Adam Savage from "Mythbusters" on the Discovery channel is one of my favorite television personalities. Not only is he HIGHLY intelligent, but he's also hilarious. Anyway, looong before he was busting myths...he was nearly drowning in a Billy Joel video.

His big scene comes at 2 minutes and 8 seconds in:

Here's a more recent shot of Adam:

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On a related note, Adam Savage's father was an artist who created short animated films for "Sesame Street". His dad was painter and filmmaker Whitney Lee Savage.

Supposedly, Adam voiced many of the child characters in the short films, and Whitney did the adult voices, including the dad's voice in the "Sesame Street" short film "Baby Climbs the Stairs":

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