Zachariah Selwyn
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Zachariah Selwyn (born on April 23, 1975), is a singer-songwriter, actor, and writer.
Following the release of his country-rock CD "Ghost Signs" in 2003, Selwyn beat out a potential crowd of over 20,000 and appeared on the first season of the ESPN's reality show Dream Job. Selwyn debuted on the show in its second episode on February 29, 2004.
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[edit] Dream Job
While he was reading a SportsCenter "Top Ten" highlights segment, all eyes were on Selwyn's shaggy hair, beard and his 70s Outlaw country western leisure suit. ESPN Vice-President of Talent, Al Jaffe, one of the show's judges, told him he wasn't credible because of his looks. Selwyn cleaned up his look (meaning he cut his beard into a goatee) in time for episode three.
Selwyn then appeared as the backwoods country-rap singing gas station attendant Randall Keith Randall in the film Dead and Breakfast released in early 2005.
[edit] Post-Dream Job career
Beginning on June 15, 2004, Selwyn debuted as a color commentator on the Game Show Network series Extreme Dodgeball. He also returned to ESPN, guest-hosting Around the Horn a week before Extreme Dodgeball debuted, with a somewhat love him or hate him reception. Ultimately, his sarcastic take on sports was deemed a little too off-color for the show's ultimate fans. Selwyn did shoot an un-aired ESPN 2 pilot called Holla Back in September 2005 with former BET host Free that was not picked up by the network.
On April 17, 2006, Selwyn became the newest correspondent on G4's Attack of the Show!. He also appears as a comedy commentator in E!'s 2006 series, 7 Deadly Hollywood Sins and did a pilot for Bravo called This Evening With These People
Selwyn has a Los Angeles based band called Zachariah and the Lobos Riders, who, after Dead and Breakfast, performed their song "I Ain't Gonna Do (Walk Away)" on Attack of the Show! on July 13, 2006. Selwyn has written and performed jingles for commercials for Coors beer. He also made guest appearances on Chicago Hope, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and That 70's Show.
Selwyn released his first EP in 2006 titled Cartoons I'd Like to Fuck and it features a new single with Fergie called "Other Side" in 2006.
The video for "Cartoons I'd Like to Fuck" made waves upon its release on youtube.com in late November 2006.
He once appeared on the TV game show, Beat the Geeks where he defeated the music geek, Andy Zax in the final challenge.
His band's new record Alcoholiday was recently released.
He was on G4's appearance at the AEE (Adult Entertainment Expo), as he performed as "Reggie Cupid" in the "Cupid University of Movie Making" sketch - Which was the cornerstone of G 4's highest rated TV program in the network's existence.
[edit] CD releases
- Honky Tonk Freestyle (2001) - Currently unavailable
- Ghost Signs (2003) - 11 song LP
- Dead and Breakfast Soundtrack (2005) - 10 song LP
- "Alcoholiday" (2007) - 14 song LP
- EP's
- Cartoons I'd Like to Fuck (2006) 5 song CD
[edit] Also appears on
- Blue Meridian "Minerva" (2003) - Guest artist on "Spreading Clever"
- Smooth-E "Kosher Kuts - Hungry for More" (2006) - Guest artist "Bar Mitzvah DJ's"
- Executive Producer of Bobby Joyner and the Sundowners CD Skies of Blue, Fields of Green (2005)
