VanCon: (No hate, just) Cohen and Speight
These guys are the best. I'm so glad they got a panel together. They kept wandering around the room, and at one point we lost track of Matt only to have him pop up behind us so suddenly that we literally squeaked. They're completely hilarious, and this post won't do them justice.
- They seemed offended by their panel's intro music. Dick shouted, "Why the Hell are you playing 'Knocking on Heaven's Door?!"
- The last time they were on stage, for karaoke the night before, the front rows had been removed. They weren't prepared for people to be sitting so close.
Dick: "They're looking up my nose!"
Matt: "I'm gonna spill my coffee on them!"
- Dick described his mustache as a "porn stache." He advised everyone to never grow a mustache alone. Always grow a full beard, and then, "It's like carving the statue of David, and taking away all the marble that wasn't David. You grow a beard, and then you shave off everything that isn't mustache."
- They described how they got everyone to come to karaoke. Dick did an extended impression of Mark Pellegrino, who apparently didn't want to come initially. They got him to agree to hang out backstage. At the last minute Dick told him that it would make the crowd really happy if he would just come out on stage for a little while, and promised him that he wouldn't have to sing. Dick's impression of Pellegrino was very deadpan when he held up two fingers sideways and said, "Give me this much more booze, and I'll do it."
Matt: "And then, five minutes later, he was standing on a chair and belting out 'Big Balls.'"
Dick: "I still don't know if he was screwing with me the whole time."
- Julian Richings is incredibly un-Death-like, and was happy to come to karaoke. Tim Omundson was like, "Stage? Mic? People? Music? I'm there!"
- When a fan asked how Dick would like Gabe to come back, Dick invited her up to the "Seat of Doom" onstage to answer her own question (this is becoming a theme). The fan looked very nervous with Dick and Matt kneeling expectantly on either side of her, shoving microphones into her face, but she managed, "He should come back in a big awesome explosion of awesome."
Matt: "Which of course means I would be in that episode too."
- When asked which version of their character was most fun to play:
Matt: "I love young John… but he's no Michael."
(Dick's favorite was the Trickster, though he also likes Gabe)
- When asked which superhero they would be, Dick immediately answered, "Aquaman." When everyone laughed, he said mock-defensively, "You got a problem with Aquaman?" Matt likes Batman and Bane from the new Dark Knight movie. He says it's important to know how your supervillain looks without a shirt on.
- They agree that Jared's got one coming to him for pranking everyone so often. They are accepting suggestions for good pranks via Twitter.
- When asked for their best dance move, they predictably turned the tables on the person who asked.
Fan: "I don't know if I can…"
Dick: "That ship has sailed!"
- Someone mentioned Doctor Who and Whovians. Dick said, while miming vacuuming, "I have a Whovian at home. It cleans up dirt."
- If Matt could have played anyone else on Supernatural, he would have wanted to play Lucifer, except for the fact that Pellegrino is so perfect in the role already. "So I want to be Pellegrino for a day so I can play Lucifer. And then sing 'Big Balls.'"
-Matt has a tattoo that covers almost his whole leg, but he would have to take off his pants to show us. Dick said, "America doesn't need to see you pantsless… OR DO THEY?" Matt described the tattoo: he designed it himself, and it's a tribute to his family.
- Mark Sheppard is most like his character, except that Crowley is slightly nicer. Misha is the least like Cas.
- Dick: "Jared and Misha took certain liberties with my phone." I was waiting for this story, because I remember when Jim Beaver (I believe it was) was gloating about fucking with Dick's phone on Twitter. They changed things that wouldn't be immediately obvious, like the signature that automatically appears at the end of emails, and the photos on his contacts. When he confronted them, they said, "Dude, you left your phone in the green room! What were we supposed to do? Our hands were tied!"
Dick: "And the worst part was that I couldn't even be mad at them, because I would have done the exact same thing.
- When they're out together, Matt gets all the attention. Once a woman asked Dick to take her picture with Matt, gushed about how handsome he was, and showed him a cell phone picture of her naked butt. Dick assumed she was a hardcore fan, but it turned out she didn't even know that either of them were actors. She just really liked how Matt looks. (I feel you, lady.)
- Someone started asking about whether Dick would like to do a musical episode of Supernatural. He answered, "Yes," before she was even finished with her question.
