ended and clubs were allowed to buy players again, Arsenal manager George Graham came back for Seaman, with £1.3 million (at the time a British record for a goalkeeper)^[10] being the agreed fee. Lukic, who was highly popular amongst Arsenal fans, left to rejoin Leeds.

Seaman's time at Arsenal coincided with one of the most successful periods in the club's history. The 1990–91 season saw Seaman concede only 18 goals when playing in every match of the 38-game season as Arsenal regained the league title.

Arsenal won both the FA Cup and the League Cup in 1993 and supplemented this a year later with the European Cup Winners' Cup. Shortly before the European success, Terry Venables was appointed as England manager. Venables saw Seaman as his first-choice goalkeeper and Seaman would remain a permanent member of the England team until 2002.

In 1995, George Graham was sacked, and Arsenal came close to becoming the first club to retain the Cup Winners' Cup, with Seaman earning a reputation as a penalty-saving specialist after saving Attilio Lombardo's shot in Arsenal's semi-final shoot-out against U.C. Sampdoria. However, in the final Arsenal lost in extra time to Real Zaragoza, with a spectacular last-minute goal from Nayim from 45 yards out catching Seaman off his line, it was noted that there were only seconds left of extra time when Seaman conceded.

In August 1996, Arsène Wenger became the new manager of Arsenal. Wenger rated Seaman highly and in 1998, Seaman backstopped the team to the Premier League and FA Cup double. In 1998–99, Seaman played all 38 league matches, conceded only 17 league goals as Arsenal came agonisingly close to retaining the Premier League and lost in the FA Cup semi-finals to Manchester United. The following season Seaman managed to reach the 2000 UEFA Cup Final, which Arsenal drew 0–0 with Galatasaray, but lost on penalties.

In 2002, Seaman won the Premier League and the FA Cup again to complete his second career double, although Arsenal's other goalkeepers Stuart Taylor and Richard Wright also won championship medals, due mainly to Seaman's absence through injuries.

Despite his international career ending so flatly and accusations his mobility had faded with age, the 2002–03 season—Seaman's last at Arsenal—ended on a high note. In the FA Cup, he made a spectacular save against Sheffield United's Paul Peschisolido in the semi-finals, in what former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, a pundit for the BBC on the day, dubbed "the best save I've ever seen".^[11] Arsenal were defending a 1–0 lead, when with less than ten minutes to go, Peschisolido had a header towards an apparently open goal from six yards out with Seaman seemingly stranded at the near post. However, the goalkeeper leaped sideways and backwards, somehow managing to stretch his right arm behind him and scoop the ball back and away from both his goal and the opposing players ready to pounce on a rebound. The match was all the more remarkable in that it was Seaman's 1,000th professional career game. Seaman went on to captain the team during the finals in the absence of injured Patrick Vieira and keep another clean sheet at the Millennium Stadium as they defeated Southampton 1–0. His final act with Arsenal was to lift the FA Cup, which was his eighth major trophy with his team. Seaman played in goal for Arsenal more times than anyone else, and is second after Ray Parlour in the all-time Premiership appearances chart for Arsenal, with 325 to his name. In June 2008 he was voted seventh in the list of 50 Gunners' Greatest Players.^[12]

Manchester City[link]

Released by Arsenal, Seaman joined up with Kevin Keegan at Manchester City in the summer of 2003, but Seaman's career at the City of Manchester Stadium did not last long. Whilst out of action due to injury, Seaman announced his immediate retirement in January 2004 at the age of 40. His last act at City was to help Keegan select his successor in goal, David James — the man who had ousted him as England's first choice goalkeeper a little over a year earlier.

In November 2005, Paul Merson and Walsall approached Seaman, and later ex-ex-Wales goalkeeper Neville Southall and Chris Woods to perform in an FA Cup game at Merthyr Tydfil as their two first choice goalkeepers, Joe Murphy and Andy Oakes, were unavailable. However, Seaman was forced to turn this offer down, as it would have constituted a breach in the terms of his retirement insurance pay-out for his recurring shoulder injury.^[13]

International career[link]

Seaman made his England debut in 1988 and appeared for the side in fifteen consecutive years, a national record.

He earned his first England cap under Bobby Robson in a friendly against Saudi Arabia in November 1988. Robson selected him as England's third-choice goalkeeper behind Peter Shilton and Chris Woods at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but after arriving in Italy he had to pull out of the squad due to injury and was replaced by Dave Beasant.

