10 Wrestlers Who Appeared In Recent TV Shows You Probably Missed
1. Mark Henry (Random Acts Of Flyness)
Terence Nance's HBO sketch series Random Acts of Flyness is an unpredictable melange. Anything can happen in any given episode, so when a somber-looking Mark Henry flashed across the screen in Season 1 episode "I Tried to Tell My Therapist About My Dreams/MARTIN HAD A DREEEEAAAAM," nothing felt out of place.
Both Nance and Henry are Texas natives, so that's probably the connection that led to the World's Strongest Man getting cast as an auctioneer selling a gem that allows the holder to use the N-word as much as they please. The winner, a stand-in for exploitative director Quentin Tarantino, ends up paying for his quarry with more than cash, earning himself an open-handed slap from the 414 lb. bodybuilder-turned-wrestler.
Henry gets a lot of lines for such a brief appearance, but none of his script could be spoken in any of WWE's TV-14 programming. It's also the kind of racial commentary that Vince McMahon's media empire would never dare touch.