- There was a question about time travel that somehow turned into an extremely convoluted hypothetic time-travel-battle in which Dick was trying to avoid ever seeing Matt in dolphin shorts and Matt was trying to make sure that the dolphin shorts were as short as possible. It involved a lot of, "But then I would go back even farther than you and make sure you never…" It was glorious and it made absolutely no sense.
- When asked what his favorite color is, Dick paused for a long time and then said, "I'm trying to figure out how to make this offensive."
- A fan asked, "What did Sebastian do?" I think she was trying to word it differently, but Dick and Matt took off with it.
Matt: "What doesn't Sebastian do?"
Dick: "If you're going for a WWJD thing, except with Sebastian, then that's a terrible idea. If you find yourself asking 'What Would Sebastian Do,' you're in trouble. Just make your own terrible decision. It'll be better than his."
- A fan said, "I want to stroke your mustache more than I have ever wanted to stroke a mustache in my life." Dick let the fan and the two with her come up on stage and pet his mustache. When they hesitated, he ordered them to, "Just touch it!" And when they did, he purred loudly.
- They ran out of time and the con staff tried to cut off the question line. Dick and Matt stopped them, and went into speed-Q&A-mode to try to get through all the questions before they got kicked off stage.
- Fan: "What was your favorite scene and why?"
Dick: "Me doing a porno because it was me doing a porno!"
- Dick promised to wear assless chaps to the cocktail party. People with Gold passes, please confirm? ;)
- When asked about his death scene, Dick: "Yeah, it kinda sucked getting killed. I really wanted to stay alive, so that blew."
- When asked how much he could bench press, Matt: "How much do you weigh, Richard?"
- Dick thinks it's "exceptionally possible" for Gabe to be brought back.
- There was an extremely awkward moment right at the end when one fan asked if she could sit on the chair on stage. Dick seemed confused, but he let her come up while they finished the last couple of questions. She sat on the chair and waved to the cameras, saying things like, "Hi, Mom!" When the panel was over, Dick took her hand and started to lead her off stage. She made him wait while she struck a pose and said dramatically, "Help! Security! I'm being manhandled!" She was obviously trying to be funny, but it was in really poor taste, especially since Dick and Matt were trying to wind their panel down and they had already run over their allotted time. Dick pulled her the rest of the way off stage, saying, "Yes, you are!"
(angel-kink's account is here. Again, she has photos.)
- They seemed offended by their panel's intro music. Dick shouted, "Why the Hell are you playing 'Knocking on Heaven's Door?!"
- The last time they were on stage, for karaoke the night before, the front rows had been removed. They weren't prepared for people to be sitting so close.
Dick: "They're looking up my nose!"
Matt: "I'm gonna spill my coffee on them!"
- Dick described his mustache as a "porn stache." He advised everyone to never grow a mustache alone. Always grow a full beard, and then, "It's like carving the statue of David, and taking away all the marble that wasn't David. You grow a beard, and then you shave off everything that isn't mustache."
- They described how they got everyone to come to karaoke. Dick did an extended impression of Mark Pellegrino, who apparently didn't want to come initially. They got him to agree to hang out backstage. At the last minute Dick told him that it would make the crowd really happy if he would just come out on stage for a little while, and promised him that he wouldn't have to sing. Dick's impression of Pellegrino was very deadpan when he held up two fingers sideways and said, "Give me this much more booze, and I'll do it."
Matt: "And then, five minutes later, he was standing on a chair and belting out 'Big Balls.'"
Dick: "I still don't know if he was screwing with me the whole time."
- Julian Richings is incredibly un-Death-like, and was happy to come to karaoke. Tim Omundson was like, "Stage? Mic? People? Music? I'm there!"
- When a fan asked how Dick would like Gabe to come back, Dick invited her up to the "Seat of Doom" onstage to answer her own question (this is becoming a theme). The fan looked very nervous with Dick and Matt kneeling expectantly on either side of her, shoving microphones into her face, but she managed, "He should come back in a big awesome explosion of awesome."
Matt: "Which of course means I would be in that episode too."
- When asked which version of their character was most fun to play:
Matt: "I love young John… but he's no Michael."
(Dick's favorite was the Trickster, though he also likes Gabe)
- When asked which superhero they would be, Dick immediately answered, "Aquaman." When everyone laughed, he said mock-defensively, "You got a problem with Aquaman?" Matt likes Batman and Bane from the new Dark Knight movie. He says it's important to know how your supervillain looks without a shirt on.