Seaman remained a member of the England squad under new manager Graham Taylor but only cemented his place as undisputed number one with the arrival of Terry Venables and played every minute of every match during Euro 96. Seaman saved two spot-kicks in the tournament; the first a penalty in normal play from Scotland's Gary McAllister in a group match, while England were 1–0 up (Paul Gascoigne scored soon after to make it 2–0). Then, after England's quarter-final against Spain ended scoreless, Seaman saved Miguel Angel Nadal's kick in the shootout to knock Spain out of the tournament. England eventually were eliminated in the semi-finals of the competition; Seaman was named alongside Golden Boot winner Alan Shearer and winger Steve McManaman in the UEFA "Team of the Tournament". Euro 96 sponsor Philips named him "Player of the Tournament".

Seaman remained first choice under the management of Glenn Hoddle for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. England went out on penalties, losing against Argentina. Kevin Keegan selected him for Euro 2000, where he started against both Portugal and Germany but sustained an injury in his warm-up exercises for the third game against Romania. Nigel Martyn stepped in, and Phil Neville's clumsy foul late in the game gave Romania a penalty which Martyn could not stop. England lost the match and went out in the first round.

Seaman was part of Sven-Göran Eriksson's 2002 FIFA World Cup squad, and played every game as England reached the quarter-finals, turning back a second half offensive to shut out arch-rivals Argentina 1–0 in the group stage after English captain David Beckham scored the penalty spot kick. However, in England's quarter-final against Brazil Seaman was caught off his line by Ronaldinho's long-range free kick, as England lost 2–1; he blamed himself for the error.^[14]

The result led to a debate about whether Seaman should remain England's number one.^[15] He remained England's first choice goalkeeper until a Euro 2004 qualifier in October 2002 against Macedonia. In this match, he let in a goal directly from a corner kick by Artim Sakiri in a 2–2 draw and brought further press criticism.^[16] This was Seaman's last appearance for the England national team, as Eriksson dropped him in favour of David James.

Career statistics[link]

Club[link]

International[link]

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Honours[link]

Team[link]

With Arsenal

First Division Championship/FA Premier League:

• Winner: 1990-91, 1997-98, 2001-02
• Runner-up: 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2002-03

FA Cup:

• Winner: 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003
• Runner-up: 2001

League Cup:

• Winner: 1992-93

FA Community Shield:

• Winner: 1991 (shared), 1998, 1999, 2002
• Runner-up: 1993

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

• Winner: 1994
• Runner-up: 1995

UEFA Cup

• Runner-up: 2000

UEFA Super Cup

• Runner-up: 1994

With England

FIFA World Cup

• Appearances: 1998, 2002
• Unused Squad member: 1990 (Withdrew injured)

UEFA European Championship

• Euro 96 Quarterfinal Winner
• Appearances: 1996, 2000

Tournoi de France

• Winner: 1997

Individual[link]

UEFA Euro 96 Team of the Tournament

PFA Team of the Year: 1997

Member in The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1997)

Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–2002):

• Domestic Team of the Decade
• Goalkeeper with most clean sheets (130)

Later career[link]

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Seaman began working on his coaching badge with a view to coaching goalkeepers but decided to pause after learning that he would first need a badge in outfield coaching in which he had no interest.^[20] His on-screen presence made him a popular choice for chat-shows and televised appearances during his sporting career, and he can occasionally be spotted on British television. Whilst still a player, he acted in a cameo role in a BBC film based around the events of England's successful Euro 96 tournament, starring Rachel Weisz and Neil Morrissey, entitled My Summer with Des. He also became the spokesman for Yorkshire Tea during the early 1990s. He briefly replaced Gary Lineker as team captain on the television quiz They Think It's All Over before producers decided to drop him in favour of former Arsenal team-mate Ian Wright.

In December 2004, following his retirement from professional football, he became one of the celebrities to take part in Strictly Ice Dancing, an ice dance version of Strictly Come Dancing, in which celebrities are paired with professional dancers. He joined the show at late notice, replacing Paul Gascoigne. With just eight days to prepare for the show, broadcast on BBC One on 26 December, Seaman and his professional partner Zoia Birmingham managed to win the competition. The other competitors spent a month in training for the show.

In late 2005 he had his trademark ponytail cut off on live television for charity, which ended negotiatory talks with such companies as L'Oreal who wanted to sponsor his hair as they had with David Ginola. He returned to the ice for another ice-dancing series, Dancing on Ice, broadcast on ITV. The series started on 14 January 2006, and Seaman ended in fourth place. He has also appeared on All Star Family Fortunes.

Seaman also hosts a "Safe Hands" charity golf event annually, and has released two football-themed DVDs entitled David Seaman's Goalkeeping Nightmares in 2003 and Jeepers Keepers in 2004.

Seaman has also played in all four Soccer Aid matches for England.^[21][22][23]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
• Statistics at soccerbase.com
• Profile at UpThePosh! The Peterborough United Database
• David Seaman at IMDb
• David Seaman in the Goalkeeping Museum