“So there’s a set choreography. There’s also what’s called free-style choreography, or, like, you get to move around or play your character as a dancer. I’m in a seven-foot blue shark costume. There’s no cool in that. So what’s the other option? Well, I’m gonna play a different character,” Gaw explained. And that character was a goofy, endearing shark who didn’t quite have his act together.
And it turns out, even three years later, and under a cloud of mystery, people still love Left Shark. Mission accomplished, Bryan Gaw.
#LeftShark unmasked. Your State of the Union relief story. https://t.co/KbLTNudf8C
— David McGuffin (@mcguffindavid) January 31, 2018
? to @nprgreene for asking Katy Perry’s “left shark” the tough questions: “You wouldn’t lie to me, right? You really weren’t just screwing up the dance routine?”
— Amory Sivertson (@amorymusic) January 31, 2018
In his words, he's no longer the left shark but Katy Perry still uses the costume at shows. He wasn't fired though and stuck with her for awhile longer after it happened. He sounded very comfortable, said that he seriously puts "Left Shark" on his resume and employers love it.
— Zach Bernard (@ZachBernardFW) January 31, 2018
News can be so daunting and hopeless, I'll always take a light break like this one
— Zach Bernard (@ZachBernardFW) January 31, 2018
No Super Bowl performance will ever top Left Shark.
— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) January 31, 2018
The most important interview of 2018 has been published: Left Shark https://t.co/sbcGWSqcxS
— Matthew R Francis (@DrMRFrancis) January 31, 2018
wow I sleep for five hours and miss David Greene interviewing Left Shark I'm never doing that again
— Danny Nett (@dannynett) January 31, 2018
The Left Shark is being interviewed on NPR and it's amazing! I bet Trump is PISSED that they're giving airtime to a vicious shark. pic.twitter.com/dgGRK4nbhI
— Wasabi ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@wasabi) January 31, 2018
Again, people: Left Shark is actually Stage Right Shark.
— Samuel Scott (@samueljscott) January 31, 2018