- They agree that Jared's got one coming to him for pranking everyone so often. They are accepting suggestions for good pranks via Twitter.
- When asked for their best dance move, they predictably turned the tables on the person who asked.
Fan: "I don't know if I can…"
Dick: "That ship has sailed!"
- Someone mentioned Doctor Who and Whovians. Dick said, while miming vacuuming, "I have a Whovian at home. It cleans up dirt."
- If Matt could have played anyone else on Supernatural, he would have wanted to play Lucifer, except for the fact that Pellegrino is so perfect in the role already. "So I want to be Pellegrino for a day so I can play Lucifer. And then sing 'Big Balls.'"
-Matt has a tattoo that covers almost his whole leg, but he would have to take off his pants to show us. Dick said, "America doesn't need to see you pantsless… OR DO THEY?" Matt described the tattoo: he designed it himself, and it's a tribute to his family.
- Mark Sheppard is most like his character, except that Crowley is slightly nicer. Misha is the least like Cas.
- Dick: "Jared and Misha took certain liberties with my phone." I was waiting for this story, because I remember when Jim Beaver (I believe it was) was gloating about fucking with Dick's phone on Twitter. They changed things that wouldn't be immediately obvious, like the signature that automatically appears at the end of emails, and the photos on his contacts. When he confronted them, they said, "Dude, you left your phone in the green room! What were we supposed to do? Our hands were tied!"
Dick: "And the worst part was that I couldn't even be mad at them, because I would have done the exact same thing.
- When they're out together, Matt gets all the attention. Once a woman asked Dick to take her picture with Matt, gushed about how handsome he was, and showed him a cell phone picture of her naked butt. Dick assumed she was a hardcore fan, but it turned out she didn't even know that either of them were actors. She just really liked how Matt looks. (I feel you, lady.)
- Someone started asking about whether Dick would like to do a musical episode of Supernatural. He answered, "Yes," before she was even finished with her question.
- There was a question about time travel that somehow turned into an extremely convoluted hypothetic time-travel-battle in which Dick was trying to avoid ever seeing Matt in dolphin shorts and Matt was trying to make sure that the dolphin shorts were as short as possible. It involved a lot of, "But then I would go back even farther than you and make sure you never…" It was glorious and it made absolutely no sense.
- When asked what his favorite color is, Dick paused for a long time and then said, "I'm trying to figure out how to make this offensive."
- A fan asked, "What did Sebastian do?" I think she was trying to word it differently, but Dick and Matt took off with it.
Matt: "What doesn't Sebastian do?"
Dick: "If you're going for a WWJD thing, except with Sebastian, then that's a terrible idea. If you find yourself asking 'What Would Sebastian Do,' you're in trouble. Just make your own terrible decision. It'll be better than his."
- A fan said, "I want to stroke your mustache more than I have ever wanted to stroke a mustache in my life." Dick let the fan and the two with her come up on stage and pet his mustache. When they hesitated, he ordered them to, "Just touch it!" And when they did, he purred loudly.
- They ran out of time and the con staff tried to cut off the question line. Dick and Matt stopped them, and went into speed-Q&A-mode to try to get through all the questions before they got kicked off stage.
- Fan: "What was your favorite scene and why?"
Dick: "Me doing a porno because it was me doing a porno!"
- Dick promised to wear assless chaps to the cocktail party. People with Gold passes, please confirm? ;)
- When asked about his death scene, Dick: "Yeah, it kinda sucked getting killed. I really wanted to stay alive, so that blew."
- When asked how much he could bench press, Matt: "How much do you weigh, Richard?"
- Dick thinks it's "exceptionally possible" for Gabe to be brought back.
- There was an extremely awkward moment right at the end when one fan asked if she could sit on the chair on stage. Dick seemed confused, but he let her come up while they finished the last couple of questions. She sat on the chair and waved to the cameras, saying things like, "Hi, Mom!" When the panel was over, Dick took her hand and started to lead her off stage. She made him wait while she struck a pose and said dramatically, "Help! Security! I'm being manhandled!" She was obviously trying to be funny, but it was in really poor taste, especially since Dick and Matt were trying to wind their panel down and they had already run over their allotted time. Dick pulled her the rest of the way off stage, saying, "Yes, you are!"
(angel-kink's account is here. Again, she has photos.)