Adam Savage

Adam John Savage
Born	July 15 1967 (1967-07-15) (age 40) New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	MythBusters co-host
Children	2 sons
Website	http://www.adamsavage.com/

Adam John Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American television co-host on the program MythBusters on the Discovery Channel.

Early life

Born in New York City, Savage was raised in Westchester County, New York. The son of a painter/animator/director, Adam was a child actor, voicing animated characters that his father produced for Sesame Street. He played Mr. Whipple's stockboy "Jimmy" in a Charmin commercial and a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard in the 1985 Billy Joel music video "You're Only Human (Second Wind)".

Career

During his life he has been an animator, graphic designer, carpenter, television show host, set designer, toy designer, and has many sculptures on display in museums across the United States. He also has had roles in the movies, Ever Since the World Ended ^[1] as a helpful engineer and The Darwin Awards ^[2] where he played an Army Surplus Store Owner (with co-MythBusters presenter Jamie Hyneman) who sold a man a jet engine for his pickup truck.

MythBusters

On MythBusters, Savage is famous for silly and juvenile behavior and for sometimes doing ill-advised things for a laugh. He is the comic relief to the straight man "act" of fellow Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman. His best known show quote appears in the beginning of most of the episodes: "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" (Originally from the movie The Dungeonmaster, this quote was popularized during the show's 10th regular episode, where he and Jamie tested the "rip an axle out of a car" myth as seen in the movie American Graffiti.) He used the quote after being challenged about earlier predictions of the likelihood of the myth's validity (he had significantly underestimated the likelihood of what actually happened and had tried to change his estimates after the fact, only to be busted by the camera crew). In later episodes, he wears a T-shirt that contains the aforementioned quote. He has also frequently worn an "I do all my own stunts" T-shirt. In several episodes, Savage wore a black T-shirt with the orange "Toys for Big Boys" logo. This logo was part of a private web forum for movie and television prop replica collectors. He also wears a shirt that shows in common markup language syntax, <mythbuster>Am I missing an Eyebrow?</mythbuster>, which itself a reference to an incident on Mythbusters, when Adam was caught on the edge of an explosion and some of his hair was singed off. This incident was also used in some opening sequences of the show. In an interview Savage gave at The Amaz!ng Meeting 5, he expressed an interest in proving natural selection over creationism on "MythBusters".

"My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It's gonna take a while, it's gonna be very hard to make it fascinating on film in the context of our narrative structure, but I figure screw it. The sky's the limit. Let's do natural selection. I'm sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It's appalling. And I have the unique ability, maybe, to sell this idea to Discovery, and they'll, they might allow me to do it, and I'm gonna try as hard as I can." ^[3]

External links

• Adam Savage's personal website
• Adam Savage at the Internet Movie Database
• Adam Savage's biography from the Discovery Channel
• Interview with Adam at The Sneeze

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