Ringside Comedy: Rob Van Dam
Rob Van Dam
Professional Wrestler and Actor. Between ECW, WWF/E and TNA Van Dam has won 21 total championships (including being a three-time world champion) and is the only wrestler in history to have held the WWE Championship, the ECW World Championship, and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (including holding the WWE and ECW titles simultaneously within WWE). Van Dam is also the 2006 Money in the Bank winner, a WWE Triple Crown Champion, and a WWE Grand Slam Champion. Van Dam gained his mainstream popularity by 1998 when he won the ECW World Television Championship, which he held for a record 700 days. Between ECW, WWF/WWE, and TNA, Van Dam headlined major pay-per-view events in three decades between the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s, closing the ECW's premier annual event November to Remember 1998. Van Dam is also a five time world tag team champion (two ECW, two WWE World Tag Team, and one WWE Tag Team). He is a six-time WWE Intercontinental Champion and was the final holder of the WWE Hardcore Championship and the last WWE European Champion, unifying both titles with his Intercontinental Championship. He is also a former TNA X Division Champion.
Tom Garland
He has photos with Criss Angel, Andrew "Dice" Clay, Blues Traveler and Flava Flav. He's stayed out until the sun came up on the Las Vegas Strip with Steve-O and Tom Green. He's woken up on Bam Margera's tour bus; even slept with his cat. The fact his name landed in Las Vegas Weekly for punching Preston Lacy in the face with a raw chicken doesn't even come close to describing how weird and wild it all gets. He maintains a constant, grueling tour schedule and few young road comics have a resume so robust. He grew up across the street from a cornfield in Iowa, it all happened virtually overnight, and at any moment, he's one bad phone call away from living out of his car. This isn't a joke. This isn't a movie plot (but it was the subject of a TruTV reality show pilot). This is his real life at 100mph. It's a tumultuous rollercoaster ride of chaos, fast laughs, rock n' roll and no sleep. No matter how crazy it gets, "TOM GARLAND won't quit." (Cedar Rapids Gazette)
